JPS62290565A - Header printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To apply a header to a continuous form in a short-time and efficient way, by a method wherein characters previously converted to printing picture element alignment data are printed on folds of the same side of the continuous form as picture element alignments by a printer. CONSTITUTION:When a header composed of, for example, characters 'PR1', is to be applied to a continuous form 1, each of the characters is decomposed to picture elements of 5 X 7 dots. The dots in a first-line picture element alignment are printed on a first fold portion of the continuous form 1 as dot columns for seven lines. Next, the dots in a second line picture element alignment are printed on a third fold portion of the continuous form 1 as dot columns for seven lines. After that, in a similar way, the dots in picture element alignments from a third line to a seventh line are printed on the portion from a fifth fold to a thirteenth fold of the continuoue form 1 respectively as dot columns for seven lines. In this manner, when the continuous form is folded after being printed, the characters representing the content of various data printed on the continuous form are formed by the aforesaid picture element alignments as a header on the position of the folds.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] 3. Detailed Description of the Invention [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention is applicable to the printing of various data processed by a computer or the like onto continuous paper that is folded into regular dimensions using a printer. , relates to a heading printing method for printing headings on this continuous paper.

[Conventional technology]

It has been known for a long time that continuous paper is used as printing paper for printers by making folds in a band-shaped paper at regular intervals and folding it into a bellows shape using the creases to form a standard size.

If various types of data processed by a computer, etc. bc are printed by a printer on such continuous paper, and then this continuous paper is stored in a folded state, a heading indicating the content of the printed data should be added. This has traditionally been done.

This is because when viewing printed data, such as a program list, as needed, the lack of headings makes viewing difficult and reduces work efficiency.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing the conventional method of attaching headings to the above-mentioned continuous paper. As shown in FIG. A label 2 with a ``label'' written on it is pasted corresponding to each data item, or a method is adopted in which the character 3 as a heading is handwritten on the continuous sheet 1 along with a marker M indicating the data range, as shown in Figure (b). I'm here.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, all of the above-mentioned conventional methods are performed manually, so they have the problem of being time-consuming and inefficient.

The present invention has been carefully designed to solve these problems, and an object of the present invention is to realize a heading printing method that can efficiently attach headings to continuous paper in a short time using a printer. It is something.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention, in addition to a printer that prints on continuous paper, converts pixel row data of a plurality of lines forming a character as a heading into print pixel row data of plurality for each pixel row. data converting means for converting; storage means for storing NFC printing pixel string data converted by the data converting means; heading printing for reading out the printing pixel string data from the storage means and instructing the printer to print the pixel string. It is equipped with a processing means.

[Effect]

In the present invention having the above-described configuration, when printing various data on a continuous sheet of paper, the header print processing means prints one pixel line of characters as a header from the storage means at every other fold of the continuous sheet of paper. The printing pixel string data is read out, and based on this, the printer prints the pixel string so as to overlap the folds of the continuous paper.

In this way, by printing pixel rows on the folds on the same side of continuous paper, when the continuous paper is folded after printing, the characters indicating the contents of various data printed on the continuous paper will be printed by the pixel rows. Appears as a heading at the crease.

Therefore, according to n, when printing various data on continuous paper using a printer, it is possible to simultaneously print a heading indicating the content of the data using the printer. It is possible to add headings in a shorter time and easier than when adding headings.

〔Example〕

First, the principle of the heading printing method according to the present invention will be explained using FIGS. 3 to 7.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an example of headline printing in the present invention.
In the figure, 1 is a continuous paper equivalent to that in Figure 8,
For example, creases are provided at regular intervals by perforations, and the paper is folded into a bellows shape using the creases so as to have a regular size.

In the present invention, the heading is the position of the fold on the same side of the continuous paper 1. In other words, if we consider that the continuous paper 1 is divided into pages for each fold in FIG. Printed on odd numbered folds, such as the first fold between pages, the third fold between pages 3 and 4, or similar even numbered folds.

However, in FIG. 3, printing is performed at odd numbered fold positions.

Therefore, if a heading is to be made using the characters "PRI" on the continuous paper 11C, this character is decomposed into pixels as shown in FIG.

That is, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a character structure when one character is composed of pixels of ft5×7 dots, where the vertical direction is a pixel column and the horizontal direction is a pixel row.

The characters with such a configuration, that is, "PRI" are converted for each line by the character/pixel conversion method described later into, for example, seven lines of heading printing pixel strings, and the characters are sequentially placed at predetermined positions of the odd-numbered folds. (Dra) Print it with D.

