JPS62242537A - Phototype setting machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce a time and labor required for input of a character board information and to prevent occurrence of an input error, by a method wherein a bit of information relating to a character board to be in use is selected from a nonvolatile external memory previously storing a great number of bits of character board information therein and then stored in a character board information storage part. CONSTITUTION:A character board information storage device part 300 consists of; a character board information storage part 45 storing therein bits of character board information of respective character boards, a write circuit 42, a nonvolatile external memory 44 containing the bits character board information of the respective character boards, a detection circuit 43 detecting a bit of required character board information, a display part 46 displaying the bit of detected information, a character board information input part 40, and a control circuit for character board information storage device part 41 controlling an operation according to a command input from the character board information input part 40. The bits of character board information relating to the character board are extracted from the nonvolatile external memory 44 by the detection circuit 43 and the written in the character board information storage part 45, thus addition or deletion of the bits of character board information for the required character board is carried out. In this manner, the needed bit of character board information is always contained in the character board information storage part 45, which enables prevention of an input error by an operator and reduction of a required time.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a phototypesetting machine that collects necessary characters from a wide variety of dial faces and prints them on a photosensitive material. Memorize the required data for each board (for example, xy coordinate values of stored characters, feed amount per cap information, exposure amount, etc.),
The present invention relates to a dial information storage unit-related mechanism for reading out dial information as necessary.

(Prior Art and its Problems) In conventional phototypesetting machines of this type, the necessary data for each dial is stored and stored by an operator manually inputting it into a dial information storage unit consisting of a floppy disk or a fixed disk. However, in order to memorize the dial information for all the dials that can be used with the phototypesetting machine, it is necessary to have an extremely large storage capacity, which poses a cost problem. The board is the document to be processed! The number is limited depending on category 1 etc.

Therefore, use one with a storage capacity that corresponds to a certain amount of dial information, and when using a dial without input dial information, the operator must manually enter the required data for the dial each time. It has become.

However, with conventional systems that are so powerful, operators spend a great deal of time and effort manually inputting the dial information, and since input is done manually, there is room for input errors. However, it has the disadvantage that it is not possible to print smoothly and quickly.

(Object 1 of the Invention) In view of the above-mentioned circumstances, the present invention can reduce the time and effort required to input one dial information without increasing the storage capacity of the dial information storage unit, and can also prevent input errors. The purpose is to provide a phototypesetting machine that can prevent the occurrence of.

(Structure of the Invention) For this reason, the phototypesetting machine according to A. sexual memory,
means for specifying desired dial information in the external non-volatile memory; means for detecting the specified dial information from the external non-volatile memory; and writing the detected dial information into the dial information storage section. and a means for inputting the information.

(Embodiment) The first illustrated phototypesetting machine is comprised of a printing device section ioo, an electronic control unit 21!1 section 200, and a dial information section ta, s11 section 300.

In a printing unit 2 100 , light from a light source 1 illuminates characters on a dial 3 through a condensing lens 2 . This character image is enlarged or reduced by the main lens in the lens turret 5, the deforming lens 6, the scissor 7, and the prism 8°9.
, 10 to form an image on the photosensitive material on the photosensitive material drum 11.

The prism lO is a travel optical system and is moved by an X-direction drive ghiE112 via a rack 10a. or,
The photosensitive material drum 11 is rotated by a drive rA13 to form a single character image at a desired position on the photosensitive material.

The character frame 4 accommodates a plurality of characters @3... in which characters/symbols are arranged in a matrix, and the X-direction drive source 15
, and the y-direction drive source 14 moves in the x-y force directions so that a desired character on a desired dial can be positioned on the optical axis.

22 is a reflective sensor, as shown in the second diagram, the letter IIa
This is to detect the character gla code shown in the barcode on the dial identification sticker 50 attached to the dial 3. Again 1
The dial 3 set in the dial frame 23 can be replaced with a dial in a replacement dial storage (not shown).

Electronic control system 2ti'! At 200, numeral 30 is an input section for inputting formatting commands such as characters/symbols, fonts, character size, line feed and one character feed in a coded manner. These encoded credentials are sent to the arithmetic circuit 21. On the other hand, one character/symbol code and font command are sent to the discrimination circuit 31 and converted into one dial identification code, and the exposure amount of the dial 11h The xy position of the character 11h, the feed amount, etc. A signal for detecting information from a later-described dial information storage section 45 is output to the detection circuit 32, and character q1 information of the corresponding dial is sent to the arithmetic circuit 2.
Send to 1.

