Print control system

Claim 2

A print control system in which an object to be printed is developed in the form of dots on a full-dot memory having an area corresponding to a maximum size of printing paper to provide data in the form of dots and the data read out in a serial form from the full-dot memory are transmitted to a printing section, allowing the data to be printed on different size of printing paper, comprising: means for discriminating data read out from the full-dot memory by determining whether the position of the data being printed is within an effective printing area set according to the size of the printing paper or not; and means for inhibiting the read out data from being transmitted to the printing section whose position is determined as being out of the effective printing area.

Claim 3

A print control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said printing section effects printing by raster scanning with a beam according to the data read out from the full-dot memory in a serial form and said means for discriminating data makes determination as to whether said position is within the effective printing area or not based on the scanning position of the beam.

Claim 4

A print control system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said means for discriminating data comprises a horizontal effective-printing-range discriminating section which counts clocks for reading dots for each raster line and compares the count value with a target value set according to a size of the printing paper to effect the determination as to whether said position is within the effective printing area or not and a vertical effective-printing-range discriminating section which counts raster lines and compares the count value with a target value set according to the size of the printing paper to effect the determination as to whether said position is within the effective printing area or not.

Claim 5

A print control system as claimed in claim 3, which further comprises a gate means for enabling the read out data to pass therethrough or disabling them to pass therethrough depending on an output from the horizontal effective-printing-range discriminating section and an output from the vertical effective-printing-range discriminating section.

Claim 6

A print control system as claimed in claim 3, which further comprises a gate means for enabling the read out data to pass therethrough or disabling them to pass therethrough depending on an output from the horizontal effective-printing-range discriminating section and means for stopping the reading out of the data from the full-dot memory depending on an output from the vertical effective-printing-area discriminating section.

Claim 7

A print control system capable of printing data to be printed on a plurality of sizes of paper, with each of the sizes being no larger than a maximum size of printing paper, said print control system comprising: a full-dot memory having an area corresponding to the maximum size of the printing paper for storing print data to be printed; reading means for reading the print data out of said full-dot memory in a serial form in order to transmit the read out print data to a printing section; discriminating means for discriminating the print data read out of said full-dot memory by detecting whether or not the position of the data being printed is within an effective printing area corresponding to the size of the printing paper upon which the print data is be printed; and inhibiting means for inhibiting the transmission to the printing section of the read out print data which is determined to be outside of the effective printing area.

Claim 8

A print control system capable of printing data to be printed on a plurality of sizes of paper, with each of the sizes being no larger than a maximum size of printing paper, said print control system comprising: a full-dot memory having an area corresponding to the maximum size of the printing paper for storing print data to be printed; reading means for reading the print data out of said full-dot memory in a serial form in order to transmit the read out print data to a printing section; discriminating means for discriminating the print data read out of said full-dot memory by detecting whether or not the position of the data being printed is within an effective printing area corresponding to the size of the printing paper upon which the print data is be printed; and inhibiting means for inhibiting the transmission to the printing section of the read out print data which is determined to be outside of the effective printing area.

Claim 9

A print control system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said printing section effects printing by raster scanning with a beam according to the print data read out from said full-dot memory in a serial form and said discriminating means determines whether or not said position is within the effective printing area based on the a scanning position of the beam.

Claim 10

A print control system as claimed in claim 7, wherein said discriminating means comprises a horizontal effective-printing-range discriminating section which counts clocks for reading dots for each raster line and compares a resulting count value with a target value set according to a printing paper size to effect the determination as to whether or not said position is within the effective printing area and a vertical effective-printing-range discriminating section which counts raster lines and compares a resulting count value with a target value set according a printing paper size to effect the determination as to whether or not said position is within the effective printing area.

Claim 11

A print control system as claimed in claim 8, which further comprises gate means for enabling the read out print data to pass therethrough or disabling the read out print data from passing therethrough depending on an output from the horizontal effective-printing-range discriminating section and an output from the vertical effective-printing-range discriminating section.

Claim 12

A print control system as claimed in claim 8, which further comprises gate means for enabling the read out data to pass therethrough or disabling the read out print data from passing therethrough depending on an output from the horizontal effective-printing-range discriminating section and means for stopping the reading out of the data from the full-dot memory depending on an output from the vertical effective-printing-area discriminating section.

Claim 13

A print control system capable of printing data to be printed on a plurality of sizes of paper, with each of the sizes being no larger than a maximum size of printing paper, said print control system comprising: a full-dot memory having an area corresponding to the maximum size of the printing paper for storing print data to be printed, wherein the print data respectively correspond to various scanning positions associated with the printing of the print data; reading means for reading the print data out of said full-dot memory in order to transmit the read out print data to a printing section; discriminating means for discriminating the print data read out of said full-dot memory by determining which of the read out print data are associated with scanning positions located within an effective printing area corresponding to the size of the printing paper upon which the print data is to be printed; and inhibiting means for inhibiting the transmission to the printing section of the read out print data which is determined by said discriminating means to be associated with scanning positions located outside of the effective printing area.

Claim 14

A print control system capable of printing data to be printed on a plurality of sizes of paper, with each of the sizes being no larger than a maximum size of printing paper, said print control system comprising: a full-dot memory having an area corresponding to the maximum size of the printing paper for storing print data to be printed, wherein the print data respectively correspond to various scanning positions associated with the printing of the print data; reading means for reading the print data out of said full-dot memory in order to transmit the read out print data to a printing section; discriminating means for discriminating the print data read out of said full-dot memory by determining which of the read out print data are associated with scanning positions located within an effective printing area corresponding to the size of the printing paper upon which the print data is to be printed; and inhibiting means for inhibiting the transmission to the printing section of the read out print data which is determined by said discriminating means to be associated with scanning positions located outside of the effective printing area.

Claim 15

A print control system according to claim 11, wherein said reading means reads the print data out of said full-dot memory in a serial form in order to transmit the read out print data to a printing section.