JP6187034B2 - Printing instruction apparatus, printing system, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a print instruction apparatus, a printing system, and a program for instructing a printer to print an electronic document.

  Applications that can add auxiliary information such as comments to electronic documents as if sticky notes are pasted on documents are widely put into practical use.

  Some of these applications allow a user to select how to handle auxiliary information when printing an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added. Thereby, for example, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, the user prints only the original electronic document before the auxiliary information is added, prints the auxiliary information together with the original electronic document, and the like. You can choose.

  By the way, when the auxiliary information is printed on the print medium together with the original electronic document, the auxiliary information printed on the print medium cannot be erased, unlike when a sticky note is pasted on the document. Such a technical problem is that, for example, as disclosed in Patent Document 2, the auxiliary information is used as a sticky note on a print medium different from the print medium on which the original electronic document is printed. This can be solved by printing on a print medium.

JP 2009-116804 A JP 2008-102723 A

  However, in the printing system disclosed in Patent Document 2, when printing an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added, first, only the original electronic document is printed by a general-purpose printer, and then the auxiliary information is applied to an application for a sticky note printer. Must be entered manually and auxiliary information must be printed on a sticky note printer.

  In view of the above circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of easily instructing printing of auxiliary information added to an electronic document on a sticky note.

One aspect of the present invention is a print instruction apparatus connected to a first printer and a second printer, before the auxiliary information is added from document data of an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added. An extraction unit that extracts original document data that is document data and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information; and a print instruction based on the original document data extracted by the extraction unit. A first printer driver for the first printer to be transmitted to the first printer and the first auxiliary information data extracted by the extracting unit are converted into a second according to the input format of the second printer printer driver. A conversion unit for converting to auxiliary information data, and a printer driver for the second printer that transmits a print instruction based on the second auxiliary information data converted by the conversion unit to the second printer To provide a print instruction apparatus comprising a.
In the print instruction apparatus, the conversion unit may print the second information so that the auxiliary information is printed on a print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. The first auxiliary information data may be converted into auxiliary information data.

Another aspect of the present invention is a printing system including a first printer and a second printer, and a print instruction device connected to the first printer and the second printer, wherein the print instruction device is An extraction unit that extracts, from document data of an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added, original document data that is document data before the auxiliary information is added and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information A printer driver for the first printer that transmits a print instruction based on the original document data extracted by the extraction unit to the first printer, and the first auxiliary information data extracted by the extraction unit Converting to second auxiliary information data in accordance with the input format of the printer driver for the second printer, and a mark based on the second auxiliary information data converted by the converter Providing a second printer driver for the printer to send instructing to the second printer, the printing system comprising a.
In the above printing system, the conversion unit of the print instruction apparatus prints the auxiliary information on a print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. The first auxiliary information data may be converted into the second auxiliary information data.

  Another aspect of the present invention is a program for instructing a printer to print an electronic document, the document data before the auxiliary information is added from the document data of the electronic document to which the auxiliary information is added. The original document data and the first auxiliary information data which is the auxiliary information data are extracted, the original document data is transmitted to the printer driver for the first printer, and the first auxiliary information data is transmitted. The computer converts the second auxiliary information data in accordance with the input format of the printer driver for the second printer, and transmits the second auxiliary information data to the printer driver for the second printer. Provide a program to let

  The program includes the second auxiliary information data in which the auxiliary information is printed on a print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. You may make a computer perform the process which converts 1 auxiliary information data.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily instruct printing of auxiliary information added to an electronic document on a sticky note.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a hardware block diagram of the printing instruction | indication apparatus shown in FIG. 3 is a flowchart of electronic document print instruction processing executed by the print instruction apparatus shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data flow in the electronic document print instruction process shown in FIG. 3. It is the figure which showed an example of the electronic document to which auxiliary information was added.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a printing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of the PC 110 which is the print instruction apparatus shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the configuration of the printing system 100 will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

  A printing system 100 shown in FIG. 1 is a system for printing an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added by a tag function or a comment function of a document editing application, and includes a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC) 110, A printer 120 and a label printer 130 are provided.

