JPH0887494A - Printing processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To enable address printing taking the total balance into consideration by determining the print character size of each print area linked with the size of the print area and the number of characters of address data printed in the print area. CONSTITUTION: A print control part 11 sends reference character size for printing to a print character size determination part 14 to make a request to determine print character size. The print character size determination part 14 varies the character size of each print area on the basis of maximum printable character size of each print area found by a reference character size determination part 13 by referring to a print character size reference table 43 so that relation R1>R2>R3>R4 is satisfied and the balance of character size among respective print areas becomes constant, thereby storing the character sizes in a print character size group storage table 44. A control part 11 displays a message indicating the setting of a postal card on a display device 20 and an operator indicates the start of printing through an input device 30.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a print processing method, and more particularly to a print processing method suitable for printing an address such as a postcard.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When writing an address on a postcard or the like, it is common to write a large name and a small address. An invention of a document processing apparatus as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 5-73563 is known to improve the convenience of such address writing. This invention obtains the maximum character size that can be printed in the name printing area from the number of characters of the data to be printed, and then based on the character size of the name so that the character size of each printing area is name>address> sender. The character size is calculated from the number of characters printed in the address print area and the number of characters printed in the sender print area.

According to this method, the printed character size of the name is always the largest and the printed character size of the address is never larger than the printed character size of the name. Can be satisfied with how to write.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the address printing method described in No. 5-73563, first, the printing character size that can print the name in the largest name printing area is determined, and the printing character size of the address and the sender is determined based on the printing character size of the name. There is. Therefore, when the number of characters in the name is small and the number of characters in the address is large, the print character size of the name is extremely large, the print character size of the address is extremely small, and the print character size of the name and the address are far apart. There are cases. As a result, the print character size of the entire address may be out of balance.

An object of the present invention is to determine the print character size according to the number of characters in the print area for printing the address data, and the print character size is R1>R2>R3> R for each print area.
In order of 4, the character sizes are interlocked so that the balance of the character sizes of the respective print areas looks good (for example, if the character size of R3 becomes smaller, R1, R2
The character size of is also made small) is to perform well-balanced and good-looking address printing.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned object is to make address data, such as an address and a name, inputted from an input device into a database by a general control device, store the database in a storage device, and store it in the storage device by the general control device. In the print processing method in which the address print data is created by determining the character size of the print data so that it can be printed in the specified print area from the stored database and printing the address by the printing device, the print area for printing the address Size and the number of characters of the address data to be printed in the print area, calculate the print standard character size that determines the size of the character when printing in the print area, and calculate the character size calculated by the print standard character size calculation. Originally, R1 area, R2 area, R
The print character size of each print area of 3 areas and R4 area is R1
>R2>R3> R4, and the print character size of the data to be printed on R1, R2, R3, and R4 is determined from the table that is set so that the balance of the print character size printed on each print area looks good. It is achieved by determining and printing the address data based on the determined character size.

[0007]

[Function] Relationship between print areas for printing address data (R1
>R2>R3> R4) is satisfied, and the character size to be printed in each print area is determined so that the balance of the character size in each print area looks good. It works so that it can be printed with.

[0008]

EXAMPLE An example of the method of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of a print processing apparatus. In the figure, 10 is an overall control device, 20 is a display device, 30 is an input device, and 40 is a storage device.

The overall control device 10 includes a print control unit 11 for controlling overall printing, a postcard type acquisition unit 12 for acquiring the type of postcard, a reference character size determination unit 13 for determining a reference character size, and finally a print character size. A print character size determination unit 14 for determining the print address, a print character output unit 15 for printing the input address data based on the determined character size, and the like.

The display device 20 is controlled by the overall control device to display a paper set message, a printing progress status, and the like.

The input device 30 generates an information signal for starting address printing or starting printing on a postcard or the like based on an operator's operation.

The storage device 40 is composed of a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk memory, or the like, and has an address data storage table 41 for storing the address data input by the input device as a database, and a maximum printable area for each print area. Character size storage table 42 for storing the character size of each of the print areas, the character size reference table 43 for determining the character size of each print area, and the character size to be finally printed, and for each print area A print character size group storage table 44 for storing the character size groups to be printed, a postcard type storage table 45 for storing the types of postcards to be printed, and a print character number storage table for storing the number of characters to be printed in each print area. Four
6. A character size group storage table 47 for storing character size groups to be finally printed is provided.

