JPH06215260A - Commodity sales data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] The character size can be selected according to the content of printing so that data that requires printing with large characters can be printed with large characters and data that can be small can be printed with small characters. To do so. [Structure] Data for discriminating whether or not reduction printing is permitted for each type of various reports is stored in advance, and whether or not reduction printing of a designated report is possible is determined from the stored data. If it is determined that reduced printing is impossible, the printer prints the corresponding report in a normal character size, and if it is determined that reduced printing is possible, the character size is reduced and the printer prints the corresponding report.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product sales data processing device such as an electronic cash register and a POS (point of sale information management) terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An electronic cash register equipped with a printer for printing receipts is provided with a storage section for storing the sales data of each product by accumulating the product sales data input by registering the sales of the products. The receipt printer can print and issue various reports such as an inspection report, a settlement report, a setting report, and a setting reading report based on the data in the storage unit.

Incidentally, the inspection report and the settlement report are reports of total sales data accumulated in the storage unit by sales registration, and the setting report and the setting read report are reports of the data set in the storage unit by the setting work. Is.

Here, since the setting reading report, inspection report, etc. are printed out for confirmation by the store side, there is no problem even if the printed characters are small, but the receipt is handed to the customer, and Large and easy-to-read characters are required to be printed for the sake of images and advertising effects.

However, the receipt printer used in the conventional electronic cash register cannot change the character size depending on the printing content. For this reason, as a receipt printer, a high-quality one having a large character size is usually used so that the receipt can be issued.

[0006]

As described above, in the conventional electronic cash register equipped with the receipt printer, the character size cannot be changed depending on the content of the printing, so that it is possible to use the electronic cash register as an inspection report or a setting reading report. There is a problem that the paper is wasted because the large characters are printed even for the data that may be small.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the character size can be selected according to the content of the print and can be printed out by the printer. Therefore, the data required to be printed in the large character can be printed in the large character and in the small character. An object of the present invention is to provide a product sales data processing device capable of printing data with small characters and preventing wasteful consumption of paper without deteriorating printing quality.

[0008]

The present invention provides a storage unit for storing sales data of each product by accumulating product sales data input by registration of sales of products, and based on the data in this storage unit. In a product sales data processing device that prints out various reports with a printer,
Differentiated data storage means that stores data that distinguishes whether to permit reduced printing for each type of report, report designation means that designates the type of output report, and the report designated by this designation means can be reduced printing Whether or not it is determined from the stored data by the distinguishing data storage means, the print determination means, when the print determination means determines that reduced printing is impossible, the normal print control means for printing the corresponding report by the printer with the normal character size, and the print When the judgment means judges that reduction printing is possible, the reduction printing control means for reducing the character size and printing the corresponding report by the printer is provided.

[0009]

According to the present invention having such a configuration, when the type of the output report is designated by the report designating means, whether or not the corresponding report can be reduced and printed based on the data stored by the distinguishing data storage means. Is judged. When the reduced printing is impossible, the printer prints the report in a normal character size. In contrast,
If reduction printing is possible, the report is printed in the font size reduced by the printer.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a single electronic cash register will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an electronic cash register. Reference numeral 1 is a CP constituting a control unit main body.
U (Central Processing Unit), 2 is a ROM (Read Only Memory) in which program data for the CPU 1 to control each unit is stored, and 3 is a RAM including a memory for registering product sales data. (Random access memory) 4, a printer control circuit for controlling a thermal printer 5 for printing product sales data and the like on a receipt, and 6 an I / O port.

The CPU 1, the ROM 2, the RAM 3, the printer control circuit 4 and the I / O port 6 are connected by a bus line L.

The I / O port 6 has a mode switch 7 for selectively switching various business modes such as registration, inspection, settlement, and setting, as well as a keyboard circuit 9 for receiving a key signal from a keyboard 8. A display circuit 11 for operating the display 10 to display characters or the like corresponding to the display data,
A drawer opening device 13 for opening the drawer 12 and the like are connected.

Reference numeral 14 is a first character font memory for storing a high-resolution print character font in which one character is expressed in a pattern of vertical 24 dots × horizontal 24 dots, and 15 is a pattern of vertical 16 dots × horizontal 16 dots for one character. It is a second character font memory that stores the low-resolution print character font expressed by. Then, under the control of the printer control circuit 4, the character font selection circuit 16 selects the print character font corresponding to the print data from either one of the character font memories 14 or 15.

The keyboard 8 is, as shown in FIG.
In addition to the numeric key 8a for entering numerical data such as the price of the product to be sold and the department code, the clear key 8b for clearing the numeric data and canceling the error, it is instructed that the numeric data is the numeric data. Amount key 8c, a department key 8d for indicating that the number data is a department code, a subtotal key 8e for instructing the subtotal output of one transaction, and a deposit / cash total key 8f for instructing registration closing of one transaction by cash transaction. , A key 8g for instructing the closing of registration by margin transaction of one transaction, a key 8h for instructing closing of registration by selling one transaction, etc. A reduction key 8i is provided for instructing reduction of printed characters.

