CN111666049B - Printing apparatus and printing method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to a printing device and a printing method, which are used for printing manuscript files in a large scale, wherein the printing device comprises: the document processing apparatus includes a paper feeding device, a wide threshold value storage section that stores a wide threshold value, a document acquisition storage section that stores a long side size and a short side size of a document file, a document acquisition storage section that acquires a width of a printing paper, a selection section that selects the printing paper having a width closest to the long side size as a current paper, an ultra-wide determination section that determines whether the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, a threshold value determination section that determines whether a difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is larger than the wide threshold value when it is determined that the difference is larger than the wide threshold value, and a document processing section that processes the document file to obtain a printing file when it is determined that the difference is not larger than the wide threshold value, the printing section printing the printing file by feeding the printing paper on the long side.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of printing, in particular to printing equipment and a printing method.
Background
At present, a continuous printing method is required for printing documents such as engineering drawings and design drawings, for example, a wide format printer is used and roll printing paper is used for printing. In general, since there is no wide-format printer in a facility such as a design house, it is necessary to send a document file to a special printing facility for printing after completion of the document file. Therefore, such printing mechanisms are generally required to print document files of large width continuously, for a long time, in large quantities.
In general, the printing direction and the selection of the printing paper are based on the "automatic (minimum margin)" principle, that is, a determination is made as to which printing mode the long-side paper feed printing and the short-side paper feed printing are performed so that the margin of the printed paper document is minimized. However, in order to reduce the printing time, when the above-described mass printing is performed, the printing mechanism also uses a mode of "long-side paper feeding priority", that is, performs printing such that the long side of the document file is parallel to the printing paper width as much as possible. In this mode of "long side paper feed priority", the printer compares the long side size of the document file with the width of the printing paper, and selects the printing paper having a width exceeding the long side size and closest to the long side size to print. When there is no printing paper having a width exceeding the long side dimension, the printer prints with the short side parallel to the width of the printing paper.
However, the mode of "long-side paper feeding priority" has the following problems: when the width of the printing paper exceeds the long side by too much, the waste of the paper is caused due to the large area of the redundant part of the paper in the width direction, and the printed paper document is also very unattractive. In addition, in the conventional wide-format printer, laser printing is often used, the printing time mainly depends on the paper feeding length of the printing paper, and the paper feeding length is increased in a manner that the short side direction of the original document is consistent with the width direction of the printing paper, so that the printing time is increased, and particularly when the original document is in a prolate shape (the ratio of the long side dimension to the short side dimension is large), excessive time is consumed, and when a customer needs to print a paper document, the customer is bothersome.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide a printing apparatus and a printing method capable of mass-printing document files having a long-side size and a short-side size with a short printing time.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the present invention provides a printing apparatus characterized by comprising: the document processing apparatus includes a paper feeding device which accommodates a plurality of roll printing papers of different widths, a width threshold storage section which stores a width threshold value associated with a predetermined width, a document acquisition storage section which stores a long side size and a short side size of a document file once the document file is acquired, a paper width acquisition section which acquires the width of all roll printing papers in the paper feeding device, a selection section which selects, as a current paper, a roll printing paper having a width closest to the long side size based on the long side size and the width acquired by the paper width acquisition section, a super-wide determination section which determines whether the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, and a threshold value determination section which determines whether a difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is larger than the width threshold value when the threshold determination section determines that the difference is not larger than the width threshold value, and a document processing section which performs a size adjustment process on the document file when the threshold value determination section determines that the difference is not larger than the width threshold value, and a print direction of the document file is identical to the current paper.
The invention also provides a printing method, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: a paper feeding step of accommodating a plurality of roll printing papers of different widths, a width threshold storing step of storing a width threshold associated with a preset width, a document acquisition and storage step of storing a long side size and a short side size of a document once the document is acquired, a paper width acquiring step of acquiring the width of all the roll printing papers, a selecting step of selecting the roll printing paper having a width closest to the long side size as a current paper according to the long side size and the width acquired by the paper width acquiring section, an ultra-wide judging step of judging whether the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, a threshold judging step of judging whether a difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is larger than the width threshold when the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, a document processing step of performing a size adjustment process on the document when the difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is not larger than Rong Kuan threshold, and a printing step of printing the document in a print mode of matching the long side direction of the current paper with the long side direction of the current paper.
