JPS63262276A - character printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a printing processing free from the shortage or expansion of printing characters etc., to be applied even to a bound notebook or a recording paper of more than a specified size with an arbitrary printing length, by a method wherein a means which prints stored data on the recording paper by traveling a device body and a means which stops a printing action due to a printing stop command issued by every data length on the basis of a specified printing length for one line are provided. CONSTITUTION:Due to the rotation of rubber rollers 31, 32 accompanying the travel of a device body 10, an encoder disk 38 rotates and the light to be sent to a photosensors 40 is intermittently controlled. This is sent to a control part 51 and a thermal head drive circuit 57 as a travel amount detection signal and, simultaneously, a ribbon take-up spool 23b rotates. A printing length for one line is defined by a printing length key, and an arbitrary digit pitch is defined by a digit pitch key. If a 'segment' code meaning the separation from a next line is read from a sentence data storage part 56 during a printing processing, a separation code judging part 60 stops the supply of an encoder pulse to the thermal head drive circuit 57. In this manner, the printing action is stopped; thus, a one-line printing corresponding to the specified printing length for one line is accomplished.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention provides small characters that are printed on recording paper by moving the main body of the device to obtain sub-scanning of character data such as sentences created by manual key operation. Regarding printing @ placement.

[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 the text. In these typewriters and word processors, recording paper of a predetermined size (A4.85, etc.) is usually wrapped and set around the roller of the printer section built into the vIR1, and then ink and
Documents are printed by transferring characters via a ribbon or the like.

However, the above-mentioned text creation device requires a roller rotation mechanism or a print head sliding mechanism to move the printing position of the characters on the recording paper, for example, and the printer section becomes large, which makes the device difficult to use. There is a problem that the main body is smaller and smaller. Further, in a document creation device having a printer section built into the main body, it is not possible to print a created document on, for example, a bound notebook or recording paper larger than a specified size.

Therefore, a printing device that prints by manually moving the vA@ main body has been considered, but since the printing length for one line is not specified equally, for example, the print character at the end of the printing line may be missing. However, it is extremely difficult for an operator to perform a printing operation by aligning the printing length of each line.

[Purpose of the Invention] The present invention was made in view of the above-mentioned problems. For example, even on bound notebooks or recording paper larger than a specified size, it is possible to print arbitrary characters according to the size of the recording paper. An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized character printing device capable of specifying a length and performing printing processing without causing missing or overlapping printed characters.

[Summary of the Invention] That is, the small character printing device according to the present invention includes means for printing input and stored data on recording paper by moving the main body of the device, designating the printing length for one line,
A print stop command is given to the stored data for each data length based on the specified print length, and the printing operation is stopped by the print stop command when the stored data is printed by the printing means.

[Embodiments 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 'Rm on and off, and to switch between word processing mode (document creation mode) WP and print mode (printing mode) PR. When word processing mode WP or print mode PR is specified, Power 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,
A next candidate key 18, kanji selection keys 19a to 19f1, and a 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 conjunction with the function keys 15 to input alphanumeric characters, symbols, etc., and the function keys 15 can, for example, be used to input the start and end of document input, or to specify the range of movement on a document using the cursor k. Starting with the execution key 15a for dividing, insert, delete, and shift keys, the print length key 15b for specifying the print length for one line, the digit pitch key 15C for specifying the pitch between print digits, the enlargement key 15d1 and the reduction key 15.
Keys such as e are arranged to designate various functions necessary for document creation and printing using the character/symbol key 14. 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 input key 16 is used to move a cursor k displayed on the display section 13 together with the input document and symbols in the left and right direction, and by moving this cursor, input positions, functional ranges, etc. are specified. The Kana/Kanji conversion key 17 is used to convert the created document entered into Kana using the character/symbol key 14 from Kana to Kanji for each fixed phrase, compound word, or single kanji. A predetermined number of the previous kanji are displayed together with the Kana document to be converted on the display unit 13, and by operating the next candidate key 18, many other kanji with the same sound Tatsumi Zanba are displayed in turn. When the kanji to be converted is displayed on the display section 13 through this kana/kanji conversion, the desired kanji is selected and specified using the corresponding kanji selection keys 19a to 19f.

