JPH04179361A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the quality of printing by transmitting data mentioned by means of a page description language and analyzing and executing page description language data by means of a page description language interpreter at the time of reception. CONSTITUTION:A page description language conversion part 5 converts document information which is read in a document information read part 4 into the page description language and a driver part 6 transmits the page description language to a telephone line 7. Page description language data transmitted through the telephone line 7 is analyzed in the page description language interpreter 2 and is executed. Thus, the result is outputted to a printing mechanism part 3 and is printed. Thus, the quality of printing in a reception-side improves.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and particularly to an information transmission system of a facsimile machine.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, this type of facsimile machine reads a document using an image scanner, transmits the read image data, and on the receiving side, the image data is expanded into dots and printed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus has a drawback of poor print quality on the receiving side due to poor resolution when converting image data.

Furthermore, increasing the resolution increases the amount of data, which also has the disadvantage of requiring longer transfer times.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes a page description language interpreter that interprets a page description language transmitted through a telephone line, and a printing device section that prints the result of the page description language interpreted and executed by the page description language interpreter.
A document information reading section that can read document information, a page description language conversion section that converts the document information read by the document information reading section into a page description language, and a driver that sends the converted page description language as data to a telephone line. It consists of:

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

An embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. The facsimile apparatus 1 of this embodiment is composed of a page description language interpreter 2, a printing mechanism section 3, a document reading section 4, a page description language conversion section 5, and a driver section 6.

Next, this embodiment will be explained in detail.

First, the operation during transmission will be explained. Document information reading section 4
Specifically, it is a floppy disk drive, and reads document information stored on a floppy disk. The read data is not image data. A page description language conversion unit 5 converts the document information read by the document information reading unit 4 into a page description language.The following driver unit 6 sends out the page description language to the telephone line 7.

In this way, the document information is output to the telephone line 7 using the page description language as data.

Next, the operation at the time of reception will be explained.

The page description language data sent through the telephone line 7 is interpreted and executed by the page description language interpreter 2. The results are output to the printing mechanism section 3 and printed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention enables printing at the dot density of the printing mechanism by transmitting data written in a page description language and interpreting and executing the page description language data using a page description language interpreter upon reception. Therefore, there is an effect that the receiving side can obtain a document whose print quality is the same as that of the original on the sender side.

Furthermore, since the entire document is not represented by image data but by a page description language, and this data is interpreted and executed by a page description language interpreter on the receiving side, there is also the effect that the transmission processing speed becomes faster.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Facsimile device, 2-...Page description language interpreter, 3...Print mechanism section, 4...Document information reading section, 5...Page description language conversion section, 6...Driver section, 7 ···telephone line.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a page description language interpreter that interprets page description language sent through a telephone line; a printing device unit that prints the result of the page description language interpreted and executed by the page description language interpreter; and a document information reader that can read document information. A page description language conversion unit that converts the document information read by the document information reading unit into a page description language, and a driver unit that sends the converted page description language as data to a telephone line. facsimile machine.