EP1343634B1 - Drucker mit manueller kollationiersteuerung - Google Patents

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EP1343634B1
EP1343634B1 EP00979254A EP00979254A EP1343634B1 EP 1343634 B1 EP1343634 B1 EP 1343634B1 EP 00979254 A EP00979254 A EP 00979254A EP 00979254 A EP00979254 A EP 00979254A EP 1343634 B1 EP1343634 B1 EP 1343634B1
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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  • the present invention relates to printing documents and, more particularly, is directed toward a printer which prints collated multi-page documents from a plurality of manually collated pages.
  • Multi-page documents often include content created using a diversity of desktop applications including word processing, drawing, graphing and spreadsheet tools. Because of operating system and middleware complexity, many users are unable to integrate diverse content into a single presentation document. In many cases, a single presentation document combines content created by different users, all of whom may have particular application skills, but none of whom may have content integration skills. Because of this, users often resort to manual collation.
  • European Patent Specification No. EP 0 606 131 discloses a method for printing a job, represented by a set of electronic pages, with a job reference sheet in a printing system, the printing system having a printer and a scanner adapted to both convert the job into the set of electronic pages and decode machine readable code.
  • the method includes the steps of storing the set of electronic pages in a memory section and assigning a unique job identifier to the stored job in the memory section.
  • the method further includes the steps of printing the job reference sheet so that the unique job identifier is designated on the job reference sheet in machine readable code and scanning the job reference sheet for reading the machine readable code to retrieve the set of electronic pages from the memory section for printing with the printer.
  • the present invention provides, in a first aspect, a printer for printing a collated multi-page document when presented with a plurality of manually collated source pages, the printer including:
  • the printer includes a binder for binding together the printed pages, and a scanner for copying pages which do not have machine-readable codes on them and which produces electronic versions of the pages.
  • the printer includes a storage medium which stores the electronic versions of the scanned pages, and a hand-held code sensor which senses machine-readable codes on the manually collated pages wherein the machine-readable codes on the manually collated source pages are represented.
  • the code sensor senses machine-readable codes on both sides of the manually collated pages
  • the control unit also controls communications between the printer and one or more peripheral devices.
  • electronic versions of the manually collated source pages which are to be printed are retrieved from at least one of the group including.
  • the printer includes an input device with which a user of the printer controls the format of the printed and collated multi-page document, wherein the input device includes a touch sensitive display, and wherein the print engine also prints machine-readable codes onto a page, and wherein the machine-readable codes are not visible to human vision.
  • the printer inserts blank pages in the printed document to duplicate blank pages contained within the manually collated pages.
  • instructions from a hand- held code sensor are received and interpreted, and a collated multi-page document is produced.
  • the printer includes an interface which transmits instructions for printing a collated multi-page document to a second printer, wherein the instructions are transmitted over a computer network or over a telephone network.
  • the printer includes a storage medium which stores an electronic version of pages which have been printed.
  • the invention provides a method of printing a collated multi-page document when presented with a plurality of manually collated source pages, the method including the following steps:
  • the invention provides a method including the step of binding together the printed pages, and further including the steps of using a scanner for copying pages which do not have machine-readable codes on them and producing electronic versions of those pages.
  • the step of printing the retrieved pages includes printing machine-readable codes on those pages, and wherein the machine-readable codes are invisible.
  • the code sensor senses machine-readable codes on both sides of the manually collated pages.
  • the method includes the step of using an input device to control the format of the printed and collated multi-page document, and wherein the printing step includes the sub-step of transmitting the retrieved pages to a remote printer.
  • a page can be printed with one or more machine-readable codes which identify an electronic version of the page stored in a computer system. This can allow the page to be used as a token for obtaining a pristine digital copy of the page obviating any need to physically scan and print (i.e. "photocopy") the page. It can also allow the page to be used in conjunction with a hand-held code-sensing device to capture user input in relation to the page, such as handwriting and hyperlink activations.
  • the machine-readable codes are preferably unobtrusive and ideally invisible, e.g. printed using an ink which is machine-readable but invisible to the unaided human eye, such as an infrared-absorptive ink.
