EP1433143B1 - Procede et dispositif pour imprimer des envois postaux ; utilisation du dispositif - Google Patents

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EP1433143B1
EP1433143B1 EP02758131A EP02758131A EP1433143B1 EP 1433143 B1 EP1433143 B1 EP 1433143B1 EP 02758131 A EP02758131 A EP 02758131A EP 02758131 A EP02758131 A EP 02758131A EP 1433143 B1 EP1433143 B1 EP 1433143B1
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Jürgen KRÜGER
Horst Emrich
Rainer Anthonj
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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

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  • the invention relates to a device for printing mailpieces, wherein the mailpieces are conveyed by a transport and fed to a printing device.
  • German patent DE 195 08 180 C2 discloses a method in which the mail items are transported on a conveyor belt extending from a point of delivery of the mailpieces to the printing device to the printing device.
  • a device for detecting stamps on mail comprises a plurality of detectors for the detection of stamps, which are arranged on conveyor belts, are transported over the isolated mail.
  • the mailpieces are first fed to a first detector, which recognizes stamps mounted on the front and back sides in the lower area of the mailpieces.
  • Mail items on which the first detector has recognized a stamp are conveyed to a validator and provided with a cancellation mark. If the first detector has not detected a stamp, the mailpieces are rotated in a rotating device by 180 ° and fed to a second detector, which recognizes stamps in the originally upper range of shipments and also controls a validator.
  • German Offenlegungsschrift DE 38 21 106 A1 describes a device for turning and stamping mail, in which a detector scans the mailpieces and from the scan data, an address block and a writing direction is determined. A turning device and a stamp device are controlled by a control device as a function of the detection result.
  • the US patent US 6,085,182 discloses a method and apparatus for postage stamping.
  • the device includes sensors which detect the position of stamps on a mailpiece and transmit it to a microprocessor which controls a plurality of printheads arranged at different heights and activates those printheads which are at the level of the detected stamp.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a device with which mailpieces can be printed as quickly and flexibly as possible.
  • the invention proposes a device for printing mailpieces.
  • the apparatus comprises at least a first conveying means, a first detecting means and a second detecting means for detecting graphic characteristics of at least one surface of the mailpieces and a rotating means for rotating and turning the mailpieces to align the printable surface of the mailpieces with respect to a printing device.
  • the first detection means is arranged on the first conveying means and with an evaluation means for determining and for selecting a surface to be printed on a postal item and for selecting a printed image, by which the presence of a postage stamp on a mail item can be determined.
  • the second detection means for detecting graphic properties of the mailpieces transported on the second conveying means is linked to a control means for printing the mailpieces, whereby a selection of areas to be printed on the selected surface of the mailpieces takes place as a function of graphic properties detected in the second detecting means.
  • control means controls activation of one of a plurality of means for printing on the mailpieces.
  • the device preferably has at least one means for changing a transport path of the mailpieces as a function of the result of the evaluation of the graphic information.
  • the printing device may comprise a means for printing on mailpieces, which is designed so that the means for printing mailpieces has a plurality of printing areas, and that the individual printing areas are individually activated.
  • the device contains a print image arrangement with a plurality of individual print images, wherein the individual print images are substantially in the form of Have validation stamps.
  • control means controls activation of one of a plurality of means for printing the mailpiece.
  • At least one means for changing a transport path of the postal item contains depending on the result of the evaluation of the acquired graphic information.
  • the immediate generation of the digital franking marks in the device for printing the mail has the advantage that both a franking of shipments in large numbers and a high security against counterfeiting are thereby achieved.
  • the device according to the invention is suitable for a multiplicity of purposes. However, it is particularly advantageous to the devices for the validation of Insert mail.
  • the validation of mail items advantageously takes place in such a way that the activation of the print areas is controlled in such a way that at least one cancellation print is applied to each postage stamp.
  • the various functions such as, for example, the validation of the mailpieces, the printing of the mailpieces with address information and the printing of the franking marks, are carried out in each case adapted to the individual, mutually different mailpieces.
  • An evaluation of the graphic properties of the mailpieces and use of the acquired graphical information for controlling subsequent processing steps can be used in a variety of ways. In particular, this allows a flexible printing of the mail items.
  • the mail item is fed to the printing device in such a way that the surface to be printed is substantially perpendicular to the means for printing the mail item in the printing device.
  • Such a vertical transport makes it possible - possibly waiving the use of a turning module - the process in a device with a short length of investment and a particularly low susceptibility and a simple further processing, especially with sorting and removal after printing to perform.
  • An embodiment is characterized in that the mail item by the first conveying means of a Rotary device for turning and / or turning the mail item is supplied, that at least one sub-step of detecting the graphic properties of at least one surface of the mail piece during transport of the mail item on the first conveyor takes place, that the detected graphical properties are evaluated, from the result Evaluation of the graphic properties, the information is determined, which surface of the mail piece is provided for printing, and that the rotating means rotates and / or turns the mail piece so that the surface to be printed on the mail piece in a desired orientation to the means located in the printing means Printing is supplied.
