Background technology
The cashing machine of general businessman and the ATM (Automatic Teller Machine is hereinafter to be referred as ATM) of bank mostly use mosaic printing device or heat seeking printing equipment to come printed invoice, receipt and transaction details table.
Because the mosaic printing device is to utilize needle pellet to clash into colour band energetically, carried out and print action so that originally transfer on the paper attached to the printing ink on the colour band, therefore, the print speed of mosaic printing device is slow, and can send sizable noise when printing.In addition, needle pellet clashes into colour band at full tilt, cause the striker in the needle pellet to damage easily, and when having a striker to damage in the needle pellet, must change whole needle pellet could continue to carry out the printing action, does not meet very much the requirement of economic benefit aspect.Moreover, because the print quality of mosaic printing device is very poor, therefore only be fit to be used for the less demanding printed medium of print resolution.
Though the speed that the heat seeking printing equipment is printed is fast, its paper of printing is difficult for preserving, and the thermoinduction paper can cause environmental pollution.In addition, because the heat seeking printing equipment can only be printed solid color, therefore the paper that is printed by the heat seeking printing equipment does not have the variation of color.
As shown in the above description, no matter be that traditional mosaic printing device or traditional heat seeking printing equipment all can't be printed high-quality on invoice, receipt or transaction details table and have advertisement that abundant colors changes, poster or value-added information such as news in real time.For now, have only large-scale businessman to have the ability and please paper plant earlier the value-added information of colour be printed on invoice, receipt or the transaction details table before dispatching from the factory, small merchant then can't be done like this.Yet, in case paper plant before dispatching from the factory with the value-added information of colour printed after, businessman or ATM can't in time change the content of value-added information.Therefore, Method of printing and the device thereof of researching and developing a kind of printable value-added information is very necessary.
Summary of the invention
Given this, purpose of the present invention just provides a kind of Method of printing and device thereof of printable value-added information, makes businessman and ATM can be voluntarily print high-quality on invoice, receipt and transaction details table and have the value-added information that abundant colors changes.
According to purpose of the present invention, a kind of Method of printing is proposed, in order on banded printed medium, to print value-added information.Banded printed medium comprises first printed medium and second printed medium that joins continuously.First printed medium has the first Transaction Information district and the first value added information area, second printed medium has the second Transaction Information district and the second value added information area, and wherein the first Transaction Information district, the first value added information area, the second Transaction Information district and the second value added information area are tactic.This Method of printing may further comprise the steps.Print first transaction data and value-added information at first, simultaneously respectively in the first Transaction Information district and the second value added information area.Then, move banded printed medium.At last, print second transaction data in the second Transaction Information district.
According to another object of the present invention, a kind of printing equipment is proposed, in order on banded printed medium, to print value-added information.Banded printed medium comprises first printed medium and second printed medium that joins continuously.First printed medium has the first Transaction Information district and the first value added information area, second printed medium has the second Transaction Information district and the second value added information area, and wherein the first Transaction Information district, the first value added information area, the second Transaction Information district and the second value added information area are rank order.This printing equipment comprises control module, inkjet printing unit and printed medium gear unit.Control module is in order to receive first transaction data, second transaction data and value-added information.Inkjet printing unit and control module are electrically connected.The inkjet printing unit prints on value-added information in the second value added information area, and respectively first transaction data and second transaction data is printed in the first Transaction Information district and the second Transaction Information district simultaneously.The printed medium gear unit is under the control of control module, and the banded printed medium of transmission moves banded printed medium.Wherein, the inkjet printing unit prints on first transaction data and value-added information in the first Transaction Information district and the second value added information area respectively earlier, and after banded printed medium moves, prints second transaction data in the second Transaction Information district.
For making more perspicuousness of above-mentioned purpose of the present invention, feature and advantage, a preferred embodiment cited below particularly, and conjunction with figs. are described in detail below:
The specific embodiment
Embodiment one
Please be simultaneously with reference to Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 A~Fig. 2 B.Fig. 1 shows the flow chart according to a kind of Method of printing of the first embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 2 A~Fig. 2 B shows the schematic diagram of the continuous action state of banded printed medium when using Fig. 1 Method of printing.
