CN108762698B - Consumable anti-counterfeiting method and imaging printing system - Google Patents
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Abstract
An anti-counterfeiting method for consumables comprises the following steps: acquiring consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to current printing equipment; secondly, performing consumable anti-counterfeiting identification by using the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data, and further determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data; and step three, determining the current required consumable quantity data according to the content to be printed, matching the current required consumable quantity data with the available consumable quantity data, and determining whether the current printing equipment is in an available state according to the matching result. The method can verify the legality of the printing equipment, and only when the anti-counterfeiting identification data of the consumable items is legal, the user is allowed to control the printing equipment to print and image the content to be printed through the user terminal. Can realize like this to the anti-fake verification of consumptive material equipment to avoid the user to cause adverse effect to printing equipment because of using illegal consumptive material.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of imaging printing, in particular to a consumable anti-counterfeiting method and an imaging printing system.
Background
Thermal printers are currently in widespread use in an increasing number of fields. For example, thermal printers are used in cash dispensers in banks and cash registers in supermarkets, and thermal printers are also used in delivery departments of e-commerce to print transaction receipts, tickets or courier tickets.
Thermal printers typically have a housing and a deck. Wherein, the core comprises a printing head, a rubber roller, a paper cutting cutter and the like. The thermal printer can obtain printing data by analyzing the data transmitted by the upper computer, and can print a receipt under the imaging action of the thermal sensitive sheet by driving the paper feeding of printing paper.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a consumable anti-counterfeiting method, which comprises the following steps:
step one, acquiring consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to current printing equipment;
secondly, performing consumable anti-counterfeiting identification by using the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data, and further determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data;
and step three, determining the current required consumable quantity data according to the content to be printed, matching the current required consumable quantity data with the available consumable quantity data, and determining whether the current printing equipment is in an available state according to a matching result.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the second step, the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data is used to search a preset identifier-consumable database, so as to obtain the available consumable amount data corresponding to the current printing apparatus.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the second step, if there is no data in the preset identifier-consumable database that is consistent with the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing apparatus, the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing apparatus is determined to be invalid data;
and if the preset identifier-consumable database has data consistent with the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, judging that the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is valid data.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the preset mark-consumable database stores consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and available consumable quantity data in one-to-one correspondence.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, in the third step, it is determined whether the currently required consumable amount is less than or equal to the available consumable amount, wherein,
if the current required consumable quantity is less than or equal to the available consumable quantity, generating an effective printing instruction to control the current printing equipment to perform imaging printing on the content to be printed;
and if the current required consumable material amount is larger than the available consumable material amount, generating an invalid printing instruction to control the current printing equipment not to perform imaging printing operation.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the first step, user identification data is also obtained;
in the second step, the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and the user identification data are used for determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment and the user.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the anti-counterfeiting identification data and the user identification data are utilized to search a preset identification-consumable database to obtain available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment and the user, wherein the available consumable quantity data stored in the preset identification-consumable database correspond to the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and the user identification data.
The invention also provides a user terminal for consumable anti-counterfeiting, which is configured to execute the following steps:
acquiring consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment;
generating corresponding consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information according to the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data, and transmitting the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information to a cloud server in communication connection with the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information;
and receiving available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment, which is sent by the cloud server in response to the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the user terminal includes:
the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data acquisition module is used for acquiring consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment;
the authentication request module is connected with the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data acquisition module and is used for generating corresponding consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information according to the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data;
the first data communication module is connected with the authentication request module and used for transmitting the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information to a cloud server and receiving available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment and transmitted by the cloud server in response to the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user terminal further includes:
and the printing enabling module is connected with the first data communication module and used for determining the currently required consumable quantity data according to the content to be printed, matching the currently required consumable quantity data with the available consumable quantity data and generating a corresponding printing enabling signal according to a matching result.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the print enabling module is configured to determine whether a currently required amount of consumable is less than or equal to an available amount of consumable, wherein,
if the current required consumable quantity is less than or equal to the available consumable quantity, the printing enabling module is configured to generate an effective printing instruction so as to control the current printing equipment to perform imaging printing on the content to be printed;
and if the current required consumable quantity is larger than the available consumable quantity, the printing enabling module is configured to generate an invalid printing instruction so as to control the current printing equipment not to perform imaging printing operation.
