EP0580274B1 - Procédé et dispositif pour une impression du service de prix interne - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour une impression du service de prix interne Download PDF

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EP0580274B1
EP0580274B1 EP93250215A EP93250215A EP0580274B1 EP 0580274 B1 EP0580274 B1 EP 0580274B1 EP 93250215 A EP93250215 A EP 93250215A EP 93250215 A EP93250215 A EP 93250215A EP 0580274 B1 EP0580274 B1 EP 0580274B1
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Harald Windel
Wolfgang Dr. Thiel
Klaus Dietrich
Norbert Knoth
Erwin Simon
Stephan Günther
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
    • G07B2017/00395—Memory organization
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
    • G07B2017/00427—Special accounting procedures, e.g. storing special information
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item

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  • the invention relates to a method and an arrangement for an internal cost center print the in the generic terms of claim 1 or 9 specified Art.
  • a franking module is known from DE 40 18 166 A1, the one in a slot of a drive bay Personal computer is arranged and a printing unit for self-adhesive franking strips. It is although it has also been proposed with the franking printing unit Addresses to print, however, is for printing from billing data to another as before Personal computer connected external printer required.
  • DE 39 03 718 is a postage billing system for franking machines used by several people or departments using an associated IC card can be set and used, known, the individual cards to the people or departments be assigned to the settlement.
  • a personal computer can use the information stored in the card be read out at the end of a billing cycle a list of the use of the franking machine to get during the billing period.
  • the use of the franking machine can be done for everyone User (card holder) displayed and printed out will.
  • the need for one is complex separate personal computers with associated printer, for a written list of the use Get cost center.
  • the disadvantage is that with everyone Computer system easily mimicking such an expression is. A backup of the printout of the accounting data against manipulation is not provided.
  • the invention is based on the consideration that under the requirement of using such a printing device for franking mail, which variable Print information about the printhead can now also print out for each of the cost centers with the print head of the franking machine usually only for franking the letters are responsible. For this, a user dialog and a switchover in the control unit of the franking machine made and that in a cost center memory (KSP) saved billing data no longer via an input / output interface, but directly output via the print head of the franking machine.
  • KSP cost center memory
  • the billing data of interest are from the control unit in cooperation with the input / output means compiled in a working memory read, decompressed, processed and in graphic pixels converted as well as in a pixel memory cached.
  • the franking zone on letters preferably has one Width of about 2.5 to 3.5 cm.
  • the invention goes in particular assume a franking print head consisting of from a single pressure bar, for franking and to be used for internal cost center accounting. Internal cost center printing takes place on one surface 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide and 14 to 21 cm wide Length.
  • the franking module enables before, in particular on a strip of internal cost center printing, a representation of at least three multi-line Information groups simultaneously in one display.
  • the first information group on each strip contains labeling, safety and information data.
  • the identification data consist, for example, of the current date, a serial number for internal Cost center printouts and a strip number. Out For reasons of counterfeit security, additional Security data generated in a memory area of the RAM and cached as a crypto number displayed.
  • the information data relate to a short message about order and organization in the subsequent information groups.
  • the last information group contains the specification of the Sum of accounting data on the selected and listed according to an agreed order Information groups.
  • the middle information groups contain the actual accounting data.
  • the information groups are evenly divided into blocks that can be viewed and checked in the display before printing. For each block there is a clear display in the form of "What you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG).
  • WYSIWYG clear display in the form of "What you see is what you get"
  • the sum of the cost center data is given in the last block at the end of the list. If the number of cost centers is greater than mA , which would possibly have to be printed on several strips (y> 1) of constant length, scrolling in the display is provided beforehand. At the end of the list in the last block or at the end of the last strip, the sum of the cost center data is also given.
  • the cost centers are at least in the display divided into two adjacent blocks. At the The blocks are preferably printed one below the other. For this, the printing direction per block is electronically so rotated that the columns as rows and the rows as Columns appear.
