Mount for sticking sticky note thereto and medium storing program executable by controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10507673-B2
Application number	US-201715440537-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2017
Priority date	Feb 26, 2016
Publication date	Dec 17, 2019
Grant date	Dec 17, 2019

Abstract

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a controller that causes a print execution device to execute printing is provided. The print execution device includes: a print head provided with nozzles aligned in a sub scanning direction; a holding member which holds a part of a printing medium conveyed in the sub scanning direction; and a head driving device which causes the print head to execute a main scanning operation. The programs cause the controller to execute: a first acquiring process for acquiring first object data which represents a first object image to be printed on a first sticky note; a generating process for generating printing data for the print execution device to execute the printing of the first object image on the first sticky note by utilizing the first object data; and a supply process for supplying the printing data to the print execution device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a controller that causes a print execution device to execute printing, the print execution device including: a print head provided with nozzles aligned in a sub scanning direction; a holding member which holds a part of a printing medium conveyed from an upstream side toward a downstream side in the sub scanning direction; and a head driving device which causes the print head to execute a main scanning operation, the main scanning operation including an operation for causing the print head to discharge an ink toward the printing medium while moving the print head in a main scanning direction orthogonal to the sub scanning direction, the programs causing the controller to execute:
acquiring first object data which represents a first object image to be printed on a first sticky note; and
generating printing data for the print execution device to execute the printing of the first object image on the first sticky note, which is conveyed in a state of being stuck on a mount, by utilizing the first object data, the printing data representing a printing image in which the first object image is arranged in a first predetermined area, the first predetermined area being an area in which the print execution device executes the printing of the first object image on the first sticky note only in a first state and does not execute the printing of the first object image on the first sticky note in a second state, the first state being a state in which the first sticky note is stuck on the mount and in which the mount and a part of the first sticky note are held by the holding member, the second state being a state in which the first sticky note is stuck on the mount and in which the mount is held by the holding member and the first sticky note is not held by the holding member,
wherein the first predetermined area is an area which is specified by a size of the first sticky note, the number of the nozzles, a distance between the two nozzles adjoining in the sub scanning direction, and a size of the holding member.

2. The medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first sticky note has a first sticky note end portion which has an adhesion area and a second sticky note end portion which is disposed on a side opposite to the first sticky note end portion in the sub scanning direction,
the mount is conveyed in the sub scanning direction by the print execution device in a state in which the first sticky note is stuck so that the first sticky note end portion is positioned on the downstream side in the sub scanning direction and the second sticky note end portion is positioned on the upstream side in the sub scanning direction, and
the holding member holds the first sticky note at a position disposed on the upstream side in the sub scanning direction as compared with the first sticky note end portion, under a condition that the print head executes the main scanning operation to print the first object image on the first sticky note.

3. The medium according to claim 1 , wherein the holding member is a member which imparts, to the printing medium, such a wavy shape that protrusion portions protruding in a direction approaching to the print head and recess portions protruding in a direction separating away from the print head are alternately aligned in the main scanning direction, by holding the printing medium to be conveyed at a plurality of positions disposed in the main scanning direction.

4. The medium according to claim 1 , wherein in the generating process, the controller generates the printing data so that, after a plurality of dots are formed to constitute the first object image on the first sticky note by executing the main scanning operation by the print head, another dot is not formed between two dots adjoining in the sub scanning direction of the plurality of dots and another dot is not formed between two dots adjoining in the main scanning direction of the plurality of dots.

5. The medium according to claim 1 , wherein in the generating process, the controller generates the printing data so that, after a plurality of dots are formed to constitute the first object image on the first sticky note by executing the main scanning operation by the print head, another dot is formed in at least one of a space between two dots adjoining in the sub scanning direction of the plurality of dots and a space between two dots adjoining in the main scanning direction of the plurality of dots.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a controller that causes a print execution device to execute printing, the print execution device including: a print head provided with nozzles aligned in a sub scanning direction; a holding member which holds a part of a printing medium conveyed from an upstream side toward a downstream side in the sub scanning direction; and a head driving device which causes the print head to execute a main scanning operation, the main scanning operation including an operation for causing the print head to discharge an ink toward the printing medium while moving the print head in a main scanning direction orthogonal to the sub scanning direction, the programs causing the controller to execute:
acquiring first object data which represents a first object image to be printed on a first sticky note; and
generating printing data for the print execution device to execute the printing of the first object image on the first sticky note, which is conveyed in a state of being stuck on a mount, by utilizing the first object data, the printing data representing a printing image in which the first object image is arranged in a first predetermined area, the first predetermined area being an area in which the print execution device executes the printing of the first object image on the first sticky note only in a first state and does not execute the printing of the first object image on the first sticky note in a second state, the first state being a state in which the first sticky note is stuck on the mount and in which the mount and a part of the first sticky note are held by the holding member, the second state being a state in which the first sticky note is stuck on the mount and in which the mount is held by the holding member and the first sticky note is not held by the holding member
wherein the printing image has a first side which corresponds to the upstream side in the sub scanning direction and a second side which corresponds to the downstream side in the sub scanning direction, in relation to a first direction corresponding to the sub scanning direction,
the printing image further includes a first predetermined image which is different from the first object image,
the first predetermined image is arranged on the second side as compared with an end portion on the second side of the first object image, in relation to the first direction, and
a distance between the first predetermined image and an end portion on the first side of the first object image in the first direction is a distance which is based on a distance between the two nozzles adjoining in the sub scanning direction and the number of times of the main scanning operation required for the print head to print the first object image on the first sticky note.

7. The medium according to claim 6 ,
wherein the printing image further includes a second predetermined image which is different from the first object image, and
the second predetermined image is arranged at a position different from that of the first object image in a second direction corresponding to the main scanning direction, and the second predetermined image is arranged in an area between the end portion on the first side of the first object image and the

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshida Yasunari

Classifications

• B41J2/15

  for serial printing · CPC title

• B41J29/40

  Means for printing fixed, i.e. unchanging, matter in addition to selectable matter · CPC title

• B41J11/005

  Guides in the printing zone, e.g. guides for preventing contact of conveyed sheets with printhead · CPC title

• B41J11/36

  Blanking or long feeds; Feeding to a particular line, e.g. by rotation of platen or feed roller · CPC title

• B41J2/01

  Ink jet · CPC title