EP0875482A1 - Codage et lecture d'informations sur un rouleau de matériau - Google Patents

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EP0875482A1
EP0875482A1 EP97119190A EP97119190A EP0875482A1 EP 0875482 A1 EP0875482 A1 EP 0875482A1 EP 97119190 A EP97119190 A EP 97119190A EP 97119190 A EP97119190 A EP 97119190A EP 0875482 A1 EP0875482 A1 EP 0875482A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/18—Constructional details
    • B65H75/182—Identification means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/009—Detecting type of paper, e.g. by automatic reading of a code that is printed on a paper package or on a paper roll or by sensing the grade of translucency of the paper
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2557/00—Means for control not provided for in groups B65H2551/00 - B65H2555/00
    • B65H2557/10—Means for control not provided for in groups B65H2551/00 - B65H2555/00 for signal transmission
    • B65H2557/13—Data carrier, e.g. chip, transponder, magnetic strip

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  • This invention relates to printers which employ rolls of media and, more particularly, to a roll of media which has encoded thereon data which is used by the printer for control of operating parameters.
  • Prior art printers have employed either firmware-based commands or software-based commands to set parameters used during the control of the printing process. So long as very few types of inks, media, toners, etc. were used during the operation of such a printer, the aforementioned software/firmware parameter-control techniques were acceptable.
  • inkjet printers for instance, utilize many different types of inks of a variety of colors; laser printers employ multiple different types of toners of different colors, and both types of printers are required to handle a variety of different types of media sheets.
  • Each, ink, toner, media type potentially requires a change in one or more printer-control parameters to enable the printer to achieve a high quality print output. It is impractical to require a user to re-program the printer each time, for instance, a different type of media is fed into the printer or a toner is utilized.
  • U. S. Patent 4,961,088 to Gilliland et al. describes a replaceable toner cartridge for a laser printer which includes a resident memory that stores parameters used in the control of the laser printer.
  • Ujita et al. in U. S. Patent 5,506,611 describe a replaceable ink cartridge for an ink jet printer that includes a resident memory, containing parameters used to control the inkjet printer.
  • U. S. Patent 5,051,779 to Hikawa describes a media sheet which includes markings that are used to control an image processing system. More specifically, special marks on the image sheet are recognized by a scanner in the image processing system and enable a transfer of control commands into the image processing system for control thereof. This concept is carried further by U. S. Patent 5,521,674 to Guillory et al., assigned the same Assignee as this application, wherein marks on a media sheet are sensed and provide control signals to an associated printer. The material used to provide the marks on the sheets is visible, prior to printing on the sheet, but becomes invisible during or after the printing operation.
  • a variety of printers, plotters, facsimile units, etc. utilize rolls of media, rather than individual sheets of media. If the procedure of printing control indicia on the media is to be used, it is difficult to know, in advance, where to imprint control indicia because of the uncertainty in predicting the length of media that will be used during a printing/plotting operation. Further, if control indicia are printed along the media, expense is added to the cost of production of the media as a result of a requirement to print the control at repetitive points along the length of the media.
  • control indicia are present on the roll of media.
  • a printer system includes a web of media wound about a roll.
  • the roll has code means positioned thereon, with the code means arranged to rotate when the roll is rotated.
  • the media is engaged by an advancement mechanism which moves the media into a printing position. The movement of the media causes rotation of the roll.
  • the code means are moved past a detector that is juxtaposed to the roll which reads coded indicia printed upon the code means.
  • a processor is coupled to the detector and receives signals from the detector that are indicative of the coded indicia. The processor employs data derived from the signals to control the print operations of the printer.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a schematic perspective view of an inkjet printer 10 wherein an inkjet head 12 reciprocates laterally across a media web 14.
  • a drive roller 16 moves media web 14 beneath inkjet head 12 to enable the printing thereon of images, under control of a print controller (not shown).
  • Media web 14 is unrolled from a roll 18 which is mounted for rotation on a spindle 20.
  • Media 14 is wound about a cylindrical core 22 which freely rotates on spindle 20.
  • Fig. 2 shows a dismounted view of media roll 18 and cylindrical core 22.
  • An adhesive label 24 is positioned on the inner circumference of cylindrical core 22 and includes coded information (e.g., a bar code) which when read, informs the host printer of parameters of media roll 18 and other control data to be input to printer 10.
  • Information encoded on label 24 may be a reference to a lookup table stored in printer 10, which reference enables access to parameters which describe the type of media, the dimensions of the media, etc. Such information is then used by printer 10 to set print system parameters, such as print modes, half-toning methods, drying times, etc.
  • the information on label 24 may, instead of including a reference to a look-up table, contain encoded indicia which provide the actual parameter information directly to the printer.
  • Fig. 3 is a perspective partial sectional view of media roll 18, taken along line A-A in Fig. 1.
  • Fig 3a is a similar sectional view, showing the mounting of media roll 18 on a bracket 25.
  • spindle 20 includes a flange 26 on which media roll 18 is mounted.
  • Flange 26 is inset from the end of media roll 18 to enable an optical detector 28 (shown in Fig. 3a) to extend into hollow inner region 30.
  • Optical detector 28 comprises, for instance, a light emitting diode and a photodetector. The positioning of optical detector 28 is such that when media roll 18 is positioned on spindle 20 and flange 26, label 24 passes directly thereover, enabling optical detector 28 to detect the coded indicia and to provide signals thereof to a connected printer controller (not shown).
  • printer 10 is set up in such a manner as to adjust to the specific characteristics of media 14.
  • FIG. 4 an enlarged view of an end of media roll 18 is shown, illustrating the preferred positioning of label 24.
  • An alternative location for the positioning of the encoded indicia may be on a terminating end 33 of cylindrical core 22. If the alternative location is used, an optical detector 34 (see Fig. 3a) is positioned opposite the end 33 of core 22 so as be able to read the encoded indicia.
  • Fig. 5 illustrates a further on alternative technique for applying encoded labeling to roll 18.
  • the encoding is imprinted on a surface of an end cap 36 which fits over an end of media roll 18 and is mounted for rotation therewith.
  • An optical detector 34 such as shown in Fig. 4, is used to read the encoded indicia on the surface of end cap 36.
  • the invention enables the positioning of coded indicia on each media roll during the production phase. Whenever the media roll is changed, the printer reads the encoded information and sets up its operating parameters, accordingly. The invention eliminates any need to print the code on the media itself. Further, there is no requirement for the user to enter data regarding the identity of the media, as the media roll carries that information itself. While the encoded indicia have been described as being positioned on a label, such indicia may be directly printed on core 22 or on end cap 36.

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