JPS62221577A - Output device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a sharp image recording to be conducted on a recording body, for example, in two or more colors according to a bit of color information, by a method wherein, if the bit of color information relating to the output of a text stored in a storing means is not coincident with the sort of a loaded ink sheet, an output operation is conducted regardless of the bit of color information. CONSTITUTION:If a code which was taken out from a registered document is a color switch-over code, it is judged whether or not a ribbon mode flag in a text format part is a two-color mode. Then, if the two-color mode is judged, it is temporarily stored in a display buffer 602-6. On the other hand, if said code is not a color switch-over code, whether or not a process for all characters is completed is judged regardless of the color switch-over code. Then, if the judgement is NO, it is judged whether or not the number of the character codes under temporary retention amounts to the maximum number of display columns on a display part 604. If the judgment is YES, a character string in the display buffer 602-6 is transferred to the display part 604 and displayed thereon, then the process is completed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of application of the invention to a-beam] The present invention is applicable to printers used in the recording section of output devices such as electronic typewriters, facsimile equipment, personal computers, or word processors. The present invention relates to an output device that can obtain a recorded image in a color corresponding to color information using an ink sheet having the present invention. Note that the present invention includes not only cases in which the aforementioned color information means different colors, but also cases in which they mean the same color.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in a recording device capable of obtaining a recorded image in a color corresponding to color information, a wide ink ribbon coated with ink layers of different colors in the width direction is used to record images in different colors. The ink layer of the desired color had to be guided to the recording section by rotating the ink ribbon vertically in accordance with the ink ribbon.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) Accordingly, the conventional neck mounting requires a means for vertically rotating the ink ribbon, which has the problem of increasing the size and complexity of the device.

(Means to Solve the Problem) Therefore, the applicant of the present invention previously disclosed the following technology in Japanese Patent Application No. 59-260403.

That is, in order to perform clear recording in multiple colors on a recording medium, a first ink layer and a second ink layer having mutually different tones are provided on a support in order from the support side. After applying thermal energy, the recording medium and the support are separated from each other by varying the time from when the thermal energy is applied to when the introspection occurs. In this way, a recorded image of the selected color is formed on the recording medium.

In addition, the people who came out of the tree filed a patent application in the 1980s. No. 298831 revealed the following technology.

Specifically, it has at least two ink layers, a first ink layer and a second ink layer, on the support, and at least one of the two ink layers or between the first ink layer and the support. A thermal transfer recording medium having an adhesive layer is brought into contact with a recording medium, and thermal energy is applied to the thermal transfer recording medium according to recorded information, and after the application, the thermal transfer recording medium and the recording medium are separated! +
By controlling the 71 separation time until J R+,
By transferring a predetermined ink layer onto the recording medium, a recorded image of a selected color is formed on the recording medium.

The present invention is a further development of the above technology,
A storage means for storing text, an output means for outputting the text stored in the storage means, and a color information related to the output of the stored text and the type of ink sheet installed. If the color information to be output does not match the type of ink sheet,
The output device is characterized in that it has a control means for controlling the output means so as to ignore the color information and perform the output operation.

[Function] According to the present invention, when one ink sheet is attached to the attachment part based on text information and recording is performed, a clear image is recorded on the recording medium in accordance with the color information, for example, in a plurality of colors. I can do it.

(Example) The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. A recording apparatus capable of obtaining recorded images of colors corresponding to color information using the above-mentioned ink ribbon will be described using an electronic typewriter as an example.

FIG. 1-1 is an external perspective view of a typewriter T which is an output device to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

In the figure, 10 is a platen, 12 is a recording paper, 13 is an exterior, 14 is a power switch for controlling power on/off, and 15 is a keyboard.

Reference numeral 16 denotes a foot switch that is turned on and off by opening and closing the second F l 3 a. When the foot 13a is opened, it emits a signal No. 48 that shifts the ink ribbon to a predetermined position, which will be described later, and also uses the same signal to shift the ink ribbon to a predetermined position. Keyboard is locked. MOKY is the mote key 1 used to set various motes, such as the Rippon mode setting, which will be described later.

PRKY is a print key. Also a wooden typewriter
T has built-in parts such as a printing section, a human power section, a display section, a control section, and an external output interface section. It goes without saying that in this embodiment, the human power section and the display section may not be provided or may be provided separately.

