JPH0438005B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a tabular data insertion printing device suitable for printing tabular data on a label.

[Background of the invention]

Conventionally, it was necessary to create a printing document in which insertion data and insertion keywords were registered in advance, and then print a label.
Therefore, if the printing position of data is to be changed, it is necessary to modify the insertion keyword of the printed document. Furthermore, since the size of the printing document and the label do not necessarily match, it is extremely troublesome to specify the printing position of the label.

[Purpose of the invention]

The purpose of the present invention is to not register the print format as a document when printing a label, etc.
Freely set label size and print position when printing,
The purpose of the present invention is to propose a table data insertion printing device that can also be modified.

[Summary of the invention]

By specifying the size and format of the label when printing, the present invention displays on the screen how many lines and digits of characters can be entered on that label, and allows you to freely set and modify the format. It is characterized in that it is made to look like this.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows the hardware configuration of the table data insertion printing apparatus according to the present invention. 1 is an input device, 2
3 is a main storage device, 3 is an auxiliary storage device, 4 is a display device, 5 is a printing device, and 6 is a control device using a CPU. The storage devices 2 and 3 store character codes, table data, character fonts, and programs input from the input device 1, and the display device 4 displays characters input from the input device 1 and the contents stored in the storage devices 2 and 3. The printing device 5 then prints the contents stored in the storage devices 2 and 3. The control device 6 controls each of the devices,
It also has a data processing function that edits the fixed character data specified by the input from the input device 1 and insert print data in the table data so as to print them, and outputs the edited data to the printing device 5.

This data processing flow will be explained below with reference to FIG. First, in block 10, the type of label used during printing is set. At this time, input information such as the paper size required for label printing, left margin, label arrangement (number of sheets in the vertical and horizontal directions), label size (vertical x horizontal), label spacing, etc. is read. At this time, if a method is adopted in which this information is displayed in a list on the screen of the display device 4 and the operator is made to select and input, the setting becomes easier. The input information is written into the label type information table shown in FIG. Next, in block 20, input information regarding the line spacing and character spacing format when printing on the label is read. This information is also written into the label type information table. By entering the print format above,
Block 30 calculates how many lines and digits can be printed on the specified label. Next, based on the result obtained in block 30, the label format is displayed in block 40 as shown in FIG.

In block 50, the cursor is used to read input information specifying, using a column number, which insert print data of the tabular data is to be printed at which position on the label. Furthermore, it also reads inputs specifying the printing position of fixed character data such as Sorry, Tono, and 〒. The layout specified here is written into the printing position information table shown in FIG. 5, including information on which row, column, column of data, and what kind of fixed character data is to be printed. When the layout shown in FIG. 4 is specified, the print position information table becomes as shown in FIG. 7. 71, 72, . . . shown here are “0” indicating that there is no data to be printed. Based on the contents of the print position information table set in block 50, a label is printed with insertion print data entered in block 60.

FIG. 8 shows insert print data, and FIGS. 9 a to 9 c show printed labels.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, it is possible to print a label without creating a document representing the print format of the label, and further,
By storing label printing information and using that information as default values, you can omit setting printing conditions, and labels can be printed under the same conditions, making it easier to merge and print table data. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show a document processing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a data processing flowchart of the control device;
Figure 2 is a block diagram of the document processing device, Figure 3 is a label layout diagram, Figure 4 is a label print position designation diagram, Figure 5 is a print position information table, Figure 6 is a label type information table, and Figure 6 is a label type information table. 7 shows a print position information table in which information is set, FIG. 8 shows insertion print data, and FIGS. 9 a to 9 c show print labels. 10...Label type setting processing, 20...Format setting processing, 30...Label format calculation processing, 40...
Label format display processing, 50...Print data setting processing.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An input device, a storage device that stores character codes, table data, character fonts, programs, etc. input from the input device, and characters input from the input device and contents stored in the storage device. a display device that displays a display device, a printing device that prints the contents stored in the storage device, and a printing device that controls each of the devices and inserts fixed character data and label data specified by input from the input device into the tabular data. In a tabular data insertion printing device comprising a control device that edits data to be printed and outputs it to the printing device, the control device stores label type information and format information input from the input device into a label type information table. a means for writing into the label format, a means for calculating a label format from these label type information and format information, a means for displaying the calculated label format on a display device, and specification of fixed character data and merge print data to be printed on the label format. 1. A tabular data insertion printing device comprising: means for reading input and writing it into a print position information table.