JPS62107334A - Document generating device having postcard address printing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To write automatically a postcard address by providing a postcard address printing device. CONSTITUTION:A postcard address printing device 13 fetches necessary information from a postcard address document which has been stored in a document buffer 16 and sends a printing data of a one line portion to a line buffer in a printing mechanism 19. This printing data is printed to a postcard by a printer device 20. The postcard address printing device 13 is provided with a document line counter 22 for designating a line of a postcard address document which is stored in the document buffer 16, and a printing line counter 23 for designating a line of a postcard which is printed by a printer 20, and these counters 22, 23 are controlled by a control part 21. A copy instruction table 24 stores copy information for showing how many characters from which ordinal number of lines and which ordinal number of digits of the postcard address document are to be transferred to what ordinal number of digits of a composite buffer 25, with regard to a printing data of each line of the postcard which has been designated by the printing line counter 23.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a document creation device having a postcard address printing function.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] In recent years, low-cost, small-sized Japanese word processors with multiple functions have become popular. The printing performance of such word processors has improved considerably, and it is now possible to print on thick paper such as postcards. Therefore, it is desired to be able to easily print addresses on postcards using such a word processor.

[Objective of the Invention 1 The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its object is to provide a document creation device having a postcard address printing function that can easily print addresses on postcards.

[Summary of the Invention] A document table storing one sender information and a plurality of recipient information, a document line counter for specifying a line in the document table, and a document table for official postcards that stores a printing format for each line of a postcard. a print line unit table that stores line modification information of print lines provided separately for New Year's postcards;
A print line counter that specifies the line to be printed on a postcard, and transcription instructions provided for government postcards and New Year's postcards, in which digit information of the transcription source and destination, character conversion information, etc. are stored for each printing line. A table is provided, and the transcription information of the print line specified by the print line counter is obtained from the above transcription instruction table, and based on this transcription information, predetermined information is extracted from the recipient information or addressee information of the above document table, and the postcard is Print information for one line is synthesized on the print buffer 1 based on the line *i information of the print line and printed on the postcard.

[Embodiment of the Invention] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram functionally showing a partial configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment.

In FIG. 1, numeral 11 is a key manpower section that is equipped with keys necessary for creating a nation. Key operation signals inputted from the key human power section 11 are sent to the input control II device 12, and input signals corresponding to the key operations are created.

The above input signals include the postcard address printing device 13 and the editing device 14.
At the same time, the document edited in the editing device @ 141.
5. Reference numeral 16 denotes a document buffer that holds data for one document such as postcard address text 1 having a format as shown in FIG. Then, the document stored in this document buffer 716 can be stored as text *F.
The documents stored on the floppy disk 18 are stored in the floppy disk 18 under the control of the read/write device 17, and the documents stored on the floppy disk 18 are transferred to the document buffer 7716 as necessary.
is read into.

By the way, the detailed configuration of the postcard address printing device 13 will be described later with reference to FIG. One line of print data is sent to the line buffer.

This print data is then printed on a postcard or the like by the printer device 20.

Next, the detailed configuration of the postcard address printing device 13 will be explained with reference to FIG. A signal a output from the input control device 112 to start printing the postcard address is input to this device 13. When this message @a is input to the control section 21, the control section 21 starts controlling the printing of postcard addresses. Further, 22 is a document line counter that specifies the line of the postcard address document stored in the document buffer 16, and 23 is a print line counter that specifies the line of the postcard to be printed by the printer 20.
The control is performed by the control section 21.

In addition, 24 converts the print data of each line of the postcard specified by the print line counter 23 from the line and digit (transcription source) of the postcard address document to the digit and digit of the synthesis buffer 25 (transfer source).
This is a transcription instruction table in which transcription information indicating whether to transfer to a transcription destination) is stored. Roughly speaking, 26 is a printing system consisting of a line modification table (character size, line feed pitch, character spacing for each line) shown in Figure 6 and a print line unit table showing the print area for each print line of the postcard as shown in Figure 7. This is a format table. In addition, the above table 2.4.2
Number 6 is provided for official postcards and New Year's postcards. The information read from the tables 24 and 26 is then read by the control section 21. by the way,
27 is a data composition routine that creates print data for one line of a postcard on the composition buffer 25;
7 has a hyphen “-” code generation part 28 and a postal “〒”
Data from the code generator 29 is read as necessary.