  • b p 2.5 to 3.5 cm
  • there is an additional control for the print bar of the print head which electronically rotates the orientation of the standard print of a block by 90 °. Because the line length is limited, the blocks are rotated individually. According to the invention, the rotation is carried out in a block, for example with the dimensions b p * b p .
  • the procedure for internal cost center printing by means of the franking module is further characterized in that that in the memory areas of the pixel memory 7 different orthogonally rotated blocks are cached. It is assumed, after another switchover in the control unit, the blockwise orthogonal rotation by a additional hardware and / or software in the control unit perform.
  • the procedure for internal cost center printing using the franking module also assumes in the Pressure control unit 14 a corresponding switch to make the print in the printing direction which distinguishes lines from franking imprint.
  • the Invention is advantageous in such printing processes applicable where the printhead remains stationary.
  • Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the invention Arrangement in a franking machine, with Input / output means 2, 3, 4 storage means 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, a control unit 6, preferably with a microprocessor ( ⁇ P), one Pressure control unit 14, a printing unit 1, with a Drives having transport unit 12, preferably a strip encoder with strip release contains, and with an encoder 13.
  • ⁇ P microprocessor
  • the input / output means include both shown and also internal and / or external actuating means, not shown (Chip card, remote specification, PC actuation means etc.) for the franking module.
  • the encoder 13 is the strip sensor with strip release 12 and a pixel memory 7 with several separate memory areas I, II, III and IV connected.
  • the print control unit 14 reads from the pixel memory 7 when franking data, the printing unit 1 via a - not shown in FIG. 1 - switching unit present in the pressure control unit 14 (SE) is controlled.
  • SE pressure control unit 14
  • Such a switching unit can be coupled with a controllable energy source, as is the case, for example, in German application P 42 14 545.7 proposed for an ETR printing process has been.
  • the method advantageously consists in that a printing device for internal cost center printing 1 of a franking module can be used.
  • KSP cost center memory
  • ASP Main memory
  • the procedure for internal cost center printing by franking module is based on the fact that a in Blocks present print image block by block in the printing direction is rotated so that the rows become columns and are reversed, with k blocks of accounting data of m Cost centers included, the first block of an existing one Print image additionally an identification and the last block of a printed image is a summation of the Has billing information.
  • According to the invention is a means for orthogonal pixel storage field rotation 15 and at least one memory area provided for accounting data in the pixel memory 7, in which data is loaded under conversion and / or read from the data under conversion will.
  • the pixel memory 7 contains several separate memory areas, from which the print control unit 14 accounting data reads.
  • the printing medium Automatic strip dispenser strips used. There although these strips are 165 mm long, they are only approx. 35 are up to 40 mm wide, the billing statistics information quantitatively to a uniform line length 2.5 cm for 192 dots or 3.5 cm for 256 dots be reduced. One way is to do that Print image through computational transformation for a Reduce the pressure bar by 25.4 mm. Another An advantageous option is to use one already in the character memory 9 so far only for the imprint of the machine number of the franking device provided character set of suitable size, where appropriate to increase or supplement it is.
  • Figure 2 shows a possible embodiment of an internal Cost center printing in three square blocks on a franking strip, for the sake of simplicity three cost centers.
  • the accounting data of each cost center form an information group.
  • the chronological order with the internal cost center printout is before the printout either according to the ascending number of used cost centers or according to the frequency of use or after falling costs in the user dialog compatible.
  • the one according to the agreed order List of cost center data containing Information groups can be checked in display 3.
  • the representation or the printout takes place in quadratic Blocks, each block at least one Contains information group. Other variants of a Order can be created and before printing in display 3.
  • the flow chart shown in Figure 3 for an internal Cost center printing starts from an automatic and / or manual date entry with which Enter the number of the cost center and an entry the authorization code. It is envisaged that the Userdialog a special authorization procedure for includes certain cost centers to be protected and that access to this cost center information on a certain group of people is limited. In a Cost center routine is a prompt for the order in the order of the cost center printouts and for the order of the listing within one Printout for each cost center and an automatic one Formation of information groups is provided.
