Setting and detecting method for left and right margins

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE: To simply set and detect the left and the right margins in a printer by providing a position counter indicating the position of a type head constantly and a register storing the left and the right margins in a control unit. CONSTITUTION: A type head 3 is set at a home position, a position counter in a control unit 15 is set at an initial position, the positions from the home positions of the left and right ends of a type medium 2 are detected by a medium sensor 13, left and right margins are calculated by calculation from the detected positions, are then stored in left and right margin registers, and are set therein. When the contents of the position counter are coincided with the contents in the left or right margin register, the left or right margin is detected, and the margin can be thus simply set and detected. COPYRIGHT: (C)1982,JPO&Japio

Inventors

• 👤 Matsusaburo Noguchi
• 👤 Hitoshi Sekine
• 👤 Koji Kajikawa

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