JP2000132874A - Optical disk label printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To print a label on a label printing plane of an optical disk according to the contents of the optical disk. SOLUTION: When label printing is started, a controller instructs an optical disk label printer to print (31). An optical disk reader in the printer reads (32) label print management information in the optical disk 9, and confirms that the label print management information has been read, and then, transmits the information to the controller (33, 34). When the controller receives the label print management information, it extract the label print information from this information and transmits it to the printer (35, 36). The printer prints this information on the label on the optical disk, and ends processing to one sheet of the optical disk (37, 38). The above-mentioned processing is executed for each sheet of optical disk on which the label is to be printed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an optical disk label printing apparatus, and more particularly, to an optical disk label printing apparatus for automatically printing the contents of an optical disk on a label when a software product using the optical disk is manufactured.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a prior art relating to a label printing apparatus for an optical disc which is controlled by a computer or a controller and continuously prints labels on a plurality of optical discs, a technique already proposed by the present applicant has been proposed. A technique described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 9-94943 is known. According to this conventional technique, in a process of producing a large amount of optical disks, the optical disks are previously loaded in a hopper or a stacker, and are sequentially supplied to a printer to print predetermined label information.

[0003]

In the optical disk label printing apparatus according to the prior art, the loading of the optical disk and the instruction of the label print data are performed in the respective steps. Has a problem that the inconsistency tends to occur.
It is necessary to confirm that the recorded content of the optical disc matches the content printed on the label, which causes a problem that the working efficiency is reduced.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, to prevent inconsistency between the recorded contents of an optical disk and the contents printed on a label, and to improve the relationship between the recorded contents of the optical disk and the contents printed on a label. An object of the present invention is to provide a label printing apparatus for an optical disk which can eliminate the operation of checking the coincidence.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided an optical disk label printing apparatus for printing label information on a label printing surface of an optical disk, comprising: a controller for controlling a printing operation; A reading mechanism for reading label print management information, and a printer unit for printing the label, wherein the reading mechanism reads the label print management information recorded on each optical disc and transmits the read label management information to the controller, The controller provides the printer with label print information based on print management information, the printer
This is achieved by printing label printing information from the controller on the label printing surface of the optical disc.

The present invention controls the label printer based on the print management information stored in the information-recorded optical disc by reading the recorded content of the optical disc. It is possible to reliably match the recorded contents of the disk, and it is not necessary to perform a confirmation operation after printing, thereby significantly improving the efficiency of the entire printing operation.

[0007]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an optical disk label printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a front view illustrating the appearance of an optical disk label printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a top view illustrating the internal configuration of the optical disk label printing apparatus, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the processing operation of FIG. 1 and 2, 1 is a label printer, 2 is an optical disk reader / writer, 3 is a supply stacker, 4 is a collection stacker, 5 is a label printing printer section, 6 is a printer tray, and 7 and 8 are transfer mechanisms. ,
9 is an optical disk, 100 is a housing, 110 is a controller, 120 is a tray unit, 130 is a display, and 140 is an operation panel.

An optical disk label printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a housing 10 as shown in FIG.
0, a label printer 1 configured by a printer mechanism unit housed in the label printer 1, a controller 110 provided on a side surface of the label printer 1, for controlling the operation of the label printer 1, and mounted on the controller 110 and externally mounted. A display 130 is provided with an input device such as a keyboard for inputting control information from the PC, and displays various information and displays the operation status of the label printer. The label printer 1 that prints the label of the optical disk configured in the rectangular parallelepiped housing 100 includes a tray unit 120 that stores various optical disks, and an operation panel 140 that is provided on the upper surface side of the housing 100. Is done.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the label printer 1 includes a caddy type optical disk reader / writer 2 and a reader / writer tray (not shown) as a reading mechanism for reading print management information from an optical disk on which a label is printed. It comprises a label printing printer unit 5 and a printer tray 6 arranged in the lower layer at the same position as the optical disk reader / writer 2, and below the reader / writer 2 and directly below the reader / writer 2. In any position, a tray unit 12 composed of a supply stacker 3 for storing an optical disk 9 to be printed and a collection stacker 4 for collecting a printed optical disk 9 '.
0 is arranged. In addition, two transfer mechanisms 7 and 8 are provided between the supply tray 3 and the collection stacker 4 of the tray unit 120 and the printer tray 6.

