JPS6328682A - Document printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable print control corresponding to various types of paper, by providing means for feeding a line with a line pitch added with a first pitch between central lines when the number of setting lines reaches to one half of the number of lines in a page. CONSTITUTION:When a document in RAM 11 is printed, a print mode is set by a keyboard 16 and a line feed pitch, a character pitch, saddle stitching, number of lines in a page, lateral setting/longitudinal setting, etc. are displayed on a display 18, then a format for every item is set. When a selection/execution key is operated, CPU 10 starts printing operation according to a program in ROM 12 and when a line number counter in a print controller 24 performs setting of half number of lines in a page, i.e. front half of a manuscript, a line feed control section 24a adds the quantity of saddle stitching to the line feed pitch thus feeding the setting line. In such a manner, print control corresponding to various types of paper is enabled.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] <Industrial Application Field> The present invention relates to a document creation device that has printing capabilities that match the horizontal lines of various sheets of paper.

(Prior Art) In a document creation device, when printing a created document on manuscript paper, for example, in order to perform printing control according to square size, format information unique to the manuscript paper
Character pitch, line pitch.

center line pitch, etc.) must be stored in advance. However, the types of manuscript paper generally available on the market are limited, and storing unique information for each type of manuscript paper increases the memory m for storing control information, which has the disadvantage of being inefficient.

On the other hand, for example, general report paper with pre-printed horizontal lines also has a different format from the above-mentioned manuscript paper, such as no line spacing in the center, so different control information is required from that for manuscript paper. 11 printing compatible with any format
However, there is a problem in that the memory area described above increases further.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention provides a printing method that supports various formatting options such as manuscript paper and report version v1 without the need to increase the memory group for printing formatting for each type of paper. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that enables the following.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means and operations for solving the problems) That is, the document creation device according to the present invention has the following features: (1) Line pitch when printing a created document, first center line spacing, and number of lines on one page. a print format setting means for setting the above-mentioned print format setting means, and a line break for performing a line feed at a line pitch obtained by adding the above-mentioned first center line spacing when the number of printed lines reaches 172, which is the number of lines per page set by the above-mentioned print format setting means. For example, by setting the first center line spacing to "ON", it is possible to handle report paper, etc.

(2) A print format setting means for setting a line pitch, a second center line pitch, and the number of lines per page when printing a created document, and a print format setting means for setting the number of lines per page set by the print format setting means. and line feed control means for performing a line feed at the second center line pitch when the line width reaches 1/2, and for example, by setting the second center line pitch to an arbitrary line pitch including one line pitch, It can also be used with manuscript paper that has a binding area.

(Example) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment. In FIG. 1, a microprocessor (CPIJ) 10 is a circuit that controls the entire document creation device, and executes document creation processing, external character creation processing, printing processing, etc. RA~111 is a memory that stores various information necessary for document creation. This RAM
11 is a document area for storing the created document, a line image area (print buffer), a non-standard character registration area (non-standard characters (84 wards, 01 points) to (84 wards, 16 points)), and a phrase registration area (words (1) to 84 wards).
(10)), a character pitch register for printing format settings, a line pitch register, a center line pitch register, a page line number register, and other control information. Here, as shown in FIG. 2, the center line pitch is, for example, the remaining gap after subtracting the line pitch in the central blank area of the document sheet. The ROM 12 includes a program area 13 that stores document creation processing programs, print processing programs, etc. that determine the operation of the CPU 10, and a character pattern area 13 that stores specific character patterns such as display or print character patterns. aJ14, has a dictionary area 15 in which various dictionaries (for converting readings input in "kana" or O- characters into kanji) are registered.

The keyboard <KB) 16 is a key-powered device for inputting input information necessary for document creation etc. to the CPU 10 via the keyboard controller (KB-CNT) 17. The keyboard 16 has hiragana keys necessary for document creation,
In addition to the Kana/Kan conversion keys, print mode specification keys and selection/
It has an execution key, an end key, a numeric keypad, etc. The display device 18 is comprised of, for example, a liquid crystal display device with a 10-row, 40-digit display. Display controller display-CNT) 19
Under the control of the CPU 10, display control is performed on the display 18 using the display RAM 20. A floppy disk drive W (FDD) 21 and a disk controller (FDD-CNT) 22 constitute an external memory that stores created documents and stores external characters, second level characters, etc. in advance.

Printer (PRT) 23 and printer controller (P
RT-CNT) 24 constitutes a printing device for printing created documents or character information read into the main body from the floppy disk device 21 in accordance with printing control by the CPU 10. Here, the print controller 24 is equipped with a line feed control section 24a and a print control section 24b, and during print processing according to the print processing program stored in the program area 13, the RAM
Based on the print format control information stored in the printer 11, the printing operation and changeover operation of the printer 23 are controlled. Line break above! Il! 11 part 24a and print control part 24b,
A line number counter that manages the number of printed lines in the printer 23, a print line pointer that manages the printed document lines in the document area to be printed, and the like are displayed.

Next, the printing operation of the document creation device configured as described above will be explained.

For example, when printing a document stored in text 1gA10 in RAM 11 on manuscript paper, first
Press the print function key 6 to display the middle foot items (line feed pitch, character pitch, saddle stitch, number of lines per page, horizontal/vertical writing, left margin), then press the keyboard. 16
Use the cursor keys, numeric keys, etc. to set the format for each item above.

