JP2000330757A - Document processing system and printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably and also easily detect a printing error in a document processing system. SOLUTION: When an instruction printing document data that is inputted from an input device 1 and stored in a database 4 is made from an editing device 5, the corresponding document data is supplied to a printer 6 from the database 4. The document data receiving means 6a of the printer 6 receives the document data transmitted from the database 4 and supplies it to a printing mechanism part 6e and an abnormal data detecting means 6b. In the case the part 6b detects abnormal character data or image data, it is notified a notifying means 6c and a confirmation information printing means 6d. The means 6c notifies the device 5 performing the instruction that the abnormal data is detected, and also, the means 6d prints confirmation information showing an error content in a part of a document printed by the part 6e.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing system and a printing apparatus, and more particularly, to an input device for inputting document data, an editing device for editing the document data input via the input device, and A document processing system having a printing device for printing the document data edited by an editing device on film or photographic paper; and a document data input from an input device for inputting the document data and edited by the editing device. The present invention relates to a printing device for printing on a printer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Printing companies and newspaper companies that need to process a large number of documents efficiently need to edit documents electronically.
2. Description of the Related Art A document processing system, which is a dedicated system for producing an original plate (printing paper or film) on which printing is based, is used.

[0003] In such a document processing system, data such as texts and images transmitted from each telecommunication company or created in the company is edited by an editing device, and the data is sent to a printing factory located in each place. To distribute the data that has been edited.

[0004] In each printing shop, galley printing is created based on the distributed data, and after checking for errors, printing is performed on a film or photographic paper to create a copy.
If there is no error in the created composition, the composition is applied to a rotary press to create a final product such as a newspaper or a magazine.

[0005]

The documents handled in such a document processing system include those created by other telecommunication companies and the like. There was a case where a printing error occurred due to the absence of. Further, there have been cases where an image is not normally printed due to the fact that image data is not included in data delivered to a printing shop or data is garbled.

Therefore, conventionally, a mark "〓" is displayed at a place where a character printing error has occurred, and a mark "●" is displayed at a place where an image printing error has occurred.
Notifying that a printing error has occurred.

However, since such characters are applied to the print area, it is very difficult to find such marks from other characters. Therefore, in order to facilitate detection of a printing error, conventionally, confirmation information, which is information indicating that a printing error has occurred, has been printed outside the printing area of the galley printing.

In some cases, a document is corrected even after galley printing has been performed. In such a case, there is a possibility that a print error may be included in the content printed on a film or photographic paper. There was a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and is capable of easily detecting a printing error in the print content of a film or photographic paper even if the printing content of the film or photographic paper has an error. It is an object to provide a system and a printing device.

[0010]

According to the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an input device 1 for inputting document data shown in FIG. 1 and editing of the document data input via the input device 1 are performed. In a document processing system having an editing device 5 that performs editing and a printing device 6 that prints the document data edited by the editing device 5 on film or photographic paper, the printing device 6 is transmitted from the editing device 5. Document data receiving means 6a for receiving said document data
And abnormal data detecting means 6b for detecting abnormal data included in the document data received by the document data receiving means 6a, and printing the document data of the film or photographic paper. And a confirmation information printing unit 6d that prints confirmation information, which is information indicating that the abnormal data exists, outside a region where the abnormal data exists.

Here, the document data receiving means 6a receives the document data transmitted from the editing device 5. The abnormal data detecting means 6b detects, when the document data received by the document data receiving means 6a includes abnormal data, this. The confirmation information printing means 6d
Confirmation information, which is information indicating that abnormal data exists, is printed outside the area of the film or photographic paper where the document data is printed.

A printing apparatus 6 shown in FIG. 1 for printing document data inputted from an input apparatus 1 for inputting document data and edited by an editing apparatus 5 on a film or photographic paper is transmitted from the editing apparatus 5. Document data receiving means 6a for receiving the received document data; and abnormal data detecting means 6b for detecting when the document data received by the document data receiving means 6a includes abnormal data. And confirmation information printing means 6d for printing confirmation information, which is information indicating that the abnormal data is present, outside the area where the document data of the film or photographic paper is printed. A printing device is provided.

