JPS63221063A - Printing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the continuous printing pattern of the same character data, by a method wherein the character data of key input are stored and a part or whole of said data is repeatedly indicated and read as printing data and sub-scanning is obtained by the movement of an apparatus main body to print said printing data on recording paper. CONSTITUTION:For example, when the symbols '-+' among the formed document data displayed on a display part 13 are desired to be repeatedly printed, the first cursor k1 is set to either one of '-+' at first to operate a repeating printing key 15b and, continuously, a cursor key 16 and a practice key 15a are operated to move the second cursor k2 and the range of repeating printing data is indicated. Whereupon, '-+' indicated between the cursors k1-k2 are repeated to be transferred to a pattern data memory part and continuously printed on recording paper A. At the point of time when a necessary number of '-+' are outputted for printing, the printing movement of an apparatus main body 10 is stopped and, when the operation of a printing key 20 is released, the character data after printing in a document data memory part is erased from the display part 13. Thereafter, when the key 20 is again operated, data not yet printed is printed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a printing device that prints character data such as sentences created by manual key operation on recording paper by obtaining sub-scanning by moving the main body of the device. .

[Prior Art and its Problems] Conventionally, typewriters, word processors, and the like have been widely used as devices for manually creating sentences and printing them to obtain documents. A word processor creates a desired document by temporarily storing character data such as characters and symbols entered manually in a storage device such as a RAM, and then sequentially reading and printing the stored data. In this case, the document is generally printed in the same format as the one created manually, so for example, if you want to obtain a printing pattern that consists of many consecutive identical symbols, you can use the symbol control section of the pattern you want to obtain in advance. Keys must be created manually.

However, creating consecutively printed documents of the same character as described above requires manual key operations and storage areas for the number of consecutive characters.

In this case, there is no major problem in a stationary word processor with a large document memory, but in a small printing device with a small memory capacity, other characters may be printed.

There is a problem that the number of input symbols etc. is limited, making it impossible to obtain a desired document.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention was made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to obtain continuous printing patterns of the same character data without requiring manual key operations and storage areas for consecutive numbers of keys. The purpose is to provide a printing device that enables printing.

[Summary of the Invention] That is, the printing device according to the present invention stores character data entered manually by a key, specifies part or all of this stored character data as repeated print data, and stores this repeated print data in the above-mentioned storage. The apparatus is configured to repeatedly address and read data from the means, and to obtain sub-scanning by moving the main body of the apparatus and print on recording paper.

[Embodiment J of the invention An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the external configuration of a printing device embodying the present invention, and the device main body 10 is constructed of a size that is large enough to be held in the user's hand. First, a mode changeover switch 11 is provided on the left side of the device main body 10. This mode changeover switch 11 is used to turn the power on and off, and to switch between word processing mode (document creation mode) WP and print mode (printing mode) PR. is turned on. On the other hand, a key manual section 12 and a display section 13 are provided on the front side of the device main body 10.

The key manual section 12 includes character/symbol keys 14, function keys 15, cursor keys 16, kana/kanji conversion keys 17,
Next candidate key 18 and kanji selection keys 198 to 19f1 print key 20 are arranged.

Here, the display section 13 displays a total of 16 characters, for example, in two lines above and below. Further, on the lower surface of the apparatus main body 10, a print head section HA is provided, which includes a line-type thermal head of, for example, 48 dots per line, with the line direction facing the width direction of the apparatus main body 10.

