Character printing apparatus and method

Details Character printing apparatus and method Character printing apparatus and method

1999-01-12

2000-11-07

Funk, Stephen R.

Typewriting machines

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

400 76, 4006152, B41J 530

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061426857

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a character printing apparatus in which an input character string is printed on a plurality of print mediums loaded in the apparatus and having a transversal dimension, on which limitation is imposed, and different longitudinal dimensions. The character printing apparatus of the present invention is characterized in that the apparatus includes a line-gap dot-number determining device for determining a line-gap dot number representing the number of dots to be allocated to a line gap and an external-line-gap dot number representing the number of dots to be allocated to an external line gap, the line gap being formed between consecutive two lines of the character string, the external line gap being formed between an upper edge of the print medium and a first line of the character string and between a lower edge of the print medium and a last line of the character string, and that the determination of the line-gap dot number and the external-line-gap dot number by the line-gap determining device is conducted through an arithmetic operation on the basis of the transversal dimension of the print mediums thus loaded, the number of lines of the input character string, and the character sizes of the respective lines of the character string.

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