The document data receiving means 6a receives the document data transmitted from the editing device 5. The abnormal data detecting means 6b detects, when the document data received by the document data receiving means 6a includes abnormal data, this. The confirmation information printing means 6d
Confirmation information, which is information indicating that abnormal data exists, is printed outside the area where the document data of the film or photographic paper is printed.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a principle diagram for explaining the operation principle of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the document processing system according to the present invention includes an input device 1, a scanner 2, a network 3, a database 4, an editing device 5, and a printing device 6.

The input device 1 is composed of, for example, a personal computer or a work station, and receives input of texts and input of image data from the scanner 2 via an input device such as a keyboard. In addition, it receives document data transmitted from, for example, a branch office via the network 3.

In the present specification, a document refers to a document composed of a sentence, an image, and the like. Database 4
The information input from the input device 1 is stored, and the corresponding data is read and supplied in response to a request from the editing device 5 or the like.

The editing device 5 is composed of a personal computer, a workstation or the like, like the input device 1, and performs a process of editing document data stored in the database 4.

When the editing device 5 gives an instruction to print, the printing device 6 receives the corresponding document data,
Print on film or photographic paper. Here, the printing device 6 includes a document data receiving unit 6a, an abnormal data detecting unit 6b, a notifying unit 6c, a confirmation information printing unit 6d, and a printing mechanism unit 6e.

The document data receiving means 6a receives the document data supplied from the editing device 5 and transmits the information supplied from the notifying means 6c to the editing device 5. The abnormal data detecting means 6b
If the document data received by a includes abnormal data, the notifying unit 6c and the confirmation information printing unit 6
d.

The notifying means 6c includes an abnormal data detecting means 6b
If abnormal data is detected, the editing device 5 is notified of the fact. When abnormal data is detected by the abnormal data detecting means 6b, the confirmation information printing means 6d generates confirmation information and supplies it to the printing mechanism 6e.

The printing mechanism 6e prints the supplied document data on a film or photographic paper. Next, the operation of the above principle diagram will be described.

Now, a predetermined document is generated based on the text data sent from the branch office via the network 3, the image data input from the scanner 2, and the text data input from the keyboard. Database 4
And stored in

As described above, the document data stored in the database 4 can be edited by using the editing device 5. After the editing device 5 corrects the layout of the document or corrects a typographical error, the document data is transmitted to the printing device 6 if the operation of printing the document is performed.

In the printing device 6, the transmitted document data is received by the document data receiving means 6a. The abnormal data detecting means 6b detects abnormal data included in the document data received by the document data receiving means 6a. In addition, as abnormal data,
For example, the character data does not have font data corresponding to the printing device 6, or an image ID (information for specifying an image) having no corresponding image data. When detecting abnormal data, the abnormal data detecting means 6b notifies the confirmation information printing means 6d and the notifying means 6c of the detection.

The notifying unit 6c notifies the editing apparatus 5 that has issued the print request that abnormal data has been detected and the contents thereof. As a result, FIG.
Is displayed as shown in FIG. In this example, the content of the error that has occurred is displayed following the message "The following error was detected." That is, the character data of the character code “0125” to be displayed at the position “50/15” is abnormal (for example, there is no corresponding font data).
Image ID “45” to be displayed at position “50/75”
It is displayed that the image data of 12 ″ is abnormal (for example, there is no image data corresponding to the image ID).

As a result, the operator who operates the editing device 5 can know that an abnormality has occurred in the printing device 5 by referring to the pop-up screen 7. Returning to FIG. 1, the printing mechanism unit 6e executes a process of printing the document data received by the document data receiving unit 6a. At this time, the confirmation information printing unit 6d
When abnormal data is detected by the abnormal data detecting means 6b, the confirmation information is printed outside the area where the document data is displayed.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a film on which confirmation information is printed. In this example, confirmation information is printed on a portion of the film 8 below the document print area 8a. Note that the same contents as the contents shown in FIG. 2 are displayed as the contents of the confirmation information.

As described above, since the confirmation information is also displayed for the film, for example, even when the printing apparatus 5 is installed in a remote printing factory,
By referring to this information, the employees of the factory can surely know that the abnormal data exists.

Next, a configuration example of the embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in this figure, the present embodiment has a host system 10, a network 11, a communication device 12,
Input device 13, character data 14, image data 15, document data 16, writing terminal 17, typesetting terminal 18, image terminal 1
9, a printing device 20, a network 21, and a printing device 22.

