A textual processing system having a keyboard for entering textual information and for conditioning the system into a plurality of modes of operation including a search mode. The system also includes a record unit for recording and reading out textual information, on and from, respectively; a record medium; a printing unit for printing textual information; a display unit for displaying textual information; and a control unit connected to the above units. The control unit, during the search mode ...

A raster printer with sufficient flexibility so that text data and image data of any size and orientation can be placed at any position on a page. Input data has a succession of coded character data along with control data which specifies information concerning font selection and the placement of the characters on the page. Control circuits process the input data, one character at a time, and generate for each of the characters, data relating to the position of the character on the page, the siz...

An information processing system is used in a computer output microfilmer in which sub-information such as titles and indices is recorded on a recording medium such as a microfilm together with pre-processed main information obtained from a computer. The pre-processed main information is processed through a main information processing unit. The sub-information is prepared and processed through a sub-information processing unit in which key words contained in the main information are detected and...

A text processing device which includes a typewriter and a memory device, in which a comparison circuit is provided, by means of which a write/read connection between the memory device and the typewriter is completed as a function of the positive result of a comparison between a stored identification and an identification input by means of the typewriter keyboard, for the protection of stored text information against changes and unauthorized access by third parties.

A display and printing terminal for a data processing system including a serial recirculating store for storing the information to be sent to or received from the processing system, a keyboard for entering information into the store and a display device for displaying the information in the store. A selectively actuable printing device which operates asynchronously with the store, prints out the information contained in the store. The recording of control characters at selected locations in the ...

A central computer controls remote vending machines through long distance communication lines wherein the vending machine, in response to instructions from the computer, prints and issues valuable documents such as entertainment tickets, lottery tickets, race tickets and the like. The computer acts as a memory storage for keeping inventory and accounts. In a second embodiment an attendant sales terminal may be used with a split platen printer wherein a single mechanism provides two sets of infor...

Apparatus and method are disclosed for making ready a multi-unit, multi-web printing press. Data is entered into a computer memory representing the number of sections of a publication to be printed, the number of pages for each section and which pages of each section are to be printed in one or more colored inks. An acceptable web layout pattern and acceptable page printing plate locations on the various plate cylinders of the press are determined from the inputted and previously stored data. A ...

A method for generating mask transparencies for the mass production of printed circuit boards using a laser photoplotting system includes an algorithm for mapping geometric entities from the continuous plane such as is used in vector photoplotting to a pixel graphic representation of the geometric entities. The method reduces offset errors between rectangular entities and circular entities in phototool primitives constructed in the discrete pixel graphic system by selecting a pixel to represent ...

The disclosure relates to an improvement in data processing systems involving a host processor and a remote printer which prints alphanumeric characters from data communicated from the host to the printer. The improvement provides the provision of an intermediate processor having an interactive display terminal. There are means in this intermediate processor for controlling the setup of repetitive format parameters of documents containing the alphanumeric characters printed by the printer. In ad...

An information processing device having a function of designating a printing-start position comprises a keyboard for inputting various data and applying various designations, a printer for printing various data on a sheet, a memory for storing data inputted from the keyboard, a control unit for controlling the printer so that printing is started from a printing-start position when the designation of the printing-start position on the sheet is applied from the keyboard and for reading data from t...