KR100223217B1 - Received fax message printing method - Google Patents

Abstract

end. The technical field to which the invention described in the claims belongs

A method for printing a received fax message of a fax.

I. The technical problem that the invention is trying to solve

If the printout of the image according to the received fax message is poor in reading, or if the user wants to obtain more printed matter, the image according to the fax message can be printed even if the same fax message is not received from the sender. .

All. Summary of Solution of the Invention

Receiving a fax message from the sender and storing it in a memory, printing an image according to the fax message stored in the memory, and storing the fax message in the memory even after the printing, and subsequently responding to the user's printing request. It is characterized by printing an image according to the message.

la. Important uses of the invention

Used for facsimile.

Description

How to print received fax messages {RECEIVED FAX MESSAGE PRINTING METHOD}

The present invention relates to a facsimile, and more particularly, to a method for printing a received fax message of a facsimile.

In general, a fax has a different method of processing a received fax message according to a printer provided by the fax. For example, a facsimile having a thermal print printer may print a fax message at the same time.

However, a fax machine having a page printer, such as an inkjet printer or a laser beam printer, receives a fax message and stores it in a memory, and prints an image according to the fax message stored in the memory in units of pages. The fax deletes the fax message from the memory at the same time as the fax message is printed. In particular, a facsimile machine with a page printer stores a received fax message until the page printer becomes printable if the page printer is incapable of printing, and then stores the received fax message in the received fax message when the page printer becomes printable. The image according to was printed.

However, the facsimile having the page printer deletes the fax message at the same time as the abnormal printing is performed even when the page printer abnormally prints. In case of abnormal printing, the inkjet printer may print at a light density because ink is consumed, or the laser beam printer may be printed at a light density due to toner consumption, and the printing paper may be wrinkled or printed. Jam may occur in the middle of the print characters may be agglomerated.

Here, it is very difficult for the user to read the printed matter abnormally printed as described above. Nevertheless, the facsimile having the page printer recognized that the image was printed according to the fax message and deleted the fax message stored in the memory. Accordingly, the fax equipped with the page printer could not print an image according to the identifiable fax message unless the fax message re-received the same fax message as the fax message and the normal reprinted fax message was printed.

As described above, the conventional facsimile deletes the received fax message from the memory even when printing is abnormally performed. Accordingly, the facsimile having the page printer has a problem in that it is difficult to print an image according to the identifiable fax message unless the fax message is re-received the same fax message as the fax message and the re-received fax message is normally printed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for printing a received fax message, which is printed again according to a user's request even after the received fax message is printed.

1 is a block diagram of a conventional facsimile;

2 is a block diagram of a process of receiving a fax message of a conventional facsimile;

3 is a printable fax message list according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a method of printing a received fax message according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention receives a fax message from a sender and simultaneously stores the same in a memory, prints an image according to the fax message stored in the memory, and stores the fax message in the memory as it is after the printing. Thereafter, in response to a user's printing request, the image according to the fax message is printed.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description and the annexed drawings, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. And a detailed description of known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 shows a block diagram of a conventional facsimile, where the CPU 10 controls the overall operation of the facsimile according to a preset program. The modem 12 modulates data in the transmission mode in the transmission mode under the control of the CPU 10, and demodulates the data in the reception mode. The Network Control Unit (NCU) 14 forms a transmission and reception path between the telephone line and the modem 12 under the control of the CPU 10. The printer 16 prints an image on paper under the control of the central processing unit 10. In particular, the printer 16 may be a page printer. The memory 18 includes a program memory for storing a program and a data memory for temporarily storing data generated during the execution of the program. The scanner 20 scans an original under the control of the central processing unit 10. The operation panel 22 includes a plurality of keys and a display device for interfacing between the user and the central processing unit 10. The sensor unit 24 senses various states of the facsimile, and provides the sensing data to the CPU 10 accordingly.

2 is a block diagram of a process of processing a received fax message applicable to the facsimile. The modem 12 demodulates an analog fax message input through a telephone line into a digital fax message and provides it to the buffer memory 26. The buffer memory 26 is embedded in the central processing unit 10, and buffers the fax message output from the modem 12 under the control of the central processing unit 10 to provide it to the first decoder 28. The first decoder 28 is embedded in the central processing unit 10, and the first decoder 28 performs error checking and error correction of a fax message under the control of the central processing unit 10, and then stores the memory ( 18) to provide. The memory 18 stores fax messages. The CPU 10 provides the FAX message stored in the memory 18 to the second decoder 30 in units of pages. The second decoder 30 is built in the central processing unit 10 and converts a page-based fax message into bitmap data. The central processing unit 10 provides the bit map data to the printer 16. The printer 16 prints an image according to the bit map data.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of printing a received fax message applicable to a fax machine that processes the received fax message. In step 32 of FIG. 4, the CPU 10 searches whether the printer 16 is in a non-printable state. Here, the non-printable state may be a case in which there is no paper to print or no paper cassette. At this time, the central processing unit 10 performs step (38) if the printing is not possible, and performs step (34) if it is not printing. In step 34, the central processing unit 10 searches for the presence of an auto-printed fax message in the memory 18.

The memory 18 includes an autoprint area for storing an autoprint fax message and a printable area for storing a printable fax message. Table 1 shows a memory map of the memory 18.

Setting flag Serial Number Contents 0 One First Auto Print Fax Message 0 2 Second Auto Print Fax Message 0 3 Third Auto Print Fax Message One One First printable fax message One 2 Second Printable Fax Message One 3 Third Printable Fax Message

In the memory map of the memory 18 shown in Table 1, the setting flag is for distinguishing between an auto-printed fax message and a printable fax message. The CPU 10 sets 0 when the fax message is set as an auto-printed fax message. Set this to 1 to set the fax message as a printable fax message. The fax message includes information such as a reception time and a total page in addition to the pure fax message. The central processing unit 10 assigns the serial number sequentially according to the storage order of the fax message.