  • Various workgroup printers have been described which also act as "walk-up" document terminals, i.e. they provide a user interface which allows a document to be selected and printed without recourse to a workstation, and in particular, without recourse to a workstation with access to the original electronic version of the document.
  • Documents which may be selected and printed in this way are typically documents which have been previously printed via the printer, and in the process stored on the printer's internal hard disk. To optimize printing speed, the documents are typically stored in a rasterized or partially-rasterized format.
  • a user may have the option to "print" a document to the printer's hard disk, i.e. to make it available for walk-up printing without actually printing it.
  • a walk-up printer may utilize storage on a local-area or wide-area network rather than having its own internal storage, and a group of such printers may have access to a shared document repository.
  • a walk-up printer may also simply record links to original documents rather than making copies.
  • a printer may include a binding mechanism for binding the pages of a document into a single whole. Since a document must typically be sent to a printer as a single document to produce a bound copy, document integration is normally a prerequisite for binding. This presents a barrier to many users.
  • the present invention concerns a printer which can produce one or more bound documents when presented with a manually-collated bundle of pages.
  • the printer contains a code sensor for sensing machine-readable codes on the pages, allowing it to identify and produce printed copies of the pages from electronic versions of the pages.
  • the printer optionally contains a scanner for copying pages which are not coded.
  • the copying process may be used to produce double-sided output from single-sided input.
  • Blank pages can be interspersed with the input to force the inclusion of blank pages.
  • the printer of the preferred embodiment has two input trays, one for source pages 1012, the other for sheets 1014 of an input medium such as paper.
  • the paper path includes an input transport mechanism 1022, one or more code sensors 1024, one or more print engines 1026, an output transport mechanism 1028, and a binding mechanism 1030, 1032.
  • a printer controller 1040 controls the printing process.
  • the printer has a single output tray in which it accumulates both decoded source pages 1012 and printed and bound documents 1020.
  • the printer may have separate output trays for source pages and documents. It may, for example, deposit decoded source pages back in the source page input tray, typically separated from input source pages by a mechanical finger which prevents already-sensed source pages from being treated as further input.
  • source page sensing and printing both utilize the same paper transport mechanism.
  • the printer may contain separate page sensing and printing paper paths and associated transport mechanisms.
  • the preferred binding mechanism consists of a page-height adhesive applicator 1030, and a page-height stamper 1032.
  • the adhesive applicator applies a strip of adhesive adjacent to the spine of a page just before the page enters the output bin.
  • the stamper 1032 presses the pages in the output bin together, causing pages with adhesive strips to adhere to each other.
  • Adhesive may be applied to either the front or the back of each page of a document. When it is applied to the front, it is not applied to the first page. When it is applied to the back, it is not applied to the last page.
  • the stamper is typically operated after the last page of the document is printed, although if adhesive is applied to the front of each (face-down) page, then the stamper may be used after each page is printed or periodically during the printing of a document.
  • Alternative binding mechanisms include corner or page-height stapling and clamping.
  • the preferred code sensor 1024 consists of a light source, projection and image capture optics, and an image sensor. Codes are represented by optical patterns which are printed or otherwise applied to a surface. As a source page 1012 is transported past the code sensor 1024, the printer controller 1040 captures images of the page surface via the image sensor, decodes the optical patterns found in the images, and thereby obtains one or more codes which directly or indirectly identify the source page and/or a document of which the source page is part. Codes may alternatively be represented electronically, magnetically, topographically, or chemically, with correspondingly adapted code sensors.
  • the input transport mechanism 1022 picks up an input sheet 1014
  • the print engines 1026 print the page content onto one or both sides of the sheet
  • the output transport mechanism 1028 deposits the sheet in the output tray.
  • the adhesive applicator 1030 applies adhesive 1018 to one side of the sheet just before it is deposited in the output tray, and the stamper 1032 presses the several sheets of a document together in the output tray to form a bound document 1020.