  The PC 110 is a print instruction apparatus connected to the printer 120 and the label printer 130, and a printer driver for the printer 120 and a printer driver for the label printer 130 are installed in the PC 110. As shown in FIG. 2, the PC 110 is configured to execute a control program for controlling the operation of the PC 110, and includes a CPU 110a, a memory 110b, an input / output I / F 110c, an auxiliary storage device 110d, and a portable recording medium 110f. Is inserted into the portable recording medium driving device 110e and the network device 110g, and these are connected to each other via a bus 110h.

  The CPU 110a controls the entire PC 110. The memory 110b temporarily stores a control program stored in the auxiliary storage device 110d or the portable recording medium 110f and information necessary for executing the control program when the control program is executed. RAM (Random Access Memory). The input / output I / F 110c is an interface between a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and the like and the PC 110.

  The auxiliary storage device 110d stores a control program and information necessary for executing the control program in a nonvolatile manner, and is, for example, a hard disk device. The portable recording medium driving device 110e accommodates a portable recording medium 110f such as an optical disk or a compact flash (registered trademark). Similar to the auxiliary storage device 110d, the portable recording medium 110f stores a control program and information necessary for executing the control program in a nonvolatile manner.

  The network device 110g is a device for communicating with an external device connected via a network. The PC 110 is connected to the printer 120 and the label printer 130 via the input / output I / F 110c or the network device 110g.

  The printer 120 is a general-purpose printer that is generally used, and is the first printer of the printing system 100. The printer 120 prints a document, an image, or the like on printing paper such as A3 size, A4 size, or postcard size.

  The label printer 130 is a printer that uses a print medium having an adhesive portion on the back surface or an inner surface protected by a seal, and is a second printer of the printing system 100. The print medium printed by the label printer 130 is used as a sticky note and is pasted on the print medium printed by the printer 120, for example.

  Although FIG. 1 illustrates an example in which the PC 110 and the printer (the printer 120 and the label printer 130) are directly connected by a USB cable or the like, the PC 110 and the printer may be connected via a network such as a LAN. That is, the printer 120 and the label printer 130 may be network printers. The network connecting the PC 110 and the printer is not limited to a wired network. The PC 110 and the printer may be connected wirelessly using a wireless LAN, Bluetooth (registered trademark), or the like.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an electronic document print instruction process executed by the PC 110 which is the print instruction apparatus shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data flow in the electronic document print instruction process shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added. The electronic document print instruction process performed by the PC 110 will be described below with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5 taking the case of printing the electronic document shown in FIG. 5 as an example.

  The electronic document print instruction process shown in FIG. 3 is started when the print instruction program stored in the auxiliary storage device 110d or the portable recording medium 110f is loaded into the memory 110b and executed by the CPU 110a. More specifically, for example, the processing is started when the user selects a printing process while referring to the electronic document shown in FIG. 5 using the document editing application, and the document editing application calls the print instruction program. Alternatively, the process may be started by the user specifying the electronic document shown in FIG. 5 and causing the PC 110 to directly start the print instruction program.

  When the print instruction process for the electronic document shown in FIG. 3 is started, as shown in FIG. 4, first, the extraction unit 111 of the PC 110 stores the document data of the electronic document shown in FIG. Original document data D2 that is document data before auxiliary information is added from D1, and first auxiliary information data D3 that is auxiliary information data added to the original document data D2 from D1. Is extracted (step S1 in FIG. 3). Here, the original document data D2 is data corresponding to the document portion DC of the electronic document shown in FIG. 5, and the first auxiliary information data D3 is the sticky note portion SN1, the sticky note portion SN2, and the sticky note portion SN3 shown in FIG. Is data corresponding to.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 5, when a plurality of auxiliary information (here, a tag part SN1, a tag part SN2, and a tag part SN3) are added to the electronic document, the extraction unit 111 performs the operation for each auxiliary information. One auxiliary information data D3 may be extracted, or one first auxiliary information data D3 corresponding to a plurality of auxiliary information may be extracted. Hereinafter, a case where the first auxiliary information data D3 is extracted for each auxiliary information will be described as an example.

  The original document data D2 extracted by the extraction unit 111 is transmitted to the printer driver 112 for the printer 120 installed in the PC 110 as shown in FIG. 4 (step S2 in FIG. 3). After that, the printer driver 112 that has received the original document data D2 transmits a print instruction based on the original document data D2 to the printer 120. As a result, the document portion DC of the electronic document shown in FIG.

