EP1433143A1 - Procede et dispositif pour imprimer des envois postaux ; utilisation du dispositif - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour imprimer des envois postaux ; utilisation du dispositif

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EP1433143A1
EP1433143A1 EP02758131A EP02758131A EP1433143A1 EP 1433143 A1 EP1433143 A1 EP 1433143A1 EP 02758131 A EP02758131 A EP 02758131A EP 02758131 A EP02758131 A EP 02758131A EP 1433143 A1 EP1433143 A1 EP 1433143A1
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Prior art keywords
printing
mail item
mail
printed
information
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EP1433143B1 (fr
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Jürgen KRÜGER
Horst Emrich
Rainer Anthonj
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Deutsche Post AG
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    • 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
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C1/00—Measures preceding sorting according to destination
    • B07C1/20—Sorting according to orientation, e.g. according to position of stamp
    • 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
    • G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
    • 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
    • G07B17/00467—Transporting mailpieces
    • 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
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00709—Scanning mailpieces

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a method for printing on mail items, the mail items being conveyed by a means of transport and being fed to a printing device.
  • the invention further relates to a device suitable for carrying out the method.
  • the invention also relates to a use of the device.
  • German Patent DE 195 08 180 C2 A generic method is disclosed in German Patent DE 195 08 180 C2.
  • the mail items are transported to the printing device on a conveyor belt extending from a drop point of the mail items to the printing device.
  • the object of the invention is to further develop a generic method in such a way that mail items are printed as quickly and reliably as possible.
  • this object is achieved in that a generic method is carried out so that the
  • Mail item is transported by a first funding means, and that during the transportation of the mail item on the first funding means, graphic properties of at least one surface of the mail item are recorded, that the recorded graphic properties are evaluated, from which As a result of the evaluation of the graphic properties, the information is determined as to which surface of the mail item is intended for printing, and that the printing device and / or a feed of the mail item to the printing device are controlled such that the surface of the mail item to be printed is in a desired manner Alignment with a means located in the printing device and intended for printing on the surface of the mail item.
  • Processing steps can be used in many ways. In particular, this enables flexible printing of the mail items.
  • the subsequent processing steps are controlled in that, depending on the information determined from the result of the evaluation of the graphic properties, which surface of the mail item is intended for printing, one of a plurality of means in the printing device for Printing the mailpiece is activated.
  • the mail item is fed to the printing device in such a way that the surface to be printed is essentially perpendicular to the means for printing the mail item located in the printing device.
  • Such a vertical transport enables the method to be carried out in a device with a short system length and a particularly low susceptibility to faults, as well as simple further processing, in particular with sorting and ejection after printing, if necessary without the use of a turning module.
  • a particularly preferred embodiment of this variant of the invention is characterized in that the mail item is fed by the first conveying means to a rotating device for rotating and / or turning the mail item, and that at least one sub-step of capturing the graphic properties of at least one surface of the mail item during transport of the mail item on the first funding means that the captured graphic
  • This variant of the invention provides that the mail item is fed by the first conveying means to the rotating device for rotating and / or turning the mail item, that during the transport of the mail item on the first conveying means graphic properties of at least one surface of the mail item are recorded, that the recorded graphic properties are evaluated, the result of the evaluation of the graphic information being used to determine which surface of the mail item is intended for printing, that the rotating device rotates and / or turns the mail item such that the surface of the mail item to be printed is in a desired manner Alignment is supplied to a means for printing located in the printing device.
  • Such a method is particularly suitable for mass processing of mail items, such as takes place in letter centers or freight centers.
  • the invention provides for the graphic properties of the mail items to be evaluated and for the mail items to be aligned on the basis of the graphic information ascertained in relation to a means for printing on the mail items.
  • Reflection properties include any variant that can be understood in the broadest sense as a reflection, in particular also the detection of the presence of fluorescence.
  • the supply of electromagnetic radiation checks whether Fluorescence phenomena occur.
  • the mail items are applied to the first funding in a disordered manner.
