JPS5967062A - Raster printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print the information displayed on a long width display surface on a long length print paper by serviceable layout, by providing the font memory memorizing long width arranged information by converting it into long length arranged information. CONSTITUTION:Data of data register 7 is memorized in a vertical font memory 8 or lateral font memory 9 according to the scanning signal of count register 10 and displayed in CRT display 3. When the command printing out data ''ABC'' in a long length arrangement is inputted with the key board 2, the lateral font memory 9 is selected and the memory 9 is scanned according to the scanning signal of count register 10. Data are successively read out in a data register 11 according to this scanning, the read out parallel signals being converted to series signals with P/S converter 12 and the long length arranged information is printed on the long length copy paper.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a raster printer device capable of printing vertically long information (text, figures, symbols, etc.) by scanning a vertically long copy paper in the horizontal direction.

Raster printer devices mainly use portrait printing paper (e.g. A4, B
5 size, etc.) in the horizontal direction and print information on lines along the short sides.

However, according to this raster printer device, CRTs such as word processors and computer
Since the display has a horizontal display surface, the information displayed there is often given a horizontal layout/4' turn, so if you try to print this display information on portrait print paper, the print layout will change. (waste occurred), or some parts may not be able to be printed due to the size of the print paper.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and in order to print information displayed on a horizontally long display screen on a vertically long printing paper in an efficient layout, information in a horizontally long layout is converted to information in a vertically long layout. The present invention provides a raster printer device equipped with a font memory for storing fonts.

The raster printer device of the present invention will be explained in detail below.

The attached drawing shows one embodiment of the present invention, and shows a keyboard 2 for inputting various information and commands via an input/output interface l, and a horizontally long, for example, CRT display 3 for displaying information in accordance with commands from the keyboard 2. and keyboard 2
A printer 4 (e.g., has a thermal head) that prints the information displayed on the CRT display 3 when a print command is issued from the printer, and a data memory 5 (e.g., stored in ASC1 encode) that stores various data. and an address register 6 that specifies the address of the data memory 5 to read the data requested from the keyboard 2.
, a data register 7 that stores data read out from the data register 5, a vertical font memory 8 and a horizontal font memory 9 that store the contents of the data register 5, and vertical and horizontal font memories 8. 9, and vertical and horizontal font memories 8. scanned according to the address designations of the count register 10 based on the scanning of the printer 4.
9, a P/S converter 12 that inputs the contents of the data register 11 in parallel, converts them into series, and outputs them, and control that controls based on the built-in GLODARAM that controls the operation of each part. It has a section 13.

In the above configuration, to explain its operation, the key prints out the necessary data from 1/2, for example, the sales list of the subject for a certain month (data entered from key date 2 in front of the car). When a command is input, the control unit 13
performs arithmetic processing based on the built-in GLODARAM, specifies a predetermined address in the data memory 5 via the address register 6, and reads out data at the address (for example, stored in ASCT 1 code) to the data register 7. .

The data in the data register 7 is stored in the vertical font memory 8 or the horizontal font memory 9 based on the scanning signal of the count register 10 (synchronized with the scanning signal of the CRT display 3), and is simultaneously displayed on the CRT display 3. Based on the display on the CRT display 3, the operator inputs a command from the keypad 2 to print out the data [ABCj in a vertical layout.
Horizontal font memory 9 is selected and count register 1
The memory 9 is scanned based on the zero scanning signal. By this scanning, data is sequentially read into the data register 11, and the read parallel signals are converted into serial signals by the P4 converter 12 to control the thermal head of the register 4, and as shown in the figure, the thermal head of the register 4 is placed vertically on the vertically long copy paper. information will be printed. On the other hand, when the key commands horizontally oriented printing from the key 2, it is possible to print horizontally oriented information on a vertically oriented copy sheet. The above embodiments can be applied to printers such as motherboard computers and word processors, but are not particularly limited to their applications.

As explained above, the raster register device according to the present invention is provided with a font memory that converts horizontally arranged information into vertically arranged information and stores it. It can be printed with a streamlined layout.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The accompanying drawings are block diagrams showing one embodiment of the present invention. Explanation of symbols 1... Input/output interface, 2... Keytate, 3... CRT display, 4... Register, 5
...Data memory, 6...Address register, 7゜11...Data register, 8...Vertical font memory, 9...Horizontal font memory, 1o...Count register, 12...・P/S converter, 13...control unit O

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a raster printer device that prints information output from a font memory by scanning in a predetermined direction, the font memory prints information arranged in the predetermined direction as a nuclear force direction. A raster printer device, characterized in that when receiving a command to print in a perpendicular direction, information arranged in the predetermined direction is stored in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction.