JPS6277953A - Ticket-issueing printer apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to freely print a character having a necessary shape and kind to issue a ticket, by providing a means adding a character code to an arbitrary character image to register said image, an editing means and a printing output means. CONSTITUTION:The titled apparatus contains a register means 100 wherein a character image is registered in such a state that a character code is added to said image or a character image once registered is registered in such a state that the character dimension thereof is indicated to be altered to one having an arbitrary size, an editing means 200 editing the character image inputted from said means 100 in combination with the character code and storing the same along with the address set by the character code and an output means 300 taking in the dot image corresponding to the character code from said means 200 and performing printing output in such a state that the character code sent out from an upper rank processing apparatus is allowed to correspond to a dot image. By this method, a necessary character image can be registered while a display apparatus is looked through and printing investigation is repeated, and the preservation of the registered character and a character file is easy.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a ticket printer, and more particularly to a ticket printer with improved dot images, character codes corresponding to the dot images, and an output method thereof.

[(Already required)]

The present invention provides, in a ticket issuing printer, a registration means for registering an arbitrary character image with a character code added thereto, and an editing means for converting and storing the registered character image into a dot image that can be printed by the printer according to the character code. By providing a means for importing a dot image corresponding to a desired character image from an editing means into a printer device and printing it out, it is possible to freely print and issue characters of any desired shape and type.

[Conventional technology]

This type of ticket printing printer is suitable for printing various tickets, coupons, etc. in companies that handle reservations and ticket issuing. However, when printing certain types of tickets, the size and shape of the characters are determined, so adding, changing,
If deletion occurs, either request a professional company to do the work or
For characters of a specified size, additions, changes, and deletions are made using the conventional technology for registering characters for ticketing printers, and characters and figures that are not of the specified size are added to, changed, and deleted by the ticketing printer. In order to have the device print out, the dot pattern was directly sent from the higher-level processing device to the ticket issuing printer device and printed out. Furthermore, when the same character has different sizes, the same character is registered for each character size.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the above-mentioned conventional ticketing printer, printing pattern registration is done by a specialized company when characters need to be added or modified, and the designed character image is turned into a dot image that can be printed by the ticketing printer on a desk. Must be converted.

In addition, in order to print out the designed character image on the ticket printer, the converted dot image is sent directly to the ticket printer, so whenever a conversion error or design change occurs, I have to redo the work. In addition, even when using character registration for ticket issuing printers, which exists as a conventional technology, the size of the characters is fixed, so when characters of different sizes are added, the corresponding registration and editing processing functions are You have to create an additional one. Furthermore, when the same character has different sizes, there are drawbacks such as the need to design and register the same character for each character size.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a ticket issuing printer device which can freely register necessary character images and issue printed tickets by eliminating the above-mentioned drawbacks.

[means to solve the illumination point]

The present invention is a ticket issuing printer device that prints required characters on a ticket surface using a printer device and automatically issues tickets, and registers a character image with a character code added, or changes the character size of the registered character image once. A registration means that changes the character size to an arbitrary size by specifying it, adds a character code, and registers it, and edits the character image input from this registration means by combining it with the character code, so that the above-mentioned type device can print it. editing means for converting into a dot image and storing it together with an address set by the character code;
The present invention is characterized in that it includes an output means that takes in a dot image corresponding to the character code from the editing means and prints out the character code sent from the host processing device in correspondence with the dot image.

[Effect]

The present invention allows the operator to freely set the font size using the registration means, register, change, or delete the font image as it is, or reduce or enlarge the same font, and freely add character codes to the font image. The editing means converts and stores it into a dot image that can be printed by the printer, and the output means imports the dot image of the necessary character image into the typing device and prints it out.

Therefore, it is possible to print tickets with arbitrary characters.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment includes a display device 101 and a keyboard 102, a registration means 100 for registering an arbitrary character image with a character code added thereto, and a processing circuit (1) 201.
, a processing circuit (2+202 and a storage device 203);
an editing means 200 that combines and edits the character image and character code inputted from the registration means 100, converts and stores it into a dot image that can be printed by a typing device; and a hasher 30.
1, a loader 302, a character chef 303, and a printer device 304, and an output means 300 for capturing a dot image of a desired character from the editing means 200 according to an instruction from the loader 302 and outputting it as a printout.

The feature of the present invention is that in FIG. 1, registration means 100, editing means 200, and output means 300 are provided.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

The operator sets the font size of the registered characters already designed on the desk and inputs them using the keyboard 102 along with the character code in the same character image.

