Printer apparatus for enlarging or reducing the size of characters
US5500922A · kind A · utility
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 6, 1995 |
| Grant date | Mar 19, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 6, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K2215/0037
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A printer apparatus comprises: a holding circuit to hold a pattern of a character, a figure, or the like in a form such that it can be enlarged or reduced into an arbitrary size; a converter to convert the pattern of the character, figure, or the like which was held in the holding circuit into a printable dot image of an arbitrary size; and a forming circuit to form a reduced dot image of the character, figure, or the like by the converter in accordance with reduction ratios of a character pitch and a line pitch upon reduction printing in the printer emulation mode. With this apparatus, the reduced print image which accurately conforms with the reduction ratios can be obtained.
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