Shown in Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B, present embodiment uses first ink jet printing module 210 and second ink jet printing module 220 that first transaction data, second transaction data and value-added information are printed on the banded printed medium 230.Banded printed medium 230 for example is invoice, bill or transaction details table.Banded printed medium 230 comprises first printed medium 240 and second printed medium 250 that joins continuously, first printed medium 240 has the first Transaction Information district 242 and the first value added information area, 244, the second printed mediums 250 have the second Transaction Information district 252 and the second value added information area 254.Wherein, 242, the first value added information area 244, the first Transaction Information district, the second Transaction Information district 252 and the second value added information area 254 are tactic.
The Method of printing of present embodiment is for earlier printing first transaction data and value-added information simultaneously respectively in the first Transaction Information district 242 and the second value added information area 254 by first ink jet printing module 210 and second ink jet printing module 220, shown in step 110.At this moment, the operating state between first ink jet printing module 210, second ink jet printing module 220 and the banded printed medium 230 is shown in Fig. 2 A.Value-added information for example is advertisement, real-time news, joke, poster or touching article.
Then, banded printed medium 230 is moved, shown in step 120 toward first direction F1.At last, print second transaction data in the second Transaction Information district 252, shown in step 130 by first ink jet printing module 210.At this moment, the operating state between first ink jet printing module 210, second ink jet printing module 220 and the banded printed medium 230 is shown in Fig. 2 B.
That is to say, if being respectively, first printed medium 240 and second printed medium 250 print the invoice of giving first consumer and second consumer, then when first ink jet printing module 210 printed on the first Transaction Information district 242 of first printed medium 240 with first consumer's first transaction data, second ink jet printing module 220 printed on value-added information the second value added information area 254 of second printed medium 250.The value-added information that second ink jet printing module 220 is printed can be printed first transaction data and salesman at first ink jet printing module 210 and finish in giving change to first required spended time of consumer.
So, when second consumer wants to check out, as long as the second Transaction Information district 252 that second consumer's second transaction data is printed on second printed medium 250 by first ink jet printing module 210 just can finish the printing of second printed medium 250.Therefore, value-added information can be printed on second printed medium 250, make second printed medium 250 have value added effect, and then improve consumer's wish of consumption to the doorstep according to above-mentioned Method of printing.
Please be simultaneously with reference to Fig. 2 A~Fig. 2 B and Fig. 3.Fig. 3 shows the block diagram according to a kind of printing equipment of first embodiment of the invention.Printing equipment 300 for example is point-of-sale terminals (point of sale terminal).Printing equipment 300 comprises control module 310, inkjet printing unit 320, printed medium gear unit 330 and continuous ink feeding unit 340.Control module 310 for example is a microprocessor.
Control module 310 is in order to receive the first transaction data TD1, the second transaction data TD2 and value-added information VI.For example, value-added information VI can comprise many different chromatic image information, and control module 310 can be stored in value-added information VI in the value-added information database 312 after receiving value-added information VI.Therefore, the value-added information VI that businessman can think that all are printed on the printed medium is stored in the value-added information database 312 by control module 310, and when wanting to print banded printed medium 230, businessman can choose out in value-added information database 312 with optimal value-added information by control module 310.So, can be so that the value-added information that is printed on the banded printed medium 230 has more variability.
Printed medium gear unit 330 is under the control of control module 310, the banded printed medium 230 of transmission, and first direction F1 moves to make banded printed medium 230 get in the past.Continuous ink feeding unit 340 is connected with inkjet printing unit 320, in order to supply inkjet printing unit 320 required ink continuously.Inkjet printing unit 320 comprises first ink jet printing module 210 and second ink jet printing module 220, and first ink jet printing module 210 and second ink jet printing module 220 are electrically connected with control module 310 respectively.Wherein, first ink jet printing module 210 and second ink jet printing module 220 have the ink cartridge of a plurality of different colours.
First ink jet printing module 210 and second ink jet printing module 220 are printed the first transaction data TD1 and value-added information VI1 respectively simultaneously in the first Transaction Information district 242 and the second value added information area 254, and at banded printed medium 230 after first direction F1 moves, first ink jet printing module 210 prints on the second Transaction Information district 252 with the second transaction data TD2 again.Wherein, value-added information VI1 is selected from value-added information database 312.