The invention also provides a cloud server for consumable anti-counterfeiting, which is configured to execute the following steps:
receiving consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information sent by a user terminal, wherein the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information comprises consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to current printing equipment;
responding the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information, utilizing the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data to perform consumable anti-counterfeiting identification, further determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data, and transmitting the available consumable quantity data to a user terminal connected with the available consumable quantity data.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the cloud server includes:
a second data communication module for communication connection with the user terminal;
and the anti-counterfeiting authentication module is connected with the second data communication module and used for utilizing the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data to perform consumable anti-counterfeiting identification, further determining available consumable amount data corresponding to the current printing equipment when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data, and transmitting the available consumable amount data to the second data communication module.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the anti-counterfeiting authentication module is configured to retrieve a preset identifier-consumable database by using the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data to obtain available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, if there is no data in the preset identifier-consumable database that is consistent with the anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing apparatus, the anti-counterfeit authentication module is configured to determine that the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing apparatus is invalid data;
and if the preset identifier-consumable database has data consistent with the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, the anti-counterfeiting authentication module is configured to judge that the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is valid data.
The present invention also provides a printing apparatus configured to perform the steps of:
acquiring a printing instruction transmitted by a user terminal;
when the printing instruction is an effective printing instruction, performing imaging printing operation on the content to be printed; and when the printing instruction is an invalid printing instruction, stopping the imaging printing operation.
The present invention also provides an imaging printing system comprising: a user terminal as claimed in any preceding claim; a cloud server as claimed in any one of the above; and a printing apparatus as described above.
The anti-counterfeiting authentication method and the imaging printing system provided by the invention can be used for carrying out validity verification on the printing equipment, and only when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is legal, the user is allowed to control the printing equipment to carry out imaging printing on the content to be printed through the user terminal. Can realize the anti-fake verification to consumable material equipment like this to avoid using illegal consumable material and cause adverse effect to printing equipment because of the user.
Meanwhile, when the printing device is a legal device, the method and the system can further judge whether the length of the content required to be printed by the user exceeds the allowed length. If the currently required amount of consumable material is greater than the available amount of consumable material, the printing apparatus may be in a non-available state. By the method and the system, the loss of the printer printing head due to the use of illegal consumables can be effectively reduced, the printing quality is improved, and the printing experience of a user is improved.
Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by the practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a method for implementing anti-counterfeit of a consumable according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of an imaging printing system according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic workflow diagram of an imaging printing system according to one embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a cloud server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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The following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention will be provided with reference to the drawings and examples, so that how to apply the technical means to solve the technical problems and achieve the technical effects can be fully understood and implemented. It should be noted that, as long as there is no conflict, the embodiments and the features in the embodiments of the present invention may be combined with each other, and the technical solutions formed are within the scope of the present invention.
In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the embodiments of the invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without some of these specific details or with other methods described herein.
Additionally, the steps illustrated in the flow charts of the figures may be performed in a computer system such as a set of computer-executable instructions and, although a logical order is illustrated in the flow charts, in some cases, the steps illustrated or described may be performed in an order different than here.
The existing thermal printing equipment can not identify the legality of the consumables, so that a user can use various consumables on the thermal printing equipment to execute imaging printing operation. The use of a large number of consumables of different types not only prolongs the service life of the thermal printer, but also damages the printing head of the thermal printer, thereby affecting the imaging and printing quality.
The invention provides a novel consumable anti-counterfeiting method, which can perform consumable anti-counterfeiting identification on consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to printing equipment and allow the printing equipment to perform imaging printing operation when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data.
Fig. 1 shows a schematic implementation flow diagram of the consumable anti-counterfeiting method provided in this embodiment.
As shown in fig. 1, the method for counterfeit prevention of consumable supplies provided by this embodiment first obtains counterfeit-prevention identification data of consumable supplies corresponding to the current printing apparatus in step S101. In this embodiment, each printing device is preferably configured with a unique consumable anti-counterfeit identification (in different embodiments of the present invention, the consumable anti-counterfeit identification may be a two-dimensional code, a bar code, etc.). In step S101, the method may obtain the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing device by scanning the consumable anti-counterfeit identification mark with the corresponding device.
It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the consumable anti-counterfeit identification code preferably corresponds to a consumable module, and each consumable module has a unique consumable anti-counterfeit identification code. Because in the imaging printing process, the consumable module needs to be installed in the printing equipment, the printing equipment has the unique consumable anti-counterfeiting identification code corresponding to the consumable module.
