JPS62270370A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform the printing of a rule by a simple key operation, by mounting a printing region setting means, means respectively for indicating a printing start position, a printing pattern and a printing direction and a means for performing repeated printing in a printing region. CONSTITUTION:A printing range is set by form setting keys 10-12 and the form corresponding to a form flag 40 is set. When a vertical/lateral mode key 16 is pushed down, a vertical or lateral direction mode is set to a vertical/lateral flag 41. When a decorative rule printing key 14 is pushed down and a printing pattern is indicated by an input editing key group 13, a rule flag 42 is turned ON and the pattern information of the printing pattern indicated by ROM 3 is read to be stored in the pattern storing area 44 of RAM 4. When the rule flag 42 is turned ON, the vertical/lateral flag 41 is locked to discriminate whether printing is performed in a vertical or lateral direction. The rule pattern of the pattern storing area 44 is read to perform printing from the present printing head position and a printing head is moved to the direction corresponding to the vertical and lateral flag 41 to renew a head position memory 43.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention 3. Detailed Description of the Invention [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a printing device that repeatedly prints and outputs specified character/graphic patterns.

[Prior Art] In conventional printing devices such as word processors, ruled lines are printed by moving the position of a printer head based on ruled line pattern information stored in advance in a text memory or the like of a document processing unit. was.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] Therefore, it is necessary to provide ruled line information such as the position of ruled lines and ruled line patterns.
Since the text must be stored in the text memory in advance, the operation becomes extremely complicated and becomes a burden for the operator.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional example, and an object of the present invention is to provide a printing device that allows printing of ruled lines by simple key operations.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the printing apparatus of the present invention has the following configuration.

That is, it is a printing device that sequentially prints by scanning a printing head in a direction substantially perpendicular to the feeding direction of the recording paper, and includes a setting means for setting a printing area, and a setting means for transporting the printing head or the recording paper. a specifying means for specifying a print start position by using a print pattern; a pattern specifying means for specifying a print pattern; an instruction means for specifying a print direction; and a means for repeatedly printing the print pattern in the print direction within the print area. .

[Operation] In the above configuration, the setting means sets the printing area, the specifying means causes the print head or the recording paper to move B to specify the printing start position, and the pattern specifying means sets the print pattern, and the instruction means sets the print area. By instructing the printing direction, the printer operates to repeatedly print the specified printing pattern within the set printing area in the specified printing direction.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Configuration Diagram of Document Processing Apparatus (FIG. 1) FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a keyboard for inputting document information and various functions, and is equipped with various keys described below. 10-12
is a format setting key that sets the printing format, and specifies the size of the recording paper to be printed and the size of the ruled lines. 10 is A
The A4 setting key 11 sets the 4-size size, the B5 setting key 11 sets the 85-size size, and the postcard setting key 12 sets the postcard size. 13 is for inputting document information and each ff
fi This is a group of input/edit keys for manually inputting GW collection instructions. 1
4 is a decorative ruled line printing key to set the ruled line printing mode.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a group of nine-position head keys such as cursor keys for moving the print head of the printer section 7 eight times left and right, or for moving the print head vertically relative to the recording paper by feeding the recording paper back and forth. Reference numeral 16 indicates a portrait/horizontal mode key for setting the printing direction of the printer section 7, and reference numeral 17 indicates a print key for instructing the printer section 7 to start printing. 18 is a stop key for stopping the printing operation.

2 is a central processing unit (CPU) that controls the entire device using the control program in ROM 3; 3 is a ROM that controls the CPU;
It stores U2 control programs, various data, character/symbol patterns, etc. 4 is a RAM used as a work area and a document information storage area for the CPU 2, and includes various flags 40 to 42 described later, a head position memory 43 for storing print head positions, a pattern storage area 44 for storing printed patterns of ruled lines, etc. We are prepared.

5 is a video RA, M for storing display data of the display device 6;
(VRAM), e is a display section such as a liquid crystal display that displays the contents of the VRAM 5.

7 is a printer unit that prints document information, ruled lines, etc. It consists of a printer that prints by serial printing by scanning the print head in a direction almost perpendicular to the feeding direction of the recording paper, and prints on postcard-sized paper. can also be printed.

[Operation explanation (Fig. 2 (a), (b)] Fig. 2 (a) and (b) show the CPU stored in ROM3.
2 is a flowchart of the ruled line processing program No. 2;

This program is started by turning the power on or pressing the reset key, etc. First, in step s1, the print head of the printer section 7 is returned to the home position, and the RAM 4 is
various flags 40 to 42 and print head position memory 4
Clear the 3rd factory and initialize the entire device.

In step s2, it is checked whether the format, that is, the printing range is set using any of the format setting keys 10-12. When the format setting key is pressed, the process advances to step S3, and the format flag 40 is set to the format corresponding to the pressed key (for example, A4 size,
85 size, etc.). In step S4, it is checked whether the portrait/horizontal mode key 16 is pressed. If the portrait/horizontal mode key 16 is pressed, the portrait or landscape mode is set in the portrait/horizontal flag 41 in step S5 in accordance with the pressed mode. For example, the mode is initially set to horizontal mode, and each time the vertical/horizontal mode key 16 is pressed, the mode is switched to vertical mode and then horizontal mode.

