摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dot line printer for obtaining the same printing speed in the case of printing in a character font print mode and an image data print mode. SOLUTION: This dot line printer comprises a data receiver 1 for receiving print data such as a control code, a character code, image information or the like from a host system 11, a data analyzer 2 for analyzing the data and generating data such as the character code, a line interval, a line feed amount and the like, a data developing and imaging unit 3 for imaging the data in a bit pattern in an imaging memory, a print controller 4 for generating data imaged in the imaging memory, the line feed amount a line feed amount converted from white dots continued in a longitudinal direction in the case of the image data print mode or the like, and a printing unit 5 for reciprocating a plurality of hammer banks aligned with dot printing hammers of number corresponding to the number of longitudinal dots of one character in a column direction to print the data from the unit 4.
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