Specifically, the black circles in the first row of pixel columns in FIG. 4 are printed as seven rows of dots on the first fold of the continuous paper 1 shown in FIG. The black circle in the second pixel row is printed as a dot row for seven rows at the third fold. Thereafter, in the same manner, the black circles in the pixel columns from the third row to the seventh row are printed as dot rows for each of seven rows from the third fold to the seventh fold.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the printing range of pixels at the fold of continuous paper 1. As seen in this figure, seven lines of pixels are printed in a range of length A before and after the fold. The columns are marked with dots.

The reason why pixel rows are printed in this way is to ensure that the pixels overlap on the fold even if the printing position is slightly shifted in the vertical direction.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing 1 t of continuous paper after the headings have been printed as described above. As seen in this figure, when the continuous paper is folded into the normal state after printing, it will fall on the fold. Since only the printed pixels are exposed to the outside and the other extra pixels are hidden, the pixels on the fold allow the letters 4 of "PRI" to appear as a clear heading.

Note that M in the figure is a marker indicating the range of the heading, and is printed in the same manner as character 4.

Here, a character/pixel conversion method for converting the above-mentioned heading characters into a heading printing pixel string will be described.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the conversion method. Here, as an example, the character 'i', MP" is shown as a character font consisting of 5 x 7 dots, and FIG.
It shows the characters. Note that the pixel columns and pixel rows in this figure (a) correspond to those in FIG. 4.

In addition, FIG. 6(b) shows the case where the first pixel row in FIG.
shows the case where the second pixel row is converted into a print pixel column.

Therefore, in Figure 7 (,), the pixel iO drawn with a black circle
Each pixel is converted into a print pixel column of 7 dot rows, using N data as 1OFF data for pixels other than n, that is, pixels not drawn with black circles.

For example, in FIG. 7(,), the pixel at the coordinates of the -th column and first row is the print pixel column 1& of the ON data shown in FIG. 7(b).
Similarly, the pixels at the coordinates of the 1st row of the 2nd column, the 1st row of the 3rd column, and the 1st row of the 4th column are converted as print pixel columns 1b, lc, and ld of fLoN data. Then, only the pixels at the coordinates of the fifth column and first row are converted as a print pixel column 1e of 1OFF data.

Of the print pixel rows 1a to 1e, the ON data print pixel rows la to 1d are printed as dots D on the first fold of the continuous paper 1 (see FIG. 3).

Similarly, the pixels in the second row in Fig. 3 (,) are also
) and print on the third fold of the continuous paper 1.

Similarly, the pixels from the third to seventh rows in FIG.
9th. 11th. nFl] at the 13th crease.

Incidentally, if one pixel is assigned to a plurality of printing pixel rows during the above-mentioned character/pixel conversion, it becomes possible to print enlarged heading characters on continuous paper 1Vc.

In addition, in the above explanation, we have described the case where the heading character example is printed on the continuous paper 111 (discrete dots, that is, dots that do not overlap adjacent ones). A clear headline.

Next, an example will be described based on the above-mentioned principle.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an example of a system for implementing the entire heading printing method according to the present invention.
is the aforementioned continuous paper, and sprocket holes 5 are continuously provided at equal intervals on both sides thereof.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a printer, and in this embodiment, it is possible to print an image using a print head of a dot printing method, and the spacing of the head can be performed in units of one dot.
A structure is used in which continuous paper can be fed in 1'tl dot units using the sprocket hole 5.

Incidentally, when printing is performed by the printer 6IC of the continuous paper 11C, the folds are returned to the flat state, and the paper is folded again after printing.

7 is a personal computer, and this personal computer 1 has a display for displaying data (for example, a CRT).
) 8, keyboard 9 for data input, floppy disk drive device (hereinafter abbreviated as FDD device) 1
0, a character font data storage section 11 that stores preset character font data, a memory 12'' for storing characters to be printed as headings, etc., these 8 to 1.
2 and a control section 13 that controls the printer 6, and here the control section 13 is a print control processing section 1.
4, a data import processing section 15 that takes in print data from the FDD device 10, and a next data conversion processing section 16 that converts character data of headings into pixel string data.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a floppy diskette in which various data (hereinafter referred to as normal print data) to be printed on the continuous paper 10 is stored.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the main parts in FIG. 1. As seen in this figure, the print control processing section 14 includes a normal print position control processing section 18, a print processing section 19, a heading print position control processing section 20, and a heading print processing section 21, and each exchanges data as shown by the arrows.

In addition, the above heading mark! The 1j processing section 21 has a function of reading out print pixel string data, which will be described later, from the memory 12 every other fold of the continuous paper 1, in other words every two pages, and instructing the printer 6 to print.

Next, the effect of the sentence structure mentioned above will be explained.

