KR100312719B1 - How to classify printer output - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of classifying a printout of a printer which makes it easy to classify a printout of a printer by outputting a document information page on which print information is printed before printing the first page of the document when print data is transmitted from a computer. .

The present invention converts the print data and the document information on the print data created in the application program of the computer into a language interpretable by the printer through the printer driver, and transmits the converted print data and document information to the printer; Storing the transmitted print data and document information in the printer's memory; And transmitting the document information page between the document on which the print data is printed and detecting the transmitted document information in the memory.

Description

How to classify printer output

The present invention relates to a method for classifying a printout of a printer, and more particularly, a page on which document information (eg, a file name, a user, a print time, etc.) of each document is printed before and after printing and receiving print data from a computer. The present invention relates to a method of classifying output of a printer that facilitates classification and storage of a plurality of documents continuously outputted.

A printer is an office device connected to a computer and outputs a printout on printing paper. The printer receives a document or image data created or edited on the computer and converts it into a printing language suitable for the set printing conditions. It is a device to print on paper using colored dye.

Recently, due to the complexity of the office environment and the increase of office equipment and personal computers that are essential for the office environment, the office environment has gradually changed to a networking environment, and the data of each personal computer is connected by connecting multiple personal computers in the office to one network. By sharing the printer and the printer that is combined with a personal computer, office expenses and work efficiency are being maximized.

Such a printer sequentially prints print data transmitted from a computer regardless of the beginning and the end of each document when printing a plurality of documents.

However, when multiple documents are sent to the printer, if the user does not collect the printed documents immediately, there is an inconvenience in classifying the beginning and end of the printed output one by one. I didn't know if it was a document, so I had difficulty arranging the document.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to print a document in which information about the print data is printed before printing the first page of the document or after printing of the document is completed. The present invention provides a method of classifying a printout of a printer so as to easily sort a printout of a printer by outputting an information page.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a computer and a printer applied to the present invention;

2 is an operation flowchart for performing the output sorting method of the printer according to the present invention;

3 is an exemplary view showing a state of setting whether to output the document information page according to an embodiment of the present invention,

4 is a diagram illustrating a printing state of a document information page for classifying outputs of a printer according to the setting of FIG. 3.

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1: Central processing unit for computer 2: Application program

3: Print Manager 4: Printer Driver

5: LIU for computer 6: central processing unit for printer

7: operation panel 8: printer memory

9: Printer 10: Firmware

11: LIU for Printer

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is to convert the print data and the document information for the print data created in the application program of the computer into a language that can be interpreted by the printer through the printer driver, and the converted print data and document information A transmission step for transmitting to the printer, a storage step for storing the transmitted print data and document information in the memory of the printer, and a document information page for detecting the transmitted document information in the memory and printing between the printed document and the document. Including a printing step.

Preferably, the output sorting method of the printer further includes a checking step of confirming whether a document information output key is selected in the printer; When the document information output key is selected, the document information page printing step is performed.

Preferably, the document classification page is output before the print data is printed.

Preferably, the document classification page is output when the printing of the print data is completed.

Preferably, the output sorting method of the printer further includes the step of displaying the document information output item and requesting the user's selection if the document information output key is selected; The document information output item selected by the user among the displayed document information output items may be printed on a document information page.

Preferably, the document information output item is a file name of the print data, a time of executing the print command of the owner of the computer and the print data, and a page number of the print data.

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

Figure 1 is a schematic block diagram of a computer and a printer applied to the present invention, Figure 2 is an operational flow diagram for performing the output sorting method of the printer according to the present invention, Figure 3 is one of the present invention An exemplary view showing a state of setting whether to output the document information page according to the embodiment is shown, Figure 4 is a view showing a printing state of the document information page for classifying the output of the printer according to the setting of FIG. It is.

A computer and a printer system as shown in FIG. 1 can be largely classified into a computer part and a printer part.

First, referring to the computer part, the central processing unit 1 for the computer generally controls each component in the computer according to a predetermined program.

The application program 2 is a program for creating print data.

The print manager 3 is a program for displaying a state so that a user can directly control various states related to a print job.

The printer driver 4 converts the print data created by the application program 2 into a language that can be interpreted by the printer under the control of the central processing unit 1, and transmits the print data to the printer. Document information such as time is converted into PJL (Page Job Language) and sent to the printer.

Here, PJL (Page Job Language) refers to document information other than the print data created by the application program 2 of the computer (for example, various information selected by the user from the print manager 3 (duplex printing, printing range, number of prints, etc.)). Is a language that can be interpreted by the printer for interpretation.

A line interface unit (LIU) 5 for a computer is connected to communicate with the printer.

Next, referring to the printer part, the central processing unit 6 for the printer generally controls each component in the printer according to a predetermined program, and in particular, a document in which information about the document is printed before printing the print data transmitted from the computer. Controls the output of information pages.

The operation panel 7 is equipped with a plurality of function keys, in particular, a document information output mode setting key for outputting document information transmitted from the printer driver 4 of the computer so that the user can select various functions, and the operation state of the printer. It includes a display window (7a) for displaying.

The printer memory 8 stores program data, various data relating to image data and document information.

The printer 9 prints image data transmitted from the computer and document information on the image data.

The firmware 10 interprets the transmitted document information in a PJL form in a computer, stores it in a predetermined position in the memory 8, and stores the data of the document information before printing the actual print data transmitted from the computer. It transmits to the printer 9 according to the preset one page format.