Next, the operation of an embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be explained. First, in order to print a postcard address, when a key operation for postcard address printing in the key manual section 11 is performed, a process as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5 is performed. First, it is assumed here that a postcard address printing document has already been manually inputted and stored in the document buffer 116, or a postcard address printing function stored on the floppy disk 18 is stored in the document buffer 25. Then, it is determined whether the above-mentioned postcard address printing document is stored in a predetermined format as shown in FIG. Here, if the format of the document is stored in a predetermined format, the type of postcard (
Official/New Year's card) is selected (step 82). Then, when the [Select/Execute] key is operated, the signal is input to the postcard address printing device 13 via the input control device 12 (step 83). This selection selects tables 24 and 26 for official postcards or New Year's cards. This is because New Year's card postcards and official postcards have different printing areas in one line. Hereinafter, processing will proceed assuming that printing of addresses on official postcards has been selected. If there is a postcard address to be printed (step S4), a message "Printing in progress" is output to the display device 15 (step 85).

The postcard address printing process performed in step S6 will be described in detail below. First, the control unit 21 sets the document line counter 22 to "2" and the print line counter 23 to "1". Since government postcards were selected in the process of step S2, tables 24 and 26 are also selected for government postcards. Then, the print line counter 23
Transcription information for the print line of the postcard indicated by , that is, the first line, is read into the control unit 21 . The transcription information is information indicating from which line and fold of the postcard address document of FIG. 3 the print data of the first line of the postcard should be transcribed.

Based on this transcription information, the data synthesis routine 27 reads the last digit of the postal code from the 2nd 5th line of the postcard address document in FIG. 3 and sends it to the synthesis buffer 25. Then, the print line unit table and the line modification table for the first print line are referred to, and the printing mechanism 19 prints the last digit A of the postal code on the first line of the postcard set in the printer device 20. . In this manner, when printing of one line of the postcard is completed, the content of the print line counter 23 is incremented by the control unit 21.

Next, the control unit 21 reads the transcription information for the second line of the print line from the transcription instruction table 24, and based on the transcription information, the data synthesis routine 27 reads the print information of the second line of the postcard, that is, the destination address. (1) B is a postcard address document, 15 characters from the 31st column of the second line are combined in the buffer 2.
Transfer to 5. Then, destination address (1)B is printed in the same manner, and after printing, the print line counter 23 is incremented.

Thereafter, the destination information stored in the second line of the postcard address document stored in the document buffer 16 is printed on the postcard using the transcription route shown by the arrow in FIG. 4. After this destination information is printed, sender information is printed on the postcard. In this case, the document line counter 22 is set to "1". Thereafter, the transcription information in the transcription instruction table 24 designated by the print line counter 23 is similarly read into the control unit 21, and the data composition routine 27 creates print data for one line of the postcard in the composition buffer 25. , printed on postcards. When printing of the address on one postcard is completed, the document line counter 22 is set to "3".

By the way, if a key operation to cancel printing is performed from the key manual unit 11 while one postcard is being printed, rYEsJ is determined in step S7, and the printing process is terminated. Further, even if printing of one postcard is completed, if there is something to be printed next (step S8), a message output of the paper set is displayed on the display device 15.
Step $9). Then, when the next postcard is set and the [execute] key is operated, the process returns to step S5, and the address printing of the second postcard is performed in step S6.

° In this way, the same process is repeated until there is no more data for the postcard address document in the document buffer 25.
As many postcards as the addressee information is printed.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, the present invention provides a document creation device having a postcard address printing function that can automatically write an address on a postcard by setting a postcard address document. can do.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the postcard address printing device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a format of a postcard address document. 4 is a diagram showing transcription information, FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a line modification table, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a print format table. . 13... Postcard address printing device, 16... Document buffer, 19... Printing mechanism, 21... Control unit, 22...
・Document line counter, 23...Print line counter, 24・
...Transfer instruction table, 25...Composition buffer, 26
...Print format table, 27...Data synthesis routine. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue No. 1 No. 2 Document format/Digit No. 3 Address: 〒Jitto Sugaka 1 Ko 6ε〒Number 1 Name Address Submission of address

Claims (1)

[Claims] A document table that stores one sender information and multiple recipient information, a document line counter that specifies the rows of the document table, and one for official postcards and New Year's postcards that stores the printing format of each postcard line. a print line unit table in which line modification information of each print line is stored separately;
A print line counter that specifies the line to be printed on a postcard, and transcription instructions provided for government postcards and New Year's postcards, in which digit information of the transcription source and destination, character conversion information, etc. are stored for each printing line. The transcription information of the print line specified by the table and the print line counter is obtained from the above transcription instruction table, and based on this transcription information, the specified information is extracted from the recipient information or addressee information of the above document table, and one line of the postcard is obtained. Postcard address printing, characterized in that it is equipped with a composition means for composing printed information on a print buffer based on line modification information of the print line, and a printing device for printing the print information stored in the print buffer. Document creation device with functions.