  • the mail items are in particular an essentially continuous stream of mail items of the same or different sizes.
  • Such a disorderly delivery of the mail items includes the case that individual mail items can overlap.
  • the mail items In order to enable reliable detection of the graphic properties in this case as well, it is expedient for the mail items to be carried out using suitable separation modules.
  • mailing is not to be understood as restrictive and includes letters as well as parcels and small packages.
  • the mailpieces are essentially flat mailpieces, which, regardless of their respective postal classification, are also referred to as letters in a representation of exemplary embodiments.
  • the letters are, in particular, previously known types of letters, for example standard, large and maxi letters. With an integration of the ' invention in plants for processing letters. it is expedient that the mail items are fed to the printing device by a second conveying means after the turning and / or turning.
  • Another object of the invention is, at least for detecting graphic properties in the range 'of a surface of the mailpieces and be calculated based on the detection and evaluation of the graphic .Information a print area of the mail and / or a printed image and the mail item in the region to be printed , for example with the determined print image.
  • the imprints can be given as well as - for example program-controlled - changed, as well as individually adapted for each individual shipment.
  • a combination of these method steps with a selection of the surface to be printed takes place in that after rotating and / or turning the mail items in the rotating device, graphic properties of the mail items are again recorded, and that on the basis of the recorded graphic properties
  • At least one area of the surface to be printed is selected in which the mailpieces are printed.
  • Another, likewise expedient embodiment of this variant of the method is characterized in that the area of the mailpieces to be printed is determined by recording the graphic properties of the mailpieces during transport on the first means of transport.
  • the advantage of this embodiment is that the design effort required for implementation is particularly low, since both the graphic properties to be taken into account for rotating and / or turning the mail items and the graphic properties to be taken into account for the selection of the printing area in a single detection step and possibly with a single one Detection means are recorded.
  • this is done in that information about recipient addresses and / or sender addresses of the mail items is recorded and that the mail items are printed with the recipient address and / or a code containing the recipient address and / or the sender address.
  • the letters are assigned to an address to be selected, for example by means of database information. which links the respective mail item with the address to be printed.
  • the mail items are printed with information that can be freely configured graphically, for example an advertising print.
  • Another advantage of the invention is that it enables the handling of letters of different types of franking.
  • a cancellation stamp is only generated if the mail items are provided with a postage stamp. In other cases, in which it was determined, for example, that the mailpieces had already been provided with another franking, such as a franking stamp, such cancellation is generally not carried out.
  • the invention also makes it possible to integrate franking of the letters in the course of processing the mail items. For example, both the cancellation of postage stamps and the printing of postal items with postage indicia that do not have postage stamps take place in the device.
  • the postal items are printed with a graphical representation of coded information.
  • coded information is a multi-digit - approximately '11- to 13-digit - recipient address code, which is used for sorting the mail items in a subsequent processing step.
  • digital postage indicia which preferably contain encrypted information, for example about the recipient, the sender or the date of dispatch, in order to avoid misuse.
  • a digital postage indicium which contains several identification details in an encrypted form, such as the address and date information already mentioned above, by recording on the Surface of the mail item is generated.
  • the address information recorded with one of the recording means is combined with further information by a suitable linking mechanism and incorporated into a digital postage indicium.
  • a suitable linking mechanism for example, a combination method as described in German patent DE 100 20 563 C2 of the applicant of the present application can be used.
  • the fee to be paid for generating the postage indicia can, for example, be taken from a postal customer's virtual postage account or integrated into another payment system.
  • the use of the respective payment system is preferably based on the respective shipment volume of the customer. , Especially with customers ' with a relatively small
  • Mail volumes of around ' up to fifty mail items per day are micro-payment solutions or debits from the postage account.
  • an interface to other payment applications is suitable, for example ⁇ for integration into a direct debit procedure.
  • the device contains at least one detection means for detecting graphic properties of at least one surface of the mail item, that the device has a means for evaluating the recorded graphic properties or with the means for evaluating the recorded graphic properties Properties can be connected in such a way that the recorded graphic properties can be transmitted to the means for evaluation, and that the device has a control means which enables a printing process and / or a transport of the mail item depending on the result of the evaluation of the recorded graphic information ,
  • control means controls activation of one of several means for printing on the mail item.
