JPH07264393A - Composite equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily combine a prescribed format and printing data and output them by reading the format and combining the format and the printing data transferred from a host computer side. CONSTITUTION:This composite equipment is provided with a panel 1 for performing data display and operation input, a scanner part 3 for scanning image data or the like, a printer part 5 for printing the data and a controller 7 for controlling the panel 1, the scanner part 3 and the printer part 5. Then, the controller 7 is connected to the host computer side. In the composite equipment, under the control of the controller 7, the prescribed format is scanned and read by the scanner part 3 not used at the time of using the printing function of the printer part 5, combined with the printing data transferred from the host computer side, printed in the printer 5 and outputted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a compound device such as a digital copying machine to which a function such as a FAX or a printer is added, and in particular, a specified format is read by a scanner unit and transferred with the format. The present invention relates to a composite device that can be easily combined with output print data and output.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, a compound machine such as a digital copying machine to which a function such as a FAX or a printer is added has been developed. In this compound machine, an attempt was made to print print data in a specified format. In this case, two methods are possible. One is a method in which a format itself is created, a sentence is created in the format and is printed at the same time, and the other is a method in which only a document is created and printed on a designated format sheet. However,
In the former case, it is necessary to create a necessary format in advance, and in the latter case, there are problems that it is difficult to set the print position of the data, and the format sheet is not suitable for copying, printers and the like.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to read a specified format by a scanner section and to easily read the format and print data. An object is to provide a composite device that can be combined and output.

[0004]

To achieve the above object, according to the present invention, in a compound device including at least a scanner section and a printer section, a predetermined format read by the scanner section and the transferred print data are combined. And a synthesizing unit for outputting the synthesis result from the printer unit. As a result of having the above-mentioned configuration, since the format is read by scanning with the scanner section that is not used when the print function of the printer section is used, and the transferred print data is combined, the format and print data are combined. It can be easily combined and output.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a composite device embodying the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, this composite device includes a panel 1 for displaying data and inputting operations, a scanner unit 3 for scanning image data, a printer unit 5 for printing data, and the like. It has a controller 7 for controlling the panel 1, the scanner unit 3, and the printer unit 5. The controller 7 is connected to the host computer side. In the first embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention, under the control of the controller 7, the scanner unit 3 which is not used when the printing function of the printer unit 5 is used, scans a predetermined format and reads it from the host computer side. The transferred print data is combined, and the printer section 5 prints and outputs it.

That is, the print data as shown in FIG. 2 (A) transferred from the host computer side and the format as shown in FIG. 2 (B) read by the scanner unit 3 are combined, A combined output result as shown in 2 (C) is obtained. FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the combining operation. In addition, in FIG.
A system using two buffers (a) and (b) is shown, and this buffer function is included in the controller 7. Further, FIG. 4 shows a flow chart of the combining operation in the system using one buffer (a). According to the first embodiment, the format printing can be achieved without separately creating the format desired to be printed.

Next, in the second embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention, the format is read by scanning by the scanner section 3 under the control of the controller 7 in the first embodiment and transferred from the host computer side. When synthesizing the received print data, the positional relationship between the format and the print data is specified by using a marker on the format.

That is, the print data as shown in FIG. 5 (A) transferred from the host computer side and the format as shown in FIG. 5 (B) read by the scanner unit 3 are combined, Although the composite output result as shown in FIG. 5 (C) is obtained, as shown in FIG. 5 (B),
A position is designated by using a marker on the format read by the scanner unit 3, and the marker position for the print position designation is used as the origin of the actual print range. Note that FIG.
Indicates a case where one point is designated by a marker, and the broken line in FIG. 5A represents the actual print range.

FIG. 6 shows a case in which two points are designated by a marker. The size of the format to be printed is read by designating the diagonal direction, the character spacing and the line spacing are corrected, and then combined and printed. I am going to do it.

The composition operation of the second embodiment is shown in a flow chart of FIG. Note that FIG. 7 shows a system using two buffers (a) and (b), and this buffer function is included in the controller 7. Further, FIG. 8 shows a flow chart of the combining operation in the system using one buffer (a). According to the second embodiment, in addition to the effect of the first embodiment, it is possible to easily specify the position where one wants to print.

Next, in the third embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention, the size of the format is detected from the image data scanned by the scanner unit 3 under the control of the controller 7, and the size is detected based on the size. By adjusting the character spacing and line spacing of print data, composite printing is performed. That is, as shown in FIG. 9, the size is detected by using the format itself instead of the marker, and other configurations and operations are the same as those in the first embodiment. According to the third embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first embodiment, position adjustment can be performed without being aware of the print position.

Next, in the fourth embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 10, a part of the ruled line of the format or a straight line serving as a reference is previously drawn with a marker, and is scanned by the scanner section 3. These are extracted from the image data of the format, the inclination of the format is calculated, and the format is rotated and corrected.
Other configurations and operations are the same as those in the first embodiment. In addition,
Flowchart (flowchart) of the combining operation of the fourth embodiment
Is shown in FIG. In addition, in FIG.
A system using two buffers (a) and (b) is shown, and this buffer function is included in the controller 7. Further, FIG. 12 shows a flow chart of the combining operation in the system using one buffer (a). This 4th
According to the embodiment, in addition to the effect of the first embodiment, it is possible to eliminate a printing error due to the inclination of the document at the time of scanning.

Next, in the fifth embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 13, the size of the format is detected from the image data obtained by scanning the format, and the image itself is moved to be transmitted from the host computer side. The data is combined with the transfer data and printed, and other configurations and operations are the same as those in the first embodiment. According to the fifth embodiment, in addition to the effect of the first embodiment, it is possible to correct the deviation of the document and the print position.

Next, in the sixth embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 14, a plurality of printing positions are designated by a marker on the format to be scanned, and the transferred character string data corresponding to the number thereof is transferred. A document is created by allocating to the location, and other configurations and operations are the same as those in the first embodiment. In this case, a predetermined code is assigned as the delimiter of the character string. As for the data from the host computer side, the marked number (the number of lines) of data may be created. For example, if a line feed character is used as a delimiter, the print position is determined by the line number of the data. According to the sixth embodiment, in addition to the effect of the first embodiment, it is possible to print in accordance with the format simply by sending the character string.

[0015]

According to the present invention, under the control of the controller, the scanner unit, which is not used when the print function of the printer unit is used, scans a predetermined format by scanning, and transfers the format and the host computer side. Since the received print data is combined, the format and the print data can be easily combined and output.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a composite device in which the present invention is implemented.

2A, 2B, and 2C are operation explanatory diagrams of the first embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart of the first embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an operation flowchart of the first embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

5A, 5B, and 5C are operation explanatory diagrams of a second embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

6 (A), (B) and (C) are operation explanatory views of a second embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an operation flowchart of the second embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an operation flowchart diagram of the second embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

9A, 9B and 9C are operation explanatory views of a third embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

10 (A) and 10 (B) are a fourth embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.
Operation | movement explanatory drawing of an Example.

FIG. 11 is an operation flowchart of the fourth embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is an operation flowchart of the fourth embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

13A and 13B show a fifth example of the composite device according to the present invention.
Operation | movement explanatory drawing of an Example.

14 (A), (B) and (C) are operation explanatory views of a sixth embodiment of the composite device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Panel, 3 ... Scanner section, 5 ... Printer section, 7 ...
controller,

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A composite device comprising at least a scanner section and a printer section, wherein a predetermined format read by the scanner section and print data transferred from the scanner section are combined, and the combined result is output from the printer section. A composite device comprising a synthesizing means for outputting. 2. The composite apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the format is aligned with the print data by designating a position on the read format with a marker. 3. The composite device according to claim 1, wherein the size of the read format is detected, and alignment is performed based on the size. 4. The composite device according to claim 1, wherein the format is rotated by using a reference line provided on the format to correct the inclination at the time of reading. 5. The size of the format is detected from image data obtained by scanning the format, and the image itself is moved and combined with the transferred print data for printing. Composite equipment. 6. A document is created by designating a plurality of print positions with a marker on the scanning format and allocating the transferred character string data to that location. The composite device according to claim 1.