  • the processor searches in the cost center printing routine reads all cost centers that have been worked with the data from the cost center memory and stores this data in a memory area A of the main memory 5 for example in BCD-coded form. At the same time the user requests the area at cost centers, which is also in area A of the working memory 5 in BCD encoded form is saved.
  • the processor in the control unit 6 forms the sum of this area assigned cost center data and stores them in a memory area B of the main memory 5.
  • the processor also forms the identification data from the current date, a serial number for internal cost center printouts and a strip number and stores them in a memory area C of the main memory 5. It encrypts this data together with a machine parameter (number of the franking module) to a crypto number and stores it in a memory area D of the main memory 5.
  • Im Character memory 9 lies in each of these crypto numbers Character code before.
  • the processor sorts the data and numbers the cost center has been assigned accordingly and stored in a further memory area E.
  • the strip length is taken into account and if necessary, the necessary division into several Stripes made, the identification data and Data for the maximum number of cost centers on the first to penultimate strips and on the last Stripes according to the number of cost centers formed total data are taken into account.
  • the franking module enables the internal cost center printing on a strip by means of a display 3 a representation of identification data, of accounting data of several cost centers and totals data, divided into three for example side by side lying blocks.
  • a memory area F of RAM 5 used.
  • cost center display which is coded in BCD Form available data for labeling and for the crypto number as well as for the first of the cost centers read from the main memory 5, decompressed and with the help of the character memory 9 in one first print image converted.
  • This first print image contains, for example - as in shown in Figure 2 - the information of three Cost centers and is initially in a display unit 3 of the franking module is displayed, of which the Label information, the crypto number that information about the order and the three Cost center information and total information shown in three adjacent blocks will.
  • the character memory 9 are preferably all Alphanumeric characters are stored pixel by pixel as them for normal expression and display (size and direction) are needed.
  • the pixel memory gets 7 from the control unit 6 in the display means 3 print image data which can be displayed in the printing direction in one first block.
  • the block is in the first area I of the pixel memory 7 buffered.
  • This print image data is from a hardware and / or Output logic of the control unit implemented in software 6 passed to the pixel memory 7, from which also when franking the print pixel data the print control unit 14 columns the print head be fed.
  • the franking option is however locked and a switchover is effective.
  • the pixel memory 7 several separate memory areas I, II, III and IV, from which the pressure control unit 14 Print image data, in particular including billing data Reads out print image data block by block.
  • the pixel memory 7 is connected to the control unit 6, wherein the pixel memory 7 in the output means 3 in the printing direction displayable accounting data as a print image received in blocks.
  • the addresses A supplied by the control unit 6 comprise area addresses A B for the selection of a memory area I, II, III or IV for the storage of a block and low addresses for the addressing within a block.
  • the low addresses are now converted during storage in a means 15 for rotating the pixel memory field.
  • 15 are used in the means Pixel memory field rotation the low addresses when swapping out a block converted, i.e. if the Print control unit 14 print image data, in particular accounting data print image data containing blocks reads.
  • the pixel memory 7 several separate memory areas II, III and IV contains from which the orthogonally rotated Blocks are read out. Every block of a print image, especially with billing data, is previously in temporarily stores the first area I of the pixel memory 7 and by the means for orthogonal pixel storage field rotation 15 converts to at least one second area II of the pixel memory 7 transferred. At least one is electronically rotated by 90 ° or around Block rotated 270 ° in the printing direction Print image with accounting data in the second area II of the pixel memory 7 buffered before printing. On the command "cost center printing" from a The button of the operating unit 2 becomes the print image data of the first block from the first area I of the pixel memory 7 read out.
  • a print image rotated by 90 ° in the printing direction with accounting data is generated in another Variant in the control unit 6 a switchover made on a mean that is a 90 ° pixel storage field rotation makes.
  • the addresses A are replaced by the However, pressure control unit 14 does not pass through converted.
  • the rotated printed image in a second area II of the Pixel memory 7 before printing.
  • the print control unit 14 is for printing over the lines with data D connected to the second area II of the pixel memory 7. Then a strip is made on the strip dispenser triggered.