Effects and effects of the invention
According to the printing apparatus and the printing method of the present invention, since the selecting section selects the roll type printing paper having the width closest to the long side dimension as the current paper, the ultra-wide determining section determines whether the long side dimension exceeds the width of the current paper, and when it is determined that the difference between the width of the current paper and the long side dimension is larger than the width threshold, the threshold determining section determines that the document processing section performs the size adjustment processing on the document file to obtain the printing document when the threshold determining section determines that the difference is not larger than the width threshold, and the printing section prints the printing document using the current paper so that the long side direction of the printing document coincides with the width direction of the current paper, the present invention can perform the size adjustment processing on the document file in the width range, and the processed printing document can be printed using the printing paper having the width closest to the long side dimension, so that the long side dimension is close to the width of the actual printing paper, saving the printing paper, and improving the utilization ratio of the printing paper. Meanwhile, the utilization rate of the printing paper is high, so that the printed paper file is more attractive, and the user satisfaction is increased. In addition, compared with the mode that the long side direction of the printed file is consistent with the width direction of the current paper in the short side direction of the printed file, the printing time is saved, and the printing efficiency is improved.
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Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a structure of a printing apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a print setting screen of the printing apparatus in the embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a printing action of a printing device in an embodiment of the invention; and
fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a printing result of printing a print file according to the present embodiment.
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In order to make the technical means, creation features, achievement of objects and effects achieved by the present invention easy to understand, the printing apparatus of the present invention is specifically described below with reference to the embodiments and the accompanying drawings.
The present invention provides a printing apparatus characterized by comprising: a printing apparatus for mass printing document files having a long side size and a short side size, comprising: the document processing apparatus includes a paper feeding device which accommodates a plurality of roll printing papers of different widths, a width threshold storage section which stores a width threshold value associated with a predetermined width, a document acquisition storage section which stores a long side size and a short side size of a document file once the document file is acquired, a paper width acquisition section which acquires the width of all roll printing papers in the paper feeding device, a selection section which selects, as a current paper, a roll printing paper having a width closest to the long side size based on the long side size and the width acquired by the paper width acquisition section, a super-wide determination section which determines whether the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, and a threshold value determination section which determines whether a difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is larger than the width threshold value when the threshold determination section determines that the difference is not larger than the width threshold value, and a document processing section which performs a size adjustment process on the document file when the threshold value determination section determines that the difference is not larger than the width threshold value, and a print direction of the document file is identical to the current paper.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: further comprises: and a paper determination unit that determines whether or not a roll printing paper having a width larger than the current paper exists when the threshold determination unit determines that the roll printing paper is larger than the current paper, wherein the printing unit prints the document such that the longitudinal direction of the document matches the width direction of the current paper using the roll printing paper having the larger width as a new current paper when the paper determination unit determines that the roll printing paper is present.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: when the paper determination unit determines that the document is not present, the printing unit prints the document such that the short side direction of the document matches the current width direction of the paper.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: when the super-width determination unit determines that the document is not to be printed out, the printing unit prints the document using the current sheet so that the longitudinal direction of the document matches the width direction of the current sheet.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: further comprises: and an input display unit for displaying the print setting screen to allow the user to input the bandwidth threshold, wherein the bandwidth threshold storage unit stores the bandwidth threshold as a new bandwidth threshold upon confirmation of the input bandwidth threshold by the user.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: wherein, the setting range of the capacity width threshold value is 2mm-100mm.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: and a screen storage section storing a print setting screen having a processing mode setting section for letting a user select a processing mode for performing a resizing process on the document file, the processing mode including a trimming process and a reduction process, and a document processing section performing the trimming process or the reduction process on the document file according to the user's selection, thereby obtaining a print file.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: the width of the roll printing paper is 210mm-841mm.
