JP4665806B2 - Printing apparatus, printing method, and printing program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a printing apparatus capable of printing cut marks, a printing method, and a printing program.

  In recent years, cooperation between a printing apparatus such as a printer and a digital camera has become common, and many printing apparatuses that directly print photos from a digital camera have been proposed.

  However, in an electrophotographic printer such as a laser printer, there are several millimeters of unprintable areas on the four sides of the paper due to its structure. For this reason, when performing borderless printing, it is necessary to print on a paper having a size larger than the target printed material and cut out a part thereof. In this case, it is conceivable to increase work efficiency by printing a cut mark indicating a cut line on the printing surface of the paper. However, it is difficult for the user to accurately cut along the cut mark, and there is a problem that the cut mark remains at the end portion of the cut printed material.

  In order to solve such a problem that the cut mark remains on the printing surface side, a printing apparatus including a dedicated mark applying device for printing the cut mark on the back surface of the paper has been proposed (see Patent Document 1). ).

However, the printing apparatus described in Patent Document 1 uses roll paper for printing, and merely performs linear marking in the width direction on the back surface of the roll paper. Therefore, such a printing apparatus not only requires a special dedicated mark applying apparatus, but also has a problem that it cannot be applied to the formation of cut marks along an outline line of a closed region surrounded by four sides, for example.
JP 2003- 211775 A

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a printing apparatus that can easily print a cut mark indicating a closed region to be cut out from a sheet on the back side of the sheet. And a printing method and a printing program.

  The above object of the present invention is achieved by the following means.

(1) A printing apparatus having a double-sided printing mechanism, a judging unit for judging whether or not printing of a cut mark indicating a closed region to be cut out from a sheet is designated for received print data; When the determination unit determines that printing of the cut mark is specified, double-sided is used to determine whether double-sided printing using both sides of the sheet for printing data is specified for the print data A print designation determination unit; an acquisition unit that acquires a size and a print position of the cut mark when the determination unit determines that printing of the cut mark is specified; and the duplex printing specification determination unit If printing is determined to be designated, the double-sided printing, and changing means for changing the one-sided printing with one side of the paper to print the print data, the collected Based on the size and print position of the cut mark obtained by means have a, and printing means for printing the cut mark on the back side of the paper in which the print data is printed, double-sided printing on one side by said changing means When the printing is changed, the printing unit prints the cut mark on the back surface of the paper on which the print data is printed on one side for each page .

( 2 ) A printing method executed by a printing apparatus having a duplex printing mechanism, and whether or not printing of a cut mark indicating a closed region to be cut out from a sheet is designated for received print data. A determination step, and if it is determined in the determination step that printing of the cut mark is specified, whether double-sided printing using both sides of the paper for printing data is specified for the print data A double-sided printing designation judging step for judging whether or not, a obtaining step for obtaining a size and a printing position of the cut mark when it is judged in the judging step that printing of the cut mark is designated, and the double-sided printing If it is determined in the designation determining step that the duplex printing is designated, the duplex printing is performed on one side of the paper. A changing step of changing the one-sided printing using the printing, printing based on the size and print position of the cut mark acquired in the acquisition step, printing the cut mark on the back side of the paper in which the print data is printed a step, was closed, if the double-sided printing in the changing step is changed to single-sided printing, in the printing step, the cut mark is printed on the back side of the paper in which the print data is printed on each page sided printing wherein the that.

( 3 ) A program for controlling a printing apparatus having a double-sided printing mechanism, and whether or not printing of a cut mark indicating a closed region to be cut out from a sheet is designated for received print data. If it is determined that the cut mark printing is specified in the determination procedure and the determination procedure, whether double-sided printing using both sides of the paper for printing the print data is specified for the print data A double-sided printing designation judging procedure for judging whether or not, an obtaining procedure for obtaining the size and printing position of the cut mark when it is judged that printing of the cut mark is designated in the judging procedure, and the double-sided printing When it is determined that the double-sided printing is designated in the designation judging procedure, the double-sided printing is performed using one side of the paper for printing the print data. A changing procedure for changing the printing, based on the size and print position of the cut mark acquired in the acquisition step, the print instruction procedure for instructing to print the cut mark on the back side of the paper in which the print data is printed When the double-sided printing is changed to single-sided printing in the changing procedure, the cut mark is placed on the back side of the paper on which the print data is printed on one side for each page. Is a printing program.