The host system 10 manages document data so that a plurality of terminal devices can edit a document jointly, and manages the whole system to operate smoothly.

The network 11 is, for example, a public line or a dedicated line, and transmits a document transmitted from a branch office or another company. The communication device 12 receives data such as a document transmitted via the network 11.

The input device 13 includes, for example, a scanner or the like, and reads image data such as a photograph.
The character data 14 is a database that stores character data created by the writing terminal 17.

The image data 15 is a database that stores image data input from the input device 13 or the communication device 12. The document data 16 is a database that stores documents edited by the typesetting terminal 18 or the like.

When a new character, symbol, or the like is needed, the writing terminal 17 creates font data corresponding to the character. The typesetting terminal 18 inputs a new sentence and combines the sentence data and the image data as appropriate to create a paper. Further, the created paper is supplied to the printing devices 20 and 22 for printing.

The image terminal 19 performs processing for processing image data. The printing device 20 is installed in the company,
When a printing instruction is given by the typesetting terminal 18,
The document transmitted from the host system 10 is printed on film or photographic paper.

The printing device 22 is installed, for example, in a remote printing factory and prints document data transmitted via the network 21 on a film or photographic paper. The network 21 is, for example, a public line or a dedicated line.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration example of the printing apparatus 20 shown in FIG. The printing device 22 has the same configuration, and a description thereof will be omitted. As shown in this figure, the printing device 20 includes a communication unit 20a, a control unit 20
b, print character data 20c, print image data 20
d, a memory 20e, and a printing mechanism unit 20f.

Here, the communication section 20a performs communication with the host system 10. The control unit 20b controls each unit of the apparatus, and performs processing for expanding the document data transmitted via the communication unit 20a into bitmap data.

The printing character data 20c stores font data, and given a predetermined character code,
The corresponding font data is read and supplied. The print image data 20d stores image data. When an image ID for specifying an image is given, the image data is read and supplied.

The memory 20e is used when executing expansion processing of character data and image data. Printing mechanism 20
f performs processing of printing bitmap data obtained by developing processing in the memory 20e on a film or photographic paper.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. Now, it is assumed that font data such as new characters and symbols is created by operating the writing terminal 17. Then, the font data is stored in the host system 1
0 is stored in the character data 14. At this time, the host system 10 creates font data (low-resolution font data) for display on a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor based on the font data. To be stored.

The image data edited by the image terminal 19 is transmitted to the image data 1 via the host system 10.
5 is stored. At this time, the host system 10 generates image data for display on the CRT monitor and stores it in the image data 15 as in the case of character data.

Of the character data and image data created in this way, printing data (original data having a high resolution) is transmitted to the printing devices 20 and 22 according to an instruction from the operator.
Print character data 20c and print image data 20
d.

Accordingly, the present system has two types of image and character data for display and printing. FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the usage status of display and print data. As shown in this figure, the original font data created by the character writing terminal 17 is
4b is stored in the character data 14. The low-resolution font data generated from the print characters 14b is also used as the display characters 14a.
Is stored in

On the other hand, the original image data created by the image terminal 19 is stored in the image data 15 as a print image 15b. Also, this print image 15b
Are generated and stored in the image data 15 as the display image 15a.

When displaying a document to be edited on the CRT monitor of the typesetting terminal 18, the display characters 14a and the display images 15a are read and used. As shown in this figure, the typesetting terminal 18 can refer to only the area where the document data is arranged in the paper space 60 to be created.

When the printing device 20 prints a document on the film 61, the printing characters 14b and the printing images 15b are read and used. Returning to FIG. 4, when the operator of the typesetting terminal 18 instructs the printing device 20 to print the edited document, the document data is supplied to the printing device 20.

The printing device 20 receives the document data transmitted from the host system 10 by the communication unit 20a and supplies it to the control unit 20b. The document data is composed of a character code, an image ID, and coordinate information indicating a position where the character code and the image ID are arranged.

The control unit 20b performs processing for expanding the document data supplied from the communication unit 20a into bitmap data using the memory 20e. That is, the control unit 20b
The font data corresponding to the character code is read from the print character data 20c and is arranged at a predetermined position in the memory 20e. Further, the image data corresponding to the image ID is read from the print image data 20d and is arranged at a predetermined position in the memory 20e.

