JPH0447324A - Printing controlling system for printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To deal with the correction of business form without delay by generating a program from the input of data, and executing printing by using the generated program. CONSTITUTION:A host device 1 is constituted so as to be provided with an input device 1a such as a keyboard, etc., and a program generating means 10 which generates the program from the input from the input device 1a and sends it to a slave device 2. The slave device 2 is constituted so as to be provided with a printing device 2a such as a serial printer, etc., and a printing means 20 to execute printing by the printing device 2a in conformity to the program sent from the host device 1 having received the data. By inputting the data such as a body face 40, a pitch 41, and designation coordinates 5a to 5c, etc., to the host device 1 by the input device 1a, the program is generated by the program generating means 10, and is sent to the slave device 2. The slave device 2 receives the program sent from the host device 1, and executes the printing by the printing device 2a of the printing means 20.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a printing control method for a printer.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional printing control systems for printers have been designed for each ledger and produced by application programs.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The print control method of the conventional printer described above has a program configuration that supports one form and one program.
There is a problem in that whenever changes or additions are made to the ledger, the layout must be changed, programs related to the additions must be modified, compiled, linked, tested, etc.

In addition, these corrections require a large amount of man-hours, so
There is a problem in that it is impossible to respond immediately to booklet corrections.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a print via system for a printer that can immediately respond to changes in a ledger.

[Means to solve the problem]

The configuration of the printing control system of the printer according to the first aspect of the present invention includes a program creating means for creating 70 grams from input data, and a printing means for printing according to the program created by the program creating means. has been done.

Further, the configuration of the print control system of the printer according to the second aspect of the present invention includes: a command creation means for creating a command from input data; a command analysis means for analyzing the command created by the command creation means; and a command analysis means for analyzing the command created by the command creation means. and printing means for printing according to the command analyzed by the means.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1(a) is a block diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1(b) is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention. The system used in this embodiment includes a higher-level information processing device (hereinafter referred to as a higher-level device) 1 such as a host computer,
It is comprised of a host device 1 and a connected lower-order information processing device (hereinafter referred to as a "lower-order device") 2 such as a workstation.

In the first embodiment, the upper wave W1 includes an input device 1a such as a keyboard, and a program creation means 10 that creates a program based on input from the input device 1a and sends it to the lower device 2.

The lower-level device 2 includes a printing device f2a such as a serial printer, and a printing means 20 that performs printing by the printing device 2a according to a received program sent from the higher-level device 1.

In the second embodiment, the upper wave W1 is connected to the input device 1a,
Create a command using input from the input device 1a and send it to the lower bag W2
and a command creation means 11 for sending out commands to. The lower device 2 is a printing device 2a such as a serial printer.
, a command analysis means 21 for analyzing the received command sent from the host device 1, and a printing means 20 for printing on the printing device 2a according to the command analyzed by the command analysis means 21. .

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the printing configuration of an entire page of printing paper according to an embodiment of the present invention. The printing configuration of one entire page of printing paper is composed of print items 4, which are the print positions of a plurality of one items, and the print items 4 are the body face 40, which is the print position of a plurality of single characters, and the jig, which is the interval between them. Chi 41
It is composed of. Body faces 40a and 40d at the beginning (left end in the same embodiment) of print item 4.

40f has specified coordinates 5a, 5b, and 5c at the lower left.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be explained using FIG. 1(a) and FIG. 2. In this embodiment, the host device 1 includes an input device 1a.
By inputting data such as body face 4o, touch 41, designated coordinates 5, etc., program creation means 1 is created.
0, a program is created and sent to the lower-level device 2. The lower-level device 2 receives the program sent from the higher-level device 1, and prints the program using the printing device 2a using the printing means 20.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram illustrating the command configuration of the second embodiment of the present invention. The command group 3 is composed of a command 30 that specifies one print item 4, a command delimiter 31 that specifies the delimiter of the command 30, and a command group delimiter 32 that specifies the delimiter of the command group 3. One command group 3 separated by is used to specify printing of an entire page of printing paper. command 30
is a character font 300a that specifies the type of character, a character size 300b that specifies the size of the character, a character pitch 300c that specifies the spacing between characters, and a coordinate value 300d that specifies the specified coordinate 5 as the coordinates of the X and Y axes. , and print data 300e specifying the actual data of the characters to be printed.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be explained using explanatory diagrams illustrating the relationship between command examples and printing examples shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 and 4.

When printing, the character font 300a of the character to be printed (in the same embodiment, "1" for alphabetical characters and "2" for numbers) and character size 30 are selected using the input bag g1a of the upper wave W1.
0b (in the same example, 1x is "1", 2x is "21") and the character pitch is 300c (1 mm is '1' in the same example) -
Specify 2mm as “2”〉 & coordinate value 300 to specify mark 5
d and print data 300e. After specifying the command 30 for one print item 4, select the command delimiter 31
After specifying the entire page, specify the command group delimiter 32. By entering each specification,
The command creation means 11 creates a command group 3 and sends it to the lower device 2. The lower-level device 2 that receives the command analyzes it for each command 30 by the command analysis means 21. The parsed command 30 is printed by the printing device f2a by the printing means 20.

Command group 3a is composed of command 30a and command 30b, and sets the zero-character font 300a to "1", the character size 300b to "1", and the character pitch 300C to '1'.
1-+, the coordinate value 300d is (10, 20), and the print data 300e is rABC.

In the case of command 30a, the specified coordinates 5 are printed on the printing paper.
r A to the body face 40a where a is (10, 20)
, is printed in a size that is once the size of the body face 40, with a pitch 41a of 1 mm left, and the body face 40
``B'' is printed on b, and ``C'' is printed on the body face 40c. Set the character font 300a to "2" 7
Character size 300b is "2" 1 character pitch 300c is "
2", the coordinate value 300d is (50, 100>), and the print data 300e is "12". In the case of the command 30b, "1" is displayed on the body face 40d where the specified coordinate 5b is (50° 100) on the printing paper. It is printed twice the size of the face 40, with a pitch 41b of 2 mm, and "2" is similarly printed at the position of the body face 40e.

In this embodiment, commands are created in the upper device W1, sent to the lower device W2, and received, analyzed, and printed by the lower device W2, but if there is no problem with performance etc., the command can be created by one information processing device. It is also possible to process all of them.

Further, the printing configuration and command configuration of the same embodiment may be other configurations depending on the constraints of the information processing apparatus used, the purpose of implementation, etc.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention has the effect of being able to immediately respond to changes in the ledger by specifying printing by inputting a command.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the printing configuration of an entire page of printing paper in an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the relationship between command examples and printing examples. 1--- Upper device, 1a-- Input device, 2
...lower device, 2a...printing device, 3
・・・－・・・Command group, 4...Print item, 5
--- Specified coordinates, 10 --- Program creation means, 11 --- Command creation means, 20 ---.
...Printing means, 21--Command analysis means, 30-
・-・Command, 31 ・-・Command separation, 3
2...-Command group separation, 40...-Body face, 41...Pitch, 300a-
・-・Character font, 300b・・・Character size, 300C・・・・Character pitch, 300d・−
...-coordinate value, 300e...--1 print data. Agent Patent Attorney Uchihara Shinpaku 2 figures Jα Kei 300h style? , 3DOd 00e (C1) (b) th +l

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A printing control system for a printer, comprising a program creation means for creating a program from input data, and a printing means for printing according to the program created by the program creation means. 2. It has a command creation means for creating a command from input data, a command analysis means for analyzing the command created by the command creation means, and a printing means for printing according to the command analyzed by the command analysis means. A printing control method for a printer characterized by the following.