JPH08235167A - Document preparation device and printing control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide the document preparation device and printing control method which are improved in usability so that another interrupting document is printed immediately and preferentially during document printing, the interruption of another document is inhibited during the interruptive printing, and the printing is inhibited from being canceled. CONSTITUTION: A CPU 1 indicates interruptive printing halfway in a page on the basis of program information in a ROM 2, inhibits interrupting printing halfway in a page, and inhibits the printing from being canceled. Further, an input password from a keyboard 4 is displayed on a display device 6, a RAM 3 manages print data, and print data of a document that is being printed are divided to change the order of the print data, thereby actualizing interruptive printing wherein the execution of the interruption of another document halfway in a page of the document that is being printed and the execution of printing cancellation are controlled.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus and a print control method for improving an interrupt printing function capable of changing the priority of a document waiting to be printed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, in a document preparation device,
If you have instructed to print multiple documents and there are documents waiting to be printed,
It is possible to print next to the document currently being printed, the so-called
The interrupt printing function is installed. Then, the interrupt printing can be freely instructed, and the printing cancellation can also be freely instructed.

[0003]

As described above, in the interrupt printing of the conventional document creating apparatus, since the document being printed is printed next (after the printing of the document being printed is finished), the document being printed is printed. If the number of pages is too large, the start of printing of the document for which interrupt printing is instructed is delayed, and for example, there is a problem in terms of speediness in that the output of the document for which interrupt printing is instructed is waited for a long time. . Further, if the interrupt printing of another document is instructed, the printing priority of the document for which the interrupt printing is instructed first is lowered, and there is a problem that there is no flexibility. Further, even if the interrupt printing is instructed, there is a problem that the interrupt printing instruction is canceled by the print cancel instruction.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and it is possible to eliminate the above-mentioned problems and to immediately print another document desired to be printed while the document is being printed. It is another object of the present invention to provide a document creation apparatus and a print control method capable of prohibiting interruption of another document and prohibiting printing stoppage and improving the usability.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a document creating apparatus equipped with an interrupt printing function, a storage means for storing document information of a document for which printing is instructed, and a page. Interrupt printing instruction means for instructing interrupt printing in units, judgment means for judging whether or not it is the last page from information from the storage means, dividing means for dividing the document information of the document being printed, and interruption in page units A means for storing the document information for which printing is instructed between the results of the dividing means is provided, and control is performed so as to interrupt the middle of the page of the document being printed and enable printing first.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention is such that, in the above-mentioned document preparation apparatus, a prohibition means for designating page interruption printing prohibition and a storage means for storing document information of a document for which printing is instructed are stored. Prohibition judging means for judging whether page interruption printing is prohibited or not according to the information of page interruption printing prohibition, display means for displaying password interruption information in the storage means, and the password information And a canceling means for canceling prohibition of page interrupt printing by inputting, and it is possible to prohibit / cancel interrupt printing in page units.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, the present invention is based on the above-mentioned document creating apparatus, whether the printing stop prohibition means for prohibiting the print stop and the print stop prohibition information stored in the storage means are used. Means for determining whether to prohibit printing, and means for displaying prohibition of printing cancellation based on the password information stored in the storage means, and means for canceling prohibition of printing cancellation by inputting the password information. / It is characterized in that it can be released.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, the present invention stores document information of a document for which printing is instructed in a document preparation apparatus equipped with an interrupt printing function, and instructs interrupt printing in page units, It is determined from the stored information whether or not it is the final page, the document information of the document being printed is divided, and the document information instructing interrupt printing in page units is stored between the results of the division, and The printing control method is characterized in that the printing is interrupted in the middle of a page of the document and the printing is enabled first.