1-2 and 1-3 are perspective views of a recording section to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

The recording paper 12 is backed up to the platen 10 and is pressed against a rubber portion (not shown) of a paper feed roller 17 by a pinch roller 18 .

A gear 19 is attached to one shaft 17a of this paper feed roller 17, and is connected to a paper feed motor M1 via a reduction gear 20. The rotation of the paper feed motor M1 causes the paper feed roller 17 to rotate, and the recording paper Transport 12. therefore,
The platen 10 maintains the position of the recording paper 12 when a thermal head 25 (described later) contacts the recording paper 12 to perform recording.

Next, the reciprocating movement of the carrier 22 will be explained.

A shaft 21 is installed parallel to the front side of the platen 10. A carrier 22 (FIG. IT-3) is guided and supported on this shaft 21 so as to be movable in the direction of the arrow. That is, the carrier 22 can reciprocate along the conveyance path S of the recording paper 12.

A portion of the heald 23 is fixed to the carrier 22 and stretched by two pulleys (not shown). A secondary pulley (not shown) has a gear (not shown)
A gear rear motor M2 is connected thereto. The rotation of the aluminum rear motor M2 rotates a pulley (not shown), which rotates the belt 23, thereby reciprocating the carrier 22 along the shaft 21 (in the direction of the arrow). Further, a limit sensor 23 for detecting the position of the carrier 22 is installed at the end on the home position side.

Further, the carrier 22 includes a head holder 24 (751-
3) is rotatably guided and supported around a shaft 21. This head holder 24 has a thermal head 2.
The heat sink 26 with 5 attached is the attachment. Note that this carrier 22 is guided and supported by the rack 27 by an integrated guide portion 22a. In addition, this rack 27 has
Projections 27a and 27b are provided at both ends thereof.

Further, this carrier 22 is provided with a carrier table 28 for mounting an ink phone cassette. This table 28 is provided with a sensor 29 for detecting the presence or absence of the ink ribbon cassette 5o and the end of the ink ribbon l. Further, a connecting lever 30 is guided and supported on the carrier table 28 so as to be movable along a guide 22a in a direction perpendicular to the platen 10 (in the direction of arrow C). This lever 3o is engaged with a connecting member 31 that is roughly attached to the heat sink 26.Therefore, by the rotation of the heat sink 26 in the platen IO direction (arrow B direction), the lever 3o is moved toward the platen 10. It moves in the direction of approaching and separating from the object (in the direction of arrow C).

Note that this connecting lever 3o is provided with an indicator portion 30a. This index portion 30a allows visual confirmation of the next printing position. Further, an engaging portion 30b is provided at the rear end of this A-tie bar 30, and a cassette 50, which will be described later,
When the switching lever 62 is engaged, the lever 62 is pushed upward.

Note that a case in which a cassette is removably loaded onto the carrier table 28 will be described next. This carrier table 28 is provided with bins 28a and 28b fixed on the top surface and an elastic hook portion 28c on the side surface thereof. Therefore, by fitting the pins 28a, 28I) into the openings provided in the lower cassette case of the cassette and elastically engaging the hook portion 28c with the lower cassette case locking portion, the cassette can be removed from the carrier. table 28
can be loaded into.

1-4 are block diagrams of an embodiment of the present invention. In the same figure, 601 is a human resources department that performs manual operations such as letters, etc.;
02 is a main unit that processes human characters, 603 is a printing unit, 604 is a display unit, and 602-1 is a text l!
A directory section indicating the status, 602-2 is a text section,
602-3 is a current format section indicating the current format, and 602-4 is the printing color of the two-color ribbon used. Color flag 602-5 is printed part 60
A work buffer 602 - 6 temporarily stores the character strings transferred to the display section 604 , and a display buffer 602 - 6 temporarily stores the character strings transferred to the display section 604 .

FIG. 2 is an example of the directory section 6o2-1 shown in FIGS. 1-4.

Figure 3 is! In an example of the text section 602-2 in Figure-4,
It consists of a text format part and a text body part.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the above-mentioned text main body displayed. In the character string in the figure, r indicates a change from a basic color to a preliminary color, and - indicates a change from a preliminary color to a basic color. Alternatively, it is also possible to represent the start code and end coat of the preliminary colors, respectively.