The above character/symbol type key-14 inputs kana in the created document,
Alternatively, it is used in combination with the function keys 15 to input alphanumeric characters, symbols, etc., and the function keys 15 include, for example, the start/end of document input or the specified range of movement on a sentence by the cursor k. In addition to the execution key 15a that separates the characters, the insert, delete, and shift keys, and the repeat print key 15b that is operated when printing the same character repeatedly and continuously, are necessary for document creation and printing using the character/symbol type key 14. Keys specifying various functions are arranged. The characters and symbols input using the character/symbol keys 14 and the function keys 15 are sequentially displayed on the display section 13. The cursor key 16 is used to move a cursor k displayed on the display unit 13 together with the input document and symbols in the left and right direction, and by moving this cursor, an input position, a functional range, etc. are specified. Kana/Kanji conversion key 1
7 is used to convert the created document inputted into kana using the above character/symbol formula Kaki-14 from kana to kanji for each fixed phrase, compound word, or single kanji. At this time, the kanji to be converted is A predetermined number of homonyms are displayed together with the converted kana document on the display unit 13, and by operating the next candidate key 18, many other homonyms are displayed in turn. When a kanji to be converted is displayed on the display section 13 through this kana/II character conversion, the desired kanji is selected and specified using the corresponding kanji selection keys 19a to 19f.

In other words, a desired document is created by specifying the word processing mode WP using the mode changeover switch 11 and repeating the manual key operations for the characters and symbols, the kana/II character conversion operation, and the kanji selection operation. When printing a manually created document, after specifying the print mode PR with the mode selector switch 11, bring the head unit HA into contact with the recording paper A side, and press the print key 20 while pressing the main body 1o of the apparatus. Move it in the direction shown by arrow X. As a result, the created document is printed. In this case, among the created document data displayed and output on the display unit 13, the repeat printing key 15b→force-sor key 16→execute key 15a
If you specify the desired repeat printing data by operating , the specified t! Character data within the range will be printed repeatedly and continuously.

FIG. 2 shows the print section 21 configured in the printing device. In the figure, 22 is an ink ribbon cassette, and this cassette 22 is inside the main body 10 of the device, centering on the print section 21. It is constructed in a shape that allows it to be attached and detached with precision. In the ink fountain ribbon cassette 22,
Two ribbon spools 23a and 23b are provided, and serve as a feeding spool and a winding spool for the thermal transfer ink ribbon 24, respectively. The thermal transfer ink ribbon 24 is set at the lower end of the ribbon cassette 22 so that a part of the ribbon is exposed from the head installation notch 25 . A ribbon loading notch 26 is formed in the printing head section HA of the printing section 21, and a thermal head 27 is installed in the center of this notch 26 with its head surface slightly protruding from the bottom surface of the apparatus main body 10. Placed. This thermal head 27 is attached to the slide hole 28a of the member 28.
The printing pressure in the downward direction is always maintained by the action of the spring 28b. Furthermore, two large and small openings 29.30 are formed on both sides of the ribbon loading notch 26 on the lower surface side of the apparatus main body 10 where the thermal head 27 is arranged, and rubber rollers 31.32 are arranged in each of the openings 29.30. Ru. This rubber roller 31
32 rotates in contact with the printing paper A when the main body 10 of the apparatus is moved in the direction shown by the arrow X during a printing operation, and one rubber roller 31 has a roller coaxially attached to its side. Gear 33 is fixed. This gear 33 is formed to have a smaller diameter than the rubber roller 31, and is connected to a ribbon winding shaft 36 via a one-way clutch 34 and gears 35a and 35b. The one-way clutch 33 also includes gears 37a, 37.
An encoder disk 38 is connected via b. Here, the one-way clutch 33 is configured to transmit the rotation of the primary side to the secondary side, that is, the rotation of the rubber roller 31 to the ribbon winding shaft 36 and the encoder disk 38 only during printing operation in the direction of arrow X. It has become. This encoder disk 38 has a plurality of slits 38a, 38b,...
are formed radially at regular intervals, and the LED 39 and the photosensor 40 are arranged at positions facing each other with the slit forming portion of the encoder disk 38 interposed therebetween.

In this case, the projected light from the LED 39 passes through the slits 38a, 38b, . . . of the encoder disk 38 and enters the photosensor 40. In other words, the encoder 41 is composed of the encoder disk 38, the LED 39, the photosensor 40, and the like. For this print section 21, a ribbon winding shaft 36 and a shaft 4 paired therewith are provided.
An ink ribbon cassette 22 is mounted using 2 as a support shaft.