  • This variant provides that the mail item is fed by the first conveying means of the rotating device for rotating and / or turning the mail item, that graphic properties of at least one surface of the mail item are detected during the transport of the mail item on the first conveying means, that the recorded graphical properties be evaluated, which is determined from the result of the evaluation of the graphical information, which surface of the mailpiece is provided for printing, that the rotating device rotates the mail item and / or applies that the surface of the mailpiece to be printed in a desired orientation in a the printing device located means is supplied for printing.
  • Such a method is particularly suitable for mass processing of mail items, as is done, for example, in letter centers or freight centers.
  • graphic properties is meant in its broadest sense.
  • it comprises image patterns, markings or other evaluable optical properties located on the mailpieces, for example absorption and reflection properties of surface areas of the mailpieces.
  • the reflective properties include any variant that can be broadly understood as a reflection, and in particular, the detection of the presence of fluorescence. In this case, for example, it is checked by the supply of electromagnetic radiation, whether fluorescence phenomena occur.
  • the mail items are applied in disorder to the first conveying means.
  • the mail items are in particular a substantially continuous stream of mail items of the same or different sizes.
  • Such a disorderly delivery of the shipments includes the case that individual mailpieces may overlap.
  • the mailpieces run through suitable separating modules.
  • mailing is not meant to be limiting and includes both letters and parcels and parcels.
  • the mail items are essentially flat items which, irrespective 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, such as standard, large and maxi letters.
  • the mailpieces are expediently fed after turning and / or turning in the rotary device of the printing device by a second conveying means.
  • Graphic properties are detected in the region of at least one surface of the mailpieces, and based on the detection and evaluation of the graphic information, an area of the mailpieces to be printed and / or a print image is determined and the mailpiece is printed in the area to be printed, for example with the determined print image ,
  • the imprints can be both fixed, as well as - for example, programmatically - changed, as well as customized for each individual shipment.
  • a combination of these method steps with a selection of the surface to be printed takes place in a first advantageous embodiment in that after the turning and / or turning of the mail items in the rotary device again graphical properties of the mail items are detected, and that based on the detected graphical properties at least one area the surface to be printed is selected, in which a printing of the mailpieces takes place.
  • An assignment of the letters to an address to be selected is effected, for example, by database information which links the respective mail item to the address to be printed.
  • the mailpieces are printed with a freely configurable information, such as an advertising print.
  • all mailings of a sender can be provided with an adapted to the respective sender advertising imprint.
  • Another advantage is that a handling of letters of different types of franking is possible.
  • a debit printing is only generated if the mailpieces are provided with a postage stamp.
  • a postage stamp For example, it has been determined, for example, that the postal items have already been provided with another franking, such as a franking mark, such devaluation generally does not take place.
  • the mailpieces prefferably be printed with a graphic representation of coded information.
  • a graphic representation of coded information is a multi-digit - about 11- to 13-digit - recipient address code, which is used for sorting the mail in a subsequent processing step.
  • digital franking indicia which are preferably encrypted indications, for example via the Recipient, the sender or the date of despatch.
  • a digital postage indicium which contains in an encrypted form a plurality of identification data, such as the previously mentioned address and date information, is generated by a detection of information located on the surface of the mailpiece.
  • the address information detected with one of the detection means is combined with further information by a suitable linking mechanism and introduced into a digital franking mark.
  • a suitable linking mechanism for example, a combination method, as described in the German Patent DE 100 20 563 C2 the applicant of the present application is described.
  • the fee to be paid for the production of the postage indicia may, for example, be taken from a virtual postage account of a postal customer or integrated into another payment system.
  • the use of the respective payment system preferably depends on the respective shipment volume of the customer. Especially for customers with a relatively low shipment volume of about up to fifty postal items per day come micro-payment solutions or debits from the petty cash into consideration. For larger shipments is suitable an interface to other payment applications, for example for integration into a direct debit system.
  • the invention also includes such cases in which the mail items are not rotated or turned.
  • the invention and its illustrated variants and embodiments relate both to a use of the invention with a turning and / or turning of the mail items as well as in the event that the mail items are not rotated and / or turned over.
  • FIG. 1 illustrated schematic representation of the transport path of the mail shows Embodiment in which mailpieces 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 mailpieces is located following an application station (not shown) for the mailpieces.
  • the detecting means 30 may be, for example, a camera connected to an image processing unit.
  • the means for analyzing the graphical information acquired by the camera not shown for reasons of simplification, comprise program routines which are capable of recognizing graphic patterns on the surface of the mailpieces.
  • a turning device 40 which can be used for turning and / or turning the mailpieces 10.
  • a second detection means 50 for example a camera or a sensor, detects positions at which graphical features, in particular graphical structures, are located on the surface of the mailpieces 10.
  • the method for printing the mailpieces is preferably carried out as follows:
  • Mail items 10 are applied to a conveyor 20 and transported by the conveyor 20 to the rotary device 40.