Figure 5 shows the current format section 602- in Figures 1-4.
This is an example of 3.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for performing document TZ fi in the above configuration. In step (S) 606-1, the contents of the current format section of FIG. 5 are transferred to the text format section of FIG. 3. No. S 606-2! It is input using a key from the human power section in Figure 4, and it is determined in 5606-3 whether registration termination is specified, and if termination is specified, registration is terminated. If it is not an end designation, it is determined in 5606-4 whether it is a print color switching designation, and if it is a switching designation, in 5606-5 the ribbon mote flag (the installed ribbon is 2 (Flag indicating whether it is for color or not) h< It is determined whether it is a two-color mode, and if it is not a two-color mode, the process returns to 5606-2 and color switching is disabled. For two-color mode, 5
At step 606-6, it is determined whether the color flag (flag indicating which of the two colors should be output) 602-4 shown in FIG. 1-4 is a basic color. The character string temporarily stored in the work buffer 6 '02-5 in Figure 1-4 is registered in the text section 602-2, and 5
Color switching code 1- (basic color - preliminary color) with 606-8
is registered in the text section 602-2. Then S 60
At 6-9, the character string in the work buffer 602-5 is printed, and at 5606-10, the print color is switched, and then the process returns to 5606-2. If 5606-6 is the color flag 602-4 or a preliminary color, 5606-11 sends the character string temporarily stored in the work buffer 602-5 to the text section 602-2, and 3606-12 selects the color. )ﾾe coat (preliminary color - basic color) in the text section 602
-Register in 2. After that, the process moves to 5606-9.

If printing switching is not specified in 3606-4, 56
06-+3 determines whether the human key is a control key, and if it is a control key, 5606-+
4, register the character string temporarily stored in the work buffer 602-5 in the text section 602-2, and
Print the character string with and return to 5606-2.

If the determination at 5606-13 is that the key is not a control key, the input character is stored in the work buffer 602-5, and then the process returns to 3606-2.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for calling and printing a registered document. 5607-1 determines whether the ribbon mode flags in the text format section in FIG. 3 and the current format section in FIG.
The color flag 602-4 in FIG. 1-4 is set to the basic color. If either one of 5607-1 and 5607-1 is in the one-color mode, the process moves to 5607-3. In step 5607-3, it is determined whether all printing has been completed, and if it has been completed, the process ends. If the process ends in step 5607-3, a search for the color switching code and control code in the character string in the unprinted portion is performed in step 5607-4. 5607-5 determines whether the searched coat is a color switching code, and if it is a color switching code, 5607-6 determines whether it is the ribbon mode flag or two-color mode in the current format section in Figure 5. If it is a two-color mote, it is 5607.
After printing the character string in the unprinted area before the color switching coat at -7, the color switching operation is performed at 5607-8, and the color switching operation is performed at 5607-8.
Return to 607-3.

If the two-color mode is not selected in step 5607-6, the process returns to step 5607-3 without performing the printing operation or color switching operation.

5607-6 and it is not the color switching code (
In the case of a control code), the unprinted portion of the character string before the control code is printed along with the control code, and the process returns to 5607-3.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for replacing the contents of the format section of a registered text with the contents of the current format section. At 3608-1, the contents of the text format section in FIG. 3 are replaced with the contents of the current format section in FIG. At this time, no operations are added to the contents of the text main body portion of FIG. 3.

Figure 9 shows the flowchart 1 for displaying registered documents.
It is. At step 5609-1, the character strings in the text main body part of FIG. 3 are sequentially extracted. In step S609-2, it is determined whether the retrieved code is a color switching code or not, and in the case of a color switching coat, it is determined in step 5609-3 whether the ribbon mode flag in the text format section in Figure 3 is in two-color mode. , in the case of two-color mode, it is temporarily stored in the display buffer 602-6 of parts 1-4.

5609-2 if it is not a color switching code
Moving on to 09-4. If it is not the two-color mode in 3609-3, the color switching code is ignored and the process returns to 5609-1. 5609-5 determines whether all character processing has been completed, and if not, 5609-6 determines whether the number of temporarily stored character codes has reached the maximum display digit number of 604 on the display section. If the character string has been reached, the character string in the display buffer 602-6 is transferred to the display section 604 and displayed in step 5609-7, and the process ends. If the maximum number of display digits is not reached in 5609-6, the process returns to 5609-1.

