JPH0531997A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To achieve shortening of printing output by a method wherein a received data is identified as a format data, a modifier data, or a printing data, is processed per each data., is developed into a dot image to be stored, and the dot image is outputted according to presence of the format data. CONSTITUTION:A format data, a modifier data, and a printing data are identified with a data decoder part 2 by a signal from a host machine which is received with an 1/F part 1. Then, each data and information following it are processed respectively with each corresponding control part 3, 5, 6. Besides they are developed in a dot image to be stored respectively in a form bit map memory (FB) 4 and a FB for data 4. Then, when there is no format data, the dot image is outputted only from the FB for data 7 with a printing control part 8. Besides, when the format data exists, the dot image is outputted from both FBs 4, 7 while it is being processed by OR. Thereby, a device 9 is started and is made to print.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printer device,
In particular, it relates to the realization of format overlay printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the conventional method of realizing the format overlay in the printer, the processing of rewriting a part of the format data once sent from the host machine has not been considered.

Prior to printing, the loaded format data is expanded into code data or dot images inside the printer and held in a memory. After receiving the print data, the format data is overlaid with the print data as a format and is printed on paper. Printed out.

The format once loaded is retained as it is until the registration is deleted under the instruction of the host machine.

[0005]

In this conventional printer device, if the data in the format is different even by one character, it will be managed as a different format.

For example, when considering a monthly performance report for each factory, it is necessary to rewrite only the area of the factory name in the same format. In the conventional method, it is necessary to have a format in which there are as many factory names as the number of factories, or to make the data aware of the factory names and realize it as data.

When several pages are stored as a format, the memory for storing it uses a large amount of capacity on both the host side and the printer side, and when processing as data, the factory name is taken into consideration in the data processing program or the like. It will be necessary to modify the program. Further, when the format is reloaded, there is a problem in that it takes time to load and time to drop it into a dot image, and as a result, it takes time to print out.

An object of the present invention is to prevent printing from taking time.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an I / F unit for receiving data and information associated with the data from a host computer, and the received data and information. Format data and information, modify data and information, data decoder section for identifying print data and information, form control section for managing format information, form FB for storing format data and modify data, and managing modify information The modification control unit, the data control unit that manages print information, the data FB that stores print data, and the information in the form control unit are referenced, and if there is no format data, a dot image is output from only the data FB. If there is format data, a print controller that outputs a dot image from the data FB and the form FB, It is provided with a a device for inputting Ttoimeji.

[0010]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the I / F unit 1 receives data and information associated with the data from a host computer, and the received data and information are received by a data decoder unit 2 in
It is classified into form data and information, modify data and information, and print data and information.

The form data and information are stored in the form controller 3
Is processed by. Of the format data and information, the format data is developed into a dot image and stored in the form FB4 of the form bitmap memory, and the format information is managed inside the form control unit 3.

The modification data and information are processed by the modification control unit 5. Of the modification data and the information, the modification data is developed into a dot image, and the modification information is managed inside the modification control unit 5. Then, the modified data is stored in the form FB4 by overwriting the designated area on the form FB4 with the developed dot image based on the managed information.

The print data and information are processed by the data control unit 6. Of the print data and information, the print data is developed into a dot image and stored in the data FB7 which is a data bit map memory, and the print information is managed inside the data control unit 6.

When all the print data is stored in the data FB7, the print control unit 8 refers to the information in the form control unit 3, and if there is no format data, outputs a dot image from only the data FB7, Start 9
Print. If there is format data, the dot image is OR-outputted from the data FB7 and the form FB4, the device 9 is activated, and printing is performed.

FIG. 2 shows formats of format data and information, modification data and information, and print data and information.

Of the format data and the information 10, the format information has an ID corresponding to the format on a one-to-one basis, and the ID is used to identify the format. In addition, the horizontal direction X of the format definition area
And the vertical direction Y are represented by the number of dots.

Of the modified data and information 11,
The modification information represents the ID of the format to be overwritten and the location of the area to be overwritten by the number of dots in the horizontal direction x and the vertical direction y from the upper left of the format definition area. Further, the size of the area to be overwritten is represented by the number of dots in the horizontal direction X'and the vertical direction Y '.

The print data information of the print data and the information 12 has a format ID used for data printing. ID =
If it is 00, the format is unused.

FIG. 3 shows an example of printing when the information of FIG. 2 is used. Print example 13 shows the format before modification,
Print example 14 shows the format after modification.

FIG. 4 shows a sequence flow chart of data for realizing the printing example of FIG. Three pages are printed in the format before modification, and two pages are printed in the format after modification. After receiving the format data and information, print data and information for 3 pages are printed and printed. When the modified data and information are received, only the converted portion of the format is overwritten. Is received and printing is performed using the modified format.

[0022]

As described above, the present invention realizes the rewriting of a part of the format loaded in the printer in advance. Therefore, in the same format which is partially different, it is different without reloading all the formats. Processing is possible by rewriting only the area.

Therefore, even on the host machine side,
On the printer side, it is possible to effectively use the memory that holds the format data, the format data load time is shortened, and the print output does not take time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing formats of format data and information, modify data and information, and print data and information.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a print example when the information in FIG. 2 is used.

FIG. 4 is a sequence flow diagram of data for realizing the printing example of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 I / F section 2 Data decoder section 3 Form control section 4 Form FB 5 Modify control section 6 Data control section 7 Data FB 8 Print control section 9 Device 10 Format data and information 11 Modify data and information 12 Print data and information

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. An I / F unit for receiving data and information associated with data from a host computer, received data and information, format data and information, modified data and information. A data decoder section for identifying print data and information, a form control section for managing format information,
Form F for storing format data and modified data
B, a modification control unit that manages modification information, a data control unit that manages print information, data FB that stores print data, and information in the form control unit. If there is no format data, data FB A printer device which is provided with a dot control unit for outputting a dot image from the data FB and the form FB when there is format data, and a device for inputting the dot image. ..