  • the input transport mechanism 1022 picks up a source page 1012
  • the processor senses codes from one or both sides of the source page via the code sensors 1024
  • the output transport mechanism 1028 deposits the source page in the output tray.
  • Copying consists of a code sensing phase followed by a printing phase.
  • the code sensors are a fixed part of the apparatus.
  • the code sensor may be embodied in a hand-held device, such as a suitably enabled pen or stylus so that the user specifies how the printed document is collated by manually sensing a set of pages, in which case the printer need not necessarily include the code sensor 1024 in the paper path.
  • the printer is ideally enabled for printing codes which it can subsequently sense. This is not a requirement, however, and the printer may simply be used in conjunction with source pages printed by another printer.
  • the printer may also be enabled for receiving, interpreting and/or relaying transmissions from a hand-held code sensing device, such as a suitably enabled pen or stylus.
  • a hand-held code sensing device such as a suitably enabled pen or stylus.
  • the printer has a user interface which minimally provides a "copy" button.
  • the user inter-face may also include a color touch-sensitive display which allows a user to browse a list of documents accessible to the printer, and select a particular document for printing.
  • the copy button may also be provided in virtual form on the display.
  • the printer transports each source page in the input tray past the code sensors and records the corresponding page identity information.
  • the printer uses the page identity information to retrieve electronic versions of the pages, and uses these electronic versions to print "copies" of the source pages, bound into a single document.
  • the printer consults a locally- or network-stored index of documents and/or pages to identify and retrieve the electronic versions of the pages.
  • the user interface may allow the user to select or specify typical photocopying and printing options, including the number of copies, whether documents are bound, single-sided versus double-sided printing, scaling of page content, and media selection, including different media sizes.
  • the printer controller 1040 handles communication with host computers, manages the user interface, and controls the printing process. It consists of an integrated controller chip 1041 and a number of separate components.
  • the controller includes a processor 1042 which runs control software loaded into a DRAM 1044 from a flash memory 1046. The processor may also download control software from a host computer.
  • the printer controller communicates with host computers via a network interface 1046.
  • the network interface may provide direct connection to a host computer, such as a serial, parallel (IEEE 1284), Universal Serial Bus (USB) or IEEE 1394 connection, or connection onto a local-area network, such as an Ethernet, or connection onto a wide-area net-work, such as the Internet.
  • the controller may include multiple such network interfaces.
  • the printer controller may include a disk controller 1056 for controlling a hard disk 1058 internal to the printer.
  • the printer controller may use the hard disk for storing queued print jobs, i.e. documents, rasterized or partially-rasterized pages, and an index of documents and pages. It may also utilize storage provided by computers accessible via its network interface for some or all of these purposes.
  • the printer controller includes a display controller 1060 for controlling a color display 1062, and a touch sensor 1066 overlaid on the display for capturing user interactions with the displayed user interface.
  • the color display is typically a TFT color LCD, but may be any suitable display device, including, for example, an organic LED (OLED) display.
  • OLED organic LED
  • the printer controller captures input from the touch sensor 1066 via a parallel interface 1064.
  • the printer may include a number of user interface LEDs 1068 for indicating printer, paper and ink status information to users. The printer controller also controls these via the parallel interface 1064.
  • the printer controller includes one or more image sensor interfaces 1060 for controlling a corresponding number of image sensors 1074 used to capture images of code patterns appearing on source page surfaces.
  • Each image sensor 1074 is typically a charge coupled device (CCD), but may be any suitable image sensor, including, for example, a CMOS image sensor.
  • At least one illumination LED 1070 is typically associated with each image sensor.
  • the printer controller also controls the illumination LEDs 1070 via the parallel interface 1064, although they may be more closely coupled with the relevant image sensor interface 1060 to allow them to be efficiently strobed in synchrony with image capture.
  • the printer typically includes one or two printheads 1052, depending on whether it has a duplex printing capability or not, although it may include additional printheads to achieve higher-speed printing or to support more complex ink sets.
  • the printer controller includes a high-speed serial interface 1048 for communicating with a pair of print engine/controllers 1050, each of which controls a printhead 1052.
