Patent · US Expired

Arrangement for controlling printing in a mail-processing device

US6733194B2 · kind B2 · utility

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14Claims

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Assignee

Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Tilmann Schilling · Berlin, DE
Torsten Schlaaff · Panketal, DE
Joachim Jauert · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 7, 2003
Grant date	May 11, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 7, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG07B2017/00596
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement for controlling the printing in a mail-processing device has a print data controller for pixel data editing while printing with a print heads. The print data controller is composed of a pixel data-editing unit and a circuit including a DMA controller, an address is generator and a printer controller. The DMA controller allows access to the binary pixel data stored in the pixel memory in order to make the data available to the pixel data-editing unit in data strings. The address generator generates addresses that are supplied to the pixel data-editing unit for the selection of the binary pixel data from an intermediately stored data string and for grouping in the required sequence. The printer controller drives the pixel data-editing unit in order to supply the binary pixel data in groups to a driver unit for the print head.

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