JPH04361321A - Output system for electronic filing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily output originals in A1 and A2 sizes to an A3 size printer by reading image data from an image memory, dividing the image data into image data in an A3 size and printing them. CONSTITUTION:When the original in the A1 size is read by an image scanner 1, the data are transmitted through a scanner input control mechanism 3 and an image memory control mechanism 5 and stored in an image memory 4. At such a time, an image operation such as division or the like is executed, and the data are divided into the four pieces of A3 size image data, for example. The four divided A3 size data are extracted from the image memory 4 by a printer output control mechanism 7 and outputted onto A3 size printing paper sheets by an A3 size printer 6. In this case, since the tabs for sticking of the four A3 size paper sheets sticked together, the data are printed so as to get the A1 size original.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an output method when the printer device of an electronic filing device is A3 size, and more particularly to an output method of an electronic filing device that outputs image data of an A1 size document or an A2 size document to an A3 size printer. Regarding.

0002

[Prior Art] The output method of a conventional electronic filing device is an A1 size printer (or an A2 size printer).
to print out A1 or A2 size originals, or use an A3 size printer to print out A1 or A2 size originals.
Either print out only a portion of the 1-size original, or print out only a portion of the A3
I had to reduce the size and print it out.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the output method of this conventional electronic filing device, the price of an A1 size printer or an A2 size printer is expensive (for example, 5 to 6 times the price of an A3 size printer), and the cost of consumables ( For example, paper) and maintenance costs are very expensive, making it difficult for general users to introduce it.

On the other hand, since an A3 size printer prints out only a portion of an A1 or A2 document, the entire document is unknown, and if an attempt is made to print out the entire document, multiple output instructions must be issued. Furthermore, when printing out a reduced size to A3 size, it becomes difficult to see details, and there are also problems in that it cannot be applied to drawings that have no meaning unless they are in the original size.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The output method of the electronic filing device of the present invention is such that when outputting an A1 size document or an A2 size document to a printer in an electronic filing device that digitizes and stores a document inputted from a scanner, After the original is developed into image data by the image memory control mechanism in the image processing mechanism of the software, this image data is divided into A3 size pieces, and each divided part is output to an A3 size printer by the printer output control mechanism. have the means.

[0006]

[Operation] According to the present invention, an A1 size original or an A2 size original can be printed out using an inexpensive A3 size printer by a simple operation.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an output method of an electronic filing device according to the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes an image scanner that reads and outputs an A1 size original 2 shown in FIG.
4 is an image memory for developing and manipulating the image data input from the image scanner 1; 5 is for manipulating the data in this image memory 4; for example, A1;
Divide the size image data into four as shown in Figure 2, and
An image memory control mechanism having a software mechanism for dividing image data into three sizes 2a to 2d;
An A3 size printer 7 that prints out three size image data 2a to 2d on A3 printing paper has a software mechanism that controls this A3 size printer 6 to control the printing of each of the four divided A3 size image data 2a to 2d. This is a printer output control mechanism.

[0008] Reference numeral 8 denotes the scanner input control mechanism 3,
This is an image processing mechanism composed of an image memory control mechanism 5 and a printer output control mechanism 7. Furthermore, when the A1 size original 2 shown in FIG. 2 is read by the image scanner 1, it is also developed in the image memory 4 in this state. In the A1 size original 2 shown in FIG.
is the margin. In addition, in FIG. 3, 9a to 9d are A
3 size image data 2a to 2d are printed on A3 size printer 6, and 1
0 is a margin, and 11 is a glue margin for creating an A1 original.

Next, the operation of the output method of the electronic filing device having the above configuration will be explained. First, when an A1 size original 2 is read by the image scanner 1, the A1 image data is stored in the image memory 4 via the scanner input control mechanism 3 and the image control mechanism 5. At this time, image operations such as division are performed. For example, the image data is divided into four parts and divided into A3 size image data 2a to 2d. Then, the printer output control mechanism 7 divides the image memory 4 into four A3 size image data 2a~
2d can be taken out and output on A3 size printing sheets 9a to 9d using an A3 size printer 6 as shown in FIG. And these four sheets of A3 size printing paper 9
An A1 size original can be made by gluing together the glue margins 11 of a to 9d. In addition, in the above example, an example was shown in which an A1 size document was divided into four and outputted on four sheets of A3 size printing paper, but the invention is not limited to this, and an A2 size document was divided into two and outputted on two A3 size printing sheets. Of course, it is also possible to output on a single sheet.

0010

As explained above, the present invention allows A1 size originals and A2 size originals to be output to an A3 size printer by simple operations, and furthermore, the A3 size outputs can be combined to print on A1 size printing paper. Since it can be printed on A2 size printing paper, output printing can be done at low cost. Particularly, in systems that mainly handle documents of A3 size or larger, search-only terminals, etc., it is possible to easily print out A1 size documents without installing an expensive A1 size printer.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an output method of an electronic filing device of the present invention.

[Figure 2] A1 read by the image scanner in Figure 1
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a size original.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing four A3 size printing sheets for explaining the operation of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Image scanner 2　A1 size manuscript 3 Scanner input control mechanism 4 Image memory 5 Image memory control mechanism 6　A3 size printer 7 Printer output control mechanism 8 Image processing mechanism

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Means for converting an A1 size document or an A2 size document into image data using an image scanner and storing it in an image memory;
Means for dividing into image data of size and divided A
An output method for an electronic filing device characterized by comprising means for separately printing three sizes of image data on A3 size printing paper.