[0009]

With the above arrangement, the document desired to be printed can be preferentially printed immediately while the document is being printed, and interruption of another document can be prohibited or interruption of printing can be prohibited during interruption printing. can do.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The outline of the present invention includes a method of instructing interrupt printing in the middle of a page, a method of prohibiting interrupt printing in the middle of a page, a method of prohibiting print cancellation, and a method of entering a password. , The password is displayed, the buffer for managing the print data, the method for dividing the print data of the document being printed, and the method for changing the order of the print data are used to display other pages in the middle of the document being printed. It realizes interrupt printing for controlling execution of interruption of a document and execution of printing cancellation.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a microprocessor (CPU) as a central control processing unit, which controls the entire apparatus. Reference numeral 2 denotes a read-only internal storage ROM, which stores various program information, dictionary information, and other various data.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a RAM, which is a readable / writable internal storage device, for storing input document information, and information such as document format information and various control data.
Reference numeral 4 denotes a keyboard (KB) which is an input device, and a CPU
The keyboard interface 5 is used to input character information for document creation for 1, and to start editing processing.

A display device 6 displays the document data and the like stored in the RAM 3 by using the display dot memory 8 under the control of the display control device 7 and the CPU 1. A printer 9 prints document data and the like stored in the RAM 3 under the control of the printer interface 10 and the CPU 1.

11 is a floppy disk device (FDD)
It is an external storage device including a hard disk device (HDD) and stores and calls the document data and the like stored in the RAM 3 under the control of the disk interface 12 and the CPU 1.

The document creating apparatus configured as described above operates as shown in FIGS. In FIG. 2, S5 is a step of designating page interruption printing prohibition, and the input items of the printer name and password are displayed.

Step S11 is a step of creating interrupt print information for each document, and the print document information for the second and subsequent documents in the print data management buffer is copied to the third and subsequent documents. S
Reference numeral 14 is a step for canceling the page interruption prohibition, and displays the name of the printer and the input item of the password.

S17 is a step of dividing the print data management information, and the print document information of the first and subsequent documents in the print data management buffer is copied to the second and subsequent documents. S20 is a step of creating the print data management information of the interrupted document, and sets the print document information of the document to be page-interrupted printed in the second document of the print data management buffer.

In FIG. 3, S21 is a step of performing a printing process, S22 is a step of determining whether or not the print cancellation is designated, S23 is a step of determining whether or not the print cancellation is prohibited, and S24 is. This is a step of displaying an input screen of a printer name and a password.

S26 is a step of judging whether or not there is an instruction to cancel the designation of the print cancellation, S27 is a step of canceling the printing and ending the processing, and S28 is a judgment of whether or not the printing of all the documents is finished, and the processing is finished. If not, the process returns to step S1 to continue printing.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of the print data management buffer in the above embodiment, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of print document information in the same embodiment, and FIG. 6 is in the same embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an interrupt / print prohibition screen, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a page interrupt prohibition message in the same embodiment,
8 is a diagram showing an example of a message for prohibiting the print cancellation in the same embodiment.

The operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, when the print key is pressed from the keyboard 4, the CPU 1 executes a print execution routine. The operation at this time will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, a print type menu is displayed, and it is determined in step S1 whether page interruption printing is performed. In the case of page interruption printing, in step S2, page interruption printing of the print format is prohibited, and printing cancellation is prohibited. Is displayed first.

If the page interruption printing is not shown in FIG. 6, the page interruption printing prohibition "no" of the print format "no" and the print cancellation prohibition "no" is first displayed in step S3. In step S4, it is judged whether either page interruption printing prohibition or print cancellation prohibition is designated as "Yes", and if neither is "Yes", the printer name and password are displayed in gray and cannot be inputted. If either of them is designated as "Yes", the input items of the printer name and the password are displayed in step S5.

In step S6, it is determined whether page interruption printing is performed,
If the page interruption printing is not performed, 1 is added to the number of print documents in step S7, the print document information of the document to be printed is set at the end of the document information in the print data management buffer in step S8, and step S21 is executed (FIG. 4). , See FIG. 5).

In the case of page interruption printing, the print document information of the document being printed is read from the print data management buffer in step S9. In step S10, it is determined whether the page number during printing of the print document is equal to the last page number. If they are equal, in step S11, the print document information of the second and subsequent documents in the print data management buffer is copied to the third and subsequent documents, and step S1
In step 2, 1 is added to the number of print documents, and step S20 is executed.