  • At least one surface of the mailpieces is detected by a detecting means 30.
  • the detection means 30 sends the recorded graphical properties of the mailpieces to an evaluation means.
  • the evaluation means links information about the graphic properties of the mailpieces with further information, in particular transport properties of the conveying means and thus determines when a mailpiece is to be rotated and / or turned, thus making it possible to turn the rotating device 40 as a function of the respective mail item and for the mail item Broadcast determined graphical properties.
  • the postal 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.
  • the mail items are applied to a further conveying means 70.
  • the first conveying means 20 and the second conveying means 70 consist of a uniform transport device, for example a circulating conveyor belt.
  • graphic properties of the mailpieces 10 are again recorded.
  • this detection takes place on the same surface, which is also provided for subsequent printing.
  • markings and special features of the graphic properties to be considered for the printing process can be taken into account.
  • the position of the postage indicium can be ascertained in the event of devaluation of postage stamps, and the means for printing the mailpieces can be controlled such that at least one printing area is activated, which enables devaluation of the mailpieces.
  • a routing code as a function of an address recorded on the mailpiece can be printed on the mailpieces as a barcode.
  • a fluorescent mark is used for the generation of the guide code because the fluorescent mark can be more easily detected in a sorting machine that controls a sorting pass.
  • the production of the printed images can take place 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 ink-jet printing and laser printing are preferred.
  • the shape of the printed image is faster adaptable to changing requirements for printing various letters.
  • the use of an ink adapted to the surface of the postage stamps and of the mailpieces is advantageous.
  • the printing ink is expediently selected in such a way that it penetrates into surface areas of the mail items so far that it can not be removed from the mailpieces.
  • the ink is applied so that a Passage of color is avoided even by thin envelopes.
  • FIG Fig. 2 An example of a preferred arrangement of print areas for invalidation of mailpieces is shown in FIG Fig. 2 shown.
  • Fig. 2 shows a predetermined surface pattern 100, which ensures the most complete possible coverage of a larger surface of the mailpiece.
  • the components of the surface pattern 100 can be chosen arbitrarily.
  • the illustrated checkerboard arrangement of the pressure areas is particularly useful because it ensures that the cancellation stamp created by the print can print to any point on the surface.
  • the selection of the respective printing areas for the cancellation stamps 110 takes place as a function of the respectively detected position of the postage stamps 120.
  • the printing area is selected in which the center of gravity of the postage stamps 120 is located.
  • the virtual center of gravity of the postage stamps 120 is in the range between two printing areas or at the intersection of four printing areas, it is also possible to activate a plurality of printing images representing a cancellation stamp.
  • a deviation from the printing of the center of gravity of the respective Postwert Jack can be done programmatically.
  • the position of the cancellation stamp 110 can also be adapted to wishes of stamp friends.
  • this makes it possible to provide individual postage stamps 120 with a cancellation stamp on their right edge.

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  1. Dispositif pour imprimer des envois postaux (10), le dispositif comportant au moins un premier moyen de transport (20), un premier moyen de détection (30) ainsi qu'un deuxième moyen de détection (50) pour détecter des caractéristiques graphiques d'au moins une surface des envois postaux (10) et un dispositif rotatif (40) destiné à tourner les envois postaux (10) et à les retourner, pour orienter la surface à imprimer des envois postaux (10) par rapport à un dispositif d'impression (60), le premier moyen de détection (30) étant situé sur le premier moyen de transport (20) et étant relié à un moyen d'évaluation pour déterminer et sélectionner une surface à imprimer d'un envoi postal (10) ainsi que pour sélectionner une image par laquelle la présence d'un timbre-poste sur un envoi postal (10) peut être déterminée, un deuxième moyen de transport (70) étant présent, lequel transporte les envois postaux (10) du dispositif rotatif (40) vers le dispositif d'impression (60) et le deuxième moyen de détection (50) pour détecter des caractéristiques graphiques des envois postaux (10) transportés sur le deuxième moyen de transport (70) étant associé à un moyen de commande pour imprimer les envois postaux (10), ce par quoi a lieu une sélection de zones d'impression sur la surface sélectionnée des envois postaux (10) en fonction de caractéristiques graphiques détectées dans le deuxième moyen de détection (50).
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de commande déclenche une activation de l'un de plusieurs moyens pour imprimer sur les envois postaux (10).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif comporte au moins un moyen pour modifier un chemin de transport des envois postaux (10) en fonction du résultat de l'évaluation des informations graphiques.
  4. Dispositif selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'impression (60) comprend un moyen pour imprimer sur des envois postaux (10), lequel se présente de manière telle que le moyen pour imprimer sur des envois postaux (10) comporte plusieurs zones d'impression et que les différentes zones d'impression sont activables séparément.
  5. Dispositif selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce qu'il contient un ensemble d'images d'impressions comprenant plusieurs d'images d'impressions distinctes, les différentes images d'impressions présentant, pour l'essentiel, la forme de cachets d'oblitération (110).
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