BG60710B1 - Multiple printed forms and method and device for their production - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a set of printed forms (1) each of which has at least one printed surface (2) having the same printed pattern (3), and at least one control box (4) found in one and the same place across which a dividing line (5) passes and includes at least two patterns of codes (figures) (6) printed on moving paper strips (16) which are finally cut. The paper strip (16) movement speed during the process of printing remains the same. The coded patterns (6a, 6b) are printed at intervals by the printing cylinders (8) having different peripheral speeds. The rotary speed at least of one of the printing cylinders (8) in the course of the printing process changes and/or at least one of the printing cylinders (8) is not forcibly moved.

Description

The invention relates to a method for printing multiple forms, forms, tickets, lotto and toto slips and other leaflets, as well as a device for its realization and a set of forms produced according to the method and the device.

The invention describes, as a preferred example, the accomplished form of a lottery form adapted to the specific conditions of Greece. The format of the form is predefined. One reading field, respectively, for writing, occupies a relatively small area. A substantial part of the free surface of the form is for registration and a narrow strip is used on it to serve the coded / digital / markings transversely on the form. The completed form (fiche) at the lotto receiving point is read and registered by a computer, and simultaneously with the registration of the codes / numbers /, along the length of the strip from the form, it itself is divided into two parts and is torn off. Upon registration, the reads of numbers / codes / are printed on both sides of the still free surface of the form, on the bar for codes / numbers /. The severed part of the form with the recorded data and the relevant control and registration stamps should serve in the case of the holder's profit as a legitimation at the lottery point. There, through a control device, the winning letterhead is checked and identified, with the two separate parts of the letterhead stacked on top of each other, in the middle of the line of codes / digits / and verified that the numbers / codes / of the letterhead correspond to those of the pattern / the standard. The possibilities of counterfeiting by copying or otherwise can be reduced to some extent by making the calibration of the bar code / digit / difficult, or by different coloring of any form, or by modeling in different forms of forms, but this must always be consistent with the print specifications so that the calibration of about 400, but up to a maximum of 1000, forms is repeated. Counterfeits are not excluded.

This problem exists not only with lotto forms. It also manifests itself in all other cases, such as toto slips, multi-person tickets, gratis tickets, or travel tickets, where the document in question should serve as a justification for specifying any claim .

A set of such letterheads is printed in a known manner, preferably by rotary printing machines, in which the printing form and the printing cylinder are driven by gears. The single letterhead is printed on moving paper strips and after the printing process is completed they are cut into separate sheets. When rotating (at 1 revolution) of the printing cylinder, printed images are printed for 15-20 photoforms / blanks /, ie. the number of printed forms for 1 turnover. The encoded / digital / control field images, by contrast, according to the method of the invention, are printed by cylinders whose rotational speed (rotational speed) is changed during the printing process and / or by non-driven cylinders / in contrast to the conventional method of producing prints, in which the printing cylinders for the printed images are driven by gears /, thereby synchronizing them during printing. As the strips of paper pass through the cylindrical encoder / digital / imaging device throughout the printing process, the cylinders move the strips of paper forward, only by friction and mainly at constant speed.

Because the cylinders for encoded / digital / images do not move, print cylinders of different diameters can be used without difficulty, without special devices for matching / adjusting / their actuators. The various printing cliches such as extrusion matrices, openings / perforations / encoded / digital / image matrices, regardless of the range of printing cylinders through which the printed images are obtained, determine the dimensions of the photoform. The single encoded / digital / image can thus be renumbered or moved to another series of forms.

The different diameters and not exactly synchronized and thus inaccurate entrainment of the shafts / cylinders / of the paper strips increases the variations in the printing of the encoded / digital / images caused by a controllable generator, slowing or interrupting the movement of the cylinders, as well as cropping of the whitewashed sections of the cliché.

Another problem with actuated cylinders occurs when their starting, through the printing process, be it flow or cyclic, changes rhythmically. It is preferable for the cylinders to be rotated unevenly in stages so that they rotate at different speeds. This can also be triggered by a single transformer circuit operated by a random generator. A similar impact on rotating cylinders with apparently the same speeds is also achieved by a flying support.

It is an object of the invention to provide a method for the multiple-printing of demonstration forms which is readily practicable and identifiable without the forgery of claim 1.

The additional claims are described with their characteristic features and other structural elements of the invention.