Further, by specifying reduction or enlargement, the currently displayed character image is reduced or enlarged to the specified character size, a character code is automatically added, and the image is displayed on the display device 101. A processing circuit (2) 202 manually edits the reduced or enlarged character image and converts it into a dot image that can be printed out by the printer device 304. The converted dot images are written to the dot image section 203b in the storage device 203 in ascending order of the character codes currently displayed. Also, the processing circuit (1) 20
In step 1, the character image corresponding to the input character code is processed by the processing circuit (21202) to calculate which byte from the beginning of the dot image part is written based on the input character code, and the result is stored in the storage device. The codes are written to the address section 203a in 203 in ascending order.

That is, the character images registered by the registration means are stored in the storage device 203 in the form of dot images as character files. The character file stored in this storage device 203 is transferred to a character generator 303 via a buffer 301 according to instructions from a loader 302 in an output means 300.
The image data is taken in and printed out by the printer device 304.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the main parts of another embodiment of the present invention, showing a case where a ticket issuing printer system is constructed using the ticket issuing printer device of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, 400 is a terminal controller that receives data from a line 600, including a reception buffer 401 and a ticketing printer output sofa 402, and 500 is a ticketing printer, including line buffers 501 and 502, an editing section 503, and a character generator 504. , print image buffer 505, 506, printer mechanism section 507
Contains.

Next, using FIG. 2, a description will be given of how to print the combination of dot images and character codes sent from the host processing device. Data sent from the upper processing unit (not shown) to the ticket issuing printer device 500 through the line 600 is sent to the terminal controller 4.
00 and is stored in line buffers 501 and 502 within the ticket issuing printer device 500. And next editorial department 5
At step 03, it is determined whether the image is being sent as a dot image or as a character code, and the part that is being sent as a character code is processed as explained in the example of FIG. Then, the character file imported into the character generator 504 in the ticket issuing printer device 500 is referred to, and the dot image corresponding to the character code is replaced with the sent character code. By doing so, all the data sent from the upper processing device in the form of a combination of dot images and character codes is sent to the ticket issuing printer device 500.
It becomes a printable 1-image. Editorial department 503
The data, all of which has become a dot image, is stored in print image buffers 505 and 506, and then sent to a printer mechanism section 507, where the contents are printed out on a ticket.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the reduction and enlargement of character images performed by the registration means 100 of FIG. 1.

The character image displayed as an example is shown in white and black. When reducing or enlarging Fl, which is a currently displayed character image, first the character size is specified, and both the vertical (n) and horizontal (m) ratios for reduction and enlargement are calculated. In the first line of Fl, which is the character image currently displayed, there are continuous white (11, rl) and black (F2, F
2) (including one white and black), and calculate each consecutive white (Nl) and black (F2) by the horizontal ratio (
m'/m) to obtain the length of the following formula, m
This is the first line of F2, which is a character image reduced and enlarged in the m horizontal direction. Similarly, processing is performed from the first line to the nth line to create F2, which is a character image reduced and enlarged only in the horizontal direction. Next, the consecutive white (rl) and black (F2) (including one white and black) are inspected in the first column of F2, which is a character image that has been reduced and expanded only in the horizontal direction. Multiply white and black by the vertical ratio (n'/n) to obtain the length of the following formula, n n
F3 is a character image that has been reduced and enlarged both vertically and horizontally.
The first column of Similarly, processing is performed from the first column to the m-th column to create a character image F3, which is a character image reduced and enlarged both vertically and horizontally, and displayed on the display device. At this time, the character code is also added.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention loads a dot image of a character into a ticket issuing printer and allows the user to freely register the dot image of the character on a terminal device, thereby making it possible for a person to read the necessary information while looking at a display device. This system has advantages such as being able to register character images (including graphics) that are sometimes needed while repeatedly examining the printing without requesting a specialized company, and also making it easy to maintain registered characters and character files.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of enlargement and reduction of character images by the registration means of FIG. 1. 100... Registration means, 101... Display device, 102... Keyboard, 200... Editing means, 2
01... Processing circuit (11, 202... Processing circuit (2)
), 203...Storage device, 203a-address section,
203b... Dot image section, 300... Output means, 301... Buffer, 302... Loader, 30
3... Character generator, 304... Printer device, 400... Terminal controller, 401
...Reception buffer, 402...Ticketing printer output buffer, 500...Ticketing printer device, 501.50
2... Line buffer, 503... Editorial department, 504
...Character generator, 505.506...
Print image buffer, 507... printer mechanism section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a ticket issuing printer device that prints the required characters on the ticket surface using a printer device and automatically issues tickets, register the character image with a character code added, or specify the character size of the registered character image once. A registration means for changing the character size to an arbitrary size and adding a character code to the registration means, and editing the character image inputted from this registration means by combining the character code to create a dot image that can be printed by the above-mentioned type device. an editing means for converting into a character code and storing it together with an address set by the above character code; and a dot image corresponding to the character code is taken from the editing means, and the character code sent from the upper processing device is printed in correspondence with the above dot image. A ticket issuing printer device comprising: an output means for outputting an output.