In addition, in the above-described printing apparatus, it may further have a feature that: the document file is composed of an image and a margin, the long side size is the maximum distance of the image of the document file in the transverse and longitudinal directions, the short side size is the minimum distance of the image of the document file in the transverse and longitudinal directions, the document acquisition and storage part comprises a document file acquisition unit, a document size acquisition unit, a document minimum margin acquisition unit, a size calculation unit and a size storage unit, the document file acquisition unit acquires the document file, the document size acquisition unit acquires the document size of the document in the transverse and longitudinal directions respectively, the document margin acquisition unit acquires the minimum margin distance of the document file in the transverse and longitudinal directions respectively, the size calculation unit calculates the difference between the document size and the minimum margin length in the corresponding directions respectively as the image size, the maximum image size is the long side size, the minimum image size is the short side size, and the size storage unit stores the long side size and the short side size.
The invention also provides a printing method for printing a large quantity of manuscript files with long side size and short side size, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: a paper feeding step of accommodating a plurality of roll printing papers of different widths, a width threshold storing step of storing a width threshold associated with a preset width, a document acquisition and storage step of storing a long side size and a short side size of a document once the document is acquired, a paper width acquiring step of acquiring the width of all the roll printing papers, a selecting step of selecting the roll printing paper having a width closest to the long side size as a current paper according to the long side size and the width acquired by the paper width acquiring section, an ultra-wide judging step of judging whether the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, a threshold judging step of judging whether a difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is larger than the width threshold when the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, a document processing step of performing a size adjustment process on the document when the difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is not larger than Rong Kuan threshold, and a printing step of printing the document in a print mode of matching the long side direction of the current paper with the long side direction of the current paper.
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The printing apparatus of the present embodiment is applied to print a document file of a large width, which has a long-side size and a short-side size, continuously, for a long time, in a large batch. The long side size is the size of the long side of the page of the original document, and the short side size is the length of the short side of the page of the original document. For example, the long side size of the document file of the A1 format (i.e., 841mm×5949 mm) is 841mm, and the short side size is 594mm.
Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a structure of a printing apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, the printing apparatus 100 includes a paper feeding device 1, a screen storage unit 2, an input display unit 3, a width threshold storage unit 4, a document acquisition storage unit 5, a paper width acquisition unit 6, a selection unit 7, an ultra-wide determination unit 8, a threshold determination unit 9, a paper determination unit 10, a document processing unit 11, a printing unit 12, a communication unit 13, and a control unit 14.
Specifically, the printing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment includes a wide-format printer and a computer that installs a control program and controls the wide-format printer, wherein the paper feeding device 1 is a paper feeding device that is external to the wide-format printer, the printing section 12 corresponds to the wide-format printer, and other constituent parts are parts of the computer or the control program that realize corresponding functions.
The paper feeding device 1 includes a printing paper storage mechanism and a paper feeding mechanism. The printing paper storage mechanism accommodates a plurality of roll printing papers of different widths. The width of roll printing paper (hereinafter simply referred to as printing paper) is 210mm to 841mm. The paper feeding mechanism is used for feeding printing paper to the wide-width printer when the wide-width printer needs to print.
The screen storage unit 2 stores a print setting screen 21.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a print setting screen of the printing apparatus in the embodiment of the invention.
As shown in fig. 2, the print setting screen 21 has a print mode selection section 211, a print parameter input section 212, a bandwidth threshold input section 213, and a document processing mode setting section 214.
The print mode selection section 211 is for letting the user select whether or not to perform a high-speed print mode, and includes a selection prompt box 211a, a selection confirmation key 211b, and a selection cancel key 211c.
The selection prompt box 211a is used to prompt the user whether to select the high-speed print mode.
The selection confirmation key 211b, i.e., the "selection confirmation" key shown in fig. 2, is used to let the user confirm whether the high-speed printing mode is selected.
The selection cancel key 211c, i.e., the "selection cancel" key shown in fig. 2, is used to let the user cancel the selection of the high-speed print mode.