That is, the desired sentence 1 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/kanji conversion operation, and the kanji selection operation. When printing a document created manually, after specifying print mode PR with the mode selector switch 11, bring the head unit HA into contact with the recording paper A side, and while pressing the print key 20 press the printer main body 10. is moved in the direction indicated by arrow X. As a result, the created document is printed. In this case, the print length and digit pitch for one line corresponding to the width of the recording paper A are set in advance using the print length key 15b and the digit pitch key 15G.
By operating and specifying, the data to be printed will be divided and printed out according to the print quality specified above. Here, the character/symbol input key 14 is also used for inputting numerical data for specifying the print length and digit pitch.

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. In addition, it is constructed in a shape that allows accuracy to be less than Vt. The ink ribbon cassette 22 is provided with two ribbon spools 23a and 23b, each of which serves as a feeding spool for the thermal transfer ink ribbon 24.
It becomes the take-up spool. The thermal transfer ink ribbon 24 is
At the lower end of the ribbon cassette 22, a part of the ribbon cassette 22 is exposed from the head installation notch 25 and set. 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 28 of the member 28.
It is provided so as to be able to move slightly up and down along the direction a, and downward printing pressure is always maintained by the action of the spring 28b. Furthermore, the apparatus main body 10 in which this thermal head 27 is arranged
Two large and small openings 29 and 30 are formed on both sides of the ribbon loading notch 26 on the lower surface side, and rubber rollers 31 and 32 are arranged in each of the openings 29 and 30, respectively. This rubber roller 3
1゜32 indicates that the main body 10 of the apparatus is pointed at the arrow X during the print operation.
When the rubber roller 31 is moved in the direction shown, it rotates in contact with the printing paper A, and a gear 33 is coaxially fixed to one side of the rubber roller 31. This tooth 1 [33 is formed to have a smaller diameter than the rubber roller 31, and the one-way clutch 34,
It is connected to the ribbon winding shaft 36 via a gear 35a135b. Further, the one-way clutch 33 includes a gear 37a,
An encoder disk 38 is connected via 37b.

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, .
The light enters the sensor 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.
2 as a support shaft, the ink ribbon cassette 22'!
Already.

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 110a of the apparatus main body 10 is configured to be openable and closable by a hinge 10b, and the ink ribbon cassette 22
This allows for easy replacement operations and internal inspections.

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 the electronic circuit formed on the circuit board 43. In the figure, 51 is a control section, and this control section 51 receives a mode change signal from the mode changeover switch 11. First, various key manual operation signals are sent from the key manual section 12 and the device main body 1 is sent from the encoder 41.
A pulse signal corresponding to the moving field 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 section 54, candidate kanji storage section 55, text data storage section 56, work area 56
a. Control the thermal head drive circuit 57. The conversion data storage section 52 sequentially stores character and symbol data such as "kana" and "symbol" input from the key input section 12 by operating the character/symbol input key 14 and the konno key 15. The key human input character/symbol data input to the conversion data storage section 52 is displayed on the display section 13 via the display character generator 58 and the display RAM 53. Kana/'Is the kanji conversion section 54 the key human power section 12?/
When a conversion signal is output from the suburban area unit 51 in response to the operation of the kanji conversion key 17, a kanji search corresponding to the “kana” character in the key character symbol data stored in the conversion data storage unit 52 is performed. At this time, kanji are searched in the order of fixed phrases → compound words → single kanji, and the searched kanji are stored in the candidate kanji storage unit 55, read out from the candidate kanji storage unit 55, and displayed on the display unit 13. Ru. Here, if the kanji searched by the kana/kanji converter 54 has a plurality of homophones or homophones, and the display unit 13 displays as many characters as the display limit number of countries (for example, 8 characters in the bottom line), ) If there are more than 1,000 Chinese characters, the next candidate signal is input from the control section 51 by operating the next candidate key 18 of the key input section 12, and the other undisplayed candidate kanji are read out and sequentially replaced and displayed. When a selection signal from the control unit 51 is input to the candidate kanji storage unit 55 by operating the kanji selection keys 19a to 19f of the key input unit 12, the selected kanji data is output to the text data storage unit 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 text character data consisting of kanji that have been converted to kana/kanji, kana that has not been converted, katakana, symbols, and external characters.

