Method and device for speeding up a printing process
AssigneeBenq Corporation
InventorsChien-Hsing Tang, Chia-Lei Yu, Chien-Hsien Ho
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Abstract
A printing device includes a print unit for printing data. In each printing procedure, the printer separates at least a printing division from a path that the print unit passes through in the printing procedure and determines if the path includes a non-printing division according to the print data. The printer controls the print unit to move at a first velocity and print the document when the print unit passes through the printing division. If the path includes a non-printing division, the printer controls the print unit to stop printing the document and to move at a second velocity within the non-printing division when the print unit passes through the non-printing division.
Claims15
A printing device for performing a plurality of printing procedures according to print data so as to print a document, the printing device comprising:
- a print unit for printing the document along a left-and-right direction;
- a motor for driving the print unit left and right;
- and
- a control unit for controlling the velocity of the print unit;
- wherein before the printing device performs each of the printing procedures, the control unit separates at least a printing division as determined by the print data from a path that the print unit passes through in the printing procedure, and determines if the path includes a non-printing division as determined by the print data, and when the print unit passes through the printing division, the print unit prints the document and moves at a first velocity, and when the print unit passes through the non-printing division, the print unit stops printing the document and the control unit controls the print unit to move at a second velocity within the non-printing division, the second velocity being greater than the first velocity.
A method for speeding up a printing process of a printing device, the printing device comprising a print unit for performing a plurality of printing procedures according to print data so as to print a document, the method comprising:
- in each printing procedure, separating at least a printing division as determined by the print data from a path that the print unit passes through in the printing procedure, and determining if the path includes a non-printing division as determined by the print data;
- controlling the print unit to move at a first velocity and print the document when the print unit passes through the printing division;
- and
- if the path includes the non-printing division, controlling the print unit to stop printing the document and to move at a second velocity within the non-printing division when the print unit passes through the non-printing division, the second velocity being greater than the first velocity.
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