Electronic typewriter with multiple margin format control
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsutomu Takahashi
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Abstract
There is provided an image processing apparatus for use in an electronic typewriter, wire dot printer or the like in which image information including character data is divided into a plurality of blocks and can be recorded as the continuous contents at a plurality of preset margin positions of a recording medium. The output format of the image information can be set for every divided block. Those set positions are variable for every output data amount of the image information or for every predetermined area of the output section of the image information. With this apparatus, image information can be divisionally and distributively recorded in many desired print areas due to simple key operations.
Claims13
An apparatus for outputting information on a recording sheet comprising:
- output means for outputting information on a recording sheet;
- movement instruction means for instructing the moving of said output means without said output means outputting the information;
- determination means for determining margin positions defining not less than two areas according to a position of said output means moved according to an instruction from said movement instruction means;
- line input means for setting the number of lines common to each area determined by said determination means;
- carrying means for carrying a recording sheet in forward and reverse direction;
- a first memory for storing not less than two pairs of left and right margins defining each area;
- a second memory for storing the number of lines;
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- control means for controlling, on the basis of data stored in said first and second memories, said output means to output information on one area of a surface of the recording sheet when said carrying means carries the recording sheet in a forward direction, then said control means next controls said carrying means to carry the recording sheet in a reverse direction, wherein said control means positions said output means at a record starting position on another area of the surface of the recording sheet, and then said control means controls said output means to output information on the another area of the surface of the recording sheet.
A printing apparatus for printing character information on one and the other sides of a sheet manually turned over by an operator, comprising:
- printing means, including a platen, movable along said platen for printing character information;
- first set means for setting a first print format for the one surface of a single sheet according to a position of said printing means;
- second set means for setting a second print format for the other surface of the single sheet, following the one surface, according to a position of said printing means;
- memory means for storing first and second format information corresponding to the first and second print formats set by said first and second set means, respectively;
- determining means for determining whether said printing means has completely printed character information on the one surface in response to the first format information stored in said memory means;
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- control means for controlling said printing means such that the after said determining means determines that said printing means has completely printed character information on the one surface in response to the first format information, said printing means starts printing character information on the other surface in response to the second format information after the operator has manually turned over the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.