The character and symbol data of the individual characters of the sentence m data stored in the sentence data storage section 56 are output to the display section 13 via the display character generator 58 and the display RAM 53 and displayed. After the delimiter code for stopping printing [section J is inserted and transferred to the work area 56a, a delimiter code for stopping printing is inserted for each line of print length manually specified by the print length key 15b, and is then sent as an actual character via the print character generator 59. It is called 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 print 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.

Further, a delimiter code determining section 60 is connected between the work area 56a and the printing character generator 59. This delimiter code determination unit 60 determines whether to read the delimiter code "ku" inserted in accordance with the designated print length when printing document data transferred into the work area 56a, and this delimiter code determination unit is output to the control unit 51, and also closes the encoder pulse gate (AND gate) to the thermal head drive circuit 57 via the inverter INV to stop the printing operation. Further, a register 61 for setting a delimiter code for the created wording data is connected to the control section 51, and an arithmetic section 62 having a comparison function is connected to this register 61. Register 6 for setting the above delimiter code
Register LEN of No. 1 contains the one-line print length specified by operating the print length key 15b, register ADR8 contains the document data memory address of text data storage section 56, and register ADR3E contains the text data storage section. 56 empty memory start address, register PADR8 contains the data transfer memory address of the work area 56a, register A contains the character data to be stored at the address specified by ADR8, register B contains the register The length in the printing direction of the character data stored in A is stored in register K, and the digit pitch data specified by the digit pitch key 15c is stored. Each time one character is transferred from the text data storage unit 56 to the work area 56a, the calculation unit 62 reduces the designated print length LEN by the character print length and digit pitch, and compares B or K with respect to LEN. 1IIltLD section 51. In addition, the calculation unit 6
2 always compares the read start address ADR8 of the transfer data in the text data storage section 56 with the start address of the empty memory, and outputs the comparison data to the control section 51.

Here, the comparison data from the above-mentioned input unit 62 indicates that the remaining distance LEN of the designated print length is less than the print direction length B of the next character data to be transferred or the pre-designated digit pitch. Then, work area 5 receives data.
The delimiter code "ku" is stored in memory address PADR8 of 6a. That is, when data is transferred from the text data storage unit 56 corresponding to the specified print length, the delimiter code “ku” is inserted at that point, and in the same way, the document data in the text data storage unit 56 is transferred. The above data transfer/delimiter code insertion process is repeated until there are no more delimiter codes.

Next, the operation of the printing apparatus 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 key manual section 12 of the v&mount body 10 to sequentially input desired characters, symbols, etc.