In this case, the thermal transfer ink ribbon 24 exposed in a part of the lower end of the ribbon cassette 22 is set along the head surface of the thermal head 27 arranged in the ribbon loading notch 26 of the apparatus main body 10. . Here, the back cover 10a of the apparatus main body 10 is configured to be openable and closable by a hinge 10b, so that operations such as replacing the ink ribbon cassette 22 and inspecting the inside can be easily carried out.

On the other hand, a circuit board 43 is arranged between the print section 21 and the front panel of the main body 10, and the keys and switch group shown in FIG. 1, as well as the encoder 41 and the thermal head 27 of the print section 21 are connected. Ru.

FIG. 3 shows the configuration of an electronic circuit formed on the circuit board 43. In the figure, 51 is a control section, and this control section 51 receives mode change signals from the mode changeover switch 11, etc. various key manual operation signals from the key manual section 12 and the device main body 1 from the encoder 41.
A pulse signal corresponding to the movement amount of 0, that is, a movement amount detection signal is input. Then, the control section 51 controls the conversion data (key human power data) storage section 52 in response to various key operation signals from the mode changeover switch 11 and the key human power section 12.
, display RAM 53, kana/kanji conversion table 54, candidate kanji storage section 55, text data storage section 56, and thermal head drive circuit 57. The conversion data storage unit 52 stores characters/symbol input keys 1 from the key input unit 12.
4 and function keys 15 to sequentially store character symbol data such as "kana" and "symbols".
The key human input character/symbol data input into the converted data storage section 52 is displayed on the display section 13 via the display character generator 58 and the display RAM 53. When a conversion signal is output from the control section 51 in response to the operation of the kana/kanji conversion key 17 of the key human power section 12, the kana/II character conversion table 54 converts the key human power character symbol stored in the conversion data storage section 52. This is a search for kanji that corresponds to the ``kana'' character in the data.
Searches are made in the order of compound words→single kanji, and the searched kanji are stored in the candidate kanji storage section 55, read from the candidate kanji storage section 55, and displayed on the display section 13. Here, if the kanji searched in the above-mentioned kana/kanji conversion table 54 has a plurality of periphonetic allonyms or homophonic kanji words, the number of kanji searched in the above-mentioned kana/kanji conversion table 54 is displayed as many as the display limit of the display unit 13 (for example, 8 character), when the next candidate signal is input from the control section 51 by operating the next candidate key 18 of the key human power section 12, the candidate kanji characters of the other undisplayed valves are read out and displayed in turn in turn. . In this candidate kanji storage unit 55, the key human power unit 12
Control unit 51 by operating the kanji selection keys 198 to 19f.
When a selection signal is input from , the selected kanji data is output to the text data storage section 56 . On the other hand, among the key manual data stored in the converted data storage section 52, character symbol data that does not require Kanji conversion is also transferred to and stored in the text data storage section 56. That is, the text data storage unit 56 stores the document information created by the operation of the key human power unit 12 as document character data consisting of kanji that have been converted to kana/kanji, kana that has not been converted, katakana, symbols, and external characters.

Character and symbol data of individual characters of the document data stored in the text data storage section 56 are output to the display section 13 via the display character generator 58 and the display RAM 53 for display, and are also used for printing. The character is called as an actual character via the character generator 59 and output to the thermal head drive circuit 57. The encoder pulse from the encoder 41 is input to the thermal head drive circuit 57 when the print mode signal is output from the control unit 51, and character data is input via the printing character generator 59 in synchronization with the encoder pulse. is transferred to the thermal head 27 line by line.

In this case, since the printing quality by the thermal head 27 is, for example, 24×24 dots (full width), the above-mentioned 1 line means 1/24 line of 1 character.

