JPH0247762A - Word processor network system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To quickly print out a document by connecting a word processor center and a service terminal provided with a printer and a facsimile by a telephone line. CONSTITUTION:A document is transmitted from a facsimile F2 of a service terminal 8a to a facsimile F1 of a word processor center 4. In the word processor center 4, the transmitted document is inputted to a word processor 6a. After completion of input to the word processor, a telephone dial of the word processor 6a is turned to connect the word processor 6a to a printer 10a of the service terminal 8a, and the sentences of the document inputted to the word processor 6a are directly printed out by the printer 10a.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a word processing network system that can easily provide word processing services on a large scale.

(Prior art) Conventionally, when requesting word processing of a document, the user takes the document to a word processing service shop that has a word processor installed, or sends the document by fax, and then the word processing is completed. Usually, it is mailed to you or you go directly to count it. This conventional system requires word processors and word processor operators to be permanently stationed in areas where there is demand.
In areas where there are few requests, there is a great deal of loss in both equipment and personnel. Another idea is to gather multiple word processors and word processor operators in a word processing center so that requests can be processed centrally. In this case, the loss of the word processor and word processor operator is eliminated. However, even if the request can be easily made by fax, the finished manuscript must be delivered by mail or manually. If this word processing center is established, applicants and the word processing center will likely be located in different areas, which means that it will take more time to deliver finished manuscripts than before, and currently, we are dealing with a large number of manuscripts. Establishing a word processing center capable of intensive processing was fraught with difficulties.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention was invented to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to install a printer, which is conventionally installed as a pair in a word processor, as an output terminal in a remote location. Based on the revolutionary idea of using a word processing center, we set up a service shop that only has a word processing center and a printer as an output terminal.The client can bring the manuscript to the service shop, and the client can transfer the manuscript from the service shop to the word processing center. The aim is to provide a word processing network system that enables extremely quick processing, in which a fax is sent, an operator at a word processing center processes the word, and then prints out the document, and the printer at the service shop operates to print out the document. do.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the word processing network system of the present invention includes a word processing center including at least one word processor and at least one fax machine, and at least one printer. and a service terminal provided with at least one fax machine, and telephone line means for connecting the word processor of the word processing center and the printer of the service terminal.

In addition, word processors and printers that are connected via telephone line means are connected via modems;
Although it can be installed externally, it is preferable to incorporate it inside the word processor or printer from the viewpoints of cost reduction, space saving, and appearance.

(Example) An example of the present invention will be described below based on the accompanying drawings.

In the figure, 2 is a word processing network system according to the present invention. Reference numeral 4 denotes a word processing center in which at least one, usually many, word processors 6 and at least one fax machine F1 are installed.

Reference numeral 8 denotes each service terminal provided at each service shop, in which at least one printer 10 and at least one fax machine F2 are installed. Thus, the word processor 6 of the word processing center 4 and each printer 10 of each service terminal are connected to each other by a telephone line 14 with a telephone office 12 interposed therebetween. The word processor 6 and printer IO are connected via the telephone line 14 using a modem 1 built into the word processor 6.
6 and a modem built into the printer 10. Although the modems 16 and 18 can be provided separately, if they are built into the word processor 6 and the printer 10, there are advantages of low cost, space saving, and excellent appearance.

With this configuration, when a client goes to a service shop with a manuscript, a service person faxes the manuscript from the fax machine F2 of the service terminal 8a to the fax machine F1 of the word processing center 4. The word processing center 4 performs word processing input into the word processor 6a based on the transmitted manuscript.

When the word processor input is completed, the telephone dial of the word processor 6a is turned to connect the word processor 6a to the printer 10a of the service terminal 8a, and the text of the manuscript typed into the word processor 6a is directly output to the printer 10a. The finished manuscript printed out from the printer 10a can be handed over to the client.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the present invention, a requester takes a manuscript to a service shop, faxes the manuscript from the service shop to a word processing center, and an operator at the word processing center processes the word processor. Then, if you perform the printout operation,
The printer at the service shop operates and prints out the original, which has the great effect of allowing extremely quick processing.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawing is a schematic explanatory diagram of a word processing network system of the present invention. 2--word processor network system, 4--word processor center, 6--word processor, 8-service terminal, 1
0-Printer 12...Telephone office, 14...Telephone line, 16.18...-Modem, Fl, F2--Fax. Patent applicant: NAX Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A word processing center equipped with at least one word processor and at least one fax machine; a service terminal equipped with at least one printer and at least one fax machine; A word processing network system comprising a telephone line means for connecting a service terminal to a printer. (2) A printer having a built-in modem and used in the word processing network system according to claim (1).