The apparatus for carrying out the method according to the invention is characterized by the features described in claims 4 to 7, and the forms produced by this device, and by this method, in claims 8 to 11.

The method and apparatus according to the invention produce different variants of blanks by differently positioning the coded / digital / images relative to each other and the inner half of the control bullet, which can be determined for at least 400 blanks, preferably at least 40000 blanks and achieving high security against counterfeiting, increasing by changing the form and print environment.

It is possible to print the individual encoded / digital / images in different colors which can be changed during the printing process without replacing the cylinders with which the respective colors are applied. Such an option is available with known automatic color-changing devices, and "random" mixtures of paints may occur. Thus, at least one encoded / digital / image can be displayed in series, respectively, a sample can be represented by matrixing of holes / perforation / or by pressing.

The photomechanical reproducibility of a stationery is further hampered when the encoded / digital / images are executed by so-called. guilloche, ie are overpaid on a linear raster, for example ornamented.

Printing encoded / digital / images via fluorescent or magnetic dyes increases the variance, and thus the likelihood of obtaining a second form with an identical control field, which provides some security against counterfeiting.

Verification of a single sheet should establish the match of the coded / digital / images of the dividing line, which is visually identifiable, but measuring instruments may also be used, mainly when checking for magnetic or fluorescent dye prints. The deviation of, for example, one line corresponds to 0.5 mm and is clearly visible to the naked eye. Given that the control field of one form is 100 mm long and the printing of at least two encoded / digital / images appears within this half millimeter, variations of the 200 x 200 differential control fields are provided. Conducting any of the operations described above further increases this number.

An exemplary embodiment of the invention is described in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 - represents a conventional lottery letterhead;

FIG. 2 is one of the forms of the lottery set according to the invention;

Figs. 3 and 4 show rotary printing machines with different gadgets / sections / for printing, with multiple printing of forms;

5 and 6 an example of a one-sided and / or two-sided encoded / digital / image printing section;

FIG. 7, 8 and 9 - different cylinders for printing encoded / digital / images.

Figure 1 shows a printing embodiment of a known lotto sheet 1a with a maximum printing surface 2 on which a printed image 3 is printed, identical to all lotto forms. A large portion of the non-printing surface of the form is the registration area 15, with a separate narrow, striped, control box 4 with two coded / digital / images 6.

In print image 3, winning numbers are indicated by crosses. At the point of acceptance of lottery letter 1a, i. the numbers indicated on it are read by a computer, and the crosses marked on the two sides of the control box 4 are printed at the control of the form of its holder and at its registration with the lottery company. At the same time, lottery form 1a, along the crossing dividing line 5 of control field 4, is cut in two. The portion 15a of the stationery 1a, having a printed surface 2, marked with a cross printed image 3 and a control seal of the registration area 15, remains in the hands of its holder, and the other part of the stationery 1a with a registration stamp of the respective half 156 of the registration plate District 15 goes to the lottery company. Sometimes, one portion of the torn / split / control field 4, with the two similarly divided digital images 6 of the dividing line 5, of a particular form 1a, remains unilaterally in the hands of the holder of the form, or respectively in the lottery company.

The winner of the winning slip must be at the point where the winning draw is made so that its combination of numbers coincides with the winning slip.

The slice of the letterhead serves as the bearer of the winning slip for legitimation. For this purpose, not only the control seal on the registration portion 15a of registration box 15 must be compared with the registration seal of the detached portion of the letter la, but also when imposing the two sections of the letterhead on each other on the dividing line 5, the two digital images 6a and 66 must be completed without fail. As with the Lot 1a letterhead shown in Figure 1, the letterhead is also a separate number, but as shown, the counterfeiting options are not excluded.

The lottery letter shown in FIG. 2 is not significantly different from the lotto letter 1a already described in FIG. 1. Here, too, there is a printing surface 2 with a printed image 3, one divided into two portions registration field 15 and one also divided into two, a control field 4 with two images of codes (digits), 6a and 66. Contrary to the one shown in FIG. lotto 1a form, the positioning of the two encoded / digital / images 6a1 and 661 / has not been established here, but naturally the respective separate lotto form is not depicted / relative to each other and the inner part of the control box 4. Therefore, the digital / encoded / image 6a1 at the lower end of control box 4 nly partially printed, and the upper end of the control box 4 is identified supplementary part of the same digital / coded / image 6a 1 '. In the guilloche pattern, the wavy line shows the second digital / encoded / image 661 occupying a different position depending on the first digital image 6a 1 relative to its location in the control field 4. When crushing the form, the second digital image 661 may also be divided, respectively. the digital image 6a 1 in the printed form of FIG. The two digital / encoded / images 6a1 and 661 may be colored differently, and also magnetic printing may be applied to one of the two digital images 6, the resistance of which is used by a special reading system, which is why a reference field should also be printed.