The print parameter input section 212 is for letting a user input print parameters, and includes a plurality of print parameter input boxes 212a, a parameter confirmation key 212b, and a parameter cancel key 212c.
The print parameter input box 212a is used to allow the user to input print parameters such as the paper type and the number of copies to be printed.
The parameter confirmation key 212b is a "parameter confirmation" key shown in fig. 2 for letting the user confirm the inputted print parameters.
The parameter cancel key 212c is a "parameter cancel" key shown in fig. 2 for letting the user cancel the input print parameter.
Rong Kuan threshold input section 213 is for letting the user input the current bandwidth threshold, and includes a threshold input box 213a, a threshold out-of-range prompt box 213b, a threshold confirm key 213c, and a threshold cancel key 213d.
The threshold input box 213a is used to let the user input a capacity threshold.
The threshold out-of-range prompting box 213b is configured to prompt the user to input a bandwidth threshold within the set range when the bandwidth threshold input by the user exceeds the set range. In the present embodiment, the setting range of the width threshold is set in advance by the vendor of the printing apparatus 100, and is 2mm to 100mm.
The threshold confirm key 213c is a "threshold confirm" key shown in fig. 2, and is used to confirm the input bandwidth threshold by the user.
The threshold cancel key 213d is a "threshold cancel" key shown in fig. 2 for letting the user cancel the inputted bandwidth threshold.
The document processing mode setting section 214 is for letting the user select a processing mode for performing a resizing process on an original document, the processing mode including a trimming process and a reduction process. The document processing mode setting section 214 includes a cut selection key 214a, a reduction selection key 214b, a confirmation key 214c, and a cancel key 214d.
The cut selection key 214a is a "cut" key shown in fig. 2 for letting the user select to perform cutting processing on the original document.
The reduction selection key 214b is a "reduction" key shown in fig. 2, and is used to allow the user to select a reduction process for the document file.
The process confirmation key 214c is a "process confirmation" key shown in fig. 2 for letting the user confirm the selected process mode.
The process cancel key 214d is a "process cancel" key shown in fig. 2 for letting the user cancel the selected process mode.
The input display unit 3 displays the print setting screen 21, and allows the user to confirm whether or not to select the high-speed print mode, and after selecting the high-speed print mode, inputs the print parameters and the width threshold value, and selects a processing mode for performing the resizing processing on the document file.
The width threshold storage section 4 stores an initial width threshold associated with a width, which is set in advance by a vendor of the printing apparatus 100. The tolerance threshold is an absolute value of a difference between a length of a printing paper allowed to be printed out with respect to a document file. If the user cancels the input of the bandwidth threshold, the bandwidth threshold storage unit 4 sets the initial bandwidth threshold set in advance as the current bandwidth threshold. If the user inputs and confirms the inputted bandwidth threshold, the bandwidth threshold storage unit 4 stores the inputted bandwidth threshold as a new bandwidth threshold.
The document acquisition and storage unit 5 is configured to acquire a document file after a user inputs the document file, and to store the long side size and the short side size of the document file.
The paper width acquisition unit 6 acquires the width of all the printing papers in the paper feeder 1.
The selecting section 7 is configured to select, as the current sheet, a printing sheet having a width closest to the long side dimension, based on the long side dimension and the width acquired by the sheet width acquiring section 6. For example, if the long side size is 593mm and the width of the printing paper is 210mm, 594mm, and 841mm, respectively, the selecting section 7 uses the printing paper corresponding to 594mm as the current paper.
The ultra-wide determination unit 8 determines whether the long side size exceeds the width of the current sheet.
The threshold value determination unit 9 is configured to determine whether or not the difference between the width of the current sheet and the long side size is larger than the current width threshold value when the long side size is determined to be larger than the current width of the sheet by the ultra-wide determination unit 8.
The paper determination unit 10 is configured to determine whether or not there is a print paper having a width larger than the current paper when the threshold determination unit 9 determines that the difference between the current paper width and the long side size is larger than the current width threshold.