At this time, when the font data or image data corresponding to the character code or image ID included in the document data does not exist in the print character data 20c or the print image data 20d, the control unit 20b executes Notifies the typesetting terminal 18 and writes confirmation information in a predetermined area of the memory 20e.

As a result, a pop-up screen 50 as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed on the typesetting terminal 18. On the pop-up screen 50, a message “There is an error in the character or image data. Do you want to continue the output?” Is displayed, and below it, three buttons 50a to 50c are displayed.

The button 50a is operated when printing is continued. The button 50b is operated to stop printing. The button 50c is operated when displaying the details of the data in which an error has occurred.

When the button 50 c is operated on such a pop-up screen 50, a pop-up screen 55 shown in FIG. 8 is displayed on the CRT monitor of the typesetting terminal 18.

In the example of this figure, the content of the error that has occurred is displayed following the message "The following error was detected." That is, the character data of the character code “0125” to be displayed at the position “50/15” is abnormal (for example, there is no corresponding font data), and the character data is displayed at the position “50/75”. It is displayed that the image data of the image ID “4512” to be updated is abnormal (for example, the image data corresponding to the image ID does not exist).

When the button 50a is operated, the bitmap data developed on the memory 20e is supplied to the printing mechanism 20f and printed on a film or photographic paper.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a printing example at this time. In this example, the confirmation information is printed in an area below the document print area 60a of the film 60. Note that the same information as that displayed on the pop-up screen 55 shown in FIG. 8 is displayed as the confirmation information.

By referring to such confirmation information, the operator of the typesetting terminal 18 can surely and quickly know the error included in the document data. Next, the operator of the typesetting terminal 18 transmits the edited document data to the printing device 22 installed in a remote printing factory.

In this case, the same processing as that described above is performed. For example, when a character code not possessed by the printing device 22 is transmitted, a pop-up screen 50 as shown in FIG. Since the information is displayed on the CRT monitor of the typesetting terminal 18, it is possible to know the cause of the trouble by referring to this screen and the screen shown in FIG.

Finally, a flowchart for realizing the above processing will be described. FIG. 10 shows the typesetting terminal 18.
5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process executed in step S <b> 1. When this flowchart is started, the following processing is executed. [S1] The typesetting terminal 18 determines whether printing has been instructed. If printing has been instructed, the process proceeds to step S2,
Otherwise, the process ends. [S2] The typesetting terminal 18 acquires the corresponding document data from the document data 16. [S3] The typesetting terminal 18 transmits the document data obtained in step S2 to the corresponding printing device. [S4] The typesetting terminal 18 determines whether confirmation information for notifying that an error has occurred has been transmitted from the printing apparatus. If the confirmation information has been transmitted, the process proceeds to step S5. The process ends. [S5] The typesetting terminal 18 displays a pop-up screen 50 shown in FIG. 7 on the CRT monitor. [S6] The typesetting terminal 18 ends the process if the button 50b is operated on the pop-up screen 50 shown in FIG. 7, and otherwise proceeds to step S7. [S7] When the button 50a is operated on the pop-up screen 50 shown in FIG. 7, the typesetting terminal 18 proceeds to step S8, otherwise proceeds to step S9. [S8] The typesetting terminal 18 transmits a predetermined control command to the printing apparatus, and causes the printing apparatus 18 to continuously execute the print processing that has been put on hold. [S9] When the button 50c is operated on the pop-up screen 50 shown in FIG. 7, the typesetting terminal 18 proceeds to step S10, otherwise returns to step S6. [S10] The typesetting terminal 18 displays a pop-up screen 55 shown in FIG. 8 on the CRT monitor.

Next, referring to FIG.
An example of the processing executed in 22 will be described.
When the flowchart shown in FIG. 11 is started, the following processing is executed. [S20] The control unit 20b determines whether or not document data has been received from the host system 10 by the communication unit 20a. If it has been received, the process proceeds to step S21; otherwise, the process ends. [S21] The control unit 20b executes processing for expanding the document data received in step S20 into bitmap data.