In step S6, it is checked whether the border line printing key 14 is pressed and a ruled line printing pattern is specified. When the decorative ruled line printing key 14 is pressed and a printing pattern is entered by the input editing key group 13, the process proceeds to step S7, where the ruled line flag 42 is turned on and the pattern information of the designated printing pattern is read out from the ROM 3. R
Store it in the pattern storage area 44 of AM4 and proceed to step S.
Return to 6.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S7 that the border line printing key is not input, the process proceeds to step S8, and it is checked whether the head movement key group 15 has been pressed. When the head 8 movement key group key 15 is pressed, the process proceeds to step S9, and the position when the print head of the printer section 7 is advanced by a predetermined amount in accordance with the direction indicated by the key 15 is determined by calculation. At this time, the head position is calculated by adding or subtracting a predetermined amount to the head position memory 43. In other words, when the 8wJ direction of the print head is horizontal and a rightward movement is instructed, a predetermined amount is added to the X coordinate of the head position, and conversely, when the print head is moving 8wJ to the left, a predetermined amount is added from the X coordinate. Pull.

In step S10, it is determined whether the head position obtained in step S9 is within the formatting area (printable area) stored in step S3. If it is not within the area, the process returns to step S6; however, if it is within the area. is step Si
The process advances to step t, where the head position memory 43 is updated to the value obtained in step S9, and a head movement instruction is output to the printer section 7 to move the print head to the relevant position.

If the head movement key group 15 is not pressed in step S8, the process advances to step 312 to check whether the print key 17 has been pressed. If the print key 17 is not pressed, step S is performed again.
Returning to step 6, when the print key 17 is pressed, step S1
Proceed to step 3 and check the ruled line flag 42 to see if it is in decorative ruled line mode. When the ruled line flag 42 is off, the process proceeds to step S14 as normal document printing, and other corresponding processing is performed.

With the ruled line flag 42 on, the current price ruled line printing mode is set, and the process proceeds to step S15, where the vertical/horizontal flag 41 is checked to see which direction is to be printed, vertically or horizontally. Step $16. In S17, the ruled line pattern in the pattern storage area 44 is read out, printing is performed from the current print head position, the print head is moved in the direction corresponding to the vertical/horizontal flag 41, and the head position memory 43 is updated in step S18. In step 319, it is checked based on the head position memory 43 whether the print head position is within the format range. To check whether it is within the format range, for example, in the case of A4 size paper, check whether it is within the area excluding the print prohibited area of about 20 cm from the edge of the A4 paper. If it is within the printing range, step S20
, and check whether the print stop key 18 has been pressed.

If the print head moves out of the format range in step 519, or if the print stop key 18 is pressed in step S20, the process advances to step S21, and printing of ruled lines is stopped. In step S22, the vertical/horizontal flag 41 is checked, and if the print mode is in the horizontal direction, the process proceeds to step S23, where the print head is returned to the left to return to the print start position, and the process is completed.

On the other hand, if the orientation is vertical, the process ends without doing anything.

As described above, this embodiment has the advantage that decorative ruled lines whose positions can be specified can be printed by simple key operations. Another advantage is that the printable range is automatically set in accordance with the set document format.

Furthermore, according to this embodiment, since movement of the print head outside the set printable range is prohibited even when the ruled lines are being printed, there is an effect that the possibility of malfunction is extremely reduced.

In this embodiment, the printing range has been described as being set to A4, B5, postcard size, etc., but it is not limited to this, and may also be set by the number of printing digits, for example.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, there is an effect that, for example, ruled lines can be printed by pressing the &f-01 key.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a word processor according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2(a) and 2(b) are flowcharts showing an example of ruled line printing operation. In the figure, 1...Keyboard, 2...CPU, 3...
ROM, 4...RAM, 5...VRAM, 6...
Display unit, 7... Printer section, 10... A4 setting key, 11... B5 setting key, 12... Postcard setting key,
13... A group of input editing keys, 14... Decorative ruled line print key, 15... A group of 8 head movement keys, 16... Vertical/horizontal mode key, 17... Print key, 18... Stop key, 4
0...Format flag, 41...Vertical/horizontal flag, 42...
- Ruled line flag, 43...Head position memory, 44...
・This is a pattern storage area.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A printing device that sequentially prints by scanning a printing head in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the recording paper is transported, which includes a setting means for setting a printing area, and a setting means for setting a printing area, and a setting means for transporting the printing head or the recording paper. a designation means for designating a printing start position by using a print pattern, a pattern designation means for designating a print pattern, a designation means for designating a printing direction, and a means for repeatedly printing the printing pattern in the printing direction within the printing area. A printing device characterized by: (2) The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the printing area is automatically set. (3) The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the printing head is prohibited from moving outside the printing area.