( 4 ) A computer-readable recording medium on which the printing program according to ( 3 ) is recorded.

  According to the present invention, since a double-sided printing mechanism is used, it is not necessary to separately provide a special dedicated device, and a cut mark indicating a closed region can be easily printed at a desired position on the back side of the paper. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the work burden when performing a cutting operation for obtaining a borderless printed material such as a printed photograph, and to increase work efficiency.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an image processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The image processing system according to the present embodiment includes a PC (personal computer) 1 as a print data transmission device and a printing device 2 having a double-sided printing mechanism, which communicate with each other via a network 3. Connected as possible. Note that the PC 1 and the printing apparatus 2 may be directly connected (locally connected) between devices without going through the network 3. Examples of the printing apparatus 2 include a printer, a copying machine, and an MFP (Multi-Function Peripheral).

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the PC 1 shown in FIG. The PC 1 includes a CPU 11, a ROM 12, a RAM 13, a hard disk 14, a display 15, an input device 16, a recording medium reading device 17, and a network interface 18, which are connected to each other via a bus 19 for exchanging signals. Has been.

  The CPU 11 performs control of each part and various arithmetic processes according to the program. The ROM 12 stores various programs and various data. The RAM 13 temporarily stores programs and data as a work area. The hard disk 14 stores various programs including an operating system and various data.

  The hard disk 14 is installed with an application for creating a document file and a printer driver for converting the document file into print data described in a language interpretable by the printing apparatus 2. The printer driver has a function of issuing a print instruction for a document file created by an application.

  The display 15 displays various information. The input device 16 is a pointing device such as a mouse or a keyboard, and is used for performing various inputs. The recording medium reader 17 is an interface for a card type recording medium such as a memory card slot or a PC card slot, or a disk drive for a disk type recording medium such as an MO drive, a CD-R drive, or a DVD-R drive. The image data stored in the inserted recording medium is read. The network interface 18 is an interface for communicating with other devices via the network 3, and standards such as Ethernet (registered trademark), token ring, and FDDI are used.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the printing apparatus 2 shown in FIG. The printing apparatus 2 includes a CPU 21, a ROM 22, a RAM 23, a hard disk 24, an operation panel unit 25, a printing unit 26, a direct printing connection unit 27, and a network interface 28, which are connected via a bus 29 for exchanging signals. Are connected to each other. Note that, among the above-described units of the printing apparatus 2, descriptions of portions having the same functions as those of the above-described units of the PC 1 are omitted in order to avoid redundant description.

  In the ROM 22 or the hard disk 24, various kinds of processing such as a drawing process for developing print data transferred from the PC 1 into image data in a bitmap format and a print process for printing the image data on a sheet as a recording material. Stores processing programs.

  The operation panel unit 25 includes a control panel 39 (see FIG. 6), a numeric keypad, a start button, a stop button, and the like, and is used for displaying various information and inputting various instructions.

  The printing unit 26 prints image data on a sheet through each process of charging, exposure, development, transfer, and fixing by an electrophotographic method. In the present embodiment, cut paper is used as the paper. The printing method of the printing unit 26 in the present invention is not limited to this, and an ink jet method or the like may be used other than the electrophotographic method. As will be described later, the printing unit 26 includes a double-sided printing mechanism.

  The direct printing connection unit 27 is a connector unit that connects devices such as a digital camera and a memory card. The printing apparatus 2 can directly print image data stored in a device connected to the direct printing connection unit 27 as print data without going through the PC 1.

  Note that the PC 1 and the printing apparatus 2 may include components other than the above-described components, or some of the above-described components may not be included.

  The network 3 includes a LAN in which computers and network devices are connected according to standards such as Ethernet (registered trademark), token ring, and FDDI, and a WAN in which LANs are connected by a dedicated line.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing the mechanical structure of the printing apparatus 2 having a double-sided printing mechanism.