First, when the character/symbol entry key 14 and the function key 15 are operated to input document information as soon as it is 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, when the kana/S-character conversion key 17 is operated, the kana/kanji conversion unit 54 performs kana/kanji conversion processing in the order of fixed phrases → compound words → single kanji from the beginning of the input characters. will be carried out. Here, if the pronunciation of a kana character matches any of the candidate kanji stored in the candidate kanji storage unit 55 in advance, the kana character to be converted is indicated on the cursor, and a string of candidate kanji with the same sound is displayed. Displayed on the bottom row. Here, the user presses the kanji selection keys 198 to 19f.
When you specify the desired kanji from the homophone candidate kanji by operating ,
The selection signal is output to the candidate kanji storage section 55, and the kana character to be converted is converted into a kanji character, and the kana character that will be the next conversion pair Φ 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/kanji 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, in the display state of the homophone candidate kanji during the series of kana/kanji conversions, if the desired kanji does not exist among the candidate kanji displayed on the display section 13, the next candidate key 18 is operated and the control 11 Candidate kanji storage section 5 from section 51
5 to output the next candidate signal. Then, other homophone candidate kanji characters are displayed in exchange, and if the desired kanji character is present among the next candidate kanji characters, the same kanji selection process as above is repeated again to execute kana 7114 character conversion. Further, if the desired kanji is not displayed by one operation of the next candidate key 18, other homophone candidate kanji are displayed by roughly operating the next candidate key 18. Here, I wonder/? The kanji selected and designated by IK character conversion are sequentially transferred from the candidate kanji storage section 55 to the text data storage section 56.
Characters, symbols, etc. that do not require kana/kanji conversion are transferred to the text data storage unit 56 as they are stored in the conversion data storage unit 52 by operating the heat level (no conversion) key of the function keys 15. Ru. The above character symbol input processing, kana/
By repeating the kanji conversion process and the kanji selection process, 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 llllID section 51 is set to the print mode, and especially when the - line printing length and digit pitch are not specified, the text data storage section 56
The created document data within is transferred as is to the work area 56a, the work area 56a is in a read state, and the thermal head drive circuit 57 is in a state where encoder pulses from the encoder 41 are input. In this state, the user moves the print head section HA onto the recording paper A as shown in FIG.
1 while pressing the print key 20.
0 in the direction of arrow X. As the main body 10 moves, the rubber rollers 31 and 32 rotate, and the rotation is transmitted to the gears 37a and 37b in FIG. As the gear 37b rotates, the encoder disk 3
8 rotates, and this rotation of the encoder disk 38 causes the LED 39 to be exposed to the slit 38a.

The light sent to the photosensor 40 via 38b, . . . is intermittent, and the photosensor 40 outputs a pulse signal. The pulse signal output from this photosensor 40 becomes the output of the encoder 41, and is used as a movement 6 detection signal for the VitM main body 11.
The signal is sent to the III1 section 51 and the thermal head drive circuit 57. Further, the rotation of the rubber roller 31 is controlled by a one-way clutch 34 and a gear 35a.

35b to the ribbon take-up shaft 36 and further to the take-up spool 2 in the ink ribbon cassette 22.
This will be communicated to 3b. As a result, the ribbon take-up spool 23b rotates and winds up the thermal transfer ink ribbon 24 that has been guided through the ribbon dressing notch 26 from the ribbon delivery spool 23a. In this case, the ribbon winding shaft 36 moves the apparatus main body 10 so as not to cause slippage between the recording 1 ftA and the ink ribbon 24 as the apparatus main body 10 moves. Rotate according to l, and
The ink ribbon 24 is printed 1aA by the thermal head 27 which has constant downward printing pressure by the spring 28b.
It is pressed lightly.

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 t11111O unit 51 encodes the encoder 41
The memory addresses of the work area 56a are sequentially designated in accordance with the movement amount detection signal from the work area 56a, the document data stored there is read out, and this document data is passed through the printing character generator 59 to drive the thermal head as individual character data. Output to circuit 57. 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 document data reading timing by the control section 51.
to drive. By driving this thermal head 27, document data is thermally transferred onto the recording MA 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 apparatus main body 10 as described above, the created country data stored in the text data storage section 56 is sequentially printed on the recording paper A. In this case, since the small i8 main body 10 itself is moved to print on the recording paper A, regardless of the size of the recording paper A, as long as the minimum printing range of the created document data is secured,
It is possible to print on any recording paper A, for example, bound paper.

Next, the printing operation of chorus with specified - line printing length and digit pitch will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 4.

