JPH06103455B2 - Hard copy control system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION [Outline] A hard copy control method for a device having a hard copy processing function for data displayed on a display, and when printing information transferred from a higher level, before printing the information to be printed. Based on the transferred control information, the printer processing operation is controlled to be the highest priority processing, and when the hard copy processing of the data displayed on the display is selected and selected from a plurality of hard copy processing methods, the printing time, content, and processing method are selected. It is possible to facilitate hard copy processing and control with more flexibility by configuring such that the above items are checked and processed.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a hard copy control system for an apparatus having a hard copy processing function of data displayed on a display.

Recently, a data processing apparatus, which has been widely used as an office automation device, is often configured by connecting a keyboard and a printer to a main body device having a CRT display, for example.

Some of such data processing devices have a function of making a hard copy of data displayed on a display device by a printer. In this case, when data is printed under the control of the data processing device main body and when hard copy processing is performed. Becomes a race condition.

On the other hand, when this data processing device is used as a workstation of a data processing system, control of data printing transferred from a higher level is added to cause a conflict. Practical application of a method of processing such processing with more flexibility is expected.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a conventional example, FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a hard copy processing procedure of the conventional example, and FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a connection state of a data processing device.

The block diagram shown in FIG. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram of the data processing device 50 (the connection status is shown in FIG. 8) mainly used for office automation, and controls the processing operation of the data processing device 50. Controller 1
0, control data, print designation data, memories 11 and 12 for storing display data, CRT display 13 that is a data display screen, keyboard 2, printer 3, and input of data and signals to the host device 60 of the host. A main body 1 having I / O ports 14 and 15 having an output function, a keyboard 2 having a print key (a) for inputting data from the outside and a hard copy processing designation, and a CRT display 14 are displayed. The printer 3 is configured to print screen data and other data.

Further, FIG. 8 shows a situation in which the data processing device 50 is connected to a data processing system. That is, in this case, the printer 3 prints the data to be processed by the main body 1 and the host device 60
The data transferred from will also be printed.

Conventionally, a data processing device 50 having a hard copy processing function
Then, the hard copy processing control method was fixed at one method.

That is, for example, "AIUEO" is displayed on the CRT display 13 (shown in FIG. 7 (B)), and if the user wishes to make a hard copy of this displayed character, press the print key (a) attached to the keyboard 2. When pressed, the signal is sent to the controller 10 via the I / O port 14.

When the controller 10 confirms the signal from the print key (a), the controller 10 processes according to the hard copy execution method stored in the control data memory 11 in advance according to the procedure shown in FIG. 7 (A).

That is, when a hard copy is instructed, the controller 10 determines whether or not the printer 3 is in use, and if it is in an unused state, immediately performs a hard copy of "aiueo".

If the printer 3 is in use, it is processed by the following method. Note that the following method is a typical example of the methods that have been conventionally implemented, and one of them is fixedly determined for the data processing device 50. That is, (1) a method of canceling a hard copy if the printer 3 is in use.

(2) If the printer 3 is in use, a method of executing a hard copy after the printing of the data being processed is completed.

(3) If the printer 3 is in use, a method of performing hard copy between pages of data printing being processed.

(4) A method of performing hard copy by interrupting data printing during processing when the hard copy processing is designated even when the printer 3 is in use.

Etc.

Incidentally, FIG. 7 (B) shows a print result situation when the processes (2) to (4) are performed.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

As for the hard copy processing method at the time when the hard copy printing is designated as described above, one of the above (1) to (4) is fixedly determined, so that it is fixed at (1), for example. If hard copy processing is to be performed immediately when hard copy printing is designated by the data processing device 50, the method cannot be applied.

Further, in the case of the method (4), page processing is not performed on a page-by-page basis, so page alignment of printed data may be misaligned.

Further, when the data processing device 50 is connected to a data processing system and the data transferred from the host device 60 of the upper level is printed, conventionally, the printing of the processing information in the data processing device 50 is set to have priority. ing.

Therefore, for example, even if the printing of the data transferred from the host device 60 is postponed or is printed in the middle,
As mentioned above, there were various problems such as page misalignment.

[Means for solving problems]

 FIG. 1 shows a block diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention.

The principle block diagram of FIG. 1 is composed of the functional blocks 1 to 3 described in FIG. 6, and the main body 1 further includes the functional blocks 10 and 13 described in FIG.
With the keyboard 2, the plurality of hard copy processing methods stored in the control data memory 18 are designated and stored, and
A specified data memory 16 for storing control information and transfer information transferred from a higher-level device, a priority processing order of print processing based on the specified data stored in the specified data memory 16, and a control data memory 18 Control information selecting / judging unit 17 for selecting / judging a plurality of hard copy processing methods stored in
And a main body 1 having a control data memory 18 in which a plurality of pieces of hard copy processing method information are stored in advance.

[Action]

When a plurality of information print requests conflict with each other, the control information selection determining unit checks and determines the contents and selects a request to be preferentially processed.

That is, when the information transferred from the upper level is printed, it is processed with the highest priority, and the print processing controls the processing operation of the printer based on the control information by the control information transferred together with the information to be printed, and selects the control information. -The transfer information is prioritized by the check judgment of the judgment unit and processed according to the specified format stored in the specified data memory.