The depicted lot 1 is only one of many possible options showing the manner and form in which the digital images 6 can be arranged in the control box 4. One of the digital images 6, respectively, of the lot 1 in Figure 1, to represent itself as a series / series / of numbers, the font being guilloche. The digital image 6 can also be arranged over the entire control field 4, as is done according to the presented method, and the same digital image 6 is extended to many more photoforms and the change in its relative position is printed in only one series / in a row / and is recognized on a strip of paper that has not yet been cut into individual forms. One digital image

6, can also be accomplished by pressing or punching in different shapes and by different technologies, and fluorescence dyeing is also possible. For images of figures / codes / 6, which are not visible under normal lighting, / also on the inner half of the registration area 15 /, the outer, visible half of the control field 4 is provided. In this case, the entire registration area 15 should look like control box 4, or be shaped in such a way that the encoded / digital / images are affixed to that field, to the encoded / digital / images 6, to the registration and also the control seal. The form is divided along a dividing line 5, located between the parts 15a and 156, on which are affixed the respective stamps for registration and control of Lot Lot 1. It does not matter where the lot 4 is formed on a Lot Lot 1. and whether the registration box 15 for the perception / photograph / of any prints is formed on the front or back of form 1, but they must be provided. Control box 4 may be located at any preferred location on a single lot 1, it may even be positioned transversely on a printing surface 2 for any lot 1.

Repeatedly printed lotto forms according to the invention in one set, having the same characteristics as the lotto 1 described above, are produced in the same way and with the same technique, although many variants are possible. The parts to which the form is divided for registration or control must meet the requirements for an identity document. Forms that have the characteristics of Lot 1 (Figure 2) cannot subsequently be falsified.

FIG. 3 shows a rotary printing machine (production line) on which a set of forms according to the invention is printed. A strip of paper 16 drawn from a roll of paper 7 is run at a constant speed of movement through various printing sections 11, wherein printing cylinders 13 of a known type are predominantly provided for printing differently colored print images 3 in the printing plane 2 we are driven by gears, which, in a synchronous and reliable printing process, produce printing surfaces 2 with identical and matching printing images 3. The paint sections 12 are adapted to deliver the same amount of paint to the coloring cylinders when printing. Each rotation of a printing cylinder 13 prints a certain number of forms, designated as photoforms / blanks /, each with the same printing surface 2. Figure 3 shows four printing sections / facilities / 11 that could also be arranged on top of one another through Stands or other fasteners

Four numbered sections 11 are connected to the numbering device 17, the pressing section, respectively, for the matrix of the openings 19, the apparatus for printing codes / digits / 18, and the cutting device 20. Shown in Fig. 3, the numbering device 17, as well as the compression section, respectively for the matrix of openings 19, are structured as conventional devices, i. are with driven cylinders. In this case, one of the cylinders may have a larger or smaller diameter, but nevertheless, print a certain number of prints, reproducing the same images, ie. (FIG. 1) an alternating sequence of numbers, always appearing in the same place, with moving and, at that, periodically repeating images that can be pressed or punched.

The aforementioned code printing apparatus / digits / 18 such as that manufactured by GP-Graphic Equipment Ltd, Stavanger, Norway / trademark /, the functional parts of which are further described in Figures 5 to 9, contrary to the conventional devices already listed , is not forcing the cylinders. With the aid of such a code / digitizer / 18, it is possible to print the coded / digital / images 6 of FIG. In the cutting device 20, the printed strip of paper 16 is cut into single blanks.

FIG. 4 is a variant of FIG. 3, respectively, in which two independent code / digit / 18 printers showing the coded / digital / images 6 (FIG. 2) are shown on the front or back. on the form.

The code reader / digits / 18 may be positioned elsewhere on the print line, before or after the printing sections 11. When located in front, the apparatus and the corresponding printing section 11 to receive the printed image 3 (from 2) can operate as a block, while maintaining the desired synchronization.

