JPS63179759A - Document preparing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately and easily perform the overlap-printing of a plurality of documents on one paper, by performing the printing of the first document data at a preliminarily designated position in a word processor and subsequently discriminating the second document data to perform the printing thereof at a preliminarily designated position. CONSTITUTION:A specific printing designation means 1 for designating the overlap-printing of the first and second document data (containing a figure and a mark) by key operation and a printing position designation means 2 for preliminarily designating the printing position at the time of overlap-printing corresponding to the document data are mounted. Then, the first document data wherein the overlap-printing is designated by the specific printing means 2 is printed at the printing position designated by the printing position designation means 2. Further, a printing means 3 for performing the discrimination printing of the second document data at the printing position designated by the printing position designation means 2 with respect to the first document data, for example, at different printing density is mounted. For example, in the preparation of a New Year's card, with the first document data 'A Happy New Year!' for the background, the printing position of the second document data (greeting message) at the time of overlap-printing is preliminarily designated corresponding to each document data by the printing position designation means 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to document creation devices such as word processors and typewriters.

[Summary of the Invention] The present invention prints first document information at a pre-specified print position in a word processor or the like, and then prints second document information for identification at a pre-specified print position.
This allows multiple documents to be accurately and easily superimposed and printed on one sheet of paper.

[Prior Art J] Conventionally, various word processors have been commercialized that are equipped with a custom character creation function that allows arbitrary figures, symbols, etc. to be registered as a custom character pattern in an external storage device such as a floppy disk device.

In this type of word processor with a custom character creation function, after printing the pre-registered custom character patterns such as figures and symbols on a preset recording paper, the recording paper is set again and then overlaid on the E. It is also possible to print the sentence, 7th grade, etc.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, when performing overlapping printing as described above, it is extremely difficult to accurately align the positions of the document and the figures, symbols, etc. printed on the back of the document. If the alignment is misaligned, there is a drawback that printing cannot be performed in the desired IL shape.

Also, if you print one document and the graphics on the back with the same density, the overlapping parts will be printed with the same density! 1 becomes impossible to read. Therefore, if the printing densities of the two are made to be different, it will be possible to distinguish between the two, but it is extremely troublesome to adjust the printing density each time the two are printed together, and there is a risk of adjustment errors. .

This invention was made in response to the above-mentioned IC situation, and its purpose is to provide a sentence 17 creation device that can perform reprint printing in a cylinder and in a good manner.

[Means for solving the problem] Figure 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention.
Specific printing designating means for specifying overlapping printing of at least the first and second document information (including figures, symbols, etc.) by key operations, etc.; 3 is a print position specifying means for specifying a print position in advance corresponding to each piece of document information; 3 is a print position specifying means for printing the first document information for which overlapping printing has been specified by the specific print specifying means 2; After printing the second document information at a position, the second document information is printed at a print position designated by the print position designation means 2 for identification, for example, by changing the print density with respect to the first document information.

[Function] Next, the function of this invention will be explained. Now, when creating a New Year's postcard, it is assumed that "Kasho" is superimposed and printed in enlarged letters on the background of the New Year's greeting. in this case,
The printing position specifying means 2 specifies in advance the printing position corresponding to each piece of document information when the second document information (greetings) is superimposed and printed against the background of the first document information "Kasho".

In this state j5, the printing means 3 has one stage l for specific printing designation.
After printing the first document information "Kasho" for which superimposition printing is specified by, for example, in halftone (halftone density) at the specified position, the second text 11; information (New Year's greeting text) is printed normally. Identification is printed by density.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 7. Note that this embodiment shows an example in which the present invention is applied to a /\ndi type l wooden word processor.

Figure 2 is a basic block circuit diagram of this word processor. 11 in Figure 0 is the key human power section.

In addition to various character keys KA and cursor keys KB, this keyboard 1- has a superposition manual mode designation key KC that allows input of document information for superposition printing, and after inputting one document information in this superposition input mode, A continuation key KD for continuing input of the next document information, an input end key KE for canceling the overlapping input mode, and a print key KF for specifying overlapping printing are provided. Thus, key human power signals outputted from the key human power section 11 in response to the operated keys are sent to the main control section 12.

The main control unit 12 controls input processing, document creation processing, display processing, etc. according to a pre-stored microprogram, and converts input document information etc. into a character pattern for display using a character generator 13. death,
The information is displayed on the display section 14 configured with a liquid crystal display device or the like. Also.

Main control part! 2 stores input document information in a document memory 15 when creating a normal document, and in a sub-document memory 16 when creating a document for overlapping printing. Furthermore, when creating and registering a custom character, it is transferred and stored in the external storage device 17. Here, the one-document memory 15 is an internal memory for storing documents.