As shown in FIG. 3, the display 10 has a display tube 10a for displaying the department code and the amount of money of a product keyed in, and various types of displays for displaying the status of the electronic cash register. The mark display element 10b is provided, and in particular, one of the tri-mark display elements is an element 10b-1 which indicates a key input state (lights up during key input) of the reduction key 8i.

The RAM 3 is, as shown in FIG. 4, a totalizer area 3a for accumulating the sales points, sales amounts, etc. of registered products for sale by transaction, division, person in charge, etc. Ordinary electronic cash registers such as a setting data area 3b in which a key code table for converting a physical key signal into a soft key code and various system option flags are set, a print buffer 3c, a display buffer 3d, etc. In addition to the memory area provided in, the area 3e of the reduction key flag F which is turned on by the key input of the reduction key 8i and the reduction printing determination table 3f as the distinguishing data storage means are formed.

That is, the reduced print determination table 3f
Is a check table 3f-1 for inspection / settlement report and a decision table 3f- for setting / reading system as shown in FIG.
It consists of 2 and when printing various reports in inspection and settlement operations and various reports in setting operations,
It is configured such that reduction printing can be performed for each type of the report or can be arbitrarily set by a flag (0: reduction printing is not possible, 1: reduction printing is possible).

When the CPU 1 fetches a key signal from the keyboard 8 via the keyboard circuit 9 and the I / O port 6, the CPU 1 refers to the key code table to determine the key code, and the key code corresponds to the key code. Is programmed to perform key processing.

Here, especially when the key code input of the reduction key 8i is detected, the reduction key flag F in the flag area 3e is checked first, as shown in the flow chart of FIG. When the flag F is reset to "0", it is set to "1" and the reduction key 8 on the display 10 is pressed.
Tri-mark display element 10b-indicating the key input state of i
1 is turned on, and this process ends.

If the reduction key flag F is already set to "1", this process is terminated without doing anything.

When the CPU 1 detects the key code input of the subtotal key 8e, it first checks the work mode selected by the mode switch 7. If any of the inspection, settlement, and setting modes is selected, the report output is specified.
The printed output of the report designated by the number of the number key 8a is controlled. (Report designation means).

At this time, the CPU 1 executes the printing process shown in FIG. That is, first, the business mode selected by the mode switch 7 is checked. In this case, check,
Since any one of the settlement and setting modes is selected, the reduction key flag F in the flag area 3e is checked. When the flag F is set to "1", reduction printing is instructed by the input of the reduction key 8i, so the reduction printing determination table 3f is searched (print determination means).

Here, when the inspection or settlement mode is selected, the inspection / checking is performed with the report number entered in the unit.
Search the settlement report type determination table 3f-1.
Further, when the setting mode is selected, the setting / reading determination table 3f-2 is searched by the setting data number input as the numerical value.

As a result, when the corresponding flag is "1" and "reducible" is determined, the character font selection circuit 1
The second character font memory 15 is selected by 6, and the print data of the corresponding report is edited (reduction print control means).

On the other hand, when the corresponding flag is "0" and it is determined that "reduction is impossible", the character font selection circuit 16 selects the first character font memory 14, and the print data of the corresponding report is selected. Edit (normal print control means).

Note that the first character font memory 14 is selected by the character font selection circuit 16 even in the case of print processing for work other than inspection, settlement, and setting, or when the reduction key flag F is reset to "0". And edit the corresponding print data.

Thereafter, the printer 5 prints out the print data on the recording paper (receipt paper), and when the printing of all the data is completed, the reduction key flag F in the flag area 3e is reset to "0", and this processing is performed. To finish.

In the present embodiment having such a configuration, for example, for the transaction-specific report of the report number "2", reduction printing can be performed during inspection work and reduction printing cannot be performed during settlement work. In the determination table 3f-1, "report number = 2, report name = by transaction, inspection flag = 1, settlement flag = 0" is set in advance.

In this state, the reduction key 7i of the keyboard 7 is first input. Then, the key processing shown in FIG. 6 is executed, the reduction key flag F is set to "1", and the tri-mark display element 10b of the display 10 is displayed.
-1 lights up.

Next, the mode switch 7 is used for "payment".
After selecting the mode, the report number "2" is entered with the numeric key 8a, and then the key for instructing the report output, for example, the subtotal key 7e is input.

Then, the print processing shown in FIG. 8 is executed by the CPU 1, the check mode is set, and the reduction key flag F is set to "1". Therefore, the report number "2" is used as a search key for inspection. The settlement report type determination table 3f-1 is searched. Then, since the settlement flag corresponding to the report number “2” is “0”, it is determined that “reduction printing is not possible”.