If the numbering device 17, the extrusion section or, respectively, of the orifice matrix 19 are structured such that their cylinders, like the code printing apparatus / digits / 18, are not actuated, then pressing orifice matrices is also and numbering will be displayed as digital images. In other cases, however, when the permanent portion of the printed images 3 is formed in the printing surface 2 (FIG. 2), they must, by analogy with the printing sections 11, be provided with driven cylinders.

Figure 5 shows the progress of one strip of paper 16 through one code reader / digit / 18a. One coloring section 12 with two or more separated / from each other / paint tanks 21, a valve system 22 and a pumping equipment / not shown in the figure /, facilitate the application of printing cylinders 8a to the paper strip 16. Paper tape 16 of the guide rolls 23 are pressed onto the printing cylinders 8a, and they are carried with them. When the drive of the cylinders is slower, during the printing process, they move on their own. Also, the susceptibility of different paint coatings, slight differences in the strength of the paper, or the compression force of the guide rolls 23 could affect the rotational speed of the cylinders 8a.

By means of a second non-actuated cylinder 86, compression can be performed.

The remote control / not shown in the figure / mounted in the control panel of the printing machine controls the running mechanism of the coloring section 12. Both with automatic start and with the help of a random generator, the corresponding valves for one of the paint tanks 21, are controlled so that during the printing process, the cylinders 8a can be wetted with different colors, whereby the color mixtures are obtained in a non-predetermined manner and, accordingly, the digitally / encoded / formed image is difficult to copy o / with smeared paint like soot /.

Figure 6 (corresponding to Figure 5) shows the progress of the paper strip 16 through a code / digit / 186 printing apparatus, in which the front as well as the back of the paper strip 16 can be apply digital / encoded / images. The two cylinders 8a are wetted with paint from the paint tanks 21. The paper strip 16, in the form of letter S, is guided by the guide rollers 23, and its front and back surfaces are pressed in series with one of the cylinders 8a. At least one of the cylinders 8a may be molded or punched and connected accordingly to a numbering device.

Figures 7 to 9 show exemplary embodiments of cylinders 8 for producing digital / encoded / images 6 (Fig. 2/). The ribbon-printing cylinder 8c shown in FIG. 7, in which the rollers 24 carrying the printing negative of the digital image 6 can be applied to the cylinders. The outer rollers 24a serve to move the belt 16 (of FIG. 6).

Fig. 8 shows a stereotyped cylinder 8d on which the printing negative 14 is shaped like a flexographic / rubber / cliché adhered to the core of an aluminum cylinder.

Figure 9 shows a raster cylinder 8e, the upper part of which is cross-linked. This non-raster white surface can be positioned transversely to the axis of the cylinder 8f and cause the paper web to become entrained, whenever the print is pulled and moved.

Each of the depicted cylinders 8 (FIGS. 7 - 9), when paired in the printing process, may have a different diameter. Therefore, a control mechanism operated by a random generator (randomized) is provided for additional braking for the moment of the cylinders. It is also possible to remove the cylinders from the paper strip for a short time.

According to the invention, when the cylinders 8 are forced, the displaced relative positions of the digital images must be aligned by a fine, pre-calculated transfer. The method and apparatus for carrying it out according to the invention are simplified and effective.

LEGEND:

1, 1a - lotto letterhead

- printed surface

- printed image

- control field

- dividing line / 6a, 66, 6a1, 661, 6a1 ¹ , 661 '/ - coded / digital / images

- paper roll

8, 8a, 8b - encoded / digital / imaging cylinders 8c, 8d, 8f

- print section - of print image 3, by rotary machine 10

- coloring section - printed image 3 from a rotary machine 10

printing cylinders of printing image 3 to section 11 of the rotary machine 10

- paper tape / rotary machine 10

- numbering device

18, 18a - an encoder for printing encoded / digital / images

- a section for pressing and / or matrixing openings also from a rotary machine 10

- rotary cutter 10

- paint tanks

- valve system

- guide rollers for the paper strip 16

24, 24a - rollers mounted on a print cylinder 8c - the outer rollers 24 serve to move the paper strip 16, and 24a to carry the print negative of the digital image

- "bleached" space from the surface of a single digital image cylinder 6

- print negative for digital image 6

Claims (13)