Because present embodiment uses the ink jet type print module to print consumer's transaction data, therefore, for conventional point configuration printing equipment or traditional heat seeking printing equipment, higher according to the printed medium print qualities such as invoice, receipt or transaction details table that the present embodiment Method of printing is printed, and preservation is easier to.In addition, the Method of printing of present embodiment is except the transaction data that can print the consumer, more can be on invoice, receipt or transaction details table print screen color saturation height, the abundant value-added information of color range performance, this be conventional point configuration device or traditional heat seeking device can't accomplish.
Moreover, because the Method of printing of present embodiment is in the transaction data of printing first consumer, on second consumer's invoice, print value-added information, therefore, with regard to single charge state, use the Method of printing of present embodiment to print banded printed medium, the speed of its printing is faster than conventional point configuration printing equipment.
Embodiment two
Please be simultaneously with reference to Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 A~Fig. 5 C.Fig. 4 shows the flow chart according to a kind of Method of printing of the second embodiment of the present invention, the schematic diagram of banded printed medium continuous action state when Fig. 5 A~Fig. 5 C shows the Method of printing that uses Fig. 4.
Shown in Fig. 5 A~Fig. 5 C, second embodiment only uses an ink jet printing module 510 that first transaction data, second transaction data and value-added information are printed in the banded printed medium 530.The Method of printing of second embodiment is to print first transaction data in the first Transaction Information district 542, shown in step 410 by ink jet printing module 510 earlier.At this moment, the operating state between ink jet printing module 510 and the banded printed medium 530 is shown in Fig. 5 A.
Then, make banded printed medium 530 move, shown in step 420 toward first direction G1.Then, ink jet printing module 510 is printed value-added information in the second value added information area 554, shown in step 430.At this moment, the operating state between ink jet printing module 510 and the banded printed medium 530 is shown in Fig. 5 B.
Then, make banded printed medium 530 move, shown in step 440 toward second direction G2.First direction G1 is opposite in fact with second direction G2.Then, ink jet printing module 510 is printed second transaction data in the second Transaction Information district 552, shown in step 450.At this moment, the operating state between ink jet printing module 510 and the banded printed medium 530 is shown in Fig. 5 C.
That is to say, if being respectively, first printed medium 540 and second printed medium 550 print the invoice of giving first consumer and second consumer, then ink jet printing module 510 is in the a/d of having printed first consumer, utilizes the neutral gear of checking out between first consumer and second consumer value-added information to be printed on the second value added information area 554 of second printed medium 550.So, when second consumer wanted to check out, ink jet printing module 510 was as long as print on second consumer's second transaction data printing that the second Transaction Information district 552 of second printed medium 550 can finish second printed medium 550 again.
The second embodiment printing equipment is similar to Fig. 3, is no longer given unnecessary details at this.Compare with first embodiment, though second embodiment only uses an ink jet printing module 510 to print banded printed medium 530, but the Method of printing according to above-mentioned second embodiment also can print on value-added information on second printed medium 550, make second printed medium 550 have value added effect, and then improve consumer's wish of consumption to the doorstep.
In addition, because the Method of printing of second embodiment utilizes the neutral gear of checking out between first consumer and second consumer to print value-added information, therefore, single with regard to the lump sum settlement of all charges state, use the Method of printing of second embodiment to print banded printed medium, the speed of its printing is also faster than conventional point configuration printing equipment.
The Method of printing of the disclosed printable value-added information of the above embodiment of the present invention and device thereof make businessman and ATM can be voluntarily print high-quality on invoice, receipt and transaction details table and have the value-added information that abundant colors changes.
Above-mentioned preferred embodiment; be not be used for limiting of the present invention, any those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention; can do various change and alternative, so protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with defining of claims.
The diagrammatical symbol explanation
210: the first ink jet printing modules
220: the second ink jet printing modules
230,530: banded printed medium
240,540: the first printed mediums
242,542: the first Transaction Information districts
244,544: the first value added informations area
250,550: the second printed mediums
252,552: the second Transaction Information districts
254,554: the second value added informations area
300: printing equipment
310: control module
312: the value-added information database
320: the inkjet printing unit
330: the printed medium gear unit
340: the continuous ink feeding unit
510: ink jet printing module