After obtaining the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing device, the method performs consumable anti-counterfeit identification using the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data in step S102, and further determines available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing device when the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data is valid data.
Specifically, in this embodiment, in step S102, the method searches the preset identifier-consumable database by using the anti-counterfeit identification identifier data obtained in step S101, so as to determine whether the anti-counterfeit identification data of the consumable is valid data.
Preferably, the method determines whether data consistent with the anti-counterfeit identification data acquired in step S101 exists in the preset identifier-consumable database in step S102. Specifically, in this embodiment, the preset identifier-consumable database stores a plurality of anti-counterfeit identification data preset by a consumable manufacturer, and the anti-counterfeit identification data corresponds to corresponding available consumable quantity data. The method preferably queries in step S102 whether the anti-counterfeit data obtained in step S101 can be consistent with a certain anti-counterfeit data in the preset identifier-consumable database.
If the preset identifier-consumable database has data consistent with the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, the method can judge that the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is valid data.
And if the preset identifier-consumable database does not have anti-counterfeiting identification data consistent with the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, the method judges that the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is invalid data.
Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the method may also use other reasonable ways to determine whether the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data obtained in step S101 is valid data in step S102, and the present invention is not limited thereto.
In step S102, if the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data acquired in step S101 is determined to be valid data, the method further determines available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing apparatus. And if the acquired consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is invalid data, representing that the current printing equipment is illegal for a central server (namely a cloud server), and generating error prompt information by using the method so as to prompt a user that the current printing equipment is unavailable.
In this embodiment, when the anti-counterfeit identification data of the consumable part acquired in step S101 is determined to be valid data, the method further determines the available consumable part amount data corresponding to the current printing apparatus in step S102.
Specifically, in this embodiment, the method preferably uses the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data acquired in step S101 to search the preset identifier-consumable database in step S102, so as to obtain the available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing apparatus.
The preset mark-consumable database preferably stores consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and available consumable quantity data in one-to-one correspondence. Because the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment obtained in the step S101 is stored in the preset identifier-consumable database, and the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data in the preset identifier-consumable database corresponds to the available consumable amount data one to one, the method can also obtain the corresponding available consumable amount data by querying the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, and the data can represent the consumable amount (such as the remaining consumable amount) that can be used by the current printing equipment.
Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the method may also employ other reasonable methods to determine available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing device, and the present invention is not limited thereto.
For example, in an embodiment of the present invention, the method may further obtain user identification data in step S101, where the user identification data can characterize the identity information of the user. In step S102, the method determines available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing device and the user by using the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and the user identification data corresponding to the current printing device. In this embodiment, the method stores available consumable quantity data in a preset identifier-consumable database used in determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to a current printing device and user, corresponding to consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and user identification data.
In this embodiment, the method determines the currently required consumable quantity data according to the content to be printed in step S103, and matches the currently required consumable quantity data obtained in step S103 with the available consumable quantity data determined in step S102 in step S104, so as to determine whether the normal imaging printing operation can be performed according to the matching result.
Specifically, in the present embodiment, the currently required consumable quantity data determined by the method in step S103 preferably represents the length of the consumable required to print the content to be printed, while the available consumable quantity data determined by the method in step S102 preferably represents the maximum length of the consumable that can be printed by the current printing apparatus.
The method preferably determines whether the currently required consumable quantity is less than or equal to the available consumable quantity in step S104. If the current required consumable amount is less than or equal to the available consumable amount, the method can generate an effective printing instruction so as to control the current printing equipment to perform imaging printing on the content to be printed; and if the current required consumable quantity is larger than the available consumable quantity, the method generates an invalid printing instruction at the moment so as to control the current printing equipment not to perform imaging printing operation.
In this embodiment, if the currently required consumable amount is less than or equal to the available consumable amount, the method updates the available consumable amount of the current printing apparatus according to the currently required consumable amount while generating the effective printing instruction. For example, the method subtracts the currently required consumable quantity from the corresponding available consumable quantity stored in the preset identifier-consumable database, so as to obtain new available consumable quantity data.
