Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Kohtaroh Yoshimura

Yoshinori Takahashi

Takeo Fujii

Nobuo Wakasugi

Motonobu Hatakeyama

Hidenori Naoi

In a method for inputting, into a printer memory, printing initiation positions for a standard preformed paper, a touch panel is superimposed upon a sheet of the standard preformed paper which has a printing format already printed on the paper. Coordinate data of printing initiation positions of the desired printing format are entered through contact with the touch panel by a touch pen. The touch panel produces input coordinate data which are input into the printer as printing format data.

Method for identifying coordinate data for selected locations on

A dot drive circuit for a wire dot type printer including dot pins of a print head different in gaps with respect to a platen sets dot drive time intervals for each dot pin or for each dot pin group in accordance with the size of the gap.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kohtaroh Yoshimura