In the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above, software as a product is recorded in the optical disk 9 to be printed, and print management information is recorded as information indicating its contents. I have. A plurality of such optical disks 9 to be printed are stored in the supply stacker 3 prior to label printing. Then, the optical discs 9 to be printed are taken out one by one from the supply stacker 3 by the transfer mechanism 7, provided at the lower part of the optical disc reader / writer 2 so as to be movable in the left-right direction, and moved to the right side, not shown. Transferred to reader / writer tray. The reader / writer tray transfers the optical disk 9 to be printed to the reading position of the optical disk reader / writer 2, and the optical disk reader / writer 2 reads out the label print management information in the optical disk 9 and transfers it to the controller 110.

The optical disk 9 from which the label print management information has been read is moved to the position of the transfer mechanism 7 by the reader / writer tray, and the transfer mechanism 7 transfers the optical disk 9 to the printer tray 6. The printer tray 6
The optical disk 9 to be printed is transferred to the printer unit 5 for label printing.
Is transferred to the printing position, and the label printing printer unit 5
According to the instruction from the controller 110, the optical disk 9
Print the label print information on the upper label. The optical disk 9 on which label printing has been completed is transported by the printer tray 6 to the position of the transport mechanism 8, and the transport mechanism 8
Stores the optical disk 9 in the collection stacker 4.

The controller 110 has a built-in rewritable memory, temporarily stores the print management information read from the optical disk 9 by the optical disk reader / writer 2 in the memory, and then stores the print management information into the information read by the optical disk reader / writer 2. Based on the information, the label printing information to be printed on the optical disk being read by the optical disk reader / writer is selected, and a printing instruction is given to the label printing printer unit 5. Thereby, the label printing printer unit 5
Under the control of the controller 110, the label print information can be automatically printed each time the label print management information is read from the optical disk.

Next, the processing operation of the above-described label printing will be described with reference to the flow shown in FIG.

(1) At the start of label printing, the controller 110 instructs the optical disk label printer 1 to perform printing (step 31).

(2) Upon receiving the print instruction, the optical disk label printer 1 executes the operation of the optical disk 9 as described above.
And first, the optical disk reader / writer 2 reads the label print management information in the transferred optical disk 9 (step 32).

(3) The optical disk reader / writer 2 confirms that reading of the label print management information has been completed, and transmits the label print management information to the controller 110 (steps 33 and 34).

(4) Upon receiving the label print management information, the controller 110 extracts the label print information from this information and sends it to the optical disk label printer 1 (steps 35 and 36).

(5) The label printing printer unit 5 of the optical disk label printer 1 which has received the label printing information.
Prints this information on a label on the optical disc 9,
The processing for one optical disk is completed (step 3
7, 38).

In the embodiment of the present invention, by repeatedly performing the above-described processing for each optical disk on which label printing is to be performed, printing of a large number of optical disk labels having the same print content, multi-product, small-volume For both types of printing, the printing process can be efficiently and automatically performed.

As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, both the recorded contents of the optical disk and the contents of the label to be printed on the optical disk are managed by the controller.
Since label printing is performed based on the recorded contents of the optical disk, the recorded contents of the optical disk and the printed contents of the label inevitably match, and there is no room for inconsistency. Therefore, the optical disc on which the label is printed according to the embodiment of the present invention is
The need for confirmation inspection work after printing is eliminated, and the amount of work required for label printing can be significantly reduced.

The optical disk on which a label can be automatically printed in accordance with the contents recorded by the present invention is not limited to a CD-ROM, but may be a DVD, MO, or the like.
And so on.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, inconsistency between the recorded contents of the optical disk and the contents printed on the label is reliably prevented, and the confirmation of the coincidence between the recorded contents of the optical disk and the contents printed on the label is confirmed. It is possible to provide an optical disk label printing apparatus capable of eliminating the work.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view illustrating the appearance of an optical disk label printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a top view illustrating the internal configuration of a label printing apparatus for an optical disk.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a printing processing operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 optical disk label printer 2 optical disk reader / writer 3 supply stacker 4 collection stacker 5 label printing printer unit 6 printer tray 7, 8 optical disk transfer mechanism 9 optical disk 100 housing 110 controller 120 tray unit 130 display 140 operation panel

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An optical disk label printing apparatus for printing label information on a label printing surface of an optical disk, a controller for controlling a printing operation, a reading mechanism for reading label print management information recorded on each optical disk, and a label. Printer unit that performs printing of the, the reading mechanism reads the label print management information recorded on each optical disc and transmits the read to the controller, the controller, the label print information based on the print management information, An optical disk label printing apparatus provided to the printer, wherein the printer prints label printing information from a controller on a label printing surface of the optical disk.