The printing device 50 is a printing device such as a printer that prints print data created by the entire device on a postcard or the like.

When printing an address, there are various cases such as postcards, envelopes, and guides. In this embodiment, the case of printing an address on a normal postcard will be described as an example. An example of FIG. 4 when the print area is defined as shown in FIG. 2 and the address data of FIG. 3 is printed on a postcard will be described.

FIG. 5 is an overall flow chart of the printing process of address printing on a postcard performed by the overall control device.

When the start of address printing on a postcard is instructed by the input device 30, the print control unit 11 requests the postcard type acquisition unit 12 to acquire the type of postcard to be printed. The postcard type acquisition unit 12 refers to the postcard type storage table 45 of the storage device 40 and returns the type of postcard to be printed to the print control unit 11 (process 501).

Next, the print control unit 11 sends the type information of the postcard to be printed to the reference character size determination unit 12, and requests the determination of the reference character size. The reference character size determination unit 13 refers to the number of characters of data to be printed in each printing area of R1 to R4 of the address data storage table 41 based on the type of postcard sent from the print control unit 11, and prints each character. The maximum character size that can be printed in the area is obtained from the print character size reference table 43, and the maximum character size storage table 4
2 (process 502). Details of the process 502 will be described later with reference to FIG.

Next, the print control unit 11 sends a character size as a reference for printing to the print character size determination unit 14 and requests to determine the print character size. Printed character size determination unit 1
In No. 4, from the maximum character size that can be printed in each print area obtained by the reference character size determination unit 13, R1>R2>R3>
The character size of each print area is changed by referring to the print character size reference table 43 so that the relationship of R4 is satisfied and the balance of the character size of each print area is constant. The data is stored in the storage table 44 (process 503). Details of the process 503 will be described later with reference to FIG. 7.

Finally, the print control unit 11 controls the display device 20.
A print paper set request message for setting the postcard on the printing device is displayed. The operator sets a postcard to be printed on the printing device and instructs the input device 30 to start printing.

When a print start signal is sent from the input device, the print control unit 11 requests the print character output unit 15 to print on a postcard. The print character output unit 15 obtains the data to be printed in each print area from the address data storage table 41, refers to the print character size group storage table 44 to obtain the print character size group, and refers to the print character size reference table 43. Then, each print item is developed as print data with the character size of the obtained print character size group, and is sent to the printing device 50 to print the address (process 50).
4).

With the above, printing of one address data is completed.

After the printing of one address data is completed, the print control unit 11 refers to the address data storage table 41 and determines whether there is data to be printed next. Repeat the process. If the print data does not exist, the print process ends (process 505).

By performing the above processing, the input data shown in FIG. 3 can be printed as shown in FIG.

The reference character size determination process (process 50)
The processing content of 2) will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

First, a table (print character number storage table 46) for storing the number of characters in each print area is initialized (stores 0. The meaning of 0 means no print character) (process 601).

Next, referring to the address data to be printed this time stored in the address data storage table 41, it is determined whether or not there is a character to be printed in each print area in the order of R1 to R4 (processes 602, 604, 606). , 608), and if there are characters to be printed, the number of characters to be printed in each print area is stored in the corresponding position of the print character number storage table 46 (processes 603, 605, 607, 609).

When the number of characters to be printed in each print area is obtained,
The print character size storage table 46 and the print character size reference table 43 in FIG. 8 are referenced to obtain a print character size group corresponding to the print character number for each print area, and the print character size group corresponding to the maximum character size storage table 42 of each print area is obtained. Store. When the number of print characters is 0 (when there is no print data), 0 is stored to indicate that there is no print data.

In the present embodiment, since the printing is on a normal postcard, the name printing area R1 shows the character size [large] (the number of characters of the first name is 4 characters, the last name is the surname) from the table of the normal postcard of the address data of FIG. Since there is one blank character between the name and the name, and one salary character "sama" added to the name, the total number of characters printed in the R1 print area is 6), and the address print area R2 has a character size [ Medium] (15 characters in address 1), company / condominium name area R3 is character size [large]
(Company name has 12 characters), Affiliation / Title print area R
4 is the character size [large] (the number of belonging characters is 5) (process 610). As described above, the maximum character size for printing each address data in each print area is determined.