The document processing section 11 is configured to perform a resizing process on the original document to obtain a print document when the threshold value judging section 9 judges that the difference between the width and the long side size of the current sheet is not greater than the current width tolerance threshold value. When the user selects the trimming process, the document processing section 11 performs the trimming process on the document file to obtain a print file; when the user selects the reduction process, the document processing section 11 performs the reduction process on the original document according to the ratio of the long side size to the short side size based on the difference between the width of the current sheet and the long side size to obtain a print document.
The printing unit 12 corresponds to a wide-format printer and performs printing. In the present embodiment, the printing unit 12 performs printing in different modes according to the judgment or the judgment result of the paper judgment unit 10 by the ultra-wide judgment unit 8, the threshold judgment unit 9, and the threshold judgment unit 14 under the control of the control unit 14, and includes: when the super-width determination section 8 determines that the long-side size does not exceed the width of the current sheet, the printing section 12 prints the document file so that the long-side direction of the document file coincides with the width direction of the current sheet, using the current sheet, according to the printing parameters input by the user; when the super-width determination section 8 determines that the difference between the width and the long-side size of the current sheet is not greater than the current width-containing threshold value, and the threshold value determination section 9 determines that the difference is not greater than the current width-containing threshold value, the printing section 12 prints the print document in such a manner that the long-side direction of the print document coincides with the width direction of the current sheet, using the current sheet, in accordance with the print parameters input by the user; when the threshold value judging section 9 judges that the printing paper having a larger width is present and the paper judging section 10 judges that the printing paper having a larger width is present, the printing section 12 uses the printing paper having a larger width as a new current paper and prints the document file so that the longitudinal direction of the document file coincides with the width direction of the current paper according to the printing parameters input by the user; when the paper determination unit 10 determines that the document is not present, the printing unit 12 prints the document so that the short side direction of the document matches the current width direction of the paper, based on the print parameter input by the user.
The communication section 13 is used to perform data information exchange between the respective constituent parts of the printing apparatus 100 and between the printing apparatus 100 and other devices.
The control section 14 is for controlling operations of the respective constituent parts of the printing apparatus 100.
The operation of the printing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment is described below with reference to the drawings.
The printing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment is mainly used for printing a document file sent from a client, and may be connected to a computer at the client in a communication manner to obtain the document file, or may be provided with a memory reading device to read the document file in a memory (for example, a usb disk) provided by the client. After the original document is obtained, the printing operation can be started. During the printing operation, the customer may make inputs and settings as a user, or may make inputs and settings as a user by an operator.
Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a printing action of the printing apparatus in the embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the flow of the printing action of the printing apparatus 100 includes the steps of:
in step S1, the input display unit 3 displays the print setting screen 21 to allow the user to confirm whether or not to select the high-speed print mode, inputs the print parameters and the width threshold after selecting the high-speed print mode, and selects the processing mode for resizing the document file, and when the user confirms the corresponding operation, the process proceeds to step S2.
In step S2, the original acquisition and storage unit 5 acquires an original document, stores the long side size and the short side size of the original document, and then proceeds to step S3.
In step S3, the paper width acquiring unit 6 acquires the width of all the printing papers in the paper feeder 1, and the process proceeds to step S4.
In step S4, the selecting section 7 selects, as the current sheet, a roll printing sheet having a width closest to the long side dimension, based on the long side dimension and the width acquired by the sheet width acquiring section 6, and then proceeds to step S5.
In step S5, the ultra-wide determination unit 8 determines whether the long side size exceeds the current paper width, and proceeds to step S6 when it is determined that the long side size does not exceed the current paper width, and otherwise proceeds to step S7.
In step S6, the printing unit 12 prints the document file using the current sheet so that the longitudinal direction of the document file matches the width direction of the current sheet according to the printing parameters input by the user, and then enters the end state.
In step S7, the threshold value determination unit 9 determines whether or not the difference between the width and the long side size of the current sheet is larger than the current width threshold value, and proceeds to step S8 if no, or proceeds to step S10 if no.