In the arithmetic circuit 21, based on the code from the input section 30 and the dial information from the detection circuit 32, the light! Control signal, lens turret rotation signal, dial frame movement! Generates control codes such as a signal and photosensitive material feed control signal. These control codes are
Lens control circuit 1 via printing device aPB control circuit 20
6, light amount control circuit 17, exposure control circuit 17a, character It
The signal is outputted to the control circuit 18 and the sensitive material drum feed i'I# control circuit 19 to operate each mechanism of the printing device section 100. In addition, 24 is an alarm that outputs a predetermined signal when a trouble occurs! To? It is 1.

Electronic control above! The procedure for printing, for example, rAPrilJ by the A71 unit 200 and the printing device unit 100 using the second illustrated dial is as follows.

First, a command as shown in the third diagram is inputted from the input unit 30.
"QIO" is a command that indicates the size of the characters and indicates grade 10, and "Euro5" is a command that indicates the font. 7A-ni r
When the character code r8301+6J of AJ is input, since this code is a Roman character, it is recognized together with the font code of "European 5", and a command to detect the dial information of the corresponding dial from the dial information storage unit 45 is detected. Output to route 1 31,
The dial information detected by the detection circuit 31 is sent to the yi calculation circuit 21. In response to the command “QIO”, the arithmetic circuit 21 generates a lens turret rotation control code and sends it to the print placement section control circuit 20. This signal is sent to the lens control circuit 16, which rotates the lens turret 5 until it reaches the size of 10th grade, and sends a completion signal to the print making section control circuit 20. Further, the fA calculation circuit 21 sends information regarding the exposure value of the corresponding dial obtained from the one-dial information to the optical hkMfm circuit 17a via the print placement unit control circuit 20, and adjusts the optical stitching of the optical sti. When the light value adjustment is completed, a completion signal is sent to the printing device 218B control circuit 2.
0, \ will be returned.

Furthermore, regarding the one-character code rAJ, the arithmetic circuit 21 calculates the character Ill obtained from the detected dial information.
- xy position 21 (X 17- Y l O).

Send the character set ``Kuri 10X16/20=8H'' calculated from the character set ``mouth 16/20EM'' and the dial identification code to the printing device m control circuit 20.The printing unit control circuit 20
The dial identification code and xy position code sent to is the letter W
0 characters sent to control circuit 18 91 control circuit 18 has 1
Character frame 4"-Alternatively, since the location of the dial with which identification hood is stored in advance in the replacement dial storage (not shown), the desired dial can be selected by receiving the dial identification code. is located on the optical axis t. If there is no dial with the identification code, a signal is sent to the alarm device 24 to notify the operator.

After finding the dial, receive the xy position code (X1
By positioning 7.y 10) on the optical axis, place the character rAJ on the optical axis.

When this movement is completed, a completion signal is sent to the printing device M control circuit 20. At this time, other operation completion signals have already been received, and if they have not been received, wait until all the completion signals are received, send a shutter rotation signal to the fog light control circuit 17a, open and close the shutter 7, and print. , a feed amount of 8H, the photosensitive material drum feed control circuit 19 moves the X-direction drive source 12 to move the photosensitive material and prepare for printing the next character.

Discrimination circuit 31 receives the next character rPJ from human power department 30
determines that the dial information regarding the character has already been input manually to the arithmetic circuit 21, and sends the input information to the yI arithmetic circuit 21 without outputting a detection command to the detection circuit 32. In the arithmetic circuit 21, rPJ is (xll.

y2) Since the set of 1 character is 1013/20EM, the feed amount is calculated to be 6.5H, and this control code is sent to the printing unit control circuit 20 to print rPJ.

Thereafter, rrilJ is printed in the same manner.

The dial information storage unit 300 includes a dial information storage unit 45 that stores the dial information of each dial, a write circuit 42 that stores the required information, and a writing circuit 42 that stores the '1 information in the character 11 of each dial. non-volatile external memory 44 and a detection circuit 43 that detects dial information that will be needed from now on. A display unit 46 that displays detected information, and a dial information storage device control circuit 41 that controls the operation of the S-include circuit 42, the detection circuit 43, and the display M46 in response to command input from the dial information input unit 40. It consists of

In this dial information storage unit 300, the dial information stored in the nonvolatile external memory 44 is loaded into the dial information storage unit 45 according to the fifth and sixth illustrated flowcharts.

That is, as in the fifth illustrated character q1 selection flow, when a list detection instruction is received from the input unit 40 in S10, the non-volatile external memory 44 sends a message to 1, for example, as shown in FIG. 4(a) via the detection circuit 43 in 315 List of displayed dial information ;u
The signal is sent to the control circuit 41. At this time, the nonvolatile external memory 44
If there is no detection error or there is a detection error, error processing is also performed.

