JPS60262677A - Document printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document printer capable of printing a composition within a printing region which is set by manually moving a printing head on the surface of a printing paper so as to trace the boundary points of the desired printing region. CONSTITUTION:In the case of leaving a region 20 of the surface of the printing paper as a blank part for pasting a photo or the like and printing in the other region, a pen 5 is manually located at the top left and point 50 of a printing region 21, and a region-starting key on a keyboard 13 is depressed. A CPU10 reads data from an X position sensor 2 and a Y position sensor 4, and stores the data into a main memory 11. Next, the pen 5 is located at the bottom right end point 51 of the printing region 21, and a region-ending key on the keyboard 13 is depressed. The CPU10 reads the coordinates of the point 51, and stores them into the memory 11. Similarly, the coordinates of the top left end point 52 and the bottom right end point 53 of another printing region 22 are stored into the memory. Thereafter, printing of a composition in the regions 21, 22 is started.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document printing device for a word processor or the like.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

In recent years, word processors have begun to be created that use electronic computers to create documents. When creating a document using a word processor, the important points are how to create the text data (for example, kana-kanji conversion), and how easily the created text can be laid out on paper.

To solve this layout problem, word processors have recently appeared that display one page of paper as a printed image on a display for editing, but display devices that can quickly display one page of paper as a printed image are extremely expensive. Met. Therefore, it has been desired to have a device that can easily layout text at low cost.

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to realize a document printing device for a word processor or the like, which can easily create text layouts at low cost.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention creates a document by manually moving the print head, specifying a printing area on the paper, and specifying the text to be printed in the printing area on a text display or the like. [Effects] According to the present invention, text layout can be done easily and inexpensively, which improves practicality for users.

[Embodiments of the invention]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a document printing apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a printing section based on the principle of an XY plotter. In Fig. 2, 1 is a motor that moves the pen 5 in the X direction, 2 is an X position sensor that detects the position of the pen 5 in the X direction, 3 is a motor that moves the pen 5 in the Y direction, and 4 is a Y of the pen 5.
It is an X position sensor that knows the position in the direction. 6 is the paper to be printed on.
10 is a CPU, 11 is a main memory, 12 is a text data memory for storing text data, and 1 is a CPU.
3 is a keyboard used for document creation and printing specifications, ]4
is a one-line display on which the contents of the text data memory 12 can be viewed.

I will not discuss the creation of the text since it is unrelated to the essence of the present invention.

It is now assumed that text data is stored in the text data memory 12 as shown in FIG.

It is assumed that the user wants to create a layout as shown in FIG. In FIG. 8, the area 2o is for pasting photographs and the like later.

In order to perform such a layout, the print area on the paper is divided as shown in Figure 4, and the text data in the text data memory is first printed in the print area 21, and the remaining text data is printed in the area 22. Just do it.

Next, the specific operation will be explained. First, the print area 21
Bring the pen to the upper left end point 50 of the keyboard 13
Press the area start key above. CPUl0 is X position sensor 2
, reads the data of the X position sensor 4 and main memory 11
to be memorized. Next, the user selects the lower right end point 5 of the print area 21.
1 and press the area end key on the keyboard 13. The CPU 10 reads the Ben position coordinates and stores them in the main memory 11 as before.

Next, the user reads the text data in the text data memory 12 using the one-line display 14, moves the cursor to the beginning of the text to be printed in the print area 21, and presses the keyboard 1.
3.Press the sentence start point key above. The CPU reads the cursor position and stores the address of the specified character in the text data memory in the main memory 11. Next, the user similarly moves the cursor to the end of the sentence to be printed in the print area 21 and presses the sentence end point key on the keyboard 13.

The CPU reads the cursor position and stores the address of the designated character in the text data memory in the main memory 11.

The designation of the end of the text may be omitted if it is desired to print the text to the end of the area 21.

Next, the user presses the print start key. CPU is 50 points
．． Printing control is performed based on the coordinate values of 51, and specified text data in the text data memory is printed in area 21. This printing control is well known and will therefore be omitted.

Similarly, by manually moving the pen to points 52 and 58 in area 22 and specifying the print text data, a document as shown in FIG. 3 can be printed. If the text data to be printed in area 22 starts immediately after the text printed in area 21, there is no need to specify the start of the text.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily layout a text without using a display device that can display one page as a printed image.

Although the present invention has been described using a printing unit based on the principle of X and Y rotation, it is also possible to use a printing device in which the print head moves only in the X direction and prints by feeding the paper in the Y direction. The good is obvious. Further, it is also possible to connect a printer capable of high-quality printing to this embodiment, and after creating a galley with the printing section of this embodiment, printing can be performed using the printer capable of high-quality printing.

廿DA area start, area end 1 sentence point 1 sentence end point.

Some or all of the printing start keys may be arranged on the printing section.

Further, in order to match the matrix between printing areas, if the printing position of characters is normalized using grid points, the flexibility of printing will be reduced, but the position specification will become easier.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a block diagram of the printing unit of the invention, Figure 3 is a diagram of a printed image of a completed layout, Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram of area specification, and Figure 5. is a diagram showing text data in a text data memory. 1...X direction motor, 2...X position sensor, 8...
・Y direction motor, 4...Y position sensor, 5° ・Ben (Print head) Agent Patent attorney Noriyuki Chika (and 1 other person) Fig. 3 Fig. 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] a storage means for storing document data; a first specifying means for specifying a printing range on the paper surface to be printed using a print head; and a first specifying means for specifying a printing range on the paper surface in the document data stored in the storage means; a second specifying means for specifying a range to be printed, and printing the document data of the range to be printed specified by the second specifying means in the printing range on the paper specified by the first specifying means; What is claimed is: 1. A document printing device comprising a printing means for printing.