As a result, the first character font memory 15 is selected by the character font selection circuit 16, and the first character font memory 15 is selected.
The transaction-specific data in the totalizer area 3a is edited into print data based on the data in the character font memory 15 and is given to the printer 5 to be printed out on the recording paper. The printing result at this time is shown in FIG.

On the other hand, after inputting the reduction key 7i, the "inspection" mode is selected by the mode switch 7, the report number "2" is subsequently entered by the numeric key 8a, and then the subtotal key 7e. Input operation.

Then, the check table 3f-1 of the inspection / settlement report system is searched in the same manner as described above, and since the inspection flag corresponding to the report number "2" is "1", it is determined that "reduction printing is possible". It

As a result, the second character font memory 15 is selected by the character font selection circuit 16, and the second character font memory 15 is selected.
The transaction-specific data in the totalizer area 3a is edited into print data based on the data in the character font memory 15 and is given to the printer 5 and printed out on the recording paper. The printing result at this time is shown in FIG.

As can be seen by comparing FIGS. 7 (a) and 7 (b), the transaction-specific report in the inspection mode is printed with a smaller character size than the transaction-specific report in the settlement mode. Become.

The same applies to the report output for the setting data such as the key code table, and the setting report having the setting flag set to "0" and the reading flag set to "1" is set in the setting / reading determination table 3f-2. In this case, the setting report that is output immediately after setting and inputting the data is performed using normal characters, and the read report that is output to confirm the setting contents at a later time is performed using reduced characters.

As described above, according to this embodiment, at the time of printing each report of the inspection report, the settlement report, the setting report or the setting reading report, it is determined whether or not the reduced printing is possible based on the setting contents of the reduced printing determination table 3f. To be judged.

When it is determined that the reduced printing is possible, the printing character font corresponding to the printing data of the report is selected from the second character font memory 15 and the printer 5 prints the reduced characters.

On the other hand, when it is determined that the reduced printing is impossible, the print character font corresponding to the print data of the corresponding report is selected from the first character font memory 14 and printed by the printer 5 as normal characters. It

Therefore, depending on how the flag is set in the reduced print determination table 3f, data required to be printed in large characters is printed in large characters, and data that may be small characters is printed in small characters.
It is possible to save paper without deteriorating print quality.

Even if the setting content for the reduced print determination table 3f is "reducible", the reduction key 8i
Since reduction printing is not performed unless the key is input, it is possible to print with normal large characters when reduction printing is unnecessary, which is practical.

In the above embodiment, the reduction printing is not performed unless the reduction key 8i is keyed. However, the reduction printing may be prohibited when a specific key is keyed.

Further, in the above embodiment, the reduced printing is enabled by properly using the two types of character fonts for the normal characters and the reduced character. However, the reduced printing is controlled by other methods. Good.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, when the report data is reduced and printed, the report data is all printed with reduced characters. However, a part of them (for example, important data) is prohibited from being reduced and the normal characters are printed. The size may be printed.

In addition to the above, the present invention can be applied to a POS terminal and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0048]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, data for distinguishing whether or not reduction printing is permitted for each type of various reports is stored in advance, and whether or not the designated report can be reduced printing is stored. If it is determined that reduced printing is impossible, the printer prints the corresponding report in normal character size.If it is determined that reduced printing is possible, the character size is reduced and the printer prints the corresponding report. Since it is printed, the character size can be selected according to the content of the print and can be printed out by the printer. Therefore, data that requires printing with large characters can be printed with large characters and data that can be small Provides a product sales data processing device that can print small characters and prevent waste of paper without degrading printing quality. That.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an electronic cash register that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a main part of the keyboard according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a main part of a display device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a main memory area of a RAM according to the first embodiment.

5 is a diagram showing a specific configuration of a reduced print determination table shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing reduction key processing of the CPU in the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing an output example of a transaction-specific report printed with normal characters and reduced characters in the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the print processing of the CPU in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... CPU, 5 ... Printer, 8 ... Keyboard, 10 ... Display, 14 ... 1st character font memory, 15 ... 2nd character font memory, 16 ... Character font selection circuit, 3f ... Reduced printing determination table.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit is provided for storing sales data of each product by accumulating product sales data input by registration of sales of products, and various reports are printed by a printer based on the data in the storage unit. In the product sales data processing device for outputting, a distinction data storage means for storing data for distinguishing whether or not reduction printing is permitted for each type of report, a report designating means for designating the type of output report, and this designating means The print determination means for determining whether or not the report specified by can be reduced and printed from the stored data by the distinguishing data storage means, and when the print determination means determines that the reduced printing cannot be performed, the printer determines that the normal character size is satisfied by the printer. When the normal print control means for printing a report and the print judging means judge that reduced printing is possible, the character size is printed. Merchandise sales data processing apparatus according to claim reduction to be equipped with a, a reduced print control means for printing a relevant report by the printer.