  • the strip is transported to the print head and on Encoder 13 provides a position report of the strip in relation to the printhead. According to this position report the print image data from the second Area II of the pixel memory 7 is read out in columns and serially into the serial-parallel shift register in a known manner the switching unit (SE), cached in latches and during the STROBE pulse by means of the print head of the printing unit 1 printed.
  • SE switching unit
  • the second block is in the first area I of the pixel memory 7 in whole or in part in consecutive pauses and supplied to the means for a 90 ° pixel storage field rotation. Then the one rotated by 90 ° in the printing direction Block of the print image with accounting data in the third area III of the pixel memory 7 before printing cached. In the same way the 90 ° rotation and storage of the third block in the fourth memory area IV.
  • the control unit 6 is connected to the pressure control unit 14 also coupled to check whether the pressure is completed. A corresponding check is carried out software.
  • a control for a strip feeder is for variable length strips or provided for a constant length. Enough a strip not to print out all cost centers, so is from the control unit 6 from the strip encoder another strip requested and printed. The strips are numbered according to their order. For this purpose, each strip is marked intended.
  • envelopes or Sheets in A5 or A6 format made by one automatic feed unit can be supplied with the Cost centers are printed. But it is also a Interactive operation with the operator via the display possible: On the note: "Please insert paper" must each manually create paper.
  • FIG. 4 shows a circuit for the means for orthogonal pixel memory field rotation, which is arranged in the print control unit DS and is connected to the address inputs of the pixel memory 7. It consists of an electronic switch U and a means for address generation G.
  • the electronic switch U contains multiplexers MUX1, MUX2 and the means for address generation G contains a first and a second counter module Z and read-only memory ROM1, ROM2 to the addresses individually to convert. It is provided that each multiplexer MUX1, MUX2 consists of several tri-state buffers and is controlled by a state machine SM (not shown in FIG. 4) of the printer controller DS.
  • a state machine SM not shown in FIG. 4
  • the first multiplexer MUX1 for the low addresses A L is switched to the inputs U 2 , so that the pixel memory 7 can be addressed normally by the control unit 6.
  • one of the memory areas with the area addresses A B is addressed via the inputs U 2 of the second multiplexer MUX2.
  • the multiplexers are switched over and the outputs Z 2 are applied to the area address inputs of the pixel memory 7 via the inputs U 1 of the second multiplexer MUX2. If the outputs Z 1 of the first counter are applied to a 90 ° address converter (ROM1), the outputs of which are connected to the inputs U 1 of the first multiplexer MUX1, low addresses are formed for the pixel memory 7, which cause a 90 ° pixel memory field rotation .
  • ROM1 90 ° address converter
  • the circuit for orthogonal pixel memory field rotation 15 is connected to the pixel memory 7 by at least one block of a printed image with accounting data in at least a second area II of the pixel memory 7 electronically rotated by 90 ° or by 270 ° in the printing direction to load.
  • the print control unit 14 When reading out the converted data, the print control unit 14 is connected via the data line to the second area II of the pixel memory 7 and to the control unit 6.
  • the outputs Z 2 of the second counter are again coupled to the area address inputs of the pixel memory 7 via the inputs U 1 of the second multiplexer MUX2.
  • the outputs Z 1 of the first counter are connected via the inputs U 2 directly to the low address inputs of the pixel memory 7, so that the print control unit 14 receives, during normal print data output, the billing data which can be displayed in the output means 3 in the printing direction as orthogonally rotated blocks of a print image.
  • the generated in the means for address field generation G Addresses are used to write the data via the data lines into the second memory area II of the pixel memory 7 with the intended rotation. As in particular from the information on the memory areas I and II in Figure 4 can be seen the row data to column data.
  • the means for address field generation G is in the variant shown integrated in the printer controller 14 and implemented in hardware. On via clock impulses charged meter generates a meter reading, which is converted to an address via a ROM. To everyone appearing on data line D with the clock pulse bits addressed by the control unit 6 then there is a new address at the ROM output.
  • this address field generation made by software from the control unit 6.