  When performing single-sided printing, the paper 31 stored in the paper cassette 30 is fed one by one by the paper feed roller 32, and the image is transferred onto the paper 31 by the image transfer unit 33. Further, the sheet 31 is conveyed to the fixing unit 34 through the conveyance path, and is pressurized and heated by the fixing unit 34, so that the image is fixed on the sheet 31. The printed paper 31 on which the image has been fixed is discharged from the paper discharge unit 35 and accumulated in the paper discharge tray 36 face down.

  On the other hand, when performing double-sided printing, the paper 31 a printed on the first side is not completely discharged by the paper discharge unit 35, but is switched back in the middle of discharge and carried into the double-sided printing mechanism 37. The sheet 31b carried into the duplex printing mechanism 37 is returned from the refeed unit 38 to the image transfer unit 33 again. Then, the image is transferred onto the second surface of the paper 31, the image is fixed on the paper 31 by the fixing device 34, and the printed paper 31 is discharged from the paper discharge unit 35.

  In the printing apparatus 2 having the above-described double-side printing mechanism, when normal double-side printing is performed, the printed paper 31 accumulated face down on the paper discharge tray 36 is discharged in the page order. The printing order needs to be set as shown in FIG. That is, the front side (odd page) and the back side (even page) are switched, the back side (even page) is printed first on the first first side, and the front side (odd page) is printed later as the second side. The print order is set.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing details of the control panel 39 in the operation panel unit 25.

  The control panel 39 includes an LCD display 40, a direction switch 41 (upper direction switch 42, a lower direction switch 43, a left direction switch 44, and a right direction switch 45), a central switch (menu / selection execution switch) 46, A cancel switch 47, a printer ready status display LED 48, and a printer error status display LED 49 are provided. The user can set or change various designated items of the printing conditions by operating the control panel 39.

  Normally, the LCD display section 40 of the control panel 39 displays the printer status, and has a function of notifying the user of the printer status and giving a warning. Then, when the center switch (menu / selection execution switch) 46 is pressed, the menu function is called, and various functions (including various designation items of printing conditions) can be selected, set, changed, and the like.

  FIG. 7 shows an example in which the menu display changes. In the figure, the square frame represents the display state of the LCD display unit 40. The menu function is entered by pressing the center switch 46 while the LCD display unit 40 is displaying the printer status (for example, “READY” or the like is being displayed). The menu is selected by the direction switch 41, the selection is confirmed by the center switch 46, and the designated item is displayed. For example, when the down switch 43 is pressed, the menu display cycles through “menu 1”, “cut mark print designation”, “cut mark position designation”, “cut mark size designation”... “Menu n”. It is displayed.

  In the present embodiment, the cut mark indicates the outer shape of a closed region that should be cut from the printed paper by a user using a cutting tool such as scissors or a cutter. Here, a quadrilateral is used as the closed region. However, other closed regions such as circles and triangles may be used.

  When the center switch 46 is pressed when “cut mark printing designation” is displayed, an “on / off selection screen” of “cut mark printing designation” is displayed. The default value is set to “OFF”. When “ON” is selected by the operation of the direction switch 41 and is confirmed by the central switch 46, “cut mark printing designation” is set to “ON”. If the cancel switch 47 is pressed, the menu function is terminated and the display returns to the printer status display.

  FIG. 8 shows a configuration example of the menu. In the present embodiment, as the size of the cut mark, a fixed size such as A4 or L size, or a length in the vertical or horizontal direction can be specified. Further, as the designation of the position of the cut mark, the (coordinate) position from the specific reference on the paper surface can be designated.

  In FIG. 8, reference numeral “50” is a cut mark printing designation switching menu screen (main), reference numeral “51” is a simple setting position designation screen, and reference numeral “52” is a simple setting size designation screen ( General fixed size designation is possible), “53” is a horizontal position designation screen for detailed setting, “54” is a vertical position designation screen for detailed setting, and “55” is for detailed setting. The horizontal size designation screen, symbol “56” is a vertical size designation screen for detailed settings.

  The cut mark print designation switching menu screen 50 includes an item for designating whether or not to execute cut mark printing as described above. When the center switch 46 is further pressed while the cut mark printing designation is “ON”, either the simple setting mode or the detailed setting mode determined in advance by default is entered. In this example, the simple setting mode is entered. This simple setting mode is assumed to be a mode that can be easily specified intuitively. Specifically, simple positions such as center, left, top, bottom, and right can be designated as the designation of the cut macuke position.

