JPH068596A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable the confirmation of an actual printing start position and the movement of the printing start position to an arbitrary position and to omit labor such that the setting position of paper is corrected or a printing range is reset after a printing result is once confirmed by providing printing start position informing function and printing position setting function. CONSTITUTION:A receiving interface 1 for receiving data from a host computer, a data editing means 41 for editing said data and a mode judging means 42 for judging a usual printing mode or a printing position setting mode by a detection switch detecting the operation of an operator are provided. Further, a head moving control means 44 for forming data moving the printing position, data for moving the position to an arbitrarily set position and data for moving giving the same within a printing range on the basis of the control signal from the means 42, a printing mechanism part control means 43 for controlling usual printing and the printing mechanism part 3 controlled by the drive data from the means 43, 44 and having a printing head capable of detecting the presence of printing paper are provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printer device, and more particularly to a printer device in which a print head moves left and right to print on paper.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the printing position in a printer of this type is generally set such that a printing start position and a printing limit position are set in accordance with a paper set position determined by application software. The actual print start position is invisible to the operator.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional printer device, since it is not possible to confirm at which position on the paper the printing is performed, it is possible to set the printing range again by actually printing and set the paper setting position. Since it has to be shifted, there is a disadvantage that expensive paper such as tack paper and slips is wasted.

An object of the present invention is to provide a print start position notification function for the operator to confirm the print start position, a print position setting function for realizing printing of data received at an arbitrary position, and an operator to select the optimum paper. Another object of the present invention is to provide a printer device having a function of checking the presence / absence of paper within the print range for recognition.

[0005]

A printer device of the present invention uses a reception interface for receiving data from a host computer, a data editing means for editing the data, and a normal print mode or a print mode by a detection switch for detecting an operation of an operator. A mode determining unit for determining whether the position setting mode is set, data for moving to the print start position, data for moving to an arbitrarily set position, and data for moving within the print range are created by the control signal from the mode determining unit. A head movement control means, a print mechanism control means for controlling normal printing, and a detection sensor for detecting the presence or absence of print paper controlled by drive data from the head movement control means and the print mechanism control means are mounted. A print mechanism having a print head.

[0006]

When the printer switch of the present invention detects the "print position setting mode" by the detection switch for detecting the operation of the operator, the printer device creates movement data from the edit data to the print start position, and prints it in the print mechanism section. It is given as drive data and moved to let the operator confirm the print start position. And
The print start position can be moved to an arbitrary position by operating a switch. Further, after the movement, the print head with the paper presence / absence detection sensor moves within the print range, it is possible to judge whether there is any paper within the print range, and display the result.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

This embodiment is driven by a reception interface 1 for receiving data from a host computer, a detection switch 2 for detecting the operation of an operator, and data received from the printing mechanism control means 43 and the head movement control means 44. The printing mechanism unit 3, the display mechanism unit 5 for displaying an error, and the control unit 4 for controlling them. The data editing means 41, the mode determination means 2, the printing mechanism control means 43, and the head movement control means 4 of the control unit 4
4. The display means 45 can be configured by using a microcomputer.

The operation of the control unit 4 will be described below.
The data editing means 41 analyzes and edits the data received from the reception interface 1. The mode determining means 42 determines whether the mode is the "normal print mode" or the "print position setting mode" according to the data input from the detection switch 2, and sends the result to the data editing means 41 as a control signal.

In the data editing means 41, if the edited data is a print start command, the control signal is referred to and the print data is printed in the "normal print mode".
Send to 3. The printing mechanism section control means 43 creates drive data, sends it to the printing mechanism section 3 to start printing, and transfers the data to the head movement control means 44 in the "print position setting mode".

