Print operation processing device for serial printer

Abstract

The objective of the present invention is to solve a problem that a printing throughput is not improved so much in a conventional printing processing device arranged for example in a serial printer such as an ink-jet printer etc., due to a requirement to repeat printing in the main scanning direction and feeding a paper in the sub scanning direction, until a blank area where the printing is not allowed is confirmed in printing different data on respective discrete papers. To fulfill the objective a function to supply the succeeding paper while the current paper is held in the printer and means to change supplying conditions of the paper and to adjust overlapping extent of papers are arranged in a device where a print operation is executed by a combination of the printing in the main scanning direction and paper feeding in the sub scanning direction.

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