(I) First, set the continuous paper 1 in the printer 6,
Also, floppy diskette 17iFDD [10vc
After loading the printer, in this state, character data to be printed as a heading is specified using either method (a) or (b) below.

(b) Characters to be printed as headings on continuous paper 1, such as the above-mentioned fc"PRI" on a floppy diskette) 1
It is written as character data in the normal print data stored at 7Vc.

(b) Enter the characters to be printed as the heading on the keyboard 9.
is input and stored as character data in the heading character string area in the memory 12.

(6) After performing the process (I) in this way, when the data import processing unit 15 of the control unit 13 is activated, the data import processing unit 15 transfers the data to the floppy diskette via the FDD device 10. From 11, the normal part ■Redata is taken out n
1 memory 1217'3.

Here, if the character data as a heading is specified by the method (a) above, the character data of the heading indicating the content of the data is retrieved from the floppy diskette 17 following the retrieval of the normal print data. n1 is stored in the heading character area in the memory 12.

(e) When the process of (6) is completed, the data conversion processing unit 161C sends the memo! Based on the code of the character data of the heading stored in J12K, the character data corresponding to the code is extracted from the character font data storage section 11, and the character data is converted into a stamp using the character/pixel conversion method described above. Converted to pixel row data and stored in memory 1
It is stored in 2.

■ Thereafter, in response to a command from the normal print position control processing unit 18 of the print control processing unit 14, the continuous paper 1 is
is appropriately fed, and thereby the normal print data printing start position of the continuous paper 1 is positioned at the printing position within the printer 6, that is, the position where the print head is provided. Then, the print processing unit 19 reads one page of normal print data stored in the memory 12, and the printer 6 prints the data on the continuous paper 1I7c.

Printing for the next page continues in the same way.

M When the printing of two pages of normal print data is completed in this way, the printer 6 feeds the continuous paper 1 by a certain amount in response to a command from the headline print position control processing unit 20, thereby printing the printing pixel row data of the continuous paper 1. The starting position is located at the printing position within the printer 6.

(G) The first pixel column of the print pixel column data stored in the memory 12, that is, the first pixel column (seven dot rows) in FIG. 4 mentioned above is shown in FIG. The dot D on the first fold is printed.

~1 Below, in the same procedure as ■~■, printing is performed on the continuous paper 1 by the printer 6 based on the normal print data and the print pixel row data, thereby printing a heading corresponding to the content of the normal print data. Can be done.

Although the above-mentioned embodiment describes the case where headings are printed using a printer using a dot printing method, it is also possible to print headings in the same way by changing the design even when using a printer that uses matrix type. It is possible to do so.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, when printing various data on continuous paper, the present invention prints characters that have been converted into print pixel string data in advance as pixel strings on the same side of the fold of the continuous paper. This has the advantage that headings can be added more quickly and easily compared to the traditional method of manually adding headings, and since the headings are printed, the results are beautiful. There is also the advantage of being

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an example of a system implementing the heading printing method according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the main part of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an example of heading printing according to the invention. Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram showing examples of characters for headline printing, Figure 5
The figures are an explanatory diagram showing the stamp range of the pixel row in Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is a perspective view of continuous paper after heading printing, and Fig. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the character/pixel conversion method in the present invention. FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a conventional example. 1: Continuous paper 6: Printer 7: Personal computer 9: Keyboard 10: FDD device 11: Character font data storage section 12: Memory 13: Control section
16: Data conversion processing section 11 Near 0 Tubi diskette 20: Heading printing position control processing section 21: Heading printing processing section Patent Applicant Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Nagano Oki Electric Co., Ltd. Agent Patent attorney Takashi Kanakura 1st Detailed illustration of the main parts of the figure 2 3 = Proof 2 showing an example of the composition of heading printing characters 4 Explanatory diagram showing the printing range of pixel rows 5 Perspective view of continuous paper after heading printing 6 = <a> (b) (c) Explanatory diagram showing an example of a character/pixel conversion method - 7 (a) (b) Perspective view showing a conventional example 8 D

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. When printing various data using a printer on a continuous sheet of paper that is folded into a bellows shape with folds provided at regular intervals, the data can be printed by a printer. A heading printing method for printing characters indicating the content at the fold position so that the continuous paper can be read as a heading when the continuous sheet is folded, wherein a plurality of lines forming the characters as the heading are printed. data conversion means for converting pixel row data into print pixel column data for multiple lines for each pixel row; storage means for storing the print pixel column data converted by the data conversion means; header print processing means for reading out print pixel row data and instructing the printer to print the pixel row; the header print processing means reads one of the characters from the storage means at every other fold of the continuous sheet; A heading printing method characterized in that printing pixel column data corresponding to a pixel row is read out, and a printer prints the pixel column so as to overlap the folds of the continuous paper.