For example, after the document creation process in the word processor mode WP, the print length for one line corresponding to the width of the recording paper A is specified by operating the print length key 15b, and then an arbitrary digit pitch is specified by operating the digit pitch key 15G. Operate and specify. Then, when the operation mode is set to print mode PR by the mode changeover switch 12, the document data is edited according to the specified line print length as described below.

That is, first, the specified one-line print length is stored in register L.
EN, the digit pitch is in register K, and register AD
R8 contains the reading start address in the text data storage unit 56, and register ADH8E contains the text data storage unit 56.
The start address of empty memory in register PADR
The write start address of the work area 56a is set in 8 (step 81). When the initial setting of each data is completed in this way, it is determined based on the comparison data from the calculation unit 62 whether the read address ADR8 for the text data storage unit 56 has reached the empty memory address ADR8E, and if it has not reached the empty memory address ADR8E yet, , the character data in the text data storage unit 56 stored at the address specified by the above ADR8 is set in register A, and
The print direction length of the character data set in the register A is set in register B (steps 82 to 84).
. Here, if it is determined based on the comparison data from the calculation unit 62 that the one-line print length LEN is longer than the print direction length B of the character data set in the register A, then Assuming that new character data can be set in the PAD, the character data in register A is
It is transferred and written to the memory in the work area 56a addressed by R3 (steps 85-86).

Then, the remaining one-line printing length after subtracting the printing length B of the character data transferred to the work area 56a from the initialized one-line printing length LEN is set as a new LEN, and the text data storage section in register ADR8 is set. The read address for 56 and the write address for work area 56a in register PADR8 are updated (Stella; s7.s8>. Here, based on the comparison data from the arithmetic unit 62, the remaining row performed in step S7 is updated. If it is determined that the print length LEN is still longer than the specified digit pitch, the remaining one-line print length obtained by subtracting the digit pitch K from the current one-line print length LEN is set as a new LEN (step 89.810)
. In this way, first, after going through the processes of steps 82 to 810, the text data storage unit 56 is transferred to the work area 56a.
This means that data transfer for one character has been completed.

In this case, the remaining print length of one line currently set in the register LEN is the value obtained by subtracting the print length 8 of the character data transferred to the work area 56a in step S6 and the digit pitch.

After that, while repeating the transfer process for each character of the document data in steps 82 to 810, in step S5 (No), that is, the current remaining print length LEN of one line is less than or equal to the print length of the next character data to be transferred. or (No) in step S9, that is, if it is determined that the current remaining one-line printing length LEN is less than or equal to the specified digit pitch, the amount of data corresponding to the pre-specified one-line printing length is This means that the document data has been transferred from the text data storage unit 56 to the work area 56a, and at this time, the control unit 51 transfers the print data to the memory in the work area 56a that is addressed by the updated PADR8. A delimiter code "ku" is written as a print stop command during processing (step 511). Then, the write address PADR8 of the work area 56a is updated (
Step 512).

That is, by repeating the processes in steps 82 to S12, for example, the fifth
The sentence-data stored as shown in Figure (A) is
As shown in B), a delimiter code is inserted every predetermined print length of one line to delimit the data, and the data is transferred to the work area 56a for editing. Then, the above step S2
(Yes), that is, when it is determined that the read address ADR8 in the text data storage unit 56 reaches the start address ADR8E of the empty memory and the transfer of all document data is completed, the work area 56a enters the read state and the thermal head The drive circuit 57 enters a state of waiting for the input of an encoder pulse, and waits for the start of printing.

Here, when the print key 20 is operated and the main body 10 of the apparatus is moved in the X direction on the recording paper A to start a printing operation, the document data transferred and stored in the work area 56a is transferred to the delimiter code determination section. At step 60, the read data is sequentially sent to the thermal head drive circuit 57 via the printing character generator 59, while it is determined whether or not it is a ward J code.
Thermal transfer printing of text data is started via the thermal head 27 in synchronization with the movement amount detection signal of the main body of the apparatus.

