JPH04314565A - printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display the name of a desired printing letter style in the corresponding style at the time of its selection, so that the intended style can be easily recognized, in a printing device which includes a plurality of printing letter style data and permits the letter to be selected arbitrarily for printing. CONSTITUTION:An indicating part 12 and an input part 13 are incorporated in an operation panel 11 and connected to the control part of a printing device. The indicating part 12 is provided with LEDs 14 and the name of a printing letter style 15 is provided correspondingly to each of LEDs 14. The name of the printing letter style 15 is displayed in in its own style corresponding to the name thereof.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an operation panel for a printing device.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 shows a conventional technique.

The operation panel 21 includes a display section 22 and a switch 23, and is connected to a control section of the printing device. The display section 22 is equipped with LEDs 24, and font names 25 are displayed corresponding to each of the LEDs 24. For the selected font, only the LED displaying the font name is lit.If you want to select a new font, press the switch 23, and when the LED displaying the desired font name lights up, press the switch. It is completed by stopping pressing 23.

[0004] Since the font names 25 on the display section 22 are all written in the same font, it is necessary to know in advance what font name the desired font to be printed is.

[0005]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above-mentioned prior art, for people who are not familiar with font names, even if the selected font name is displayed, the currently selected font name cannot be used until the character is printed. The problem was that it was difficult to tell what kind of font the font was. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve these problems, and its purpose is to provide a typeface name display that allows users to easily visualize the desired typeface to be printed.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a memory means for storing character data of a plurality of fonts, an input means for selecting a desired font from the plurality of fonts, and a font selected by input from the input means. In the display means for displaying a typeface and the printing device for printing the typeface selected by input from the input means, the display means is characterized in that the name of the typeface is written in the respective typeface.

[0007]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be explained in detail below based on examples. FIG. 1 shows an operation panel included in the printing device of the invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the printing device of the invention.

The operation panel 11 includes a display section 12 and an input section 13, and is connected to a control section 17 of the printing device. The display section 12 is equipped with LEDs 14, and font names 15 are displayed corresponding to each of the LEDs 14. The font name 15 is written in each font corresponding to the font name. The input section 13 is equipped with a switch 16, and input information from this switch 16 is transmitted to a control section 17 of the printing device. Reference numeral 18 denotes a memory in which font data is stored, and the control unit 17 can select any font stored in this memory 18 and print it on the printing unit 19.

[0009] Before using the printing device, a font to be printed is selected. For the currently selected font, only the LED displaying the font name is lit, and the other LEDs are lit.
This can be determined by the fact that the ED is off. When selecting a new font, the switch 16 is pressed, but each time this input is detected, the control unit 17 switches the LE light on the display unit 12 to
Change D. When the user stops pressing the switch 16 when the LED displaying the desired font name lights up, the control unit 17 recognizes the newly selected font. When the printing device receives data in this state, the control unit 17
Read the selected font data stored in 8,
Print the received data in the desired font.

0010

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, by indicating the font name in each font, it is easy to determine what type of font is currently selected without performing test printing in advance. This has the effect of making it clear that

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an operation panel included in a printing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a printing device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an operation panel included in a conventional printing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 Operation panel 12 Display section 13 Input section 14 LED 15 Typeface name 16 Switch 17 Control section 18 Memory 19 Printing section 21 Operation panel 22 Display section 23 Switch 24 LED 25 Typeface name

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage means storing character data of a plurality of fonts, an input means for selecting a desired font from the plurality of fonts, and a display means for displaying the font selected by input from the input means; A printing device that prints a font selected by input from the input means, wherein the display means displays the name of the font in each font.