  • At least one means to change a transport route of the mail item depending on the result of the evaluation of the recorded graphic information.
  • the device contains a rotating device for rotating and / or turning the mail item, and that the rotating device can be controlled by the control means such that the mail item is turned and / or turned depending on the result of the evaluation of the recorded graphic information.
  • this also makes it possible to bill for the printing of mail items, possibly with costs, with advertising imprints, preferably individualized address information, as well as the billing of the generation of the postage indicia.
  • the direct generation of the digital postage indicia in the device for printing on the mail items has the advantage that both franking of mail items in large quantities and high security against forgery are achieved.
  • Printing at a rate of around two meters per second can print several thousand mail items per hour.
  • This particularly preferred device according to the invention for printing on mail items with a transport means and a printing device is characterized in that it contains at least a first conveying means, a rotating device for rotating and / or turning the mail items, in that it has at least one recording means for recording graphic properties at least contains a surface of the mail item, and that the rotating device is created such that it rotates the mail items depending on a result of an evaluation of the graphic information and / or can turn.
  • the rotation and / or turning of the mail items depending on the result of the evaluation of the recorded graphic properties is preferably carried out in that the device contains a control means for the rotating device, the control means turning and / or turning depending on the result of the evaluation of the controls graphic information.
  • the printing device contains a means for printing on mail items, the means for printing on the mail items being designed such that it has a plurality of printing areas and that the individual printing areas can be activated individually.
  • the means for printing the mail items is linked to the means for detecting the graphic properties of the mail items such that a selection of areas to be printed is dependent on the graphic information can be done.
  • a particularly preferred embodiment of the device is characterized in that it contains a print image arrangement with a plurality of individual print images, the individual print images essentially having the form of cancellation stamps.
  • the devices according to the invention are suitable for a large number of uses. However, it is particularly advantageous to use the devices for canceling postal items.
  • the cancellation of mail items advantageously takes place in such a way that the activation of the printing areas is controlled in such a way that at least one cancellation stamp is applied to each postage stamp.
  • the various functions such as, for example, the devaluation of the mail items, the printing of the mail items with address details and the printing of the postage indicia, are each carried out in a manner adapted to the individual, different mail items.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the route of a
  • Fig. 2 shows a surface pattern for printing an envelope according to the invention.
  • the invention also includes cases in which the mail items are not rotated or turned.
  • the invention and its variants and embodiments shown relate both to the use of the invention with rotating and / or turning the mail items and for the case in which the mail items are not rotated and / or turned.
  • FIG. 1 The basic illustration of the transport route of the mail items shown in FIG. 1 shows a Embodiment in which mail items 10 can be conveyed by a first transport means 20.
  • a first detection means 30 for detecting graphic properties of at least one surface of the mail items following a placement station (not shown) for the mail items.
  • the detection means 30 can be, for example, a camera connected to an image processing unit.
  • the means (not shown for the sake of simplicity) for analyzing the graphic information recorded by the camera has program routines which are able to recognize graphic patterns on the surface of the mail items.
  • a comparison between the stored graphic information and the recorded graphic information in the evaluation unit makes it possible to determine whether and how many postage stamps are on the surface of the mail item.
  • a turning device 40 following the detection means 30, which can be used to turn and / or turn the mail items 10.
  • a second detection means 50 for example a camera or a sensor, detects positions at which graphic features, in particular graphic structures, are located on the surface of the mail items 10.
  • the method for printing on the mail items is preferably carried out as follows:
  • Mail items 10 are applied to a conveyor 20 and transported by the conveyor 20 to the rotating device 40.
  • At least one surface of the mail items is detected by a detection means 30.
  • the detection means 30 sends the detected graphic properties of the mail items to an evaluation means during the transport between it and the rotating device 40.
