JPH01226350A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit labor of selecting orientation manually other than a paper feed means, by automatically indicating orientation to either one of a portrait and a landscape when a specific paper feed means is selected. CONSTITUTION:By providing a paper feed means, a printing means having two orientations of a portrait and a landscape and a control means for automatically indicating the orientations to either one of the portrait and the landscape when the above mentioned paper feed means is selected, labor indicating orientations manually other than the paper feed means is omitted. For example, the orientations can be indicated by a paper feed change-over switch 10 and, when an envelope feeder is selected as a paper feed mode at the time of an emuration command, the orientations are set to the landscape.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a printer having two orientations (printing direction relative to the paper conveyance direction), portrait and landscape, and particularly to a page printer.

[Prior Art] A page printer needs to set the printing direction (orientation) with respect to the paper conveyance direction. In the basic command system of conventional page printers, there is an orientation switching command, which can be used to switch the orientation to portrait or landscape, or by activating a switch on the operation panel, the menu format can be changed. It is possible to set the orientation.

FIG. 8 shows the configuration of a conventional page printer. according to the specified orientation.

Information is being read from memory 3.

When emulating the command system of a line printer with a page printer, it is basically assumed that portrait printing will be performed.

In this way, when a page printer with two command systems, portrait and landscape, is provided with a paper feed mechanism for envelopes in addition to standard cassette paper feed, due to the shape of the envelopes and the structure of the printer, the paper As with other sheets of paper, the paper is transported with the short side first.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve] However,
In the conventional example described above, when printing on envelopes with English specifications, the normal orientation is portrait, even though the original intention cannot be achieved unless printing is done in landscape. Therefore, it was necessary to select the paper feed cassette for envelopes using the paper feed selector switch on the operation panel as the paper feed option, and to set the orientation to landscape using the menu format described above, which had the disadvantage of complicating operations.

[Configuration for solving the problem] A paper feeding means, a printing means having two orientations, portrait and landscape, and automatically changing the orientation to either portrait or landscape when the paper feeding means is selected. By providing a control means for specifying the orientation, it is possible to save the effort of manually specifying the orientation in addition to the paper feeding means.

[Example] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of this example, and FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing state transitions related to the present invention.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the orientation can also be specified using the paper feed changeover switch IO. Elements common to those in FIG. 8 are given the same numbers, and description thereof will be omitted.

This embodiment relates to specifying the orientation when an envelope feeder is provided as an option.

That is, when the envelope feeder is selected as the paper feeding mode at the time of the emulation command, the orientation is set to landscape.

In Figure 2, the states are divided into four states: optional paper feeding state 1a of the basic command system that operates as a page printer, cassette manual paper feeding state 1b, and optional paper feeding state of the emulated command system that operates as a line printer. There is a paper status IC and a cassette manual paper feed status ld. Large arrows 11 to 14 are associated with processes such as saving, restoring, and discarding the orientation when changing states depending on the respective factors (command mode switching (11), paper feeding mode switching (12 to 14)) It is.

This embodiment relates to processing at the time of transition between state 1c, states 1a, and lb." The large arrow 12 indicates the transition from state 1d to state 1c, and the paper feeding mode is changed from "cassette manual feed" to "option". It's time to change. This change can be made in the menu format from the operation panel and by using the paper feed mode switch. Since this is an emulated command system, when transitioning to optional paper feeding, the current orientation is saved and a save flag is set. If you save it, when you return the paper feeding mode to the original cassette, you can also restore the original orientation. Furthermore, when a plurality of cassettes are used, a storage area may be provided for each cassette.

And set the orientation to landscape (
(Flowchart in Figure 2).

The large arrow 13 is the opposite of the above operation, and the option paper feeding state 1
If the save flag is set in the transition from c to cassette manual paper feeding state 1d, the orientation is switched to save. If the save flag is not set, the current orientation will be maintained.

Next, in the case of large arrow 11, the command mode is changed to the basic command system by menu operation, etc., but if the save flag is on at this time, the command system is changed after returning to the saved orientation. return. If the orientation is not saved, the orientation is maintained as it is (flow chart in FIG. 5).

In the case of the thin arrow 10, the command mode changes from the basic command system to the emulation system without switching the paper feeding mode, so the orientation is not necessarily landscape.

Therefore, the large arrow 14 does nothing if the save flag is on. However, if the save flag is off, it saves the current orientation and makes it landscape. In this way, the orientation can always be set to landscape when feeding optional paper in the emulation command mode.

Also, if the orientation is automatically set to landscape when feeding the paper in the emulation command mode option, and you want to print in portrait mode, you can manually force the orientation back to portrait mode.

In other words, when the save flag is on, that is, when the orientation is saved, this save is meaningless, so the save flag is turned off, the saved value is cleared, and the panel operation result takes priority (6th Figure Flowchart).

In this way, when changing to the optional paper feeding mode of the emulation command mode, the orientation can be automatically changed to landscape.

Also, if you change the command system or paper feed mode,
Orientation can also be restored.

[Other Embodiments] In Japanese, there are vertical and horizontal writing, even in orientation or landscape.

Although these two types of changes cannot be automatically controlled by changing the paper feeding mode, they can be stored in advance so that the one that is used more frequently is specified preferentially. In addition, when restoring, it is sufficient to set vertical writing and horizontal writing in a specific area on the memory.

[Effect of the invention] As explained above, by automatically specifying the orientation as either portrait or landscape when a specific paper feeding means is selected, it is possible to manually set the orientation in addition to the paper feeding means. This saves you the trouble of making a selection.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a core diagram showing the configuration of a conventional example. 1 is a control panel, 4 is an operation panel, and 10 is a paper feed selection switch. Figure 2 - Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Paper feeding means; Portrait and Landscape a printing means having an orientation; When the above paper feeding method is selected, automatic portrait or Controls specified for either landscape A pudding characterized by having means. Ta. (2) multiple paper feeding means; Portrait and Landscape a printing means having an orientation; The above-mentioned supply that supplies recording paper to the above-mentioned printing means When the paper means is changed, the previous Memory means for remembering orientation and, The above-mentioned supply that supplies recording paper to the above-mentioned printing means When the paper means is returned, the memory hand Original orientation stored in the tier A printer characterized by being able to return to.