In this case, the set numerical value for each item is set in the print format area in the RAM 11, and the above line feed pitch is set in the second line feed pitch.
In the figure, the line pitch (~■) means saddle stitching means saddle stitching (G) in the center of the same sheet.

After the print format setting is completed in this manner, when the selection/execution key is operated, the print operation by the print 23 is started based on the print processing program stored in the program area 13. Figure 1 shows the marking process after this formatting!
This is a flowchart showing the 11 work, and first, step S
1 and step S2, the CPU 10 sets the line number counter in the printer controller 24 to ""o" and prints 1.
1 pointer to 1". Then, step S3
Then, 1/2 of the number of lines (A) in one line of the manuscript paper set in 3 sets is set as (B).

In step S4, it is determined whether the number of print lines set in the line number counter is equal to the number of lines (A) of one page stored in the print format [in the RAM 11]. (No>, that is, if it is determined that the number of printed lines is not far from the number of lines on one page of the manuscript paper, the process proceeds to step S5. In this step S5, the printing system unit 24b
reads the document line in the document area corresponding to the print line set in the print line pointer from the document area in the RAM 11, and causes the printer 23 to print one line.

At this point, printing of the first branch line is completed, and in steps S6 and S7, an increment of 1 is added to the print line pointer and the line number counter.Then, the process proceeds to step S8. , it is determined whether the number of print lines set in the line number counter is equal to the number of lines per page set in advance in step S3, 1.·'2, and in step S8, if (No), that is, printing If it is determined that the number of lines has not yet reached half of one page, the process advances to step S9, and the line break 1121 section 24a is
Based on the line feed pitch (W) set in the print format area, the printer 23 performs a line feed in the printed line.

Here, the print head position of the printer 23 is set to the document paper 2.
It will be set at the beginning of the row.

Then, the process returns to step $4 again, and the printing line feed processing in steps 85 to S9 is continued until the set value of the line counter that is added every time the printer 23 prints one line becomes equal to the number of lines on one page (A>). At this time, if (YES) in step S8, that is, if the number of lines per page (A) according to the print format settings is 2011, then the number of printed lines is 10 lines (A/2 ), and it is determined that the printing process for the first half of the manuscript paper has been completed, the process proceeds to step 810.In step S10, the line feed control unit 24a changes the line feed pitch <W) set from 1 to 1 in the print format area. Saddle stitch l (G) is added, and this saddle stitch (G
) The printer 23 performs a line feed of the printed line based on the line pitch including the line pitch. Here, the print head position of the printer 23 is beyond the blank area in the center of the document paper, for example, the second half 111
The first position (will be set vertically).

After that, the printing change operation in steps 84 to S9 is repeated again, and the number of printed lines is 11 on one page <A.
) and it is determined (YES) in step S4,
This means that printing of one page of manuscript paper has been completed.

Therefore, when printing is completed for 1/21 of the number of lines on one page set in the print format settings, the print line break (rare pull) is set to (1) at the line feed pitch that includes the saddle stitch ω(G). , the center 11 and 19 can be easily separated, making it possible to sufficiently correspond to original paper printing.

Here, when setting the print format above, select Saddle Stitch! (G)
If set to O゛, even if one line feed including the saddle stitch ff1(G) in step S10 in FIG. , line breaks are performed only at the normal line feed pitch (W), and line feed control with an even line pitch of 1 is possible for all lines on one page.

This makes it possible to sufficiently support printing using report paper or the like on which horizontal lines are preprinted without setting a control information area different from that of original paper.

In the above example, when the number of printed lines reaches the number of 17'2 lines on one page, a line feed is performed at a line pitch equal to the paper line pitch (W) plus the saddle stitch amount (G), and the document is It has been explained that if paper or the above saddle stitch (to) (G) is set to "O", it can also be used for report paper, etc., but the above saddle stitch 1 (G)
) can select any pitch, so if you set it as a value that includes the 1-line pitch in advance, you can obtain the blank area in the center of the manuscript paper without performing addition processing when the number of 1/2 lines on one page is reached. can. In this case, if the saddle stitch set value is set equal to the pitch of one line, it is possible to handle report sheets on which preprinted lines and horizontal lines are preprinted.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to handle manuscript paper, report paper, etc., depending on the setting of the center line pitch, so there is no need to increase the amount of memory for setting print formats for each type of paper, and various paper types can be used. It is possible to provide a document creation device that enables printing control corresponding to form paper.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the line pitch and saddle stitch amount of manuscript paper in the print format settings of the embodiment; FIG. 3 is a diagram showing print format setting items in the same embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the printing operation in the same embodiment. 10...cpu, 1 i...RA~1.12...
ROM. 13...Program area, 14...Character pattern area, 16...Keyboard, 1B...Display i position, 23
...Printer, 24...Printer controller, 2
4a...Line feed control section, 24b...Printing control section. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A print format setting means for setting the line pitch, first center line pitch, and number of lines per page when printing a created document, and a print format setting means for setting the number of lines per page set by the print format setting means. A document creation device comprising: a line feed control means for performing a line feed at a line pitch added to the first center line pitch when the line pitch reaches 1/2. (2) A print format setting means for setting a line pitch, a second center line pitch, and the number of lines per page when printing a created document, and a print format setting means for setting the number of lines per page set by the print format setting means. A document creation device comprising: line feed control means for performing a line feed at the second center line spacing when the line spacing reaches 1/2.