In step 34, the central processing unit 10 searches for the presence of an auto-printed fax message. That is, the central processing unit 10 searches for a fax message having a setting flag of 0 among the fax messages stored in the memory 18. At this time, the central processing unit 10 performs step (36) if there is a fax message with a setting flag of 0, and otherwise performs step (38). In step (36), the central processing unit 10 converts the automatic printing fax message into bitmap data through the second decoder 30, and provides the bitmap data to the printer 16. The printer 16 prints an image according to the bitmap data.

In step (38), the central processing unit 10 searches whether a fax message is received. At this time, the central processing unit 10 performs a step (48) when a fax message is received, and performs a step (40) when a fax message is not received.

In step 48, the central processing unit 10 stores the fax message received through the modem 12, the buffer memory 26, and the first decoder 28 in the memory 18. The central processing unit 10 performs step 50 while storing the fax message in the memory 18. In step 50, the central processing unit 10 searches whether the memory 18 is full. That is, the memory 18 searches whether there is no area for storing a fax message. At this time, the central processing unit 10 performs the step (52) if the memory 18 is full, otherwise performs the step (54). In step 52, the central processing unit 10 stores a new fax message in an area storing the oldest printable fax message among the printable fax messages stored in the memory 18. When the storing is completed, the CPU 10 performs step 54.

In step (54), the central processing unit 10 searches whether the printer 16 is in a printable state. At this time, the central processing unit 10 performs the step (58) if the printer 16 is in a printable state, and otherwise performs the step (56). In step (56), the central processing unit 10 sets the fax message as an auto-printed fax message. That is, the setting flag of the corresponding fax message is set to zero. When the setting is completed, the CPU 10 performs step 30.

In step (58), the central processing unit 10 converts the corresponding fax message into bit map data through the second decoder 30, and provides the bit map data to the printer 16 to provide an image according to the corresponding fax message. Print When the printing of the corresponding fax message is completed, the CPU 10 performs step 60. In step (60), the corresponding fax message is set as a printable fax message. That is, the setting flag of the corresponding fax message is set to one. After the setting, the central processing unit 10 assigns the next serial number of the serial number of the printable fax reception data already stored in the memory 18. When the setting is finished, the CPU 10 performs step 32.

On the other hand, in step (40), the central processing unit 10 searches whether the user inputs a list print key of the operation panel 22 in order to print the printable fax message list. At this time, the central processing unit 10 performs step 42 if there is an input of the list print key, and performs step 44 if there is no input of the list print key. In step (42), the central processing unit 10 prints a printable fax message list. 3 shows an example of a printable fax message list, wherein the CPU 10 has a serial number, a sending fax number, a reception time, and a total page of the fax message in which the setting flag is set to 1 in the memory 18. And the like are read and converted into print data such as bitmap data and transmitted to the printer 16. The printer 16 prints an image according to the print data.

At this time, the user can select the serial number of the printable fax data to be printed out from the plurality of printable fax messages by key input through the numeric keys of the operation panel 22.

When the printing of the printable fax message list is finished, the CPU 10 performs step 42. In step (42), the central processing unit 10 searches whether the user selects a fax message to be printed from among the printable fax messages. At this time, the user can select a fax message to be printed among the printable fax messages by inputting a serial number of the printable fax message. The CPU 10 performs step (46) when the user inputs a number corresponding to the serial number of the printable fax message through the operation panel 22, otherwise performs step (62). . In step (46), the central processing unit 10 prints a printable fax message corresponding to the serial number input by the user through the second decoder 30 and the printer 16. When the printing is finished, the central processing unit 10 performs step 32. In step 62, the central processing unit 10 performs a corresponding operation.

As described above, the present invention allows a user to selectively print an image according to a previously received fax message. Accordingly, the user can conveniently obtain the printed matter even if the same fax message is not transmitted from the sender when the quality of the printed matter of the image is poor to read or when the user wants to obtain the printed matter further.

As described above, the present invention enables printing of an image according to a previously received fax message according to a user's selection. Accordingly, the present invention prints an image according to the fax message even if the image quality of the image according to the received fax message is difficult to read due to poor image quality or if the same fax message is not received from the sender when the printout is to be obtained. There is a convenient thing to do.

Claims (5)

In the method of printing a received fax message of a fax, A fax message storing step of storing the fax message and received information in a memory when the fax message is received; A fax message printing step of reading and printing the fax message from the memory; And a fax message reprinting step of reading and printing the fax message from the memory in response to the user's command to reprint the fax message through the operation panel after the printing of the fax message. How to print a fax message. The method of claim 1, wherein the received information, Method for printing a received fax message, characterized in that the serial number, the receiving time, the total page, and the like of the fax message. The method of claim 2, wherein the fax message reprinting step, A list output step of printing the received information of all the fax messages stored in the memory when the user inputs a list output key provided in the operation panel after the printing of the fax message ends; After printing the list, if the user inputs a serial number of a specific fax message to be reprinted among all the fax messages, a reprinting step of reading and printing the specific fax message from the memory is provided. How to print incoming fax messages. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the fax message comprises: And storing the fax message in an area where the oldest fax message is stored among the fax messages stored in the memory when the memory is full when the fax message is stored. The method of claim 1, wherein the received fax message printing method comprises: When the storing of the fax message is finished, the printer detects whether the printer of the fax machine is in a printable state and performs the printing of the fax message if the printer is in a printable state. If the printing is not possible, the fax message is set as an automatic printing fax message and stored. Storing the automatic printed fax message; And after the storing, further comprising an automatic printing fax message printing step of printing the automatic printing fax message when the printer becomes a printable state.

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