JPH0538864A - Printing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve throughput for an entire computer unit with availability of CPU and disc I/O increased without depending on useless retrieval by a method wherein output is made from the last line of a print file by turning every one of letters around at 180 degrees on an individual basis. CONSTITUTION:An output editing program 1 makes up printing data for an output image file 3 and on completion of the output editing program, a command for output start 4 is given to a print writer 2. The print writer 2 determines, with a printer control module 5, output order (priority), the length of output paper and subfile to be outputted for the data in the output image file 3, and transfers subfile titles to a record input function 6. Then transfer is further made to an output editing function 7 based on the subfile names. Editing is made in the output editing function 7 for line feeding information and page feeding information. Then the output editing function 7 transfers the output data transferred thereto to a printing device 9 for printing by turning every one of letters around at 180 deg. on an individual basis.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing apparatus, and more particularly, to printing of a computer output, which is suitable for a printed output of a text over a polynomial page.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, as a printing apparatus, an output file is created by a means for creating print data asynchronously with a printer operation by converting print data into a print file into a print file after processing by a computer and processing the created print data. By means of a program having a function of outputting to a printer, it is transferred to the printer and printed on paper. The user inputs a command to skip the file to the last item by operation and outputs the last item.

In the case of ordinary office data, the total sum or the total is output to the last term, so the user determines the result of the computer processing by confirming the last term, so that it is often output by the above method.

As shown in FIG. 2, the conventional printing apparatus creates an output editing program 11 and print data, and a program having an editing function writes the output image in the spool file 13. The print writer 12 has a function of creating data to be output to the printer by a print data printing function. When printing, data is created and printed from the first line of the first page. The spool file 13 temporarily or permanently prints the print data for each print data. The printer control 14 transfers the data to the printer when the spool file 13 has data. Operation means 1
Command data 17 entered by the user by 6
The output data subfile is determined by and the output data is selected by the function that can specify the output start position. The record input function 18 sequentially reads the determined sub-files and skips reading to the last record. Output editing function 1
9 transfers the transferred data to the printing device, and the printing device 1
The numeral 5 has a function of printing characters on a paper by expressing characters by dots, the operation means 16 specifies the final term, issues the command of the command data 17, and outputs the final page.

[0005]

In the conventional printing apparatus, when the output is started to the output device in order to obtain the final page, operator intervention is performed at the same time when the output device is stopped and the operation is performed. It became necessary, and paper wasted until operator intervention.

Further, in order to retrieve the last term of the printer,
There is a drawback that CPU and disk I / O are generated and the throughput of the entire computer is deteriorated, and that there is a drawback that operator intervention is required to output from the last term and operation is complicated.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to solve the above drawbacks, to start the output from the last term, to eliminate the waste of paper, and to avoid unnecessary retrieval, so that the CPU and disk I
(EN) Provided is a printing apparatus capable of increasing the utilization of / O, improving the throughput of the entire computer, and outputting the final term without any operation, thereby simplifying the operation.

[0008]

A printing apparatus according to the present invention comprises means for outputting to a printer, means for outputting print image data and creating a print file, and means for outputting to the printer when there is data in the print file. It has a device for outputting by dots when the print data is transferred, a means for rotating the characters of the print data in units of one character, and a means for printing the data from the computer.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, an embodiment of the present invention outputs to a printer, means for outputting print image data to create a print file, means for outputting to the printer when data is present in the print file, and transfer of print data. The device includes a device for outputting by dots when it is turned on, and a means for rotating the characters of the print data on a character-by-character basis.

In FIG. 1, the output editing program 1 is
The print data is created and print data is created in the output image file (spool file) 3 by a program having an editing function, and at the same time when the output editing program ends, the print writer 2 is instructed to start the output 4.
The print writer 2 is activated by the printer control module 5 from the output editing program 1 and records the data in the spool file 3 by determining the output order (priority), the output paper length, and the output target subfile. The record input function 6, which transfers the subfile name to the input function 6, transfers the subfile name to the read output editing function 7 in the reverse order in which the read pointer is positioned on the final record of the subfile based on the determined subfile name. The output editing function 7 edits the line feed information, page break information, and page break information, and the output data transferred is rotated 180 degrees character by character and transferred to the printer 9 for printing. As a result, the characters on the last page and the last page are output upside down.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, by starting the output from the last term, unnecessary retrieval is not performed, the utilization of CPU and disk I / O is increased, and the throughput of the entire computer is improved. This has the effects of improving and simplifying the operation for outputting the final term.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a conventional printing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Output Editing Program 2 Print Writer 3 Output Image File 5 Printer Control Module 6 Record Input Function 7 Output Editing Function

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A means for outputting print image data to a printer to create a print file, a means for outputting to the printer when there is data in the print file, and a dot when the print data is transferred. And a means for rotating the characters of the print data in character units, and the print file is rotated 180 degrees in character units from the last line and output.