SEMI-AUTOMATIC PAPER SETTING SYSTEM FOR PRINTER

PURPOSE:To provide the titled system by which a paper can be semi-automatically set securely with an inexpensive construction, by a method wherein a carriage is positioned at the center of the paper, and the paper is fed by a paper guide provided on the carriage. CONSTITUTION:When a paper-setting signal is received by a controlling circuit 1, a code and data for moving the carriage to the center of paper are transmitted to a carriage-controlling circuit 2. The circuit 2 sets the data on a carriage step counter 4 without calculation the data. After a series of operations are completed, the same data as those previously transmitted and a code in the direction opposite to that of the code previously transmitted are transmitted from the circuit 1 to the circuit 2, the carriage is moved by a predetermined amount from the current position, and is returned to the initial position after a paper- feeding operation.