During the printing process of document data when specifying this line print length, the "ku" mark that indicates the break from the next print line is used.
When the code is read from the text data storage unit 56 hl,
The detection signal is output from the limit code determination unit 60,
Encoder pulses are no longer supplied to the thermal head drive circuit 57.

As a result, the printing operation is stopped, and one line of printing corresponding to the designated printing length of one line has been performed. After this,
When the print key 20 is further pressed again and the operation of moving the main body 10 of the apparatus from the left end of the recording paper A is repeated, the created document data is sequentially moved to the second line, third line, etc., as shown in FIG.
This makes it easy to print out the same print length for each print line.

Next, the display section 1 according to the print operation of the document data is displayed.
The display state of No. 3 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 starts, the wording data corresponding to the characters and symbols actually thermally transferred printed 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 up until now. 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.

Therefore, according to the printing device configured as described above, it is not only possible to print on recording paper of a specified size or larger, bound notebooks, etc., but also the print length can be extended to one line depending on the width of the recording paper. can be specified arbitrarily, and it is possible to easily obtain a print format in which the print length of each print line is increased by tli.

Incidentally, in the above embodiment, a delimiter code is inserted into the text data as means for stopping printing of the - line, but address data corresponding to the printing stop position may be stored in advance in a dedicated register or the like.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a means for printing input and stored data on a recording paper by moving the main body of the apparatus, and the printing length for one line is specified, and the data stored in the memory is A print stop command is given to the data based on the specified print length (for each data length), and when the printing means prints the stored data, the print operation is stopped by the print stop command. Even for recording paper larger than the specified size, specify an arbitrary print length corresponding to the size of the recording paper, and set the print length of each line by 1-1 to avoid missing or overlapping printed characters. Therefore, it is possible to provide a small character printing device that can easily perform a printing process based on the size of the characters.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an external configuration diagram showing a small character printing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing the printing section of the small character printing device, and FIG. 3 is an electronic diagram of the small character printing device. A block configuration diagram showing the circuit, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the data editing operation corresponding to the specified print length in the print mode of the small character printing device, and FIGS. 5(A) and (B) respectively correspond to the flowchart in FIG. 4. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the storage state of the correspondence data before and after editing the data li based on the data collection, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the printing state of the document data when the printing length is specified by the above-mentioned small character printing @ position. 10...Device main body, 10a...IIm! , 10b・
...Hinge, 11...Mode changeover switch, 12.
...Key human power section, 13...Display section, 14...Character.
Symbol entry key - 115...Function key, 15a...Execution key, 15b...Print length key, 15'c...Digit pitch key, 15d...Enlargement key, 15e...Reduction key, 16 ...Cursor key, 17...Kana/Kanji conversion key, 18...Next candidate key, 19a-19f...Kanji selection key, 20...Print key, 21...Print section, 22.・・ink ribbon cassette, 23a
...Feeding spool, 23b... Winding spool,
24... Thermal transfer ink ribbon, 25... Notch for head installation, 26... Notch for ribbon loading, 27
...Thermal head, 28...Head installation is a member,
28a...Slide hole, 28b...Spring, 29.3
0...Opening, 31.32...Rubber roller, 33.3
5a, 35b, 37a, 37b-m wheel, 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, 5
3... Display RAM, 54... Kana/Kanji conversion section,
55... Candidate kanji storage unit, 56... Text data storage unit, 56a... Work area, 57... Thermal head drive circuit, 58... Character generator for display, 59... Character for printing Generator, 60・
. . . Delimiter code determination section, 61 . . . Delimiter code setting register, 62 . . . Operation unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] means for inputting character data such as letters and symbols;
means for storing this input data; means for printing this stored data on recording paper by moving the main body of the apparatus;
means for specifying a print length for one line; means for giving a print stop command to the stored data for each data length based on the specified print length; A small character printing device characterized by comprising means for stopping printing operation.