  • the pressure control unit 14 are only those State machine, a circuit for serial output SO and the switching unit SE still required.
  • FIG. 5c A variant of a flowchart for a 90 ° pixel memory field rotation, shown in FIG. 5c, is only one example of a software solution.
  • 5a shows a memory area SPB I (192 * 192) with associated source bit counter and source byte counter and in FIG. 5b a memory area SPB II (192 * 192) with associated source bit counter and source byte counter.
  • the first source address H 192 and the first destination address Z 1 are loaded for one data word with 192 bits.
  • the data word is shifted in the shift register until the 192nd bit is in a carry bit memory. This carry bit is loaded as the 191st bit into the data word to be formed under the first target address Z 1 .
  • the readdressing is now done because of the decremented source bit counter for the 191-th bits of all source addresses.
  • the kth bits of the data D H of all source addresses become bits of the data of a destination address.
  • the next block can be rotated 90 ° in the same or a similar way. An orthogonal rotation through 180 ° or 270 ° is possible by repeating the flow chart several times.
  • Ink-jet printers can advantageously be or use a thermal transfer printer.
  • ETR printer with 192 electrodes in a pressure bar thus called serially from the memory area I.
  • 192 * 192 individual data bits re-addressed.
  • the - from the readdressing Space reasons not shown in Figure 4 - further blocks of 192 * 192 bit.
  • Interconnect switches constructed in this way add if with additional address converters other different rotation should be realized.
  • the memory areas II to IV are advantageously the same pixel memory area (RAM) that is also addressed during franking. Although an addressable RAM area of 2 18 bit addresses is required for the memory areas I to IV, this is not fully utilized.
  • block-by-block data is buffered in memory area II, then serially transferred to the switching unit after switching. After this transfer, the readdressing and intermediate storage can be carried out in the third memory area III. Further data of a block can thus be read, readdressed and buffered during printing. This also applies to the third block, while the second block is being printed, etc.
  • the memory area II which has now been printed out is now free again for the data of a new block.
  • all three memory areas II, III and IV are first filled with data before printing. With 2 18- bit addressable RAM areas, up to 7 pixel memory areas of 192 * 192 bits each can be addressed. It can easily be seen that with several available memory areas, many possible ways of working are possible in order to generate an internal cost center printout, all of which make use of the solution according to the invention.

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  1. Agencement pour une impression de centre de coûts interne au moyen d'un module d'affranchissement présentant une unité d'impression, une unité de commande reliée à des moyens d'entrée/sortie et à un moyen de mémorisation,
    caractérisé en ce que au moins une zone de mémorisation pour les données de comptabilisation est prévue dans une mémoire de pixel dans laquelle des données sont chargées sous conversion et/ou de laquelle des données sont extraites sous conversion, la conversion consistant en une rotation de zone de mémoire de pixel orthogonale par bloc,
    en ce qu'un moyen est prévu pour la rotation de zone de mémoire de pixel (15) orthogonale afin de mémoriser temporairement un bloc, pivoté électroniquement de 90° ou de 270° dans le sens d'impression, d'une image d'impression comportant des données de comptabilisation dans au moins une zone de la mémoire de pixel, et l'extraire de celle-ci, et
    en ce que l'unité de commande d'impression (14) extrait les données d'image d'impression, conformément aux données de comptabilisation, par bloc, de la mémoire de pixel (7).
  2. Agencement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'unité de commande d'impression (14) ou l'unité de commande (6) contient le moyen destiné à la rotation de zone de mémoire de pixel (15) et en ce que le moyen est réalisé au niveau matériel et/ou logiciel.
  3. Agencement selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que la mémoire de pixel (7) reçoit de l'unité de commande (6), par bloc, les données de comptabilisation affichables dans le moyen de sortie (3), dans le sens d'impression, sous forme d'image d'impression, en ce que l'unité de commande d'impression (14) est relié à au moins une première zone I de la mémoire de pixel (7) et à l'unité de commande (6), le moyen destiné à la rotation de zone de mémoire de pixel (15) orthogonal étant relié à la mémoire de pixel (7) afin d'extraire, par bloc, d'au moins la première zone I de la mémoire de pixel (7), un bloc, à pivoter électroniquement de 90° ou de 270° dans le sens d'impression, d'une image d'impression avec des données de comptabilisation.