In step S8, the document processing section 11 performs a resizing process on the original document to obtain a print document, and then proceeds to step S9.
In step S9, the printing unit 12 prints the print document so that the longitudinal direction of the print document matches the width direction of the current sheet using the current sheet according to the print parameter input by the user, and then enters the end state.
In step S10, the paper determination unit 10 determines whether or not there is a printing paper having a width larger than the current paper, and proceeds to step S11 when it determines that there is a printing paper, and proceeds to step S12 otherwise.
In step S11, the printing unit 12 uses the printing paper having the larger width as a new current paper, prints the document file so that the longitudinal direction of the document file matches the width direction of the current paper according to the printing parameter input by the user, and then enters the end state.
In step S12, the printing unit 12 prints the document file so that the short side direction of the document file matches the current width direction of the paper, based on the print parameter input by the user, and then enters the end state.
In step S1 of the above-described operation flow, the user may directly use the initial width threshold set by the vendor of the printing apparatus without inputting the width threshold, so as to save the printing time.
Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a printing result of printing a print file according to the present embodiment.
In FIG. 4, the left side shows an original document, which has a long side size of 843mm and a short side size of 210mm.
In fig. 4, the right side represents a print file. Since the width of the printing paper closest to the long side size of the document file is 841mm, the long side size exceeds the width of the printing paper closest thereto. When the user sets the width threshold to 4mm and the processing mode is cutting, it is obvious that the difference between the long side dimension and the width of the closest printing paper is smaller than the width threshold, and at this time, the document processing section 11 performs cutting processing on the printing paper to obtain a printing document with both sides cut by 1mm. Then, the printing unit 12 prints the print document so that the longitudinal direction of the print document matches the width direction of the current sheet. In this example, the edge portions of the original document are each cut by 1mm, but the cutting has substantially no influence on the content due to the large overall size itself, but the printing time is shortened to about one fourth of that of the conventional manner (the length required to be printed in the conventional manner is 843mm, but only 210mm is required to be printed in the present embodiment).
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According to the printing apparatus and the printing method of the present embodiment, since the selecting section selects the roll printing paper having the width closest to the long side size as the current paper, the ultra-wide determining section determines whether the long side size exceeds the width of the current paper, and when it is determined that the difference between the width of the current paper and the long side size is larger than the width threshold, the threshold determining section determines that the document processing section performs the size adjustment processing on the document file to obtain the printing document when it is not larger than the threshold, and the printing section prints the printing document using the current paper so that the long side direction of the printing document coincides with the width direction of the current paper, the present embodiment can perform the size adjustment processing on the document file in the width range, and the processed printing document can be printed using the printing paper having the width closest to the long side size, so that the long side size is close to the width of the actual printing paper, saving the printing paper, and improving the utilization ratio of the printing paper. Meanwhile, the utilization rate of the printing paper is high, so that the printed paper file is more attractive, and the user satisfaction is increased. In addition, compared with the mode that the long side direction of the printed file is consistent with the width direction of the current paper in the short side direction of the printed file, the printing time is saved, and the printing efficiency is improved.
In addition, since the printing section prints the original document in such a manner that the long side direction of the original document coincides with the width direction of the current paper when the ultra-wide determination section determines that the original document does not exceed, the printing time is saved, the printing efficiency is improved, and the user satisfaction is increased.
Further, since the screen storage section stores the print setting screen having the Rong Kuan threshold input section for the user to input the width threshold, the input display section is capable of displaying the print setting screen for the user to input the width threshold, and once the user confirms the input width threshold, the threshold judgment section judges whether or not the difference between the width and the long side size of the current sheet is larger than the width threshold set by the user, so that in the present embodiment, the user is able to set the width threshold according to the actual condition of the document (for example, the adjustment upper limit value that does not affect the printing effect when the size adjustment is determined according to the condition of the document, and the value is taken as the width threshold), so that the size adjustment of the document image is performed according to the customer's need, not only saving the printing time, but also obtaining the printed document satisfactory to the customer.
