Printing Apparatus Display Segmentation for Print Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional printing apparatuses require users to navigate separate screens to set print control parameters, making it difficult to monitor and recognize the number of image data pieces to be created, necessitating a larger display area for integration of selection and page designation screens.
Innovation Solution
A printing apparatus with a display featuring multiple individual display areas, where character images and icons representing control codes are displayed, allowing users to monitor and control print processes directly on the same screen without the need for separate display areas, thus reducing the required display size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the selection screen and number-of-page designating screen are integrated into one display screen, then the user can recognize print control processes while monitoring the printing subject, but a relatively large displaying area becomes necessary requiring upsizing of the display
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is divided into multiple individual display areas, each capable of independently displaying either a character image or an icon. This segmentation allows the integrated screen to efficiently present both selection information and print control parameters without requiring excessive display area, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and display size.
2Area of stationary object
If separate screens are used for selection and page designation, then the display area remains compact, but the user finds it difficult to recognize print control processes while monitoring the printing subject
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the selection screen and number-of-page designating screen into a single integrated display. Multiple individual display areas on the same screen can simultaneously show character images and icons representing print control parameters, allowing users to monitor both the printing subject and control processes without navigating between separate screens.
3Area of stationary object
If multiple individual display areas are used to show both character images and icons, then the display size can be reduced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each individual display area is designed to be multi-functional, capable of displaying either a character image or an icon depending on the context. This universal display element approach allows the system to maintain a compact display size while avoiding the need for separate dedicated display areas for different functions, thereby reducing overall device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A printing apparatus includes a printer configured to print a character on a printing medium, a display including multiple individual display areas arranged in a particular order, and a controller. The controller is configured to display one of a character image and an icon on each of the multiple individual display areas, the character image being an image indicating the character, the icon corresponding to a control code indicating a process related to a print control of the character, and control printing performed by the printer based on a target code and a target character, the target code being a control code corresponding to the icons displayed in the individual display areas, the target characters being characters indicated by the character images displayed in the individual display areas.