In addition, during the hard copy processing of the data displayed on the display, the control information selection / judgment unit makes a selection judgment based on the contents stored in the designated data memory, such as the printing time, contents, and processing method, and the hard copy printing is performed. By configuring the processing so that during hard copy processing, the data transferred from the host device is postponed or even if it is printed in the middle, it is possible to easily perform print processing without misaligning the page alignment. In addition, the hard copy process can be controlled with more flexibility.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the gist of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the embodiments shown in FIGS. 2 to 5 and 8.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a print processing procedure in the embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a printing procedure of transfer information from a host device in the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a selection information display example diagram in the embodiment of the present invention. The same reference numerals denote the same objects throughout the drawings.

Next, a processing procedure when the hard copy processing is selected by the control in the data processing device 50 will be described with reference to FIG.

When printing data, the copy control method is displayed on the CRT display 13 by operating the keyboard 2, and the condition for using the printer 3, that is, as shown in FIG.
Print information such as (1) paper size (for example, A4, A3, B5, etc.), (2) form type (for example, continuous form or single form, etc.),
The designated hard copy control method is set by operating the keyboard 2 and stored in the designated data memory 16.

Next, the control information check unit 173 and the controller 10 determine the presence or absence of print processing information, and if there is information print processing, control is performed so that information printing is given priority.

In the printing at this time, the control information check unit 17 checks whether the previously set print information matches the set paper type.
Checked in 3, and if they match, the print information is processed according to the set print information. (Steps 100 to 103) Next, the print key (a) in the keyboard 2 is used to instruct the hard copy process on the controller 10 in the main unit 1.

The controller 10 then determines whether or not the printer 3 is in use, and if it is not in use, the hard copy process is performed based on the set information. (Steps 104 to 106) If the printer 3 is in use when the hard copy process is instructed, the controller 10 reads the copy control method stored in the designated data memory 16, and the contents are stored in the control data memory 18 in advance. The copy control method check unit 172 checks whether or not it matches the copy control method stored in.

When it is confirmed that they match, the copy control method selection unit 17
The copy control method (the control method shown in step 108) designated by the designated data memory 16 is loaded into 1 and the hard copy processing is carried out. (Steps 107, 108) Next, a transfer information print processing procedure transferred from the host device 60 will be described with reference to FIG.

When the host device 60 issues an open instruction to the data processing device 50, the printer 3 in the data processing device 50
The control is placed under the control of the host device 60, and the control information selection determination unit 17 performs check determination so that the highest priority processing is performed in the information processing order.

In FIG. 4, the step numbers 200 to 200 indicate the operations on the host device 60 side, and the 300 numbers indicate the operations on the data processing device 50 side.

An instruction code (WCC) for securing the printer 3 from the host device 60, print control information (including designation of a hard copy control method), and print information setting contents are stored in the data processing device 50.
To the host device 60, and the data processing device 50 is put under the control of the host device 60. The print control information and the print information transferred from the host device 60 are stored in the designated data memory 16. (Steps 200, 300) Next, the data printing instruction code (WCC) from the host device 60.
The data is transferred and the information printing is started. At this time, the print key (a) in the keyboard 2 is used to instruct the hard copy process.

When the transfer information printing is completed, the copy control method selection unit 171
Data memory 1 designated by copy control method check unit 172
The hard copy control method stored in 6 is selected and checked in the same manner as described above, and the hard copy processing based on the designation is executed. (Steps 201, 301 to 305) When the host device 60 receives a transfer information print / hard copy processing end signal from the data processing device 50, the data processing device 50
(That is, the printer 3) open (close) instruction code (WCC) is sent to release placing the data processing device 50 under the control of the host device 60. (Steps 202, 306) [Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention as described above, even when printing of data transferred from the host device is postponed or data printing is restarted in the middle, during hard copy processing, There is an effect that the print processing can be easily performed without misaligning the page and the hard copy processing can be controlled with more flexibility.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a print processing procedure in the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a printing procedure of transfer information from a host device in the embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 5 is a selection information display example diagram in the embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 6 is a block diagram explaining a conventional example, FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a conventional hard copy processing procedure, and FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining a connection status of the data processing device. In the figure, 1 is a main body, 2 is a keyboard, 3 is a printer, 10 is a controller, 11,18 is a control data memory, 12 is a display memory, 13 is a CRT display, 14,15 is an I / O port, and 16 is designated. Reference numeral 17 is a data memory, 17 is a control information selection / determination unit, 50 is a data processing device, 60 is a host device, 171 is a copy control method selection unit, 172 is a copy control method check unit, and 173 is a control information check unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A device having a function of hard copying information displayed on a display (13) on a printer (3) by pressing a print key ((a)) attached to a keyboard (2). In the control data memory (18), among the plurality of processing methods of the hard copy processing, the processing method designated by the keyboard (2), the control information and the transfer information transferred from the host device, And a storage means (16) for storing the information, the processing method, processing time, processing content, etc. of the hard copy processing stored in the control data memory (18) being stored in the storage means (16). Control information selection / determination means (17) for controlling the priority processing procedure of a plurality of competing processing requests by checking / determining the information stored in the storage means (16) as well as selecting / determining based on ) Is provided, when the transfer information print processing request from the higher-level device, the information print request and the hard copy processing request from the inside compete, the control information selection / determination means (17) determines the processing order, When the hard copy processing is executed, the designated hard copy processing method stored in the storage means (16) is selected / determined by the control information selection / determination means (17), and based on the result. A hard copy control method characterized by performing a hard copy process.