The invention also provides an imaging printing system, which can realize the anti-counterfeiting identification of consumables. In order to more clearly illustrate the structure, principle and operation of the printing system provided by the present invention, the following description is further provided with reference to fig. 2 and 3. Fig. 2 shows a schematic structural diagram of the imaging and printing system provided in the present embodiment, and fig. 3 shows a schematic workflow diagram of the imaging and printing system.
As shown in fig. 2, the imaging and printing system provided by the present embodiment preferably includes: a user terminal 201, a cloud server 202 and a printing device 203. In operation, the user terminal 201 may obtain the anti-counterfeit identification data of the consumable corresponding to the current printing device 203 in step S301. In particular, in this embodiment, each printing device is preferably configured with a unique consumable anti-counterfeiting identification (in different embodiments of the present invention, the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification can be a two-dimensional code, a bar code, etc.). The user terminal 201 may obtain the anti-counterfeit identification data of the consumables corresponding to the current printing apparatus by scanning the anti-counterfeit identification of the consumables in step S301.
As shown in fig. 4, in this embodiment, the user terminal 201 preferably includes: the system comprises a consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data acquisition module 401, an authentication request module 402, a first data communication module 403 and a printing enabling module 404. In step S301, the user terminal 201 acquires the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing apparatus by using the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data acquisition module 401.
After obtaining the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing device, the user terminal 201 generates corresponding consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information according to the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data in step S302, and transmits the generated consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information to the cloud server 202 in step S303. In this embodiment, the consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request generated by the user terminal 201 preferably includes consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing device.
Specifically, in this embodiment, after obtaining the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing apparatus, the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data obtaining module 401 transmits the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data to the authentication request module 402 connected thereto. The authentication request module 402 generates consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information according to the received consumable anti-counterfeit identification data, and transmits the consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information to the first data communication module 403 connected thereto, so that the first data communication module 403 uploads the consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information to the cloud server 202.
As shown in fig. 3, after receiving the consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information transmitted from the user terminal 201, the cloud server 202 preferably performs consumable anti-counterfeit identification by using consumable anti-counterfeit identification data included in the consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information in step S304, and further determines available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing apparatus when the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data is valid data, and transmits the available consumable quantity data to the user terminal 201 connected thereto.
In this embodiment, in step S304, the cloud server 202 preferably searches the preset identifier-consumable database by using the acquired anti-counterfeit identification identifier data, so as to determine whether the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data is valid data.
Specifically, in this embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the cloud server 202 preferably includes a second data communication module 501 and an anti-counterfeiting authentication module 502. The second data communication module 501 is in communication connection with the user terminal 201, and is capable of receiving the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information transmitted by the user terminal 201.
The anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 is connected to the second data communication module 501, and after receiving the consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information transmitted by the second data communication module 501, the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 will respond to the request information. When the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information is responded, the anti-counterfeiting authentication module 502 analyzes the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information to obtain consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, and further judges whether data consistent with the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment exists in the preset identifier-consumable database.
If the preset identifier-consumable database has data consistent with the anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing device, the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 can determine that the anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing device is valid data.
If the preset identifier-consumable database does not have data consistent with the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, the anti-counterfeiting authentication module 502 determines that the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is invalid data.
Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 may also determine whether the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data corresponding to the current printing apparatus is valid data in other reasonable manners, which is not limited in the present invention.
In this embodiment, if it is determined that the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data transmitted by the user terminal 201 is invalid data, it indicates that the current printing device is illegal for the cloud server, and therefore the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 preferably generates an error prompt message and transmits the error prompt message to the user terminal 201 through the second data communication module to prompt the user that the current printing device is unavailable.
If the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data transmitted by the user terminal 201 is determined to be valid data, the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 determines available consumable amount data corresponding to the current printing apparatus according to the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data in step S304.
Specifically, in this embodiment, the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 preferably retrieves the preset identifier-consumable database by using the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data obtained by parsing according to the consumable anti-counterfeit authentication request information, so as to obtain the available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing apparatus.
The preset mark-consumable database preferably stores consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and available consumable quantity data in one-to-one correspondence. Because the obtained consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is stored in the preset identifier-consumable database, and the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and the available consumable quantity data in the preset identifier-consumable database are in one-to-one correspondence, the anti-counterfeiting authentication module 502 can also obtain the corresponding available consumable quantity data by querying the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, and the data can represent the consumable quantity (such as the remaining consumable quantity) which can be used by the current printing equipment.