In addition, the print data bus from the print character generator 59 to the thermal head drive circuit 57 includes:
A repeating pattern data storage section 60 controlled by the control section 51 is connected. This repetitive pattern data storage section 60 stores the document data in the text data storage section 56 whose range is designated by the operation of the key manual section 12 as repetitive print data, and its writing address is 1ilJ.
The I11 unit 51 specifies the read address, and the address counter 61 specifies the read address. This address counter 61 generates a timing signal l! synchronized with the encoder pulse. The count data from the address counter 61 is also sent to the matching circuit 63. This - number circuit 6
3, when writing repetitive print data to the repetitive pattern data storage section 60, the final writing address is given in advance by the control l1 section 51, and the reading address from the address counter 61 is given to this final writing address. When there is a match, a match signal is output as a reset signal for the address counter 61.

In other words, the address counter 61 is in print mode PR.
When the apparatus main body 10 is moved for printing in the G-position, the repetitive printing data in the repetitive pattern data storage section 60 is repeatedly addressed. Note that a reset signal is also given to the address counter 61 when the repeat printing key 15b is operated.

Next, the operation of the printing device having the above configuration will be explained.

First, in order to create a desired document, the user operates the mode changeover switch 11 to designate word processing mode WP. Then, the control section 51 is set to word processing mode WP. Here, the user operates the keypad section 12 of the device main body 10 to sequentially input desired characters, symbols, etc.

First, when the character/symbol input key 14 and the function key 15 are operated to enter the document information to be created, the input document data is sequentially transferred to the conversion data storage section 52 whose address is specified via the control section 51. be done. At the same time, the input document data is displayed on the display unit 13 via the display character generator 58 and the display RAM 53. After inputting the desired document in kana, if the kana/kanji conversion key 17 is operated, the kana/S-character conversion table 5
At step 4, kana/11-character conversion processing is performed in the order of fixed phrases → compound words → single kanji characters from the beginning of the input characters. Here, in advance,
When the pronunciation of a kana character matches any of the candidate kanji stored in the candidate kanji storage unit 55, the kana character to be converted is indicated on the cursor, and a string of candidate kanji with the same sound is displayed at the bottom of the display. Ru. Here, when the user operates the kanji selection keys 198 to 19f to specify a desired kanji among the homophone candidate kanji, the selection signal is output to the candidate kanji storage section 55, and the kana character to be converted is converted into kanji. At the same time, the next kana character to be converted is indicated on the cursor. In this case, the converted kanji data is transferred to and stored in the document data storage section 56. Thereafter, the kanji selection process is repeated again in the same manner as above to perform kana/lI character conversion.

Here, when the reading of a kana character that matches a kanji that does not require conversion is shown, the cursor key 16 is operated to indicate the desired kana character, and candidate kanji that match the reading are displayed. On the other hand, if the desired kanji does not exist among the candidate kanji displayed on the display section 13 in the display state of the homophone candidate kanji in the series of kana/1 [character conversion], the next candidate key 18 is operated. From the control unit 51 to the candidate kanji storage unit 55
output the next candidate signal. Then, other homophone candidate kanji are displayed in exchange, and if the desired kanji exists among the next candidate kanji, the same kanji selection process as above is repeated again to perform kana/kanji conversion. Further, if the desired kanji is not displayed by the single operation of the next candidate key 18, another homophone candidate kanji is displayed by further operating the next candidate key 18. Here, the kanji selected and designated by the kana/kanji conversion are sequentially stored in the candidate kanji storage unit 55.
is transferred to the text data storage unit 56 from Kana/II.
For characters, symbols, etc. that do not require character conversion, press function key 15.
By operating the degree of heat (no conversion) key, the data stored in the converted data storage section 52 is transferred to the text data storage section 56 as is. By repeating the above character/symbol input processing, kana/11 character conversion processing, and kanji selection processing, a desired document is created and stored in the text data storage section 56.

