JPS61192577A - printer - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] The present invention relates to a printer, and particularly to a printer that prints on cut sheets and continuous sheets.

[Prior art]

Conventionally, terminals used in systems that print on both cut paper and continuous paper and that require copying on cut paper have separate printing parts for continuous paper and cut paper. There was a drawback that the device was thick.Also, there is a method that operates only cut paper on continuous paper and prints a cut sheet with copy paper, but since the copy itself is cut paper, it is time-consuming. The disadvantage was that the printing progress could not be determined.

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a printing method that allows continuous paper and cut paper to be used without increasing the size of the device, and allows the temporal progress of printing to be seen visually.

[Detailed description of the invention]

In order to minimize the size of the device in a printer that can print both cut paper and continuous paper, the present invention is designed to print continuous paper and cut paper in the same printing section, but each conveying section By controlling the continuous paper separately, using pressure-sensitive paper as the continuous paper, and printing the printed copy of the cut sheet on the continuous paper, the printing progress over 6 hours can be seen.

And by making the print color and the pressure-sensitive paper different colors, it is possible to visually copy the print on the cut paper.

This allows you to see if the printing is on continuous paper.

[Embodiments of the invention]

An embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. The present invention comprises a continuous paper transport section 2 that transports continuous paper 1, a cut paper transport section 4 that transports cut paper 3, a continuous paper drive section 5 that drives the continuous paper transport section 2, and a cut paper transport section 4 that transports continuous paper transport section 2. a cut paper drive unit 6 for driving the paper, a printing unit 7 for printing on the paper, a continuous paper drive unit 5°, a cut paper drive unit 6. Consider a printer consisting of a control section 8 that controls a printing section 7 in a unified manner.

An example of the printing shown in FIG. 1 is shown in FIG. Further, the operational flow of the control section 8 of the present invention is shown in FIG.

The operation of the present invention is such that when the data to be printed is on the continuous paper 1, the control section 8 controls the continuous paper drive section 5 and operates the continuous paper transport section 2 while the printing section 7 is printing. , the continuous paper 1 is printed by a printing ribbon attached to the printing section 7.

If the data to be printed is on a cut sheet 3, the control section 8 transports the cut sheet 3 to the printing section 7 so that it is placed on top of the continuous sheet 1. While the print unit 7 is printing print data on the cut paper 3, the control unit 8 controls the cut paper drive unit 6, and when operating the cut paper transport unit 4, simultaneously controls the continuous paper drive unit 5, The continuous paper transport section 2 is operated. Characters printed on the cut sheet are printed by a printing ribbon attached to the printing section 7. At this time, if the cut sheet 3 and the continuous sheet l are not made of pressure-sensitive paper, the content printed on the S-slip sheet 3 is printed on the continuous sheet 1 in a color developed by pressure sensitivity.

Therefore, colors developed by the ribbon attached to the printing section 7 and colors developed by pressure sensitivity are printed on the continuous paper based on the type of each print data.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the invention. Since single sheets and continuous sheets are printed in the same printing section, there is no need to increase the size of the device.

In addition, as shown in Figure 2, since all the data printed on continuous paper is stored, it is possible to see the chronological progress of printing, and at the same time, it is possible to make the colors produced by the pressure-sensitive paper and the color produced by the printing ribbon different. , it becomes possible to visually judge the data printed on single sheets and the data printed only on continuous paper.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing printing results by an apparatus using the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an operation flow diagram of the control section of FIG. 1. l...Continuous paper, 2...Paper transport section. 3... Single sheet paper, 5... Continuous paper drive unit. 7... Printing section, 8... Control section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A continuous paper transport unit that transports continuous paper, a cut paper transport unit that transports cut paper, a printing unit that prints characters, etc. on the paper using a printing ribbon, and a continuous paper transport unit;
In a printer that consists of a control unit that controls a cut paper transport unit and a printing unit, and prints cut paper and continuous paper in the same printing unit, the continuous paper is pressure-sensitive paper, and the control unit prints the print data in the printing unit. When printing on cut paper, the cut paper transport section and the continuous paper transport section are operated at the same time.
The printing color of continuous paper is colored by pressure-sensitive paper, and when printing on continuous paper, the printing color of continuous paper is changed by operating only the continuous paper transport unit and the printing color of continuous paper is colored by a printing ribbon. A printer featuring