Print Controller Layout Adjustment for Readable Document Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for printing long web pages either result in tiny text due to size reduction or require multiple sheets with blank spaces, making the content hard to read, or separate the content into multiple pieces with spacing, reducing readability.
Innovation Solution
A print controller that divides a one-page document into multiple page pieces and prints them in a grid on each sheet, adjusting the layout to reduce the number of lines or columns to enhance readability and minimize blank spaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the entire web page is printed as a one-page document, then the document fits on a single sheet, but the text size becomes extremely small making it unreadable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the one-page document into multiple page pieces along a division line, then prints these pieces separately on multiple sheets of printing media. This segmentation allows each piece to be printed at a larger, readable size while maintaining the complete document content across sheets.
2Measurement precision
If the document is divided into page pieces and printed on multiple sheets, then the text size becomes readable, but blank spaces appear between the pieces reducing efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent arranges multiple page pieces in a grid pattern across multiple sheets, utilizing both horizontal and vertical dimensions to pack the pieces together. This dimensional arrangement minimizes blank spaces between pieces while maintaining readable text size on each sheet.
3Productivity
If multiple page pieces are printed on each sheet in a grid, then fewer sheets are needed, but the layout becomes complex with multiple lines reducing readability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the page pieces into a single line arrangement on each sheet, rather than creating a multi-line grid. This segmentation approach maintains printing efficiency by reducing the number of sheets needed while preserving readability by avoiding complex multi-line layouts.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided are a print controller for controlling print processing that divides a one-page document into page pieces and prints multiple page pieces per sheet, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a print control method. As one embodiment, the print controller adjusts a layout of the page pieces, in which fields for the page pieces are arranged in multiple lines extending in the page-division direction, so as to reduce the number of the lines to one, and creates print data according to the adjusted layout. As another embodiment, a computing device for creating a print job for printing a one-page document, displays a screen showing candidates for a layout of the page pieces, including an adjusted layout, in which the number of lines of fields for the page pieces extending in the page-division direction are reduced to one, and creates a print job according to the layout selected on the screen.