Article information printer having page and line print modes

Details Article information printer having page and line print modes Article information printer having page and line print modes

1994-05-25

1996-03-05

Hilten, John S.

Typewriting machines

Including control of format and selection of type-face by...

400 76, 400103, B41J 530

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054961165

ABSTRACT:
An article information printer is composed of a printing head having a row of dot printing elements, for performing a printing on paper by the dot printing elements. Particularly, the print controller has a mode setting section for setting one of a page selection mode and a line selection mode, a first image producing section for performing in the page selection mode a process of converting print data for one page supplied from an external device as article information into dot images and storing the dot images in the memory as the print image data, and a second image producing section for performing in the line selection mode a process of converting print data for one line supplied from the external device as article information into dot images and storing the dot images as the print image data. The second image producing section includes a printing height changing section for changing the number of dot lines for the print image data according to the maximum height of the dot images obtained for one line.

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