Next, an explanation will be given of the operation when printing out the document data created manually as described above. To print document data, press mode selector switch 1.
1 to the print mode PR position. By switching the mode changeover switch 11, the control unit 51 is set to the print mode, the text data storage unit 56 is placed in a reading state, and the thermal head drive circuit 57 is placed in a state where encoder pulses from the encoder 41 are input. In this state, the user brings the print head section HA into contact with the recording paper A, and moves the apparatus main body 10 in the direction of arrow X while pressing the print key 20, as shown in FIG. As the device main body 10 moves, the rubber rollers 31 and 32 rotate, and the rotation is transmitted to the gears 37a and 37b in FIG. 2.

As the gear 37b rotates, the encoder disk 38 rotates, and the rotation of the encoder disk 38 causes the LED 39 to be connected to the slits 38a, 38b, . . .
The light sent to the photo sensor 40 via the photo sensor 40 is controlled intermittently, and the photo sensor 40 outputs a pulse signal. The pulse signal output from the photosensor 40 becomes the output of the encoder 41, and is sent to the control section 51 and the thermal head drive circuit 57 as a movement amount detection signal with respect to the apparatus main body 11. Further, the rotation of the rubber roller 31 is transmitted to the ribbon take-up shaft 36 via the one-way clutch 34 and gears 35a and 35b, and further to the take-up spool 23b in the ink ribbon cassette 22. As a result, the ribbon take-up spool 23b rotates, and the thermal transfer ink ribbon 2 that has been guided from the ribbon pay-out spool 23a through the ribbon loading notch 26
Wind up 4. In this case, the ribbon winding shaft 36 moves between the recording paper A and the ink ribbon 2 as the apparatus main body 10 moves.
The ink ribbon 24 is rotated according to the amount of movement of the main body 10 to prevent slipping between the ink ribbon 24 and the recording paper A, and the ink ribbon 24 is lightly pressed against the recording paper A by the thermal head 27, which has constant downward printing pressure due to a spring 28b. Being pressed against me.

On the other hand, the movement amount detection signal output from the photosensor 40 is sent to the control section 51 and the thermal head drive circuit 57 as an output signal of the encoder 41, as described above. Then, the control unit 51 sequentially specifies the memory addresses of the text data storage unit 56 in accordance with the movement amount detection signal from the encoder 41, reads out the document data stored therein, and transfers this document data to the printing character generator. 59 and output to the thermal head drive circuit 57 as individual character data. The thermal head drive circuit 57 drives the thermal head 27 in synchronization with the movement amount detection signal from the encoder 41, that is, in synchronization with the timing of reading document data by the control section 51. By driving the thermal head 27, the document data is thermally transferred onto the recording paper A via the ink ribbon 24.

In this case, as the apparatus main body 10 moves, the unused portion of the ink ribbon 24 is fed out from the feeding spool 23a of the ink ribbon cassette 22, and the used portion after being thermally transferred by the thermal head 27 is transferred to the same cassette. The film is sequentially wound onto a take-up spool 23b in 22. By moving the device body 1o as described above,
The created document data stored in the text data storage section 56 is sequentially printed on the recording paper A. In this case, since the small device main body 10 itself is moved to print on the recording paper A, any recording paper A1 can be used as long as the minimum printing range of the created document data is secured, regardless of the size of the recording paper A. For example, it is possible to print on bound notebooks.

Here, the display state of the display unit 13 in response to the printing operation of the document data will be explained.

First, in the initial state of the print mode when the mode changeover switch 11 is switched, the displayable range of the created document data stored in the text data storage section 56 is displayed from the beginning. Then, when printing is started, the document data corresponding to the characters and symbols actually printed by thermal transfer on the recording paper A disappears from the display section 13, and is replaced by the text following the document data that has been displayed. Data storage unit 5
The document data in 6 is shifted and displayed. Thereafter, when printing of all the document data stored in the text data storage section 56 is completed, the display section 13 becomes blank. In other words, the user moves the apparatus main body 10 and performs print processing while checking the display state of the display section 13 to confirm the document data to be printed. thus,
Once all document data has been printed, if you want to print the same document again, press R8 (
By operating the (Restart) key, the printer returns to the initial state of the print mode.

