Patent · US Expired

Automatic installation for the composition and the continuous printing of small texts

US5410639A · kind A · utility

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10Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 3, 1992
Grant dateApr 25, 1995
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 3, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07F17/26
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An automatic installation for the composition and continuous printing of small texts, including a console having a screen and a control keyboard, and a microcomputer for processing instructions transmitted by the keyboard and for transmitting them partly to the screen and partly to a printer for printing the text composed onto a medium. The microcomputer additionally manages the whole of the installation and the interaction between the latter and the user. The printer is a printer of the graphics type. The composition proper of the text to be printed is managed by a program adapted to this end and loaded into the memory of the microcomputer. The whole of the text to be printed is previously composed by the user with the aid of a program stored in the microcomputer before being printed.

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