The above embodiments are preferred examples of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
For example, in the above-described embodiment, the paper feeding device is a peripheral device of the wide-format printer, and the printing paper is fed to the wide-format printer by the paper feeding device. In other embodiments, the paper feeding device may be a paper cassette part of a wide-format printer, and the printing paper may be directly fed from the printing unit, so that the structure of the printing apparatus may be simplified.
For example, in the above-described embodiment, the long-side dimension and the short-side dimension of the document file are the longest dimension and the shortest dimension of the page of the document in the lateral-longitudinal direction, respectively.
However, in general, the page of the document file is composed of an image and a margin, and in other embodiments, judgment and determination may be made according to the size of the image. In such an embodiment, the long side size is the maximum distance of the image of the document in the lateral-longitudinal direction, and the short side size is the minimum distance of the image of the document in the lateral-longitudinal direction; meanwhile, the original acquisition storage section includes an original file acquisition unit, an original size acquisition unit, a file minimum margin acquisition unit, a size calculation unit, and a size storage unit. In this embodiment, the document acquisition and storage section operates as follows: the original document acquiring unit acquires an original document; the original size obtaining unit obtains original sizes of originals in the transverse and longitudinal directions respectively; the file blank acquisition unit acquires the minimum blank distance of the original file in the transverse and longitudinal directions respectively; the size calculation unit calculates a difference between the original size and the minimum margin length in the corresponding direction as an image size, and takes a maximum image size as a long side size and a minimum image size as a short side size; the size storage unit stores the long side size and the short side size.
In this form, the printing paper having the image in the document with the length and width closest to the length is selected as the current paper, so that the influence of the blank in the document on the printing paper and the printing mode is reduced, the utilization rate of the printing paper is improved, and the printed paper document is more attractive.
In the present embodiment, the print setting screen has a print mode selecting section, a print parameter inputting section, a width threshold inputting section, and a document processing mode setting section, and in other embodiments, only one or two or more of the above sections may be provided.
In addition, the printing unit in the embodiment is a wide-format printer, but in the present invention, the printing unit may be another type of printer that can print with roll printing paper.
In addition, the original acquisition and storage section in the embodiment acquires only an original file and acquires the long side size and the short side size of the original file after acquiring the original file, but in the present invention, in order to improve the support for files of different formats, the original acquisition and storage section may also perform single-page PDF format conversion on the original file after acquiring the original file to obtain a single-page PDF. When printing, the control part sequentially takes each single-page PDF as a current manuscript file to be printed, so that the printing equipment sequentially performs printing actions on the single-page PDFs.
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1. A printing apparatus for mass printing document files having a long side size and a short side size, comprising:
a paper feeding device, a width threshold storage unit, a manuscript acquisition storage unit, a paper width acquisition unit, a selection unit, an ultra-wide determination unit, a threshold determination unit, a document processing unit, and a printing unit,
wherein the paper feeding device accommodates a plurality of roll printing papers with different widths,
the Rong Kuan threshold storage unit stores a preset width threshold value associated with the width,
the original document acquisition and storage unit stores the long side size and the short side size of the original document once the original document is acquired,
the paper width acquisition unit acquires the width of all the roll printing papers in the paper feeding device,
the selecting section selects the roll printing paper having a width closest to the long side dimension as a current paper based on the long side dimension and the width acquired by the paper width acquiring section,
the super-width determination unit determines whether the long side dimension exceeds the width of the current sheet,
when the super-width determination section determines that the width of the current sheet exceeds the width threshold, the threshold determination section determines whether or not the difference between the width of the current sheet and the long side dimension is larger than the width threshold,
when the threshold value judging section judges that the document is not larger than the threshold value judging section, the document processing section performs a resizing process on the document file to obtain a print document,
the printing unit prints the print document using the current sheet so that a longitudinal direction of the print document matches a width direction of the current sheet,
the printing apparatus further includes a paper determination section,
when the threshold value judging section judges that the paper is larger than the current paper, the paper judging section judges whether or not the roll printing paper having a width larger than the current paper is present,
when the paper determination unit determines that the paper exists, the printing unit prints the original document using the roll printing paper having the larger width as the new current paper so that the longitudinal direction of the original document matches the width direction of the current paper, and when the paper determination unit determines that the paper does not exist, the printing unit prints the original document so that the short side direction of the original document matches the width direction of the current paper.