If all characters end with 5609-5, 5609-7
The display moves to and ends.

FIG. 1O is a flowchart for turning on/off the two-color motor lamp (not shown) on the display section 604 according to the state of the text format 1 part registration mode flag in FIG. 3 when calling up a registered document. be. 56
At step 10-1, it is determined whether the text format 1 part mode flag is two-color mode, and if it is two-color mode, at step 5610-2, the two-color mode lamp on the display section 604 is turned on. In the case of one color mode, the color mode lamp is turned off in S610-8. The registered document is edited in step 5610-3. If it is in the end state, it is determined in 5610-4 whether or not printing end is specified, and if printing is end, step S61 is performed.
0-5 prints the W3O document. If printing is not completed, the process moves to step S610-6', m. 5610-6 determines whether the current format section mode flag in Figure 5 is 2-color mode 1~, and if it is 2-color mode, 5610-6 is selected.
At 10-7, the two-color mode lamp is turned on and the process ends. If it is not the two-color mode, the two-color mode lamp is turned off at 3610-9 and the process ends.

Figure 11 shows a format memory used to call a registered format (not shown, but has the same structure as the current format in Figure 5, and can be replaced with the current format). 12 is a flowchart for turning on/off the two-color mode lamp of the display unit 604 according to the state of the ribbon mode flag of FIG.

In S611-1, it is determined whether the format memory paste flag is two colors, and if it is two colors, S6
At step 11-2, the two-color mode lamp on the display section 604 is turned on. In the case of one color mode, the two color mode lamp is turned off at 5611-7.

If you manually enter the confirmation key on 5611-3, 5611
At -4, the contents of the format memory except the ribbon mote flag are transferred to the Karen format shown in FIG. At step 56tl-5, it is determined whether the ribbon mode flag of the current format is in two-color mode, and if it is in two-color mode, the two-color mode lamp is turned on at step 5611-6, and the process ends. If it is not the two-color mode, the two-color mode lamp is turned off in step 5611-8 and the process ends.

As described above, according to the present invention, information on the color mote (one color or two colors) at the time of registration can be held in the text format section.

In addition, the main body of the text has a printing color changing coat,
During call printing, the color switching operation can be performed after the printing color switching code is detected and the character string is printed.

Also, when calling up and printing a text registered in 2 (multi) color mode (when a 2 color ribbon is installed) in the current format or 1 color mode, the color can be switched by ignoring the print color switching coat. It is possible to perform a massage without performing any lVA operation.

Also, change the format of text registered in 2-color mote to 1.
When replacing the color mode with the current format, the print color switching coat can be saved (later made valid when returning to two-color mode).

In addition, the print color switching coat of the text main body portion having a one-color mode format is set not to be displayed.

Also, when calling up text registered in two-color mode, a lamp indicating two-color mode is lit on the display path regardless of the color mode 1 of the current format, and after calling, the current format 1, The lamp can be turned on/off according to the color mode 1-.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1-1 is an external view of the output device; FIGS. 1-2 and 1-3 are perspective views of the carriage portion of the output device; FIG. 1-4 is a block diagram of the configuration to which the present invention is applied; Figure 2 is a diagram showing an example of the directory section, Figure 3 is an explanatory diagram of a part of the text format, Figure 4 is a diagram showing an example of displaying the text body part, and Figure 5 is the current Figure 6 is a flowchart for registering documents; Figure 7 is a flowchart for sending out 11,000 registered documents; Figure 8 is a diagram showing an example of the formatting section for registered text. A flowchart for replacing the contents with the contents of the current format section, Figure 9 is a flowchart for displaying a registered document, and Figure 10 is a flowchart for displaying a registered document.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart for controlling the lamp when the registered format memory is called.
Flowchart for executing ll, 602 is the main body part, 603 is the print part, 602-3 is the current format part, and 604 is the display part.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Storage means for storing text; Output means for outputting the text stored in the storage means; Determining color information related to the output of the text stored in the storage means and the type of ink sheet installed. and a control means for controlling the output means so that when the color information to be output does not match the type of the ink sheet, the color information is ignored and the output operation is performed. output device. (2) The output device according to claim 1, further comprising warning means for issuing a warning based on the color information and determination of the type of ink sheet.