  • the evaluation means combines information about the graphic properties of the mail items with further information, in particular transport properties of the conveying means, and thus determines when a mail item is to be rotated and / or turned, and thus makes it possible for the rotating device 40 to be dependent on the respective item and for to control the program determined graphic properties.
  • the rotating device 40 the mail item 10 is rotated and / or turned according to the control commands if this is provided for the subsequent alignment of the mail item 10 in the printing device 60.
  • Mail items 10 that are already correctly aligned preferably pass through the rotating device 40 without their angular position being changed.
  • the mail items are applied to a further conveying means 70.
  • the first conveyor 20 and the second conveyor 70 consist of a uniform transport device, for example a rotating conveyor belt.
  • graphic properties of the mail items 10 are again recorded. This detection is preferably carried out on the same surface which is also intended for subsequent printing. In this way, markings and special features of the graphic properties to be taken into account for the printing process can be taken into account.
  • postage stamps are canceled, this enables the position of the postage stamp to be determined and the means for printing on the mail items to be controlled such that at least one printing area is activated which enables the mail items to be canceled.
  • a routing code can be printed on the mail items as a barcode depending on an address recorded on the mail item.
  • a fluorescent marking is used for the generation of the guide code, since the fluorescent marking can be detected more easily in a sorting machine which controls a sorting process.
  • the print images can be generated in various ways, for example by conventional printing methods such as rotary printing, printing with an ink jet or selective irradiation with laser light. Non-contact or low-contact printing methods such as inkjet printing and laser printing are preferred.
  • shape of the printed image can be adapted more quickly to changing requirements for printing various letters.
  • printing ink adapted to the postal items is advantageous.
  • the printing ink is expediently selected such that it penetrates into the surface areas of the mail items to such an extent that they cannot be removed from the mail items.
  • the printing ink is applied so that a Penetration of the color is also avoided by thin envelopes.
  • FIG. 2 An example of a preferred arrangement of printing areas for the cancellation of mail is shown in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 2 shows a predetermined surface pattern 100, which ensures that a larger surface of the mail item is covered as fully as possible.
  • the components of the surface pattern 100 can be chosen arbitrarily.
  • the checkerboard-shaped arrangement of the printing areas shown is particularly expedient, since this ensures that the cancellation stamps generated by the printing can print on any point on the surface.
  • the respective printing areas for the cancellation stamps 110 are selected depending on the respectively detected position of the postage stamps 120.
  • the printing area in which the focus of the postage stamps 120 is located is preferably selected.
  • the virtual center of gravity of the postage stamps 120 is in the area between two printing areas or at the intersection of four printing areas, it is also possible to activate a plurality of printed images representing a cancellation stamp.
  • a deviation from the printing of the center of gravity of the respective postage stamps can be program-controlled.
  • the position of the cancellation stamps 110 can also be adapted to the wishes of stamp lovers.
  • this makes it possible to provide individual postage stamps 120 with a cancellation stamp on their right edge.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé pour imprimer des envois postaux (10), qui sont amenés par un moyen de transport à un dispositif d'impression (60) dans lequel ils sont imprimés. L'invention est caractérisée en ce que les envois postaux (10) sont acheminés par un premier moyen de transport (20) sur un dispositif de rotation (40) qui les (10) retourne, des caractéristiques graphiques d'au moins une surface des envois (10) étant saisies pendant leur acheminement par le premier moyen de transport (20). Ces caractéristiques graphiques saisies sont analysées, le résultat de cette analyse se traduisant par des informations relatives à la surface des envois (10) prévue pour l'impression. Selon l'invention, le dispositif de rotation (40) retourne les envois postaux (10) de telle sorte que leur surface à imprimer est amenée dans un sens précis vers un moyen d'impression situé dans le dispositif d'impression.
EP02758131A 2001-09-24 2002-08-07 Procede et dispositif pour imprimer des envois postaux ; utilisation du dispositif Expired - Lifetime EP1433143B1 (fr)

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DE10146842A DE10146842B4 (de) 2001-09-24 2001-09-24 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Bedrucken von Postsendungen
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