  On the other hand, the first auxiliary information data D3 extracted for each auxiliary information by the extraction unit 111 is converted by the conversion unit 113 of the PC 110 according to the input format of the label printer driver 114 for the label printer 130, as shown in FIG. The second auxiliary information data D4 is converted (step S3 in FIG. 3).

  The conversion unit 113 may not only simply convert the data format, but also change the data contents to data that can be normally printed by the label printer 130. For example, when the first auxiliary information data D3 is character data, the font, size, character spacing, etc. of the character data may be adjusted in accordance with the width of the print medium of the label printer 130. When the first auxiliary information data D3 is image data, the image data may be enlarged or reduced according to the width of the print medium of the label printer 130.

  That is, the conversion unit 113 converts the auxiliary information added to the electronic document into the second auxiliary information data D4 that is printed on the print medium having the size set in the label printer driver 114 without protruding from the print medium. The first auxiliary information data D3 is converted.

  In addition, when the conversion unit 113 receives one first auxiliary information data D3 corresponding to a plurality of auxiliary information, the converting unit 113 divides the first auxiliary information data D3 for each auxiliary information, Each may be converted into second auxiliary information data D4.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the second auxiliary information data D4 obtained by the conversion in the conversion unit 113 is transmitted to the label printer driver 114 for the label printer 130 installed in the PC 110 (step in FIG. 3). S4). After that, the label printer driver 114 that has received the second auxiliary information data D4 transmits a print instruction based on the second auxiliary information data D4 to the label printer 130. As a result, the tag portions (the tag portion SN1, the tag portion SN2, and the tag portion SN3) of the electronic document shown in FIG. 5 are each printed on the tag paper by the label printer 130. Thus, the print instruction process shown in FIG. 3 is completed.

  As described above, in the printing system 100 including the PC 110 that is the print instruction apparatus, the user only instructs the printing of the electronic document to which the auxiliary information is added, and the document portion excluding the auxiliary information is the normal printer 120. In addition, the auxiliary information is printed on a sticky note by the label printer 130. For this reason, according to the PC 110 and the print instruction program as the print instruction apparatus, it is not necessary to manually input the auxiliary information added to the electronic document to the application for the label printer 130, and the auxiliary information added to the electronic document. Can be easily instructed to print on a sticky note.

  Note that the sticky note on which the auxiliary information is printed by the label printer 130 can be attached to a print medium printed by the printer 120. Since the position where the sticky note is pasted is not limited to the position of the sticky note on the electronic document, even if the sticky note is displayed on the electronic document so as to overlap the document part, it should not overlap the document part. Sticky notes can be pasted.

  Also, the conversion unit 113 automatically converts auxiliary information data according to the size of the sticky note and outputs it to the label printer driver 114. Therefore, according to the PC 110 and the print instruction program, the auxiliary information can be printed on the sticky note paper regardless of the size of the sticky note paper used in the label printer 130.

  The embodiments described above show specific examples of the present invention in order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. The printing instruction apparatus and the program can be variously modified and changed without departing from the concept of the present invention defined in the claims.

For example, the print instruction apparatus is not limited to a PC, and may be a portable terminal such as a tablet terminal or a dedicated apparatus, for example. In addition, the printing system performs processing for determining whether or not auxiliary information is added to the input electronic document before the extraction unit 111 performs the processing of step S1 illustrated in FIG. Not only an electronic document but any electronic document may be printed.
Hereinafter, the invention described in the scope of claims at the beginning of the application of the present application will be added.

[Appendix 1]
A print instruction apparatus connected to the first printer and the second printer,
Extraction that extracts, from document data of an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added, original document data that is document data before the auxiliary information is added and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information And
A printer driver for a first printer that transmits a print instruction based on the original document data extracted by the extraction unit to the first printer;
A conversion unit for converting the first auxiliary information data extracted by the extraction unit into second auxiliary information data according to an input format of a printer driver for the second printer;
A print instruction apparatus comprising: a printer driver for a second printer that transmits a print instruction based on the second auxiliary information data converted by the conversion unit to the second printer.