  When the simple setting mode is entered, a position setting screen 51 for simple setting is displayed. On the simple setting position designation screen 51, position designation items 57 for determining the position of the cut mark ("position designation = 1" to "position designation = 9" indicated by nine cells arranged in a matrix form). )) And a detailed mode transition button 58 are displayed. By moving the thick frame surrounding the display items in the matrix by the direction switch 41, the desired cell position designation item 57 is selected, and by pressing the center switch 46, the selection is confirmed. The confirmed position designation item 57 is displayed after being shaded.

  Subsequently, when the direction switch 41 is pressed, the screen shifts to the size setting screen 52 for simple setting. Here, a desired fixed size is selected and set from a plurality of fixed sizes whose sizes are determined in advance as the size of the cut mark. That is, one of paper sizes such as A4, A5, postcard, L plate,... Sequentially displayed by the direction switch 41 is selected, and the selected size is determined by the central switch 46. When it is confirmed, a star is added to the head of the size display (the same applies to other figures).

  Next, the case of the detailed setting mode will be described. Here, the detailed setting mode 58 is entered by pressing the detailed mode transition button 58 on the position setting screen 51 or the size specifying screen 52 for simple setting. In this detailed setting mode, the position and size of the cut mark indicating the outline of the closed area to be cut out from the paper is divided into a horizontal position and a vertical position, and a horizontal size and a vertical size, and adjusted more finely than in the simple setting mode. Can be set. That is, in the detailed setting mode, first, the horizontal position designation screen 53 for detailed setting is displayed. By pressing the direction switch 41, the vertical position designation screen 54 for detailed setting and the horizontal size designation screen 55 for detailed setting are displayed. The vertical size designation screen 56 for detailed setting is sequentially displayed. The user can confirm the position and size of the cut mark by selecting a desired designated item screen, inputting a numerical value using the numeric keypad, and pressing the center switch 46. Note that pressing the simple mode transition button 61 in each screen returns the display to the position setting screen 51 for simple setting.

  FIG. 9 shows the positions at which the cut marks are printed on the back side of the paper 31, that is, cut from the paper for “position designation = 1” to “position designation = 9” designated on the position designation screen 51 for simple setting. It is the figure which illustrated the printing position of the cut mark 66 which shows the external shape of a power closed area | region. The designated closed area is the endmost area in the printable area 62.

  9A to 9I show the front side (first surface 63 of the paper) on which print data (including documents and photographs) is printed, and the right side shows the back side (paper). The second surface 64) is shown.

  9A to 9I, on the front surface (the first surface 63 of the sheet) on the left side, the “position designation = position designation = 51” displayed on the position designation screen 51 for simple setting shown in FIG. The cut-out scheduled positions corresponding to the display positions “1” to “position designation = 9” are indicated by broken lines as designated positions and ranges 65. The designated position and the broken line itself of the range 65 are not actually printed.

  On the other hand, on the back surface (second surface 64 of the sheet) shown on the right side, a cut mark 66 for actual printing is indicated by a thick broken line at the position of the back surface corresponding to the designated position and the range 65 represented on the front surface. It is shown. This line is actually printed as a cut mark 66 on the back surface of the paper 31. The printed line may be a black line or a colored line such as a red line, or may be a solid line, a broken line, a thick line, or a thin line. Further, the cut mark 66 may be a mark in which a closed region to be cut out from the sheet is filled (the same applies to a cut mark 70 in FIG. 10 described later).