The head movement control means 44 creates data for moving to the print start position, and moves to the print start position through the print mechanism section 3. When the control signal from the mode determination means 42 is awaited and the control signal "print start position movement mode" is received from the mode determination means 42, the drive for moving the head based on the displacement amount which is the attached information. When data is created and moved through the printing mechanism unit 3 and a control signal "paper within print range check mode" is received from the mode determination unit 42, the print range is moved from the data received from the data editing unit 41. Drive data is created and moved through the printing mechanism unit 3. When the sensor attached to the print head detects that there is no paper while moving, it sends data for displaying an error to the display means 45, and notifies the operator through the display mechanism unit 6 that the data did not fit in the paper. To do.

When the absence of paper is not detected, the display means 4
Reference numeral 5 notifies the operator through the display mechanism unit 5 that printing is possible. Eventually, the mode determination means 42 receives the movement mode release information from the detection switch 2 and outputs a control signal of the normal print mode to the data editing means 42. Then, drive data is output from the print control unit 43 to the print mechanism unit 3 and printing is started.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the printing mechanism section 3 of this embodiment. The mark 32 displayed on the guide 31 attached to the print head indicates the print start position, which is used as a guide for the operator to confirm and move the mark. Further, a sensor 3 for detecting presence / absence of paper is provided below the print head pin
When No. 3 is attached, it is possible to determine whether or not there is paper within the print range when moving within the print range.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the control program of this embodiment. When the execution of the program is started, switch detection is performed (step 300). And
It is determined from the switch information whether it is the "normal print mode" or the "print setting mode" (step 301), and the information is written in the memory. When the mode determination is completed, data is received from the reception interface (step 302). Then, the received data is analyzed and edited (step 303). If the received data is not the print start command (step 304), the receiving process and the analyzing / editing process are continued (steps 302 to 30).
3).

When the received data is the print start command, the mode written in the memory is referred to, and if it is the "normal print mode", the print process (step 306) is performed.
If it is in the "print position setting mode", a moving process to the print start position (step 307) is performed. Then, the movement mode detection process (step 308) is performed, and the movement mode determination process (step 309) is performed. If the movement mode is the "print start position movement mode" (step 310), the head movement processing is performed based on the displacement amount which is the additional information (step 31).
Perform 1). Then, the process returns to step 308 to detect the next movement mode.

If the movement mode is the "printing area paper check mode" (step 312), the print area head movement processing (step 313) is performed. If there is paper as a result of the movement (step 314), error-free display processing (step 316) is performed, the original position is returned (step 317), and the processing returns to step 308 to detect the next movement mode. . If there is no paper as a result of the movement, error display processing is performed (step 315), the original position is returned to (step 317), and the processing returns to step 308 to detect the next movement mode. When the movement mode is finished (step 318), printing is started. Then it returns to step 300 to detect the next switch. Until the movement mode ends, the movement mode detection process (step 3
08) to each processing (steps 309 to 317)
repeat.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, by having the print start position notification function and the print position setting function, the actual print start position can be confirmed and the print start position can be moved to an arbitrary position. It is possible to adjust the paper setting position again after checking the print result once.
The effect is that the trouble of resetting the print range can be saved.

Further, it is possible to print the received data at an arbitrary position, and it is possible to make the printer easy to use. Further, there is an effect that the operator can be notified of the optimum paper by the paper presence / absence check function within the print range.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a printing mechanism unit according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a control program of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 reception interface 2 detection switch 3 printing mechanism section 4 control section 5 display mechanism section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A receiving interface for receiving data from a host computer, a data editing means for editing the data, and a mode determining means for determining a normal print mode or a print position setting mode by a detection switch for detecting an operation of an operator. , A head movement control means for creating data for moving to a print start position, data for moving to an arbitrarily set position, and data for moving within a print range by a control signal from the mode determining means, and normal printing And a print mechanism unit having a print head equipped with a detection sensor for detecting the presence or absence of print paper, which is controlled by the drive data from the head movement control unit and the print mechanism unit control unit. A printer device. 2. When the detection sensor detects the absence of the printing paper, a display unit is provided which receives a control signal from the head movement control unit and outputs an error display to the display mechanism unit as display data. The printer device according to claim 1.