Of course, in other embodiments of the invention, the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 may also employ other reasonable methods to determine the available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing device, and the invention is not limited thereto.
For example, in an embodiment of the present invention, the user terminal 201 may further obtain user identification data, where the user identification data can characterize identity information of the user. The anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 determines the available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing device and the user by using the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data and the user identification data corresponding to the current printing device. In this embodiment, the counterfeit-proof authentication module 502 stores the available consumable quantity data in the pre-established identity-consumable quantity database used in determining the available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing apparatus and user, corresponding to the consumable counterfeit-proof identification data and the user identification data (i.e., both the consumable counterfeit-proof identification data and the user identification data constitute the influencing factors of the available consumable quantity data).
When the available consumable amount data corresponding to the current printing apparatus is determined, as shown in fig. 3, the cloud server 202 transmits the determined available consumable amount data to the user terminal 201 in step S305. For the embodiment, after determining that the available consumable quantity data of the current printing apparatus is given, the anti-counterfeit authentication module 502 transmits the available consumable quantity data to the second data communication module 501 connected thereto, and then the second data communication module 501 forwards the available consumable quantity data to the user terminal 201.
Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the specific structure adopted by the cloud server 202 to implement the above functions may also be other reasonable structures, and the present invention is not limited thereto.
As shown in fig. 3, in this embodiment, after receiving the available consumable quantity data of the current printing device sent by the cloud server 202, the user terminal 201 determines the currently required consumable quantity data (for example, the length of the imaging medium required for printing the content to be printed) according to the content to be printed in step S306.
After determining the previous required consumable quantity data, the user terminal 201 matches the current required consumable quantity data determined in step S306 with the available consumable quantity data sent by the cloud server 202 in step S307, so as to generate a corresponding print enable signal. After receiving the print enable signal, the user terminal 201 also transmits the content to be printed and the print enable signal to the printing device 203 in step S308.
Specifically, in the present embodiment, the user terminal 201 implements the determination process of the consumable amount data and the data matching process described above using the print enabling module 404. The print enabling module 404 preferably determines whether the currently required consumable amount is less than or equal to the available consumable amount in the process of matching the currently required consumable amount data with the available consumable amount data.
If the current required consumable amount is less than or equal to the available consumable amount, the print enabling module 404 generates a valid print instruction to control the current printing apparatus to be in an available state; if the current required consumable amount is larger than the available consumable amount, the print enabling module 404 generates an invalid print instruction to control the current printing apparatus to be in the available state.
In this embodiment, the print enabling module 404 is preferably connected to the first data communication module 403, and the first data communication module 403 can also be connected to the printing device 203 in a communication manner, so that the print enabling module 404 can also transmit the content to be printed and the print enabling signal to the printing device 203 through the first data communication module 403.
In this embodiment, if the currently required consumable amount is less than or equal to the available consumable amount, the print enabling module 404 generates an effective print instruction and simultaneously transmits the currently required consumable amount data to the cloud server 202 through the first data communication module 403, so that the cloud server 202 updates the available consumable amount of the current printing apparatus according to the currently required consumable amount. For example, the cloud server 202 subtracts the currently required consumable amount from the corresponding consumable amount stored in the preset id-consumable database, so as to obtain the new consumable amount data.
Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, according to actual needs, when the generated print instruction is an invalid print instruction, since the current printing device responds that the invalid print instruction is in an unavailable state at this time, the print enabling module 404 may not need to transmit the content to be printed to the printing device, which may effectively reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted between the user terminal 201 and the printing device, thereby contributing to improving the operation efficiency of the entire method and system.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that in other embodiments of the present invention, the user terminal 201 may also adopt other reasonable structures to implement the above functions, and the present invention is not limited thereto.
In this embodiment, after receiving the print enable signal transmitted from the user terminal 201, the printing device 203 determines its operating state according to the print enable signal in step S309.
Specifically, when the print instruction received by the printing device 203 is a valid print instruction, it performs a corresponding image printing operation, that is, performs image printing on the content to be printed sent by the user terminal 201. If the received print instruction is an invalid print instruction, the current printing apparatus 203 will not perform the image forming printing operation at this time.
