JPH04179561A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce to half printing time and the moving area of each printing part and lessen vibration by a method wherein first and second printing parts are provided to print the left and right half areas of printing paper and the first and second printing parts are made to perform a simultaneous printing operation of their respective areas. CONSTITUTION:A printer 1 sends information to and receives it from a personal computor 2 via an interface control part 11 and the printing information thus received is stored in a printing control part 12. The printing control part 12 divides the stored printing information into a first printing information and a second printing information to be printed on the left half area A of printing paper 15 and the right half area B thereof, respectively. A first printing part 13 and a second printing part 14 are adapted to print the left and right half areas, respectively. In a simultaneous operation, the first printing part 13 prints the left half area A of the printing paper 15 based on the first printing information and the second printing part 14 prints the right half area B thereof based on the second printing information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a printer connected to a personal computer or the like.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, this type of Brita has only one printing section.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional printers have the disadvantage that the high speed of the interface signal with the personal computer is not fully utilized because there is only one printing area, and the printing processing time is long.

[Means to solve the problem]

The printer of the present invention includes an interface control unit that transmits and receives information to and from a personal computer, a first printing unit that prints in the left half area of the printing paper, and a first printing unit that prints in the right half area of the printing paper. 2 printing section and storing printing information received via the interface control section;
dividing the printing paper into first printing information corresponding to the left half area and second printing information corresponding to the right half area and distributing them to the first printing section and the second printing section, respectively; It has a printing control section that causes each of the first printing section and the second printing section to simultaneously perform printing processing.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. The printer 1 transmits and receives information to and from the personal computer 2 via the interface control section 11 and stores the received print information in the print control section 12 . The print control unit 12 divides the accumulated print information into first print information and second print information to be printed on the left half area A and the right half area B of the print paper 15, respectively. First printing section 13
and the second printing section 14. The first printing section 13 prints an area A on the left half of the printing paper 15 based on the first printing information.
On the other hand, the second printing unit 14 simultaneously prints on each area B on the right half of the printing paper 15 based on the second printing information.

FIG. 2 shows the first printing section 13. Second printing section 14 and printing paper 1
The positional relationship with 5 is shown.

[Effects of the Invention] The printer of the present invention has two printing units that print on the left half area and the right half area of the printing paper, and by performing printing processing on each at the same time, the printing processing time is approximately In addition, the moving distance of each printing section is also approximately halved, reducing vibration.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the positional relationship between a printing section and printing paper. 1...Printer, 2...Personal computer,
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11... Interface control part, 12... Printing control part, 13... First printing part, 14... Second printing part, 1
5...Printing paper.

Claims (1)

[Claims] an interface control unit that transmits and receives information to and from a personal computer; a first printing unit that prints in the left half area of the printing paper; a second printing unit that prints in the right half area of the printing paper; The print information received via the interface control unit is accumulated and divided into first print information corresponding to the left half area of the printing paper and second print information corresponding to the right half area. A printer comprising: a print control section that is distributed between a printing section and the second printing section, and causing each of the first printing section and the second printing section to perform printing processing simultaneously.