Claims 1. Method for multiple printing of forms / 1 / fiches, etc. similar, in which each of the received forms (1) has at least one printed surface (2), with the same printed image (3), and at least one located at the same place, a control field (4), through which a dividing line (5) is drawn and comprising at least two encoded / digital (images) (6), wherein the moving paper strip (16) is printed and finally cut into single forms (1), and during the printing process, the printed image / 3 / is obtained by means of printing cylinders / 13 / which are forced and rotated with a chronic, uniformly peripheral speed, ai'no time of the same printing process, at least two encoded / digital / images / 6a, 66 / via two cylinders / 8 /, rotating at different peripheral speed, are printed. that during the printing process, regardless of the asynchrony between the peripheral speeds of the two cylinders (8), the rotational speed of at least one of the cylinders (8) and independently of the second cylinder changes so that the rotational speed of that second cylinder is repeatedly or is constantly changing. 2. Method for multiple printing of forms / 1 / fiches and more. similar, in which each of the received forms (1) has at least one printed surface (2), with the same printed image (3) and at least one located at the same place control field (4), through which one dividing line (5), comprising at least two encoded (digital) images (6), wherein the moving paper strip (16) is printed and finally cut into single forms (1), and during the printing process, the printed image is obtained from the printing cylinders (13), which are driven and rotated in a synchronous, one at the same peripheral speed, and during the same printing process at least two encoded / digital / images / ba, 6b / via two cylinders / 8 / are printed, which rotate at different peripheral speeds, characterized in that of the printing process, at least one of the two cylinders / 8 / is not driven. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the second cylinders do not move during the printing process. A method according to claim 1 or 3, characterized in that the rotational speed of at least one of the first cylinders is randomized - i.e. it changes at intervals - mostly cyclically, mostly by a single controllable random generator. Method according to claims 1 to 4, at least one cylinder (8) for printing in color for at least one pair of coded / digital / images (6a, 66), characterized in that during the printing process printing for at least one of the cylinders (8) is replaced by an automatic paint change system, mainly cyclical (at intervals, randomized). A method implementation apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising a rotary machine (10) / flow line /, with at least one printing section (11) and at least one coloring section (12) for obtaining the printed image / 3 / and at least one code printing device / digit / - / 18 / for receiving the encoded / digital / images / 6 /, characterized in that the printing cylinder (s) / and / / 13 / for printing the printed image / 3 / is / are / forced-actuated and the cylinders / 8 / to obtain the encoded / digital / image IE / 6 / - because their movement is due to the driven by frictional entrainment in haulage of the paper, on the contrary is / are / is driven / s / positive. A device for carrying out the method according to one of claims 1 to 5, comprising a rotary machine (10), with at least one printing section (11) and at least one coloring section (12), for obtaining a printed image (3) and at least one digital printing device (18) with at least two cylinders (8) for producing at least two digital (encoded) images (6), characterized in that at least one of the two cylinders (8), by additionally integrated into the cylinder / drive / starter system for the printing and coloring section, predominantly controlled by one random generator - during the printing process - at least one of the cylinders (8), regardless of that second cylinder and asynchronous at its acceleration, can be stopped and / or pulled, respectively, pressed / onto the paper tape /. Device according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the printing negatives (14) for the coded / digital (images) (6) are mounted on cylinders (8) that are of different diameters and on a part of the surface of the cylinders / 8 / can be provided with a clear space with no raster / 26 /. Device according to one of claims 6 to 8, characterized in that at least one of the cylinders (8) is provided with an automatic paint replacement device belonging to at least two paint tanks (21) - controlled by a generator of chance. Form (1), from the set of forms obtained by the method according to one of claims 1 to 5, and by means of a device according to one of claims 6 to 9, with at least one printed surface (2), with the same printed image (3) and at least one control field (4) at one and the same place, through which a dividing line (5) is passed and comprising at least two encoded (digital) images (6), characterized in that the relative positions of the coded / digital / images / 6 / relative to each other and the inner half of the control field / 4 / for two letterhead / 1 / are identical with a probability of less than 1: 4000, but preferably less than 1: 40,000. Form (1) of the form set according to claim 10, characterized in that at least one encoded (digital) image (6) is formed by pressing and / or matrixing the openings. Form (1) of the form set according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that at least one encoded (digital) image (6) is depicted guilloche and / or in a digital series (series). Form (1) of the form set according to one of claims 10 to 12, characterized in that at least one encoded (digital) image (6) is printed by fluorescent and / or magnetic ink.