The sub-text memory 16 is an internal memory capable of storing a plurality of pieces of document information to be printed in a superimposed manner, and is constituted by a RAM (random access memory).

The write and read operations are controlled under the control of the main control section 12. The external storage device 17 is used to store external character patterns such as characters, figures, symbols, etc. created by a floppy disk device.
Write and read operations are performed under the control of 1J12 Mg4.

In addition, the sub-sentence memory 16 stores a plurality of document information (including figures, symbols, etc.), for example, "document l", r sentence, qy
2 A plane seat J? corresponding to J and indicating the printing start position.
t (x, y), printing magnification (n x m) printing density (1 to
8). Note that when the printing density level is "8", it is a normal density, and as the printing level becomes lower, it becomes an intermediate gradation density (halftone) in which the density gradually decreases. The document information within is read out in order from the lowest density based on the print density level, and the reading order in this case is determined by the I-ru control unit 12 and transferred and stored in the order memory 18. Then, the document information read from the sub-text memory 16 is used for printing by the character generator 13.
After being converted into a 4×24 dot print pattern, it is sent to the print control section 20 via the free angle converter 19.

The free magnification converter 19 converts the input print pattern into an enlarged pattern of n times in height and m times in width according to a specified print magnification, and outputs it to the print control section 20. Print control section 20
1 controls various printing operations, and includes a halftone pattern generator 21 that generates a mask pattern during overlapping printing. The print control unit 20 responds to a print command from the main control unit 12 by controlling the print head and motor kJ (not shown) that constitute the printer 22.
The drive signal is supplied to the Note that the printer 22 is configured by a thermal printer.

First, document information manually entered during normal document creation work is taken into the main control section 12, displayed on the display section 14, and stored in the one-document memory 15.

Now, assume that a document for overlay printing is created using the document created as described above. In this case, first,
When the superposition manual mode designation key KC is operated, the document information for superposition printing is inputted and the superposition input mode (E) is set.

In this input mode, the operation according to the flow shown in FIG. 3 is executed. Now, when the cursor key KB is operated to display the document information in the document memory 15 and document information for overlapping printing is specified from among the document information, the specified document information is transferred and stored in the sub-text memory 16. (Step AI) Here, when document information is input from the key human power section 11, the input document information is stored in the sub-text memory 16, and when a custom character pattern is specified in the external storage device 17, the specified The external character pattern is stored in the sub-text memory 16.

After the desired document information is stored in the subtext memory 16 in this way, the attributes of the document information, that is, the printing coordinates (x, y) indicating the printing start position, the printing magnification (nXm),
When the printing density (1 to 8) is specified, the specified attribute data is transferred and stored in the sub-text memory 16 in correspondence with the document information (step A2).

Then, in the next step A3, it is checked whether or not the continuation key KD is operated. Here, if there is other document information to be printed on top of the document information currently stored in the sub-text memory 16, the continuation key KD is operated. Then, the process returns to step A1, and similar writing processing is executed for the next document information. When the sentence-I information to be superimposed is sequentially stored in the sub-document memory 16 in this way,
Operate end key KE. Then, in step A4, this is detected and the superposition input mode is canceled.

Next, the printing operation when the printing key KF is operated will be explained. When this print key KF is operated, the superimposed printing mode is set, and the operation according to the flowchart of FIG. 4 is executed. First, each sentence in the sub-document memory 16 -
The stored print density corresponding to the information is read out and the print density levels are compared (step Bl).
In accordance with this comparison result, in the next step B2, the order in which document information is read and designated from the sub-document memory 16 (document designation order) is determined, and the order in which document information is read out and designated (document designation order) is determined in order to print documents in order from the lowest print density level. The document designation order is transferred and stored in the order memory 18. Then, the document information in the sub-bunko memory 16 is read out according to the order stored in the order memory 18 (step B3), and next, this sentence! ; The head (not shown) in the printer 22 is moved to the coordinate position (x, y) corresponding to the information (step B
4) That is, by feeding the paper in the printer 22 and moving the print head, the print head is set at the printing start position of the document information currently read from the sub-document memory 16 in the manner of C1m. The document information read from the subtext memory 16 is converted into a print pattern of 24×24 dots per character using the character generator 13 (step B5).

Next, the print pattern is converted into an enlarged pattern corresponding to the designated print magnification (nXm) by the free angle converter 19 (step B6). If no print magnification is specified, it is converted to a normal size pattern. Ru. However,
In the next step B7, the print density level is checked. Now, if density level "8" is specified, printing will be performed at normal density (step B8), but if "7" or lower is specified, printing will be performed at a density higher than normal density depending on the density level. is also printed with a low halftone (step B9, BIO).