If the last page is not printed, step S1
In 3, determine whether the document being printed is "disabled" for page break printing,
In the case of prohibiting, a screen for inputting the printer name and password is displayed in step S14.

When the password is input in FIG. 7, it is determined in step S15 whether the password of the document being printed and the input password match, and if they do not match, it is determined in step S16 whether the password is canceled and the password is canceled. In the case of, the processing ends.

If the cancellation is not made, step S1 is executed again.
Wait for password input at 4. If the page interrupt printing is not "disabled" in step S13, the print document information of the first and subsequent documents in the print data management buffer is copied to the second and subsequent documents in step S17, and the last page number of the first document is copied in step S18. The number of pages being printed is set to, and "2" is added to the number of printed documents in step S19, and the print document information of the document to be page-interrupt printed in the second document of the print data management buffer is set in step S20. Printing is executed in the order of the print document information in the print data management buffer.

In step S21, the printing process is performed. In step S22, it is determined whether or not the print cancellation is designated. If the print cancellation is designated, it is determined in step S23 whether or not the print cancellation is "permitted" and prohibited. In case of step S
At 24, a printer name and password input screen is displayed.

When the password is input in FIG. 8, it is determined in step S15 whether the password of the document being printed and the input password match. If they do not match, it is determined in step S26 whether the password is canceled and the password is canceled. In the case of, the printing process is continued in step S21. If it is not canceled, the password input is awaited again in step S24.

In step S23, prohibition of printing cancellation "Yes"
If not, or if the passwords match in step S25, printing is stopped and the process ends in step S27.

If it is determined in step S22 that printing has not been stopped, it is determined in step S28 whether printing of all documents has been completed. If not, printing is continued in step S1. If the printing of all documents has been completed, the processing ends.

[0034]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to immediately give priority to another interrupt document to be printed while printing the document. Further, it is possible to prohibit interruption of another document during interruption printing, or prohibit printing cancellation. Therefore, there is an excellent effect that usability can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a print data management buffer according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a structural example of print document information according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an interrupt / print prohibition screen according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a page interrupt prohibition message according to the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a message for prohibiting printing cancellation according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... CPU, 2 ... ROM, 3 ... RAM, 4 ... Keyboard, 6 ... Display device, 8 ... Printer, 11 ... External storage device.

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus equipped with an interrupt printing function, storage means for storing document information of a document for which printing is instructed, interrupt print instructing means for instructing interrupt printing on a page basis, and said storage Determination means for determining whether the document page being printed is the last page from the storage information of the means, dividing means for dividing the document information of the document being printed when the document page being printed is not the last page, and page A means for storing the document information instructing interrupt printing in units between the documents divided by the dividing means is provided so that the document interrupted in the middle of the document page being printed can be printed first. Document creation device. 2. A method of designating page interruption printing prohibition and a page interruption printing prohibition information stored in a storage means for storing document information of a document for which printing is instructed are used to judge whether interruption interruption is prohibited or not. Means, a display means for displaying a page interruption printing prohibition state, and a release means for releasing the prohibition of page interruption printing when the storage means is provided with password information and coincides with the input password. 2. The document creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein interruption printing can be prohibited and canceled. 3. A means for designating prohibition of print cancellation, a means for storing the designation information in the storage device, and whether or not to prohibit print cancellation by means of the prohibition designation information for print cancellation stored in the storage means. A means for determining whether the print stop is prohibited, a means for displaying a print stop prohibition state, and a means for canceling the print stop prohibition when the password stored in the storage means matches the input password. The document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cancellation is enabled. 4. A document creation apparatus having an interrupt printing function, wherein the document information of a document instructed to be printed is stored in a storage device, and when the interrupt printing is instructed in page units, the stored print instruction document is stored. Information is used to determine whether the page being printed is the last page, and if it is not the last page, the document information of the document being printed is divided, and the document information for which interrupt printing has been instructed page by page A print control method, wherein a document for which interrupt printing is instructed is stored in the middle of a page of a document being printed to enable printing first.