  • the printheads 1052 are high-speed inkjet printheads, and the print engine/controllers 1050 accept compressed page descriptions which they expand and send to the printheads in real time.
  • the printer may have an internal hard disk 1058, typically with multi-gigabyte capacity, for storing documents to be printed as well as rasterized or partially-rasterized pages. Alternatively it may rely on network storage for these purposes.
  • the printer typically accepts documents described using a high-level page description language (PDL) such as Adobe PostScript or Microsoft Windows Metafile which encapsulates Graphics Device Interface (GDI) commands.
  • PDL page description language
  • GDI Graphics Device Interface
  • the processor 1042 rasterizes pages from the PDL to a format suitable for printing.
  • the printer may accept rasterized or partially-rasterized pages directly.
  • a variant of the printer controller incorporates a facsimile modulator/demodulator (modem) 1078, controlled by the processor 1042 via a serial interface 1076, which allows documents to be transmitted and/or received via facsimile.
  • modem facsimile modulator/demodulator
  • the printer's user interface may give the user facsimile control via a dedicated keypad for telephone number entry and a dedicated button for transmission, but preferably provides a facsimile control user interface via the touch-sensitive display.
  • the printer may allow the user to specify delivery of a manually collated document to a remote printer connected to a local-area or wide-area network which is addressable by the printer controller via its network interface 1046.
  • the remote printer may be a conventional printer, or it may be a printer with any of the capabilities of the printer of the present invention.
  • the printer of the present invention may implement a protocol such as the Internet Printing Protocol.
  • the printer receives (at 1080) a document from a host computer, rasterizes (at 1082) the pages of the document, stores (at 1084) the rasterized pages on local or network storage 1088 (e.g. internal hard disk 1058), and finally prints (at 1084) the pages (or transmits them via facsimile).
  • the printer "scans" (at 1090) the source pages (i.e. senses their codes), retrieves (at 1092) the corresponding electronic versions of the pages, and finally prints or transmits (at 1084) the pages.

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  1. Drucker zum Drucken eines kollationierten mehrseitigen Dokuments, wenn es mit einer Vielzahl manuell kollationierter Quellenseiten vorgelegt wird, wobei der Drucker umfasst:
    eine erste Einfuhrlade für Quellenseiten (1012);
    eine zweite Einfuhrlade für Papierbögen (1014);
    einen Codesensor (1024) zum Abtasten maschinenlesbarer Codes auf den Quellenseiten (1012);
    eine Steuereinheit (1040), die die maschinenlesbaren Codes verwendet, um zuvor gespeicherte elektronische Versionen der Quellenseiten (1012) zu identifizieren und abzurufen;
    eine Druckmaschine (1026) zum Drucken der abgerufenen Seiten auf das Papier (1014); und
    einen Papiertransportmechanismus (1022, 1028) zum Transportieren der Quellenseiten und des Papiers;
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass:
    der Papiertransportmechanismus zum Transportieren der Quellenseiten und des Papiers durch denselben Papierpfad zur Codeabtastung beziehungsweise zum Drucken konfiguriert ist, wobei der Codesensor (1024) und die Druckmaschine (1026) sich in Wirkposition in dem Papierpfad befinden.
  2. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, weiter eine Bindevorrichtung (1030, 1032) zum Einbinden der gedruckten Seiten umfassend.
  3. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, weiter einen Scanner zum Kopieren von Seiten, die keine maschinenlesbaren Codes aufweisen, umfassend, der elektronische Versionen der Seiten produziert.
  4. Drucker nach Anspruch 3, weiter ein Speichermedium umfassend, das die elektronischen Versionen der gescanten Seiten speichert.
  5. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, weiter einen handgehaltenen Codesensor umfassend, der maschinenlesbare Codes auf den manuell kollationierten Quellenseiten abtastet.
