Printer control apparatus
Patent 4655622 Issued on April 7, 1987. Estimated Expiration Date: 
August 2, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
August 2, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesMethod and apparatus for printing segmented characters Multiple speed ink jet printer Dot matrix printer with compressed character data storage Patent #: 4400791 InventorApplicationNo. 06/761705 filed on 08/02/1985US Classes:400/582, Including programmed-control-system for record-medium feed (e.g., on auxiliary record)400/303, For varying carriage feed400/54, SAFETY SWITCH OR CONDITION-RESPONSIVE-CUTOFF SWITCH FOR ELECTRICALLY POWERED TYPEWRITER400/61INCLUDING CONTROL OF FORMAT AND SELECTION OF TYPE-FACE BY PROGRAMMED CONTROL-SYSTEM (E.G., INPUT TYPEWRITER)ExaminersPrimary: Sewell, Paul T.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesG06F 17/21 (20060101)G06K 15/02 (20060101) G06K 15/10 (20060101) G06K 15/16 (20060101) Foreign Application Priority Data1984-08-29 JPAbstractIn a serial printer in which character patterns for one line are image-developed in a line buffer and are printed, when the number of dots along a subscanning direction of a dot pattern obtained by expanding a standard character exceeds that of a printing head along the subscanning direction, the expanded character pattern is divided into a plurality of zones along a scanning direction, and the dot pattern for each zone is image-developed in the line buffer. Since a relative distance between a development start position and a printing head position for each character in one line is stored in advance, if character patterns are sequentially image-developed from one having a smaller relative distance, a character string including different dot structures can be printed in a desired format.Other References
Field of SearchSAFETY SWITCH OR CONDITION-RESPONSIVE-CUTOFF SWITCH FOR ELECTRICALLY POWERED TYPEWRITERFor varying carriage feed Proportional to variable widths of imprinted characters INCLUDING CONTROL OF FORMAT AND SELECTION OF TYPE-FACE BY PROGRAMMED CONTROL-SYSTEM (E.G., INPUT TYPEWRITER) Including means for responding to input program or incoming signals and providing output program or signals representing typing operations (e.g., output typewriter) | |
