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US 2016/0253583 A1Published application
Printing with a combination of fixed fonts and proportional fonts
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNoriaki Harada
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Abstract
In accordance with the embodiment, a printer comprises a communication section configured to receive character data from a host, an image buffer configured to store the character data received by the communication section, a character generator configured to include font data which corresponds to the character data uniquely, and a control section configured to read, from the character generator, the font data corresponding to the character data read from the image buffer and generate a character string.
Claims10
A printer comprising:
- a communication section configured to receive character data from a host;
- an image buffer configured to store the character data received by the communication section;
- a character generator configured to identify alphanumeric characters and non-alphanumeric characters of the character data and generate fixed font data for the alphanumeric characters and proportional font data for the non-alphanumeric characters;
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- a control section configured to read, from the character generator, the fixed font data and proportional font data corresponding to the character data read from the image buffer and generate a character string with fixed font alphanumeric characters and proportional font non-alphanumeric characters.
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A method of printing characters, comprising:
- storing, in an image buffer, character data received from a host;
- identifying, from the image buffer, alphanumeric characters and non-alphanumeric characters of the character data and generating fixed font data for the alphanumeric characters and proportional font data for the non-alphanumeric characters;
- generating a character string from the fixed font data and the proportional font data;
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- printing the generated character string on a medium, wherein the character string includes fixed font alphanumeric characters and proportional font non-alphanumeric characters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.