  6. Drucker nach Anspruch 1 oder 5, wobei die maschinenlesbaren Codes auf den manuell kollationierten Quellenseiten folgendermaßen dargestellt werden:
    (a) optisch; oder
    (b) elektronisch; oder
    (c) magnetisch; oder
    (d) topografisch; oder
    (e) chemisch.
  7. Drucker nach Anspruch 1 oder 5, wobei der Codesensor (1024) maschinenlesbare Codes auf beiden Seiten der manuell kollationierten Quellenseiten abtastet.
  8. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Steuereinheit auch (1040) Kommunikationen zwischen dem Drucker und einem oder mehreren Randgeräten steuert.
  9. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, wobei elektronische Versionen der manuell kollationierten Quellenseiten, die zu drucken sind, aus mindestens einem von der Gruppe abgerufen werden, umfassend:
    (a) ein in einem Hostrechner enthaltenes Speichermedium;
    (b) einen Server, auf den über ein Rechnernetzwerk zugegriffen wird;
    (c) ein in dem Drucker selbst enthaltenes Speichermedium; und
    (d) jede Kombination der obigen.
  10. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, weiter eine Eingabevorrichtung umfassend, womit ein Benutzer des Druckers das Format des gedruckten und kollationierten mehrseitigen Dokuments steuert.
  11. Drucker nach Anspruch 10, wobei die Eingabevorrichtung eine berührungsempfindliche Anzeigetafel (1066) umfasst.
  12. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Druckmaschine auch maschinenlesbare Codes auf eine Seite druckt und wobei die maschinenlesbaren Codes für das menschliche Auge nicht sichtbar sind.
  13. Drucker nach Anspruch 2, wobei der Drucker Blankoseiten in das gedruckte Dokument einfügt, um in den manuell kollationierten Quellenseiten enthaltene Blankoseiten zu duplizieren.
  14. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, wobei Anweisungen von einem handgehaltenen Codesensor empfangen und interpretiert werden und ein kollationiertes mehrseitiges Dokument produziert wird.
  15. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, weiter eine Schnittstelle umfassend, die Anweisungen zum Drucken eines kollationierten mehrseitigen Dokuments zu einem zweiten Drucker überträgt.
  16. Drucker nach Anspruch 15, wobei die Anweisungen über ein Rechnernetzwerk oder über ein Telefonnetzwerk übertragen werden.
  17. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, weiter ein Speichermedium umfassend, das eine elektronische Version von Seiten, die gedruckt worden sind, speichert.
  18. Verfahren zum Drucken eines kollationierten mehrseitigen Dokuments, wenn es mit einer Vielzahl manuell quellenkollationierter Seiten vorgelegt wird, wobei das Verfahren die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    Vorsehen eines Druckers, wie in Anspruch 1 definiert;
    Abtasten maschinenlesbarer Codes auf den manuell kollationierten Quellenseiten unter Verwendung eines Codesensors;
    Verwenden der maschinenlesbaren Codes zum Identifizieren und Abrufen zuvor gespeicherter elektronischer Versionen der Quellenseiten; und
    Drucken der abgerufenen Seiten.
  19. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18, weiter den Schritt des Einbindens der gedruckten Seiten umfassend.
  20. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18, weiter die Schritte des Verwendens eines Scanners zum Kopieren von Seiten, die keine maschinenlesbaren Codes aufweisen, und Produzierens elektronischer Versionen dieser Seiten umfassend.
  21. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18, wobei der Schritt des Druckens der abgerufenen Seiten das Drucken von maschinenlesbaren Codes auf diese Seiten umfasst.
  22. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18 oder Anspruch 21, wobei die maschinenlesbaren Codes unsichtbar sind.
  23. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18, wobei der Codesensor maschinenlesbare Codes auf beiden Seiten der manuell kollationierten Seiten abtastet.
  24. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18, weiter den Schritt der Verwendung einer Eingabevorrichtung zum Steuern des Formats des gedruckten und kollationierten mehrseitigen Dokuments umfassend.
  25. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18, wobei der Druckschritt den Unterschritt des Übertragens der abgerufenen Seiten zu einem entfernt aufgestellten Drucker umfasst.
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