Here, halftone printing is performed as follows. Fifth
The figure conceptually shows the operation of creating a halftone pattern, and the print pattern A supplied to the print control section 20 is supplied together with the halftone pattern B to the address circuit C within the print control section 20. The result of this logical harmonic etc. becomes a composite pattern D and is supplied to the printer 22.

Figure 6 shows printing examples of the kana character "i" when it is printed normally and when it is halftone printed. It is.

When normal printing or halftone printing is performed in this way, the process advances to step Bll in FIG. 4, where it is checked whether all the Bunko in the sub-pattern reading memory 16 have been printed in a superimposed manner, that is, whether the east printing has been completed. Ru. Since all printing of one document has now been completed γ, the process returns to step B3, and the document information with the next lowest density is read out from the sub-document memory 16 based on the contents of the order memory 18. Then, in order to set the print head in the printer 22 at the print coordinate (x, y) position of this document information, the paper set in the print control section 20 is back-fed. And then, the sentence from sub-bunzan memory 16,! ; Information is printed according to the specified printing magnification.

Such an operation is repeated for the number of documents stored in the sub-text-1 memory 16, and as a result, the sentences designated with the lowest density are printed in an overlapping manner starting from +7. When all of the sub-sentences, the sentences in the memory 16, and -; are printed in an overlapping manner in this way, this is detected in step Bll and the overlapping printing is completed.

Figure 7 shows a specific example of overlapping printing, and Figure 7 (A) shows the case where a greeting message is printed at normal density on a New Year's postcard with the enlarged characters "Kasho" printed in halftone in the background. . In addition, the printing examples shown in FIGS. 7(B) and 7(C) show an example in which external character patterns are printed on the back of a postcard.If the main text is printed in this way with an image illustration such as a picture in the background, Postcard printing with rich expression becomes σrHR.Also, if you replace it with a color ink ribbon and print in color,
It becomes even more expressive.

Note that in the above χ embodiment, the next document is printed after all printing of one document is completed, but the next document is printed after all printing of one document is completed, but it is also possible to print all documents repeatedly line by line, that is, After printing one line print pattern of one document, print the print pattern related to the same line of the next document, and when overlapping printing of all documents for that line is completed, move to the next line and repeat the same overlapping. By performing overlapping printing line by line in this way, there is no need to backfeed the paper as in the first embodiment, so overlapping printing can be performed efficiently.

Further, in the above embodiment, the halftone pattern generator 21
Use J! to adjust the print density of the print pattern. However, in a thermal printer, the print density may be adjusted by the heating time of the ink ribbon, and in the above embodiment, printing is performed in order from the lowest density to the highest density. , of course, the opposite may also be true, and
If color printing is performed, printing may be performed at the same -e degree.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the document information entered manually is printed in an overlapping manner, but images read by an image sensor may be printed in an overlapping manner. It can also be applied to typewriters.

[Effect of the Invention] As described in detail below, this issue I77 specifies in advance the printing position when printing at least the first and second document information in an overlapping manner, corresponding to each piece of document information. In this case, after the ml document information is printed at the specified printing position, the second document information is printed for identification at the specified printing position, so overlapping printing of multiple documents can be easily and reliably performed. It has the following effects.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention, Figs. 2 to 7 show an embodiment of the invention, Fig. 2 is a basic block circuit diagram of a word processor to which the invention is applied, and Fig. 3 is a functional block diagram of the invention. This section describes the operation when inputting document information for overlapping printing [
Flowchart for JJ, Figure 4 is a flowchart explaining the operation during overlapping printing, Figure m5 is a diagram showing the halftone pattern creation operation, Figure 6 is (A) and (B) normal printing and halftone printing. FIG. 7A, FIG. 7B, and FIG. 7C are diagrams showing specific examples of overlapping printing. 11... Key human power department, 12... Soil control department. 15... Document memory, 16... Sub-document memory. 20...Print control unit, 2I...Halftone pattern generator, 22...Printer. Patent Applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Agent Br.Machi 1) Toshi Tadashi Figure 1 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Bar Zu Tone / Worship the Imperial Order

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Specific printing specifying means for specifying overlapping printing of at least first and second document information; a print position designating means that specifies each information in accordance with the information; and after printing the first document information for which overlapping printing is designated by the specific print designation means at the print position designated by the print position designation means; A document creation device comprising: printing means for identifying and printing the second document information at a printing position specified by the printing position specifying means.