The printer LIU 11 is connected so as to communicate with a computer.

The operation of the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, when the user transmits the print data and document information of the document created by the application program 2 of the computer to the printer, the printer in which the document information output key 7b is selected before printing the transmitted print data or printing the print data. After that, print the document information page on which the document information is printed.

Further, after selecting the document information output key 7b in the printer, the document information output item can be selected. An embodiment of selecting an item printed on a document information page from document information transmitted to a computer will be described below.

The central processing unit 1 for the computer converts the print data created in the application program 2 by the user into a language interpretable by the printer through the printer driver 4, and the number of prints selected on the print manager 3 and duplex printing. In addition to information on print data such as status, print range, etc., document information such as the file name of the print data, the owner of the computer, and the print time is converted into the PJL form to convert the print data and document information to the LIU 5 for the computer. To the printer.

The central processing unit 6 for the printer checks whether or not the document information about the print data and the print data has been received from the computer (S201), and prints the document information about the print data and the print data received from the computer to the printer memory 8. Save (S202).

The central processing unit 6 for the printer stores the received data in the memory 8 and checks whether the document information output key 7b is selected by the user (S203). If the document information output key 7b is selected from among the plurality of keys of the operation panel 7 of the printer, the printer central processing unit 6 checks the setting state of the document information output item (S204).

At this time, referring to the method for setting the document information output item on the operation panel 7 of the printer, the central processing unit for the printer 6 by the user of the output of the plurality of keys of the operation panel 7 of the printer in the file unit Check whether the preset document information output key 7b for discharging the document information page for classification is selected. If the document information output key 7b is selected, the printer central processing unit 6 displays the document information output item on the display window 7a of the operation panel 7 to request the user's selection.

That is, when the document information output key 7b is selected, an output item such as file name → print time → computer owner → page number is displayed on the display window 7a of the operation panel 7 under the control of the printer central processing unit 6. A message confirming the selection of is displayed. The user selects a required output item from the document information output items displayed on the display window 7a using a plurality of keys of the operation panel 7 (see FIG. 3).

Only the document information output item selected through the above process is detected among the document information stored in the predetermined position of the printer memory 8 (S205), and the firmware 10 detects the detected document under the control of the central processing unit 6. The output item of information is transmitted to the printer 9 according to a preset one-page form, and the printer 9 prints the transmitted document information output item on one page and outputs a document information page (S206) (FIG. 4). Reference).

Information about the print data is printed to confirm whether the printing of the document information page for easily distinguishing the output is completed (S207). If the printing is completed, it is determined whether the page number output item is selected from the document information output items (S208). .

As a result of the determination, if the page number output item is selected, the print data stored in the memory 8 is printed (S209), and it is checked whether printing for one page is completed (S210).

As a result of the check, if the printing of one page of the print data stored in the memory 8 is completed, the page number as the document information output item is printed at a predetermined position of the page (S211). In other words, if you want to number the pages on which the print data created by the application program (2) of the computer that does not have the function of 'page numbering' is printed, select the document information output key on the printer and select the page from the document information output items. You can select the number output item. As such, when the page number output item is selected, after the printing of the print data for one page is completed, the page number is printed at a predetermined predetermined position of the page on which the data is printed, and the page number is printed while increasing one by one. In addition, the page number is initialized to 0 after the document information output key is selected and the document information page for one document is output.

When printing of the print data and page number for one page is completed, check whether the next page exists (S212), and if the next page exists, repeating from step 209 (S209) of printing the data of one page, and then If the page does not exist, the print job ends (S213) and then ends.

On the other hand, in step 203 (S203) of checking whether the document information output key is selected, the page number output in step 208 (S208) of checking whether the document information output key is not selected or the page number output item is selected among the output items of the document information. If the item is not selected, the print data stored in the memory 8 is printed (S214), and the process ends.

Therefore, the output printed by the printer can be easily distinguished by outputting the document information page on which the information on the print data is printed before printing the print data received from the computer.

As described above, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined by the claims below and equivalents thereof.

As described above, according to the method of classifying the output of a printer according to the present invention, before printing the print data transmitted from the computer, information on the print data (for example, file name, user name, print time, etc.) is printed. By outputting the page, there is an advantage that the sorting of the output printed by the printer is easy.

Claims (6)

Converts a plurality of print data created by an application program of a computer and document information data for distinguishing the plurality of print data from the print data into a language that can be interpreted by a printer, and transmits the converted plurality of print data and document information data to a printer. A transmission step; A storage step of storing the transmitted plurality of print data and document information data in a printer memory; A document information page printing step of printing the stored document information data as a document information page separately from the print data before or after printing the plurality of stored print data; And outputting the document information page between the document and the document on which the plurality of print data has been printed, respectively. The method of claim 1, wherein the output sorting method of the printer comprises: A confirmation step of confirming whether a document information output key is selected in the printer; And printing the document information page when the document information output key is selected. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the document information page is output before the print data corresponding to the document information page of the plurality of print data is printed. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the document information page is output when the printing of the print data corresponding to the document information page of the plurality of print data is completed. The method of claim 2, wherein the output sorting method of the printer comprises: If the document information output key is selected, displaying the document information output item and requesting a user's selection; And printing only the document information output item selected by the user among the displayed document information output items on the document information page. The method of claim 5, wherein the document information output item, And at least one of a file name of the print data, an owner of the computer, a time for executing a print command of the print data, and a page number of the print data.