2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
when the super-width determination unit determines that the document is not to be printed out, the printing unit prints the document using the current sheet so that the longitudinal direction of the document matches the width direction of the current sheet.
3. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a screen storage unit and an input display unit,
wherein the screen storage section stores a print setting screen having a Rong Kuan threshold value input section for allowing a user to input the Rong Kuan threshold value,
the input display section displays the print setting screen for the user to input the width threshold,
upon confirmation of the Rong Kuan threshold by the user, the Rong Kuan threshold storage stores the Rong Kuan threshold of input as a new Rong Kuan threshold.
4. A printing apparatus according to claim 1 or 3, wherein:
wherein the setting range of the Rong Kuan threshold is 2mm-100mm.
5. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
a screen storage unit and an input display unit,
wherein the screen storage section stores a print setting screen having a processing mode setting section for letting a user select a processing mode for performing a resizing process on the document file, the processing mode including a trimming process and a reduction process,
the document processing section performs a trimming process or a reduction process on the original document according to the selection of the user, thereby obtaining the print document.
6. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the width of the roll printing paper is 210mm-841mm.
7. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
wherein the original document is composed of an image and a margin,
the long side dimension is the maximum distance of the image of the original document in the lateral-longitudinal direction,
the short side dimension is a minimum distance of the image of the original document in a lateral-longitudinal direction,
the original document acquisition and storage section includes an original document file acquisition unit, an original document size acquisition unit, a file minimum margin acquisition unit, a size calculation unit, and a size storage unit,
the original document acquiring unit acquires the original document,
the original size acquisition unit acquires original sizes of the originals in the lateral and longitudinal directions respectively,
the document margin obtaining unit obtains minimum margin distances in the transverse and longitudinal directions of the document respectively,
the size calculation unit calculates a difference between the original size and the minimum margin length in the corresponding direction as an image size, and takes a largest image size as the long side size, a smallest image size as the short side size,
the size storage unit stores the long side size and the short side size.
8. A printing method for mass printing of document files having a long side size and a short side size, comprising the steps of:
a paper feeding step of accommodating a plurality of roll printing papers of different widths,
a width threshold value storing step of storing a preset width threshold value associated with the width,
a document acquisition and storage step of, once the document file is acquired, storing a long side size and the short side size of the document file,
a paper width acquisition step of acquiring the width of all the roll printing papers,
a selecting step of selecting, as a current sheet, the roll printing sheet having a width closest to the long side dimension based on the long side dimension and the width acquired by the sheet width acquiring unit,
an ultra-wide determination step of determining whether the long side dimension exceeds the width of the current sheet,
a threshold value judging step of judging whether or not a difference between the width of the current sheet and the long side size is larger than the capacity threshold value when it is judged that the long side size exceeds the width of the current sheet,
a document processing step of performing a size adjustment process on the original document to obtain a print document when it is determined that a difference between the width of the current sheet and the long side size is not greater than the width tolerance threshold,
a paper determination step of further determining that the roll printing paper having a width larger than the current paper is present when it is determined that a difference between the width of the current paper and the long side dimension is larger than the width threshold,
a printing step of printing the adjusted print document by using the current paper in such a manner that the longitudinal direction of the print document coincides with the width direction of the current paper when it is determined that the difference between the width of the current paper and the longitudinal dimension is not greater than the width tolerance threshold; when it is determined that there is the roll printing paper having a width larger than the current paper, printing the original document using the roll printing paper having the width larger as the new current paper so that the longitudinal direction of the original document coincides with the width direction of the current paper; when it is determined that there is no roll printing paper having a width larger than the current paper, the original document is printed so that the short side direction of the original document coincides with the width direction of the current paper.
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