  The positions of the cut marks that are meant by “position designation = 1” to “position designation = 9” in FIG. 9 are as follows. The position of the cut mark indicated by “position designation = 1” is the upper left position when viewed from the surface. Here, the position of the cut mark is a position in the maximum range that can satisfy the size of the cut mark designated in the printable area 62 (designated on the size designation screen 52 in the case of the simple setting shown in FIG. 8) ( The same applies to other position designations). In addition, the position of the cut mark indicated by “position designation = 2” is the position at the upper center from the surface, the position of the cut mark indicated by “position designation = 3” is the upper right position from the surface, and “position designation = 4” The position of the cut mark shown is the position of the center left when viewed from the surface, the position of the cut mark indicated by “position designation = 5” is the center position of the top, bottom, left and right, and the position of the cut mark indicated by “position designation = 6” is the surface. The position of the right center when viewed from the top, the position of the cut mark indicated by “position specification = 7” is the position of the lower left when viewed from the front surface, the position of the cut mark indicated by “position specification = 8” is the position of the lower center when viewed from the front surface, “position The position of the cut mark indicated by “designation = 9” is the lower right position when viewed from the surface.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating the relationship between the designation item designated by the detailed setting and the printing position.

  As in the case of FIG. 9, the left side of FIG. 10 shows the front surface (first surface 63 of the paper) on which the print data (including documents and photographs) is printed, and the back side (second surface of the paper) on the right side. 64).

  The horizontal position of the cut mark position P1 (the upper left corner point of the area 67 to be cut out) designated on the detailed setting horizontal position designation screen 53 is based on the upper left corner of the sheet of FIG. This is the X coordinate (distance X1) in the XY coordinate system. Similarly, the vertical position of the cut mark position P1 designated on the detailed setting vertical position designation screen 54 is the Y coordinate (distance Y1) in the XY coordinate system.

  Using the cut mark position P1 (X1, Y1) as a reference, the size of the area 67 designated on the horizontal size designation screen 55 and the vertical size designation screen 56 for detailed setting is specified. That is, the horizontal size L1 and the vertical size L2 are determined on the basis of the cut mark position P1, and thereby, the outline line 68 of the closed region 67 to be cut out on the surface is specified. The outline line 68 of the area 67 where the cutout is to be performed is not actually printed.

  A cut mark 70 indicating the outer shape of the closed region 69 to be cut out from the paper is indicated by a thick broken line at the position of the back surface corresponding to the region 67 to be cut out on the front surface. The cut mark 70 is actually printed on the back surface of the paper 31 using the double-sided printing function.

  The closed region 69 is the region 67 viewed from the back side. By passing through the double-sided printing reversal mechanism (double-sided printing mechanism 37), the top and bottom of the paper 31 is reversed. The printing apparatus 2 also grasps the position of the back side of the paper with reference to the upper left corner of the paper 31 in the same manner as viewed from the front side. That is, the reference point of the cut mark when actually printing on the back surface of the paper 31 along the cut mark 70 indicating the outer shape of the closed region 69 is the cut mark position P2 which is the upper left corner of the paper. Therefore, the horizontal position of the closed region 69 is determined by the X coordinate (distance X2) of the cut mark position P2 in the XY coordinate system with the upper left corner of FIG. 10B as the origin. Similarly, the vertical position of the closed region 69 is determined by the Y coordinate (distance Y2) of the cut mark position P2 in the XY coordinates.

Therefore, the print position (reference point P2) of the cut mark 70 that is actually printed on the back surface of the paper 31 is represented by the horizontal position X2 and the vertical position Y2. Here, the horizontal position X2 and the vertical position Y2 are related to the size of the paper to be printed (paper width and paper length).
(1) Horizontal position X2 = paper width W− (designated horizontal position X1 + region horizontal size L1)
(2) Vertical position Y2 = paper length L- (designated vertical position Y1 + area vertical size L2)
It can be expressed as.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

  The user (1) connects a device (camera, memory card, etc.) storing a document file to be printed to the direct printing connection unit 27 of the printing apparatus 2 and performs printing using the direct printing function of the printing apparatus 2. be able to. The user can also (2) print a document file (including a photograph) to be printed by the printing apparatus 2 via the PC 1.

  Here, as described with reference to FIGS. 6 to 8, the user can set a designation item related to cut mark printing by operating the control panel 39 of the operation panel unit 25 (A). However, the present invention is not limited to this, and (B) in the case of printing via the PC 1, the designation items related to cut mark printing are included in the print settings provided by the printer driver or application in the PC 1. It is also possible to adopt a configuration that can be set.

  FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the printing process in the printing apparatus 2. 11 is stored as a program in a storage unit such as the ROM 22 or the hard disk 24 of the printing apparatus 2, and is executed by the CPU 21.