  4. Agencement selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que le moyen destiné à la rotation de zone de mémoire de pixel (15) orthogonal est relié à la mémoire de pixel (7) afin de charger au moins un bloc d'une image d'impression avec des données de comptabilisation dans au moins une deuxième zone II de la mémoire de pixel (7), pivoté électroniquement de 90° ou de 270° dans le sens d'impression, en ce que l'unité de commande d'impression (14) est reliée avec la deuxième zone II de la mémoire de pixel (7) et avec l'unité de commande (6), l'unité de commande d'impression (14), lors d'une sortie de données d'impression, recevant les données de comptabilisation affichables dans le moyen de sortie (3), dans le sens d'impression, sous forme de blocs orthogonalement pivotés d'une image d'impression.
  5. Agencement selon une des revendications précédentes 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que la mémoire de pixel (7) contient au moins deux zones de mémoire distinctes I et II, à partir de laquelle l'unité de commande d'impression (14) extrait des données d'image d'impression, par bloc, conformément aux données de comptabilisation, en ce que la mémoire de pixel (7) est reliée à l'unité de commande (6), la mémoire de pixel (7) recevant les données de comptabilisation affichables dans le moyen de sortie (3) dans le sens d'impression, par bloc, sous forme d'image d'impression, en ce que chaque bloc d'une image d'impression avec des données de comptabilisation est mémorisé temporairement dans la première zone I de la mémoire de pixel et transmis, par le moyen, à la rotation de zone de mémoire de pixel (15) orthogonal, converti dans au moins une deuxième zone II de la mémoire de pixel (7) afin de mémoriser temporairement, avant l'impression, au moins un bloc, pivoté électroniquement de 90° ou de 270° dans le sens d'impression, d'une image d'impression avec des données de comptabilisation dans la deuxième zone II de la mémoire de pixel (7).
  6. Agencement selon une des revendications précédentes 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que le moyen destiné à la rotation de zone de mémoire de pixel consiste au moins en un commutateur électronique U et un moyen destiné à la génération d'adresse G.
  7. Agencement selon une des revendications précédentes 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que le commutateur électronique U contient un multiplexeur MUX1, MUX2, et le moyen destiné à la génération d'adresse au moins une mémoire à valeurs fixes ROM1, ROM2, afin de convertir individuellement les adresses.
  8. Agencement selon une des revendications précédentes 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que le multiplexeur MUX consiste en plusieurs tampons à trois états et qu'il est commandé par une machine d'état SM de la commande d'imprimante DS, en ce que, pour la lecture des données émanant de la zone de commande de la mémoire de pixel (7), on produit des adresses low pour l'adressage des données de chaque bloc via un premier compteur Z1 et des adresses de zone pour l'adressage des zones de mémoire via un deuxième compteur Z2.
  9. Procédé pour l'impression de centre de coûts interne, avec une installation d'impression qui peut imprimer des informations variables, caractérisé en ce que l'on procède à un dialogue d'usager et une commutation d'une unité de commande (6) d'une machine à affranchir, d'une empreinte d'affranchissement à une impression de centre de coûts interne, un traitement des données étant prévu avant l'impression de centre de coûts interne et les données de comptabilisation mémorisées dans la mémoire de centre de coûts (KSP) étant sorties, converties en données pixel de graphique, par l'unité de commande (6) via le bouton de la machine à affranchir.