That is, the control unit 20b acquires font data corresponding to the character code included in the document data from the print character data 20c, arranges the font data at a predetermined position in the memory 20e, and includes the font data in the document data. Image data corresponding to the specified image ID is printed as image data 20d.
And placed at a predetermined position in the memory 20e. [S22] The control unit 20b determines whether or not abnormal data exists. If abnormal data exists, the process proceeds to step S24. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step S23. [S23] The control unit 20b executes a printing process. That is, the control unit 20b supplies the bitmap data stored in the memory 20e to the printing mechanism unit 20f to print. [S24] The control unit 20b transmits confirmation information indicating that an error has occurred to the host system 10. [S25] The control unit 20b ends the process when predetermined information indicating that printing is to be stopped is transmitted from the host system 10, and otherwise, the control unit 20b proceeds to step S2.
Proceed to 6. [S26] The control unit 20b continuously executes the print processing that has been put on hold due to the occurrence of an error.

According to the above processing,

[0063]

As described above, according to the present invention, an input device for inputting document data, an editing device for editing document data input via the input device, and a film data edited by the editing device are stored in a film. Or, in a document processing system having a printing device that prints on photographic paper, the printing device includes a document data receiving unit that receives the document data transmitted from the editing device, and a document data received by the document data receiving unit. This is information indicating that abnormal data is present outside the area where the document data of the film or photographic paper is printed, and abnormal data detecting means for detecting abnormal data when the data is included. Since the apparatus has the confirmation information printing means for printing the confirmation information, a highly reliable document processing system can be constructed.

According to the present invention, in a printing apparatus for printing document data input from an input device for inputting document data and edited by an editing device on a film or photographic paper, a document transmitted from the editing device is transmitted. Document data receiving means for receiving data, and abnormal data detecting means for detecting when the document data received by the document data receiving means includes abnormal data,
Confirmation information printing means for printing confirmation information that is information indicating that abnormal data exists outside the area where the document data of the film or photographic paper is printed. When a printer exists, it is possible to provide a printing apparatus that can easily detect the printer.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle diagram showing an operation principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a display example of a pop-up screen displayed on an editing device when an error occurs during printing.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a film on which confirmation information is printed.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration example of the printing apparatus illustrated in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the usage status of display and print data.

FIG. 7 is a display example of a pop-up screen displayed on the typesetting terminal when an error occurs during printing.

8 is a display example of a pop-up screen displayed when a button 50c is operated on the screen shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a film on which confirmation information is printed.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process performed in the typesetting terminal illustrated in FIG. 4;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process performed in the printing apparatus illustrated in FIG. 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Input device 2 Scanner 3 Network 4 Database 5 Editing device 6 Printing device 6a Document data receiving means 6b Abnormal data detecting means 6c Notification means 6d Confirmation information printing means 6e Printing mechanism 10 Host system 11 Network 12 Communication device 13 Input device 14 Character Data 15 Image data 16 Document data 17 Writing terminal 18 Typesetting terminal 19 Image terminal 20, 22 Printing device 21 Network

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An input device for inputting document data, an editing device for editing the document data input via the input device, and printing the document data edited by the editing device on film or photographic paper In the document processing system having a printing device, the printing device includes: a document data receiving unit that receives the document data transmitted from the editing device; and an abnormal document data received by the document data receiving unit. Abnormal data detecting means for detecting the presence of abnormal data, and information indicating that the abnormal data exists outside the area of the film or photographic paper on which the document data is printed. And a confirmation information printing means for printing the confirmation information. 2. The confirmation information, when character data included in the document data has an abnormality, is information indicating a character code of the character data and a position where the character data is to be printed. 2. The document processing system according to claim 1, wherein: 3. When the image data included in the document data is abnormal, the confirmation information indicates information for specifying the image data and a position where the image data is to be printed. 2. The document processing system according to claim 1, wherein the document processing information is information. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a notifying means for notifying the editing apparatus which has instructed printing, when an abnormality is detected by said abnormal data detecting means. Document processing system. 5. A printing apparatus for printing document data input from an input device for inputting document data and edited by an editing device on a film or a photographic paper, wherein the document data transmitted from the editing device is received. Document data receiving means, abnormal data detecting means for detecting, when the document data received by the document data receiving means contains abnormal data, abnormal data, and the document data of the film or photographic paper And a confirmation information printing means for printing confirmation information, which is information indicating that the abnormal data is present, outside the area to be printed.