[Appendix 2]
In the printing instruction apparatus according to attachment 1,
The conversion unit adds the second auxiliary information data to the second auxiliary information data such that the auxiliary information is printed on a print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. A print instruction apparatus for converting one auxiliary information data.

[Appendix 3]
A printing system including a first printer and a second printer, and a print instruction device connected to the first printer and the second printer,
The printing instruction device
Extraction that extracts, from document data of an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added, original document data that is document data before the auxiliary information is added and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information And
A printer driver for a first printer that transmits a print instruction based on the original document data extracted by the extraction unit to the first printer;
A conversion unit for converting the first auxiliary information data extracted by the extraction unit into second auxiliary information data according to an input format of a printer driver for the second printer;
A printing system, comprising: a printer driver for a second printer that transmits a print instruction based on the second auxiliary information data converted by the conversion unit to the second printer.

[Appendix 4]
In the printing system according to attachment 3,
The conversion unit of the print instruction device is configured to print the second auxiliary information such that the auxiliary information is printed on a print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. A printing system, wherein the first auxiliary information data is converted into data.

[Appendix 5]
A program for instructing a printer to print an electronic document,
Extracting original document data that is document data before the auxiliary information is added and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information from the document data of the electronic document to which auxiliary information is added ,
Sending the original document data to a printer driver for the first printer;
Converting the first auxiliary information data into second auxiliary information data according to an input format of a printer driver for a second printer;
A program for causing a computer to execute a process of transmitting the second auxiliary information data to a printer driver for the second printer.

[Appendix 6]
In the program described in Appendix 5,
The first auxiliary information data is included in the second auxiliary information data such that the auxiliary information is printed on the print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. A program for causing a computer to execute a process of converting the program.

100 Printing system 110 PC
111 Extraction unit 112 Printer driver 113 Conversion unit 114 Label printer driver 110a CPU
110b memory 110c input / output device
110d Auxiliary storage device 110e Portable recording medium drive device 110f Portable recording medium 110g Network device 110h Bus 120 Printer 130 Label printer D1 Document data D2 with auxiliary information Original document data D3 First auxiliary information data D4 Second auxiliary information data DC document part SN1, SN2, SN3 Sticky part

Claims (3)

A print instruction apparatus connected to the first printer and the second printer,
Extraction that extracts, from document data of an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added, original document data that is document data before the auxiliary information is added and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information And
A printer driver for a first printer that transmits a print instruction based on the original document data extracted by the extraction unit to the first printer;
A conversion unit for converting the first auxiliary information data extracted by the extraction unit into second auxiliary information data according to an input format of a printer driver for the second printer;
A printer driver for a second printer that transmits a print instruction based on the second auxiliary information data converted by the conversion unit to the second printer;
Equipped with a,
The conversion unit adds the second auxiliary information data to the second auxiliary information data such that the auxiliary information is printed on a print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. print instruction apparatus characterized that you convert first auxiliary information data. A printing system including a first printer and a second printer, and a print instruction apparatus connected to the first printer and the second printer,
The printing instruction device
Extraction that extracts, from document data of an electronic document to which auxiliary information is added, original document data that is document data before the auxiliary information is added and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information And
A printer driver for a first printer that transmits a print instruction based on the original document data extracted by the extraction unit to the first printer;
A conversion unit for converting the first auxiliary information data extracted by the extraction unit into second auxiliary information data according to an input format of a printer driver for the second printer;
A printer driver for a second printer that transmits a print instruction based on the second auxiliary information data converted by the conversion unit to the second printer;
Equipped with a,
The conversion unit of the print instruction device is configured to print the second auxiliary information such that the auxiliary information is printed on a print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. data, the printing system characterized that you converting said first auxiliary information data. A program for instructing a printer to print an electronic document,
Extracting original document data that is document data before the auxiliary information is added and first auxiliary information data that is data of the auxiliary information from the document data of the electronic document to which auxiliary information is added ,
Sending the original document data to a printer driver for the first printer;
Converting the first auxiliary information data into second auxiliary information data according to an input format of a printer driver for a second printer;
Sending the second auxiliary information data to a printer driver for the second printer ;
The first auxiliary information data is included in the second auxiliary information data such that the auxiliary information is printed on the print medium having a size set in the printer driver for the second printer without protruding from the print medium. A program for causing a computer to execute a process of converting the program.