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que, en raison de la commutation, les données de comptabilisation mémorisées dans une mémoire de centre de coûts (KSP) sont réunies par l'unité de commande, en coopération avec des moyens d'entrée et sortie, lues dans une mémoire de travail, décomprimées, traitées et converties en pixel de graphique ainsi que mémorisées temporairement, par bloc, dans une mémoire de pixel, et en ce que, dans chaque bloc, il y a au moins des données de comptabilisation concernant un centre de coût et, en plus, soit des données destinées à l'identification ou bien des données additionnées de tous les centres de coûts, dans lesquels on a travaillé, conformément à la zone choisie, et en ce que, pour l'impression de centre de coût, on effectue une génération de zone d'adresse et produit, avec la tête d'impression utilisable pour l'affranchissement du courrier, une impression présentant un numéro de centre coûts pour l'impression de centre de coût, laquelle se distingue d'une empreinte d'affranchissement.
  11. Procédé selon les revendications 9 à 10, caractérisé en ce que une autre commutation a lieu dans l'unité de commande d'impression (14) avant que l'unité d'impression (1) du module d'affranchissement soit utilisé pour l'impression de centre de coût interne, et en ce que, avant l'impression, une image d'impression existante en blocs est pivoté orthogonalement, par bloc, de préférence de 90° dans le sens d'impression.
  12. Procédé selon les revendications 9 à 10, caractérisé en ce que une autre commutation a lieu dans l'unité de commande (6) et, en coopération avec d'autres zones de mémoire de la mémoire de travail (5), la rotation orthogonale des blocs comprenant les groupes d'information a lieu selon un programme mémorisé dans la mémoire de programmes (11).
  13. Procédé selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que l'autre commutation a lieu dans l'unité de commande d'impression (14) de telle sorte que des données avec des adresses converties ou non-converties sont lues dans des zones de mémoires choisies de la mémoire de pixel (7) et extraites avec des adresses non-converties ou converties.
  14. Procédé selon la revendication 9 à 13, caractérisé en ce qu'il y a des blocs, pivotés orthogonalement différemment, mémorisés temporairement dans les zones de mémoire de la mémoire de pixel (7).
  15. Procédé selon la revendication 9 à 14, caractérisé en ce que un bloc contient un nombre de x groupes d'information, en ce que une image d'impression existantes en k blocs est pivoté électroniquement, par bloc, dans le sens d'impression de telle sorte que les lignes deviennent des colonnes et inversement, k blocs ne contenant que des données de comptabilisation de mA = y * {(x * k) - 1} - 1 centres de coûts, en ce que le premier groupe d'informations au moins d'un premier bloc d'une image d'impression existante présente une identification et en ce que le dernier groupe d'informations du dernier bloc d'une image d'impression présente une somme des données de comptabilisation.
  16. Procédé selon les revendications 9 à 15, caractérisé en ce que une autre bande est demandée et imprimée par l'éditeur de bande au cas où une bande ne suffit pas pour imprimer tous les centres de coûts, et en ce que l'identification des bandes a lieu au moins avec la date, le numéro de l'impression de centre de coûts interne et le numéro de son ordre.
  17. Procédé selon les revendications 9 à 16, caractérisé en ce que l'identification de chaque bande est complétée par un chiffre cryptique pour des raisons de protection contre les falsifications et/ou par une information sur le type de classement du listage.
  18. Procédé selon une des revendications précédentes 9 à 17, caractérisé en ce que, avec l'impression de centre de coûts interne, il y a dialogue d'usage destiné à l'autorisation et à la sélection des contenus d'impression, l'emploi du module d'affranchissement étant affiché pour chaque centre de coûts.
  19. Procédé selon une des revendications précédentes 9 à 18, caractérisé en ce que le dialogue d'usager comprend une procédure d'autorisation particulière pour certains centres de coûts plus élevés à protéger, et en ce que l'accès à ces informations de centre de coûts est limité à un cercle de personnes défini, en ce que la routine de centre de coûts comprend la demande d'entrée pour une zone de centres de coûts, pour le classement dans l'ordre des impressions de centre de coûts et pour le classement du listage à l'intérieur d'une impression pour chaque centre de coûts et il est prévu une formation automatique de groupes d'informations.
  20. Procédé selon une des revendications précédentes 9 à 19, caractérisé en ce que on effectue un listage à l'intérieur d'un centre de coûts selon l'impression optionnelle.
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