JPS59142643A - Designating device of print condition - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operability by clarifying the use direction of a formset to a printer to understand easily the margin. CONSTITUTION:If it is designated by a designating means 11 that the form is used lengthwise, an output signal C becomes 1, and data stored in the first storage means 13 is displayed as shown in (A) on the screen of a CRT 12 though an OR gate 16. If it is designated by the designating means 11 that the form is used breadthwise, the output signal C becomes 0, and data stored in the second storage means 14 is outputted to the CRT 12 and is displayed as shown in (B).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a printing condition specifying device suitable for a document processing device such as a Japanese word processor.

(b) Conventional technology In a document processing device that can print a document once created on a CRT or the like using a printer, the actual printing area (2) of the printing paper (1) is defined as shown in Figure 1. Left and right and top and bottom margins L, R%U1D, -Number of characters in the line N
Printing conditions such as 1-character pitch (same distance between centers of adjacent characters) P are displayed on the OR7 screen. Furthermore, such a display conventionally simply lists the above conditions on the OR7 screen as shown in FIG.

However, with just a list of such conditions, there is a problem that especially for inexperienced beginners, it may not be possible to immediately understand what each of the above-mentioned margins means, and the operation time becomes considerably long.

(C) Purpose of the Invention The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides printing conditions that make it easy to specify each margin by clearly indicating how the paper set in the printer is to be used. The purpose is to provide designated bags R.

B) Structure of the Invention The structural features of the printing condition specifying device of the present invention include at least a display means for displaying printing conditions, a first storage means storing display data for displaying a portrait paper image, and a landscape paper image. The second storage means stores the display data for displaying the paper image, the designation means specifies the direction in which the paper is to be used, and the selection means described above.

(E) Embodiment FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the great invention, in which 1ull is a designation means, for example, a keyboard, for designating the usage direction of the paper, and in this means, the usage direction of the paper is specified as portrait. When the finger is pressed horizontally, the output signal C becomes 0''.

(12 is a CRT device as a display means, and this device performs display based on display data sent from other devices.

113I is a first storage means, and the storage means includes a fourth
As shown in Figure A, display data for displaying a vertically elongated paper image with holes (21+ and a list of printing conditions, etc.) with each margin position specified is stored on a CRT device. , the above-mentioned display data is output from the output terminal P1 by inputting the 11'' signal from the output terminal P1.

0] is a second storage means, in which a horizontally elongated paper image (21) with each margin position clearly indicated and a list of prints as shown in FIG. 4B are displayed on a CRT device. Display data for displaying is stored. Such means outputs the above display data from the output terminal P when a 1'' signal is input from the input terminal.

Incidentally, both of the above storage means are constituted by a well-known ROM (IJ-only memory) or the like.

051 is an inverter as a selection means, and this inverter is connected to the input terminal I of the second storage means [141].

A pair of input terminals of the gate are output terminals P of the first and second storage means 1131 and 141, respectively.
1, P, and its output terminal is connected to the 0IRT device a2.

In such an apparatus, for example, when the direction of use of paper is specified as portrait by the specifying means full, the output signal C becomes 1'', so the display data stored in the first memory means 131 becomes ``merge''. The image is output to the CRT device +121 via the CRT device f121, and is displayed on the screen of the CRT device f121 as shown in FIG. Its output signal C is 0"
Therefore, the display data stored in the second storage means [141K] is output to the device @t13 and displayed as shown in FIG. 4B.

In this embodiment, the paper image (21) and the number 7 in the list of printing conditions are displayed separately, or the paper image rl! is displayed as shown in FIG. 1- may be used to display the printing conditions in 11.

``Also, in this embodiment, the inverter 115 is used as a selection means.
1 was used, but it was configured with a microcombiner,
Based on the signal from the specifying means full, the first and second
The storage means 13[+41 may be configured to be selected.

Furthermore, at this time, the display data respectively stored in the first and second storage means 1141 are stored in separate areas of one storage means, and the display data is The display data stored in each area may be configured to be output to the display means.

So, regarding each margin setting.

°　−Easy to merge even for beginners The user can understand the system and the operability is the same as above.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining printing conditions, Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a conventional printing condition display state, Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 4 A%B 5 is a schematic diagram showing the printing condition display state in the embodiment of FIG. 3, respectively.
The figure is a schematic diagram showing the printing condition display state in another embodiment. means,
a5)...Inverter (selection means). Participant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. Representative Patent Attorney Shizuo Sano

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) Display means for displaying at least printing conditions A first storage means storing display data for displaying a portrait paper image, a second storage means storing display data for displaying a landscape paper image. It is characterized by comprising a storage means, a designation means for designating how the paper should be used, and a selection means for selectively outputting the display data of the first and second storage means to the display means based on the designation input from the designation means. Printing condition specification device.