  When the user issues a print instruction for a document file to be printed by either the method via the PC 1 or the method using the direct printing function of the printing apparatus 2, the print data is transferred to the printing apparatus 2, The process of FIG. 11 is executed. The print data is received via the network interface 28 or via the direct printing connection unit 27 in the case of direct printing.

  First, the CPU 21 of the printing apparatus 2 determines whether or not printing of cut marks indicating the outer shape of the closed region to be cut out from the paper is designated for the print data, that is, in the present embodiment, FIG. It is determined whether or not the designated cut mark printing designation is “ON” (step S101).

  When the cut mark printing designation is “OFF” (step S101: NO), normal printing is executed (step S102). That is, the print data that has undergone image processing under the specified printing conditions is passed to the printing unit 26. In the case of single-sided printing, the printing unit 26 prints the image data on the paper 31 that is fed one by one from the paper cassette 30 and discharges it to the paper discharge tray 36. On the other hand, in the case of duplex printing, the printing apparatus 2 feeds the sheets 31 from the sheet cassette 30 one by one and prints on the first side, and then sends the sheets 31 to the duplex printing mechanism 37 to transfer the sheets 31. The second side is printed by being reversed, and the printed paper 31 is discharged to the paper discharge tray 36.

  On the other hand, when it is determined in step S101 that the cut mark printing designation is “ON” (step S101: YES), the CPU 21 checks whether double-sided printing is designated for the print data (step S103). ).

  If double-sided printing is designated (step S103: YES), the double-sided printing designation of the print data is once canceled and changed to the same treatment as single-sided printing (step S104). If double-sided printing is not designated (step S103: NO), the process proceeds directly to step S105.

  In step S105, the CPU 21 internally sets a double-sided printing mode in order to print a cut mark using the double-sided printing mechanism 37 (step S105).

  Subsequently, the print data is converted into bitmap format image data on a page-by-page basis, the cut mark size and the print position are acquired, and the back surface of the paper 31 is obtained based on the acquired cut mark size and print position. In order to print a cut mark image, a cut mark printing page is created and added (step S106). Then, a printing process for printing the print data on the front side and printing the cut mark on the back side is executed (step S107).

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing pages to be added for cut mark printing and the printing order.

  DF1, DF2, DF3, DF4... In the upper part of FIG. 12 indicate print data pages (or repeated copies) as a user's print instruction target, and MF1, MF2, MF3. Shows the page. MF1, MF2, MF3... Are alternately inserted into DF1, DF2, DF3. Here, on the premise that the printed sheets are sequentially discharged face down, the cut mark printing pages MF1, MF2, MF3... Corresponding to the back side are printed before the front page. Is set.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, when a printed image such as a photograph is cut out to produce a borderless printed material, a cut mark indicating the outer shape of the closed region to be cut out from the paper is provided on the paper 31. Therefore, the working efficiency can be improved. In addition, since the double-sided printing mechanism is used in the present embodiment, it is not necessary to separately provide a special dedicated device, and a marking function that is simple and flexible can be provided.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the claims.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the PC 1 is used as the print data transmission device, but another print data transmission device such as a mobile terminal may be used instead of the PC 1.

  The present invention can also be applied to a single printing apparatus 2 that is not connected to the PC 1 when, for example, a memory card is connected and direct printing is performed by the printing apparatus 2.

  The means and method for performing various processes in the image processing system according to the present embodiment can be realized by either a dedicated hardware circuit or a programmed computer. The program may be provided by a computer-readable recording medium such as a flexible disk or a CD-ROM, or may be provided online via a network such as the Internet. In this case, the program recorded on the computer-readable recording medium is usually transferred to and stored in a storage unit such as a hard disk. The program may be provided as a single application software, or may be incorporated in the software of the device as one function of the device.

1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an image processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of PC shown by FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the printing apparatus shown by FIG. It is a figure which shows typically the mechanical structure of the printing apparatus with a double-sided printing mechanism. It is a figure for demonstrating the double-sided printing order which page order arranges. It is a top view which shows the structure of the control panel of a printing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example which a menu display changes. It is a figure which shows the structural example of a menu. It is the figure which illustrated the printing position of the cut mark by simple setting. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the designation | designated item designated by a detailed setting, and a printing position. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of print processing in the printing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the page added for cut mark printing, and a printing order.