Next, the repetitive printing operation in the print mode PR will be described.

Here, FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the repetitive printing operation.
FIGS. 5(A) to 5(H) each show the printing operation state.

First, when the mode changeover switch 11 is operated to set the print mode PR, the created document data in the text data storage section 56 is transferred to the display RAM 5 in step S1.
3 and displayed on the display unit 13 as shown in FIG. 5(A). Here, if you want to repeatedly and continuously print, for example, the character "-+" among the created document data displayed on the display section 13, as shown in FIG. 5(B),
With 1 set in the first cursor as one of the repeat print data "-+", operate the repeat print key 15b, and then press the cursor key -1 as shown in FIG. 5(C).
6 and the execution key 15a are operated to move the second cursor to 2 to designate the range of the repeated print data "-+" (steps 82 to 86). Then, the first. Repeated print data "-10" specified in the second cursor between 1 and 2
is read from the text data storage section 56 and transferred to the repetitive pattern data storage section 60 via the printing character generator 59 (step 87). At this time, the control unit 51 causes the matching circuit 63 to latch the final write address of the repetitive print data "-10" in the repetitive pattern data storage unit 60 (step 88). Here, as shown in FIG. 5(D), when the head section HA of the main body 10 of the apparatus is brought into contact with the recording paper A and moved in the direction of the arrow X while operating the print key 20, the timing signal generating section 62
By supplying an encoder pulse to , the address counter 61 starts specifying a read address, and the repetitive print data "-10" stored in the repetitive pattern data storage section 60 is sequentially transferred to the thermal head drive circuit 57. Printing is performed on recording paper A via the thermal head 27 (steps 89 to 512). In this case, if the print movement of the main body 10 of the apparatus continues with the print key 20 being operated, each time one piece of repetitive print data "-+" is read out, the read address and the repetitive pattern data storage unit 60 A coincidence detection signal with the final write address is output from the coincidence circuit 63, and the address counter 61 is repeatedly reset. In other words, step 8 above
As long as the printing movement in steps 9 to 812 continues, the repetitive print data "-+" is read out from the repetitive pattern data storage section 60 and is repeatedly printed on the recording paper A via the thermal head drive circuit 57 and the thermal head 27. Become so.

Then, when the required number of repeated print data "-10" has been printed out, the printing movement of the main body 10 is stopped and the operation of the print key 20 is released, and as shown in FIG. 5(E), the text data is stored. Unprinted data that has not yet been printed in the section 56 is transferred to the display RAM 53 and displayed on the display section 13 (step S12.513). In other words, the character data that has already been printed is erased from the display section 13.

After this, when the print key 20 is operated again to start printing movement of the main body 10 of the apparatus, the unprinted data is read out from the text data storage section 56, as shown in FIG. 5(F).
The characters are sequentially printed on the recording paper A by the thermal head 27 via the printing character generator 59 and the thermal head drive circuit 57 (steps 82, 83 → 814).
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When the necessary character data has been printed once, the printing movement of the main body 10 is stopped and the print key 2 is pressed.
When the operation 0 is released, as shown in FIG. 5(G), the printed character data is erased from the display unit 13, and the unprinted data in the text data storage unit 56 is transferred to the display RAM 53. is displayed (step 81).
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Here, the unprinted data displayed on the display unit 13
'' again as repeated print data, press the repeat print key 15b and then press the cursor key 16.
Then, by operating the execution key 15a, the user moves the second cursor to 2 to specify the range of the repeated print data "+-" (steps 82 to S6). Then, the process of transferring the repetitive print data "10-" to the repetitive pattern data storage section 60 in step S7, and the process of transferring the repetitive print data "10-" to the repetitive pattern data storage section 60 in step S7, and
After the latching process of the final write address of the repeated print data to the matching circuit 63 is performed, the printing process in steps 89 to 812 is started, and as shown in FIG.
As shown in H), the repeated print data "10-" is repeatedly printed on the recording paper A.

