JPH05244321A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the facsimile equipment capable of recording sender information and making the recorded paper into a standard size. CONSTITUTION:The facsimile equipment is provided with the regular size mode and the non-regular size mode. In the non-regular size mode, printing similar to a conventional facsimile equipment is implemented (steps S2,S3). In the regular size mode, only when a count of a line counter reaches an integral number of multiple of Q, the line is not recorded and no paper feed is implemented, where Q is an integral number resulting from (N+n)/n, N is a scanning line number corresponding to the standard size of paper and n is a length to record sender information. The regular size of the paper is used while recording the sender information as above.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine using continuous paper, and more particularly to standardization of cut size of continuous paper.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some facsimile machines using roll paper have a function of recording a sender display 2 at the head as shown in FIG. As a result, since the sender is displayed on all pages on the receiving side, it is possible to easily confirm where the call originated from.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus has the following problems.

For example, assume that a document having a standard size (A4 size or the like) is transmitted from the transmission side. On the receiving side, the sender information is _first recorded over the length L ₁ . Then, following this, the received contents are recorded over the length L ₂ which is the standard size. After that, the roll paper is cut. Therefore, there is a problem that the length of the cut roll paper becomes longer than the standard dimension L ₂ by the length L ₁ in which the sender information is recorded. That is, there is a problem that the recorded paper becomes longer than the standard size, and handling such as storage is inconvenient.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to solve the above problems and to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of recording sender information and having a recorded sheet of a standard size.

[0006]

In the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, the number of scanning lines required for recording the sender information is n, and the number of scanning lines corresponding to the standard length required for recording the received contents is set. If the number is N, then (N
The feature is that printing for one scan line is not performed for + n) / n scans.

[0007]

According to the present invention, one scan line is not printed for every (N + n) / n scans. Therefore, the number of scanning lines is substantially N as a whole, and the length of the printed sheet becomes the standard size.

[0008]

1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Via bus line 4
The communication processing unit 6, the CPU 8, the ROM 10, the RAM 12, the feeding mechanism 14, and the cutting mechanism 16 are connected. The communication processing unit 6 communicates data with other facsimile devices via a public line or the like. The feeding mechanism 14 rotates the roll paper, which is continuous paper, and feeds it to the printing unit 18. The cutting mechanism 16 is for cutting the roll paper in response to a cutting command. The printing unit 18 prints on roll paper. CPU8 is ROM10
Each unit is controlled according to the program stored in.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing a program stored in the ROM 10. In this embodiment, as in the prior art, there are provided a mode in which the paper lengthens by the display of the sender (called a non-fixed size mode) and a mode in which the length of the paper fits within the standard size (called a fixed size mode). ..

First, the non-sizing mode will be described. In step S1, it is determined whether or not the sizing mode is set.
Since it is not in the fixed-size mode, step S2 is executed.
In step S2, it is determined whether or not the print scanning of all lines is completed. Here, step S3 is executed because it has not been completed yet. In step S3, CPU8
Sends the source data received via the communication processing unit 6 to the printing unit 18 to print and record the roll paper. When the print recording for one line (recording in the main scanning direction) is completed, C
The PU 8 controls the feeding mechanism 14 to feed the roll paper in the sub-scanning direction by the length of one line. This completes the preparation for print recording on the next line. In this embodiment, the line pitch is 1 / 7.7 mm.

When step S3 is completed, the step is restarted.
Return to S2 and repeat the print recording operation. In this way
When the recording of the transmission source data (see 2 in FIG. 4) is completed, the received contents are continuously recorded. When the recording of the received contents is completed, that is, when the RTC is received, the CPU 8
Gives a cutting command to the cutting mechanism 16 to cut the roll paper, finishes the processing of the page, and shifts to the processing of the next page.

The non-sizing mode is the same recording method as the conventional one, and the length of the received sheet is longer than the standard size as shown in FIG.

Next, the sizing mode, which is a feature of the present invention, will be described. First, in step S1, it is determined whether or not the sizing mode is set. Here, since the constant size mode is set, step S4 is executed. In step S4,
The received image data is stored in the RAM 21, the total number of lines on each page is counted, and Q is calculated as described later.

Next, the image data stored in the RAM 21 is printed. First, in step S5, it is determined whether or not the print scanning of all lines is completed. Here, since it has not been completed yet, step S6 is executed. Step
In S6, it is determined whether or not the value of the line counter indicating the number of the recording line counted from the beginning of the paper is an integral multiple of Q.

If it is not an integral multiple, print recording and paper feed for one line are performed (step S8). Then, step S5 and subsequent steps are repeated again.

In step S6, if the value of the line counter is an integral multiple of Q, the data of the line is not printed and recorded. Also, the paper is not fed. However,
The value of the line counter is incremented by 1 (step S8). Then, step S5 and subsequent steps are repeated again. Therefore, print recording and paper feeding are not performed at a rate of one line for every Q line. Then, again, step S5
Repeat the following.

As described above, the sender display and the received contents are recorded, and when the RTC is received, the paper is cut (step S10), and the process for the next page starts.

Now, how to determine the above Q will be described. First, (N + n) / n is calculated, where N is the number of scanning lines corresponding to the standard size of paper and n is the number of scanning lines required for display of the transmission source. Next, this is converted into an integer (rounding, rounding down, rounding up, etc.) to obtain Q. By setting Q in this manner, n scanning lines are thinned out and compressed from the total number of lines (N + n) including the source display, and the total number of lines recorded is N. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, the length of the recorded paper becomes the standard size including the sender information 2. In addition,
Even if the print recording of about one line is not performed, the print quality is hardly affected.

For example, when Q is calculated for A4 size paper, the result is as follows. Recording scanning shall be performed at a pitch of 7.7 lines / 1 mm. Therefore, 297 (mm) × 7.7 lines = 2287 in the length direction (sub-scanning direction) of A4 paper.
This corresponds to the scan line of the book. On the other hand, in this embodiment, it is assumed that the source display has a length of 5 mm (in the sub-scanning direction). Therefore, the number of scanning lines corresponding to the display of the transmission source is 5 (mm) × 7.7 = 38.5. When (N + n) / n is calculated based on this, it becomes 60.4. Truncate this to get Q = 60. That is, A
When recording 4 size paper, the sub-scan direction 60
It suffices that printing and recording and paper feeding are not performed for one line.

[0020]

According to the present invention, one scan line is not recorded per (N + n) / n scans. Therefore, the number of scanning lines is substantially N as a whole, and the length of the printed sheet becomes the standard size. Therefore, it is possible to provide a facsimile apparatus that can record the sender information and that has the standard size of the recorded paper.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an operation of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a paper length recorded according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a paper length recorded by a conventional facsimile apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 ... Source information 8 ... CPU 10 ... ROM 14 ... Feeding mechanism 16 ... Cut mechanism 18 ... Printing unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The number of scanning lines required for recording the source information in a facsimile apparatus which records the received contents added with the source information on a continuous paper and cuts the continuous paper after recording one sheet. Is n and the number of scanning lines corresponding to the standard length required to record the received contents is N,
A facsimile apparatus characterized in that printing for one scanning line is not performed for scanning of (N + n) / n lines.