Explanation of symbols

1 PC,
2 printing devices,
3 network,
11, 21 CPU,
12,22 ROM,
13,23 RAM,
14, 24 hard disk,
15 display,
16 input devices,
17 Recording medium reader,
18, 28 network interface,
19, 29 bus,
25 Operation panel section,
26 printing department,
27 Direct printing connection,
30 paper cassettes,
31 paper,
37 Double-sided printing mechanism,
39 Control panel,
40 LCD display,
41 direction switch,
46 Center switch (menu / selection execution switch),
50 Cut mark printing switching menu screen,
51 Position setting screen for simple setting,
52 Size setting screen for simple setting,
53 Horizontal position specification screen for detailed setting,
54 Vertical position specification screen for detailed settings,
55 Horizontal size specification screen for detailed settings,
56 Vertical size specification screen for detailed settings,
62 printable area,
63 First side of the paper,
64 Second side of the paper,
65 Position / range to be specified,
66, 70 Cut mark,
69 Closed area.

Claims (4)

A printing apparatus having a duplex printing mechanism,
Determining means for determining whether or not printing of a cut mark indicating a closed region to be cut out from the paper is designated for the received print data;
When the determination unit determines that printing of the cut mark is specified, double-sided is used to determine whether double-sided printing using both sides of the sheet for printing data is specified for the print data A print designation determination means;
An obtaining means for obtaining a size and a print position of the cut mark when the judgment means determines that printing of the cut mark is designated;
A change unit that changes the double-sided printing to single-sided printing that uses one side of the paper for printing print data when the double-sided printing designation judging unit determines that the double-sided printing is designated;
Printing means for printing the cut mark on the back surface of the paper on which the print data is printed based on the size and print position of the cut mark obtained by the obtaining means;
I have a,
When the change unit changes double-sided printing to single-sided printing, the printing unit prints the cut mark on the back side of the paper on which the print data is printed on one side for each page . A printing method executed by a printing apparatus having a duplex printing mechanism,
A determination step for determining whether or not printing of a cut mark indicating a closed region to be cut out from the paper is designated for the received print data;
When it is determined in the determining step that printing of the cut mark is designated, double-side printing for determining whether or not double-sided printing using both sides of a sheet for printing data is designated for the print data A print designation determination step;
If it is determined that printing of the cut mark is specified in the determination step, an acquisition step of acquiring a size and a print position of the cut mark;
If it is determined that the double-sided printing is specified in the double-sided printing designation determination step, the double-sided printing is changed to single-sided printing that uses one side of the paper for printing the print data; and
A printing step of printing the cut mark on the back surface of the paper on which the print data is printed based on the size and the print position of the cut mark acquired in the acquisition step;
I have a,
If the double-sided printing is changed to single-sided printing in the changing step, the cut mark is printed on the back side of the paper on which the print data is printed on one side for each page in the printing step. Method. A program for controlling a printing apparatus having a duplex printing mechanism,
A determination procedure for determining whether or not printing of a cut mark indicating a closed region to be cut out from the paper is designated for the received print data;
When it is determined in the determination procedure that printing of the cut mark is designated, double-side printing is performed to determine whether double-sided printing using both sides of a sheet for printing data is designated for the print data. The procedure for determining print designation,
When it is determined that printing of the cut mark is specified in the determination procedure, an acquisition procedure for acquiring the size and print position of the cut mark;
When it is determined that the double-sided printing is specified in the double-sided printing designation determining procedure, the double-sided printing is changed to single-sided printing that uses one side of the paper for printing the print data; and
A print instruction procedure for giving an instruction to print the cut mark on the back surface of the paper on which the print data is printed, based on the size and print position of the cut mark acquired in the acquisition procedure;
To the printing device ,
When the double-sided printing is changed to single-sided printing in the change procedure, the cut mark is printed on the back side of the paper on which the print data is printed on one side for each page in the printing procedure. program. A computer-readable recording medium on which the printing program according to claim 3 is recorded.

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