It should be noted that, in the present embodiment, the printing apparatus 203 preferably obtains the content to be printed by parsing the valid print instruction. In other embodiments of the present invention, the printing device 203 may also obtain the content to be printed through other reasonable manners (e.g., obtain the content from the printing device 203 through other signaling, etc.), and the present invention is not limited thereto.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that, in this embodiment, the step of determining the currently required consumable quantity by the user terminal 201 may also be implemented between receiving the available consumable quantity data transmitted by the cloud server 202, that is, the specific implementation sequence of the step S306 is not limited in the present invention.
In other embodiments of the present invention, if the currently required consumable amount is less than or equal to the available consumable amount, the user terminal 201 may also increase the available consumable amount by purchasing printing consumables according to actual needs. For example, the user may set the consumable amount required to be purchased through the user terminal 201 and send the consumable amount to the cloud server 202, and the cloud server 202 updates the corresponding available consumable amount data stored in the cloud server 202 based on the consumable amount purchased by the user after the user completes the fee settlement.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that the user terminal mentioned in the present invention may be a personal intelligent device (e.g., a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a personal computer, etc.) configured with a software program (e.g., APP) capable of implementing a corresponding function. The printing device mentioned in the present invention is not limited to the thermal printing device, but may be other reasonable types of imaging printing devices according to the actual situation.
It can be seen from the above description that the anti-counterfeit authentication method and the imaging printing system provided by the present invention can perform validity verification on the printing device, and only when the consumable anti-counterfeit identification data is valid, the user is allowed to control the printing device to print and image the content to be printed through the user terminal. Can realize like this to the anti-fake verification of consumptive material equipment to avoid using illegal consumptive material and causing adverse effect to printing equipment because of the user.
Meanwhile, when the printing device is a legal device, the method and the system can further judge whether the length of the content required to be printed by the user exceeds the allowed length. If the currently required amount of consumable material is greater than the available amount of consumable material, the printing apparatus may be in a non-available state. By the method and the system, the loss of the printer printing head due to the use of illegal consumables can be effectively reduced, the printing quality is improved, and the printing experience of a user is improved.
It is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments of the invention are not limited to the particular structures or process steps disclosed herein, but extend to equivalents thereof as would be understood by those skilled in the relevant art. It is also to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting.
Reference in the specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrase "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
While the above examples are illustrative of the principles of the present invention in one or more applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is defined by the appended claims.
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1. A consumable anti-counterfeiting method is characterized in that legitimacy verification is carried out on current printing equipment, and only when consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is legal, a user is allowed to control the current printing equipment to carry out imaging printing on content to be printed through a user terminal, and the method comprises the following steps:
acquiring consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to current printing equipment, configuring a unique consumable anti-counterfeiting identification for the center server by legal printing equipment, wherein the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification corresponds to a consumable module, the consumable modules are provided with unique consumable anti-counterfeiting identification codes, and in the imaging printing process, the consumable module needs to be installed in the printing equipment and is equal to the fact that the printing equipment is provided with the unique consumable anti-counterfeiting identification codes corresponding to the consumable modules;
secondly, performing consumable anti-counterfeiting identification by using the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data, further determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data, and if the acquired consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is invalid data, representing that the current printing equipment is illegal for a central server, and generating error prompt information to prompt a user that the current printing equipment is unavailable;
determining currently required consumable quantity data according to the content to be printed, matching the currently required consumable quantity data with available consumable quantity data, and determining whether the current printing equipment is in an available state according to a matching result;
in the first step, user identification data is also acquired;
in the second step, the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data and the user identification data are used for determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment and available consumable quantity data of a user;
in the second step, a preset mark-consumable material database is searched by using the anti-counterfeiting identification data and the user identification data to obtain available consumable material quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment and available consumable material quantity data of a user, wherein the available consumable material quantity data stored in the preset mark-consumable material database corresponds to the anti-counterfeiting identification data of the consumable material and the user identification data;
if the current required consumable amount is larger than or equal to the available consumable amount data of the user, according to actual needs, the user terminal increases the available consumable amount data of the user in a mode of purchasing printing consumables, the user sets the consumable amount required to be purchased through the user terminal and sends the consumable amount to the cloud server, and the cloud server updates the corresponding available consumable amount data stored by the cloud server based on the consumable amount purchased by the user after the user finishes expense settlement;
in the third step, judging whether the current required consumable quantity is less than or equal to the available consumable quantity data of the current printing equipment and the available consumable quantity data of the user, wherein if the current required consumable quantity is less than or equal to the available consumable quantity data of the current printing equipment and the available consumable quantity data of the user, an effective printing instruction is generated so as to control the current printing equipment to perform imaging printing on the content to be printed; if the current required consumable quantity is larger than the available consumable quantity data of the current printing equipment and the available consumable quantity data of the user, generating an invalid printing instruction to control the current printing equipment not to perform imaging printing operation; when the generated print instruction is an invalid print instruction, it is not necessary to transmit the content to be printed to the printing apparatus.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the second step, the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is used to search a preset identification-consumable database to obtain available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein in the second step, if the preset identifier-consumable database does not have data consistent with the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is determined to be invalid data;
and if the preset identifier-consumable database has data consistent with the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, judging that the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is valid data.
4. The method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the predetermined identifier-consumable database stores consumable anti-counterfeit identification data and available consumable amount data in one-to-one correspondence.
5. A service kit for consumable anti-counterfeiting, characterized by performing the consumable anti-counterfeiting method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, the service kit comprising:
a user terminal configured to perform the steps of:
acquiring consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment;
generating corresponding consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information according to the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data, and transmitting the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information to a cloud server in communication connection with the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information;
receiving available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment, which is sent by the cloud server in response to the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information;
a cloud server configured to perform the steps of:
receiving consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information sent by a user terminal, wherein the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information comprises consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to current printing equipment;
responding the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information, utilizing the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data to perform consumable anti-counterfeiting identification, further determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data, and transmitting the available consumable quantity data to a user terminal connected with the available consumable quantity data.
6. The service kit for consumable counterfeiting prevention according to claim 5, wherein the user terminal comprises:
the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data acquisition module is used for acquiring consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment;
the authentication request module is connected with the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data acquisition module and is used for generating corresponding consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information according to the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data;
the first data communication module is connected with the authentication request module and used for transmitting the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information to a cloud server and receiving available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment and transmitted by the cloud server in response to the consumable anti-counterfeiting authentication request information.
7. The service kit for consumable counterfeiting prevention according to claim 6, wherein the user terminal further comprises:
and the printing enabling module is connected with the first data communication module and used for determining the currently required consumable quantity data according to the content to be printed, matching the currently required consumable quantity data with the available consumable quantity data and generating a corresponding printing enabling signal according to a matching result.
8. The service kit for consumable forgery prevention of claim 7, wherein the print enabling module is configured to determine whether a currently required consumable quantity is less than or equal to an available consumable quantity, wherein,
if the current required consumable quantity is less than or equal to the available consumable quantity, the printing enabling module is configured to generate an effective printing instruction so as to control the current printing equipment to perform imaging printing on the content to be printed;
and if the current required consumable quantity is larger than the available consumable quantity, the printing enabling module is configured to generate an invalid printing instruction so as to control the current printing equipment not to perform imaging printing operation.
9. The service kit for consumable counterfeiting prevention according to claim 5, wherein the cloud server comprises:
a second data communication module for communication connection with the user terminal;
and the anti-counterfeiting authentication module is connected with the second data communication module and is used for utilizing the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data to perform consumable anti-counterfeiting identification, further determining available consumable quantity data corresponding to the current printing equipment when the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data is valid data, and sending the available consumable quantity data to the second data communication module.
10. The service kit for consumable forgery prevention according to claim 9, wherein the forgery prevention authentication module is configured to retrieve a preset id-consumable database using the consumable forgery prevention identification data to obtain data of an available consumable amount corresponding to the current printing apparatus.
11. The service kit for consumable anti-counterfeiting according to claim 9 or 10, wherein if no data consistent with the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment exists in the preset identifier-consumable database, the anti-counterfeiting authentication module is configured to determine that the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is invalid data;
and if the preset identifier-consumable database has data consistent with the anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment, the anti-counterfeiting authentication module is configured to judge that the consumable anti-counterfeiting identification data corresponding to the current printing equipment is valid data.
12. An imaging printing system, comprising:
the service companion device as any one of claims 5-11;
and, a printing device.
13. The imaging printing system of claim 12, wherein said printing device is configured to perform the steps of:
acquiring a printing instruction transmitted by a user terminal;
when the printing instruction is an effective printing instruction, performing imaging printing operation on the content to be printed; and when the printing instruction is an invalid printing instruction, stopping the imaging printing operation.
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