In S20, the list sent to the control circuit 41 is
The display example in the figure is displayed in the table, section 6 46. That is, an indicator indicating the input order of the dial information stored in the list, 1 characters used when stored in the dial information storage unit 45, 11 identification hoods, symbols and names of the dials stored, Necessary data (for example, A indicates information such as light Jj, B indicates baseline drop, C indicates information such as sending and planting), etc. are displayed.

The operator moves the cursor on the identification code field on the display screen as shown in Figure 7 and performs operations to assign or cancel the dial identification code to be set in the desired dial information.・790 is a dial identification code indicating that it has already been set, and ゛--- indicates that it has not been set.

For example, when a command to move the cursor down one line is entered manually at 330, the cursor is moved down through the cursor movement process at S4L based on the determination at S40, and the screen is displayed again at 52G.

If you want to wait for the input of 530, and in the same way, cancel the dial identification code and leave it in the unset state of "-m-", enter 5.
50, the identification code deletion process of 551 is performed, and if the identification code is 501", 360/1 (Separately, the Sol identification code update process is performed. Also, if it is invalid human power, an error is displayed in S71. It will be done.

In this way, when the desired dial information is selected and dial identification codes are set for all dial faces to be used, a write command is issued to the single dial information storage unit 45, and the SaO write process is performed. will be held.

The write processing flow in S80 is as shown in Figure 6, and Wl
Now, according to the indicators in the table.

The identification code column set in S30 is searched, and if an identification code is set, the symbol and name of W3 are written based on the determination of W2.

Since the symbol φ name has already been sent to the II control circuit 41 from the detection circuit 43 as a dial information list, this symbol -
The names are written in the order of the set identification codes via the four-input circuit 42 to the list of the dial information storage PK45 as shown in the fourth diagram.

Furthermore, W4 detects the dial information in the non-volatile external memory 44-H via the detection circuit 43,
Set the detected dial information with W5! 17AA--m
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? This is to be written to the number a/copy 1 45.

For example, in FIG. 7, the index l has an identification code of 500
is set, so in Wl, index 1 and identification code 5
Search for 00, which is the symbol/name. "EMR"','
"Martin Roman" is listed in Table 5 on the dial information storage section.
2, the dial information of the index l on the non-volatile external memory 44 is written as the information of the identification code 1.
It will be written in the character Wth information storage No. 45. Search all the information stored in the non-volatile external memory 44,
When the write flow ends at W6, the loop exits.

In the phototypesetting machine configured as described above, the detection circuit 4 collects character 91 information regarding the dial necessary for processing the document.
3, it is extracted from the non-volatile memory 44 and written to the dial information storage section 45. Each time the dial to be used is changed, one dial information is created by adding or deleting the dial information of the desired dial. The storage unit 45 always stores necessary dial information.

(Effects of the Invention) According to the phototypesetting machine according to the present invention, dial information related to the dial to be used is selected from a nonvolatile external memory in which a large number of dial information is registered in advance, and the dial information is stored in the dial information storage section. Since it can be stored, there is no need to store unnecessary dial information in the dial information storage unit.

Since the storage unit can have a small capacity, it is inexpensive. Furthermore, since a non-volatile external memory in which dial information is stored in advance is used, it is possible to prevent operator input errors and reduce the time required to make a necessary dial ready for use. Y! Furthermore, by preparing a large number of nonvolatile external memories, it is possible to easily handle a large number of dial faces.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a phototypesetting machine according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is an f-side view showing an example of a dial used, Fig. 3 is an illustration IjI diagram showing an example of manual typesetting, and Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram of reducing the dial information storage state, FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the order of character 91 selection processing, FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the order of character information old-gome, and FIG. 7 is a dial information list table. It is a theory '51 diagram showing an example of the display. 3...Dial i'i':::&#t!!Route) (Dial information indicator role) 42...S-included circuit (Dial information memory state) 43
...Detection circuit (dial information detection means) 44...
External non-volatile memory 45...Dial information storage section Fig. 3 Fig. 4 (a) Fig. 4 (b) Fig. 5 Fig. 6! Figure 187

Claims (1)

[Claims] Type the necessary characters from a wide variety of dials The odor of a phototypesetting machine that prints on photosensitive material hand, A character that stores post-character information for each dial. a board information storage section; An external device that stores dial information for each dial. non-volatile memory, Desired dial information in the external non-volatile memory a means of specifying; The specified dial information is externally non-volatile. means for detecting from memory; The detected dial information is recorded as the dial information. A means of writing in the memory section, A phototypesetting machine characterized by: