JPH08127159A - Printing position adjusting device of printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent a hole for filing from entering a document (printing range) by moving a printing position by the distance corresponding to the blank of printing paper generated at the time of contraction printing. CONSTITUTION: When a contraction printing mode is set in a printer, the positional relation between a paper size 12, a printable range 13 and a printing image 15 of contraction printing is displayed on a blank image display device 1. The moving quantities of the printing image 15 of contraction printing in up-and-down as well as left-and-right directions are displayed on a blank numerical value display device 2 as numerical values. A user uses a direction switch 3 to move a printing position while looks the blank image display device 1 and the blank numerical value display device 2. When the printing position is determined, it is decided by a dicision switch 4. The printing position after decision can be again reset by a cancel switch 5. When printing data is sent from a host computer after decision, the printer applies printing at the position set by the user.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a reduction printing mechanism for a printer, and more particularly to a printing position adjusting device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A reduction printing mechanism of a conventional printer is shown in FIG.
As shown in, the print size is further reduced within the printable range 13 of the output paper size 12. For example, when a certain document is formatted in A4 and standard printed on A4 paper (a), it is formatted in B4 and B4 → A in A4 paper.
Comparing (b) when the reduced printing of 4 is performed, the A4 paper has a width of 210 mm and a height of 297 mm, whereas
The four sheets are 257 mm in width and 364 mm in length, and the size ratio is 0.817 in width and 0.816 in length. However, in the printer, the reduction ratio from B4 to A4 is 4/5 (= 0.8)
Therefore, the print image 15 of the reduced print when formatted in B4 is printed smaller than the print image 14 of the standard print when formatted in A4, and the margin 16 is formed in the printable range 13. Will end up. This margin 16 is
It was fixed by the device.

Further, in a printer having a print head,
A technique (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-130177) that adjusts the margin by making the character size, character spacing, and line spacing variable is disclosed, but printing at an arbitrary position within the printable range 13 It was impossible.

[0004]

In the conventional reduction printing mechanism of this printer, the printing position is fixed.
Therefore, when attempting to make a hole for filing or the like, there is a drawback that a hole (see a black circle in FIG. 3) is made in the printed document or hidden by a stopper plate.

Therefore, the present invention improves the drawbacks of the reduction printing mechanism of the conventional printer described above, and enables the printing position to be moved by the margin of the printing paper that occurs at the time of reduction printing, so that filing can be performed. This is to prevent holes and the like from entering the document (printing range).

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a printer having a means for reducing and printing a document set to a specific paper size on a paper smaller than the paper size. , A print position adjusting means for calculating a movable range and adjusting a print position, a margin numerical value display for numerically displaying the margin information from the print position adjusting means, a paper size, a printable range and a print position. A margin image display for displaying an image, a switch for moving the print position, a switch for confirming the moved print position, a switch for canceling the once confirmed print position, and a print position moving means for printing at the set print position. A printing position adjusting device of a printer including and is adopted as a means.

[0007]

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

FIG. 1 is an external view of a control panel printing position adjusting unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the reduced print mode is set, the margin image display 1 displays the paper size 12 to be printed, the printable range 13 of the paper, the reduced print image 15 and the margin numerical display 2 displays the default values. The amounts of the top, bottom, left, and right margins 16 at the printing position are displayed. The print image 15 of the reduced print can be moved up, down, left, and right within the printable range 13, and when the user presses the direction switch 3, the blank value in the blank numerical value display 2 is increased or decreased in 1-dot units. To do. Correspondingly, the direction switch 3 which also pressed the print image 15 of the reduced print in the margin image display 1
Move in the direction indicated by. However, the margin numerical display 2
Although the increase / decrease can be displayed in units of 1 dot, the margin image display 1 cannot display the movement of 1 dot at a time due to the size of the liquid crystal display, and therefore moves in units of 100 dots.

After the position is decided, the decision switch 4 is pushed to decide the printing position. The print position once determined can be returned to the printable state by pressing the cancel switch 5.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

When the reduction print mode is set in the printer and the paper size 12 to be printed is determined, the paper size information,
The reduction ratio information is sent to the print position adjusting means 7. The print position adjusting unit 7 has information on the printable range 13 of each sheet, the size of the print image 15 for reduced printing, and default print position information in a table. From the table according to the set reduction mode, Retrieve matching information. Based on this information, it is calculated how much the reduced print image 15 can move vertically and horizontally. When the movable range is obtained, the print position adjusting means 7 causes the printable range 13,
Information such as the size, print position, and movable range of the print image 15 of the reduced print is sent to the operation panel 6, and the reduction ratio information is sent to the reduction means 9. The operation panel 6 that received the information
The paper size 12, the printable range 13, and the print position are displayed on the margin image display 1 of the operation panel print position setting unit, and the amount of the margin 16 is displayed on the margin numerical value display 2.

The print position is adjusted by the direction switch 3. When the user presses direction switch 3, the information is
It is sent to the print position adjusting means 7. Print position adjusting means 7
Adjusts the margin value by analyzing which direction of this switch information is up, down, left, right. For example, when the right switch is pressed, the print position adjusting unit 7 analyzes the information as the movement to the right, and then subtracts 1 from the right margin value and adds 1 to the left margin value. After that, the margin information is sent again to the operation panel 6 and displayed on each display of the print position setting section.

When the user determines the print position with the confirmation switch 4 and the print position adjusting means 7 determines that the confirmation switch 4 has been pressed, the print position information is sent from the print position adjusting means 7 to the print position moving means 11. Printing position moving means 1
1 calculates the timing from horizontal synchronization and vertical synchronization to the start of print data transfer based on the determined print position information.

After that, when the print data is sent from the host computer, the print data is received by the receiving means 8 and sent to the reducing means 9. The reducing unit 9 reduces the print data based on the reduction ratio information from the print position adjusting unit 7 and draws it in the image memory 10. Printing position moving means 1
1 outputs the print data of the image memory 10 to the printer engine using the timing calculated before the start of transfer, and prints at the set position. Then, as shown in FIG. 3, the print image 17 after movement is obtained.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to effectively use the blank space generated by the reduced printing and move the printing position. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, the printing position is moved even if the filing hole enters the document (printing range) at the position where the document is simply reduced and printed, and the document becomes unreadable. As a result, it is possible to prevent the document from having holes. Further, since the printing position can be arbitrarily moved, it is possible to create a well-balanced document regardless of the position of the filing hole which is brought up, down, left, or right of the paper.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a control panel print position adjusting unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing printing after movement according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing printing by a conventional printer,
(A) shows standard printing, (b) shows reduced printing, respectively.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Margin image display 2 Margin numerical display 3 Direction switch 4 Confirmation switch 5 Cancel switch 6 Operation panel 7 Printing position adjusting means 8 Receiving means 9 Reduction means 10 Image memory 11 Printing position moving means 12 Paper size 13 Printable range 14 Standard Print image of print 15 Print image of reduced print 16 Margin 17 Print image after moving

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document set to a specific paper size,
In a printer having a unit for reducing and printing on a sheet of a size smaller than the sheet size, a print position adjusting unit for calculating a movable range and adjusting a print position, and a margin information from the print position adjusting unit are set to numerical values. The margin value display that displays with, the margin image display that displays the paper size, printable range, and print position as an image, the switch that moves the print position, and the switch that determines the moved print position. A print position adjusting device for a printer, comprising: a print position moving means for printing at a print position. 2. The printing position adjusting device for a printer according to claim 1, further comprising a switch for canceling the once fixed printing position.