The print character size determination process (process 50)
The processing content of 3) will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

First, the maximum character size storage table 42 of each print area is referred to, the print character size group of the R1 print area is obtained and stored in the character size group storage table 47 (process 701). Here, the name printing area R1
Since the number of characters to be printed in 6 is 6, the large character size is stored.

Based on the character size group of the name print area R1 obtained here, the print character sizes are compared in order from the address print area R2 to obtain the character size for printing the address.

First, information representing the address print area R2 is stored in a variable indicating the print area number of the comparison destination (hereinafter referred to as "comparison area") (process 702).

Next, it is determined whether or not there is a character to be printed in the comparison area by referring to the maximum character size storage table 42 of each printing area (process 703).

If there is a character to be printed, the maximum character size storage table 42 is referenced from the comparison area information,
The character size group of the comparison area is obtained, and the size relationship with the character size stored in the character size group storage table 47 is compared (process 704).

If there is no character to print, process 7
Move to 06.

As a result of comparing the character sizes, if the character size of the comparison area is small, the character size group of the comparison area is stored in the character size group storage table 47 (process 705).

In this embodiment, the address 1 of the address data shown in FIG.
The number of characters of 15 is 15, and the character size to be printed is [medium] from the table of normal postcards of FIG. Therefore, the character size group storage table 47 is changed to information of the character size [medium].

As a result of comparing the character sizes, if the character sizes in the comparison area are the same or large, processing 706 is performed.
Move to.

When the comparison of the print character size between the comparison area and the character size group storage table 47 is completed, it is determined whether or not the comparison area is the final print area (in this embodiment, belonging / title print area R4). Process 706).

If it is determined in the determination as to whether the comparison area is the final print area, if it is not the final print area, the next print area to be compared is set in the comparison area, and the process returns to step 703 (step 70).
7). At this time, since the address print area R2 has already been compared, the company / condominium name print area R3 is set next, and the affiliation / title print area R4 is set next.

As described above, all the print areas are compared,
Determine the font size group to print.

Comparing up to the final print area, the character size group to be printed when actually printing is stored in the character size group storage table 47, and a series of processing is terminated.

[0044]

As described above, according to the present invention, the print character size of each print area is determined in conjunction with each other based on the size of the print area to be printed and the number of characters of the address data to be printed in the corresponding print area. Therefore, the address printing can be performed in consideration of the overall balance, and even if the number of characters of the data in each print area is different, the address printing can be realized with good appearance.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a print processing apparatus.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing each print area to be printed on a postcard.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of input address data.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a print result of input data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an overall processing flow of print processing.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing flow for determining a reference character size.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a processing flow for determining a print character size.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a table to be referred to when determining a print character size.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Overall control device, 11 ... Print control part, 12 ... Postcard type acquisition part, 13 ... Reference character size determination part, 14 ... Print character size determination part, 15 ... Print character output part, 20 ... Display device, 30 ... Input Device, 40 ... Storage device, 50 ... Printing device.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Addressing data such as an address, a name, etc. input from an input device is converted into a database by the overall control device, the database is stored in a storage device, and the database is stored in the storage device and determined by the overall control device. When the address print data is created by deciding the character size of the print data so that it can be printed in the specified print area and printing the address by the printing device, the size of the print area for printing the address and the address data to be printed in that print area Based on the character size calculated by the print reference character size calculation, a name print area (hereinafter referred to as R1 area) is calculated based on the character size calculated from the print reference character size calculation. Call area), address print area (hereinafter called R2 area), company / condominium name print area (hereinafter called R3 area), affiliation / title Printing area (hereinafter referred to as R4 area)
The print character size of each print area is R1>R2>R3> R
In the information processing method for determining the size of the character size so that the size becomes 4, the print character size of R1, R2, R3, R4 is made so that the balance of the print character size of R1, R2, R3, R4 looks good. A print processing method in which the print character size to be printed on R1, R2, R3, and R4 is determined from the table that defines, and printing is performed based on the determined character size.