Printer

Abstract

When a period from the point of time of receipt of instruction information concerning a cutting instruction to the point of time of receipt of instruction information concerning a printing instruction subsequent to the receipt of the instruction information concerning the cutting instruction has reached a prescribed period, a recording medium is cut and conveyed in a reverse direction by a prescribed distance, and then new printing is started. When the period from the point of time of receipt of the instruction information concerning the cutting instruction to the point of time of receipt of the instruction information concerning the printing instruction subsequent to the receipt of the instruction information concerning the cutting instruction has not reached the prescribed period, the recording medium is cut and then new printing is started without convey of the recording medium in the reverse direction.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a printer that prints on a long recording medium and cuts the printed recording medium at a predetermined position. Background technique [0002] In the prior art, there is a printer that prints on a long recording medium based on command information received from an external device, and places the recording medium on which predetermined information is printed at a position that is higher than the printing position of the recording medium. Cutting is performed at a position on the downstream side in the transport direction of the recording medium. In such a printer, the recording medium is cut while the conveyance of the recording medium is stopped. [0003] In such a printer, when printing is stopped as the conveyance of the recording medium is stopped, there may be a difference in print quality before and after the position where printing is stopped, and there may be slight deviations between adjacent dots, etc., res...

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[0012] However, in the prior art described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, since the predetermined data related to the next printing is continuously printed after the previous printing is completed and the cutting position has passed through, the recording medium conveyance direction In the case where the size of the specified data is larger than the size between the printing position and the cutting position in the conveying direction, the recording medium that is printed by the specified data is discharged from the printer once passing the cutting position, and then When the printing of the specified data is completed, it is transported in the reverse direction until the cutting position of the recording medium coincides with the cutting position of the printer.

[0013] Therefore, in the prior art described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, there is a problem that when the recording medium in the middle of printing is inadvertently pulled out from the printer due to an operator misjudging the end of printing, the recording medium that should have been cut off The position (cutting position) deviates from the actual cutting position, resulting in bad phenomena such as printing confusion

[0014] In addition, in the prior art described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 2, there is a problem in that when the next command information related to a print instruction is received after the previous print is completed and a predetermined period elapses, the print information related to the previous print The next printing is performed continuously, and the recording medium is cut when the previous printing reaches the cutting position, so the recording medium is cut in the middle of the next printing, and it is difficult to ensure the printing quality during continuous printing.

[0015] In addition, in the prior art described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 3, there is a problem in that the recording medium is rotated in the reverse direction at the timing before the printing corresponding to the command information is started after receiving the next command information related to the print instruction. Therefore, for example, in the case of a printer that performs partial cutting in which a part of the recording medium is cut while being connected, depending on the timing at which the next command information related to the print instruction is received, there may be cases where the Conveying the recording medium in the opposite direction based on the previously printed recording medium has not been removed, causing the previously issued printed matter to be inadvertently bent, etc., which impairs the appearance of the printed matter

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