Then, when the required number of repeated print data "+-" has been printed out, the printing movement of the main body 1o of the apparatus is stopped and the operation of the print key 20 is released, and the unprinted data is transferred to the display RAM 53 in step 813. However, if there is no unprinted data in the text data storage section 56, the series of printing processes described above ends.

In this case, even if the printer main body 10 is moved for printing by operating the print key 20 again, the printing process is terminated due to the determination of "no print data" in step 816.

Therefore, according to the printing device configured as described above, it is possible to designate any character data present in the created document as repeated print data and print it on the recording paper A in any length. As a result, it is not necessary to manually store all the data required for repetition and to store all the data in the text data storage section 56, and it is possible to simplify the operability and reduce the amount of memory used.

In the above embodiment, the arbitrarily specified repetitive printing data is converted into a dot pattern via the printing character generator 59 and stored in the repetitive pattern data storage section 60, but it is not possible to store it as a code pattern. Good too. Further, the repetitive pattern data storage section 60
The memory address where the repeated print data is stored in the text data storage section 56 may be repeatedly addressed using software.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, character data entered manually by a key is stored, a part or all of this stored character data is designated as repeated print data, and this repeated print data is Since the structure is configured so that addresses are repeatedly read out from the storage means, sub-scanning is obtained by moving the main body of the device, and printing is performed on the recording paper, the same character data can be printed without requiring manual key operations and memory areas for consecutive numbers of keys. A printing device that can obtain a continuous printing pattern can be provided.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an external configuration diagram showing a printing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing a printing section of the printing device, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an electronic circuit of the printing device. , FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the repeated printing operation by the printing device, and FIGS. 5(A) to 5(H) are diagrams showing the state of repeated printing by the printing device, respectively. 10... Device main body, 10 a-... Back cover, 10 b-
t: switch, 11... mode changeover switch, 12-...
・Key manual section, 13...Display section, 14...Character/symbol type key-115...Function key, 15a...Execution key, 15b...Repeat printing key, 16...Cursor key, 17...Kana/Kanji conversion key, 18...Next candidate key, 19a-19f...Kanji selection key, 2o...
Print key, 21... Print unit, 22... Ink ribbon cassette, 23a... Feeding spool,
23b... Lid removal spool, 24... Thermal transfer ink ribbon, 25... Head installation notch, 26...
・Ribbon loading notch, 27... thermal head,
28...Head mounting member, 28a...Slide hole, 28b...Spring, 29.30...Sekiguchi, 31.3
2...Rubber rollers, 33.35a, 35b, 37a,
37b--gear, 34--one-way clutch, 36-
...Ribbon winding shaft, 38...Encoder disk,
38a, 38b,...Slit, 39...LED,
40... Photo sensor, 41... Encoder, 42
...Support shaft, 43...Circuit board, 51-...Control unit, 52...Conversion data storage unit, 53...Display RA
M, 54...Kana/Kanji conversion table, 55...Candidate kanji storage section, 56...Text data storage section, 57...
- Thermal head drive circuit, 58... Character generator for display, 59... Character generator for printing, 60... Repetitive pattern data storage section, 61.
. . . address counter, 62 . . . timing signal generator, 63 . . . matching circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a key input means for character data; a means for storing character data input by the key input means;
means for obtaining sub-scanning of the character data read from the storage means by moving the apparatus main body and printing it on recording paper;
The apparatus further comprises means for specifying part or all of the character data stored in the storage means as repeated print data, and means for repeatedly reading out the repeated print data in the range specified by the specification means from the storage means. A printing device featuring: