JP2002234666A - Automatic selection collating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic selection collating device capable of collating a document and selected printed paper for sales promotion automatically without relying on manual work to increase work efficiency and preventing an error in collation when collating the document in which personal information of a receiver who is a consumer is displayed and the printing paper for, for example, sales promotion. SOLUTION: This automatic selection collating device is provided with a document supply part for supplying the document in which personal information of the receiver and codes specifying the printing papers to be collated and readable by a machine are displayed, a conveyance part for conveying the document supplied from the document supply part in the predetermined direction, a plurality of printing paper supply parts for supplying the printing paper to the document conveyed by the conveyance part, a code reader for reading the codes readable by the machine of the document, and a microcomputer having a control means for selecting the printing paper to be supplied to the conveyance part from among a plurality of printing paper supply parts based on the codes read by the code reader.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a form in which personal information of a recipient who is a consumer is displayed, and a printing paper for sales promotion such as a product catalog or a pamphlet, which is collated and enclosed. In this case, the present invention relates to an automatic selection collating apparatus which can arbitrarily select a desired printing paper for sales promotion and collate automatically.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, together with a form displaying personal information of a recipient who is a consumer, a printing paper for sales promotion such as a product catalog or a pamphlet according to the needs of the recipient is arbitrarily selected. By enclosing them, effective sales activities corresponding to individual consumers are performed. Then, when producing an envelope that encloses these forms and arbitrarily selected printing paper for sales promotion, etc., manually print the printing paper for sales promotion etc. selected according to each recipient's needs. It is often done by collating.

However, when the number of envelopes to be produced is large, it is troublesome to manually collate printed paper for sales promotion or the like selected according to the needs of each recipient. The work efficiency is poor, and there is a risk that a mistake may be made when selecting and collating printing paper according to each recipient.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for collating a form on which personal information of a recipient, a consumer, is displayed with a printing paper for sales promotion such as a product catalog or a pamphlet. Providing an automatic selection collating device that can automatically collate forms and selected printing papers for sales promotion etc. without using manual work to increase work efficiency and prevent mistakes in collation Is what you do.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An automatic selection collating apparatus according to the present invention includes a form supply unit for supplying a form on which personal information of a recipient and a machine readable code for specifying a print sheet to be collated are displayed. A transport unit that transports the form supplied from the form supply unit in a predetermined direction, a plurality of print paper supply units that supply print paper to the form being transported by the transport unit, and machine reading of the form A code reader for reading a possible code, and a microcomputer having a control unit for selecting a printing paper to be supplied to a transport unit from the plurality of printing paper supply units based on the code read by the code reader. It is characterized by the following.

[0006] The machine readable code is a bar code or an OCR character.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the configuration of an embodiment of the automatic selection / collation apparatus of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the automatic selection / collation apparatus of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an embodiment of a form on which a machine-readable code used in the present invention is displayed. FIG. 4 is another plan on which a machine-readable code used in the present invention is displayed. FIG. 5 is a plan view showing an embodiment, FIG. 5 is a plan view of an envelope used to seal a collated form and a printed material used in the present invention, and FIG. is there.

As shown in FIG. 1, an automatic selection collating apparatus 1 according to the present invention has a form 3 in which information for each recipient is described.
A transport conveyor 2 is provided as a transport unit that transports the printing paper 4 and the printing papers 5, 6, and 7 in the A1 direction in the figure. Forms 3 and 4 in which information for each recipient is described include, for example, an order form, a transfer notice, and a payment statement.
Printing papers 5, 6, and 7 include those used for sales promotion such as product catalogs and brochures according to the needs of the recipient, but are not limited thereto, and have various purposes depending on the application. And printing paper used for the above.

In order to supply the form to the conveyor 2, a first form supply unit 8 and a second form supply unit 9 as form supply units are provided above the conveyor 2 from the right side in the figure. A first printing paper supply unit 10 as a printing paper supply unit for supplying printing paper for sales promotion such as a product catalog or a pamphlet to the conveyor 2;
A second printing paper supply unit 11 and a third printing paper supply unit 12 are provided side by side. Further, the first form supply unit 8 includes a code reader 13 for reading a machine-readable code displayed and recorded on the form 3.

The first and second form supply units 8 and 9 are provided with a unit for cutting even a continuous form into unit forms and supplying the same to the conveyor 2 even if the form is a continuous form. Cutting means (not shown) is provided inside.

Further, the automatic selection collating apparatus 1 includes a reversing device 14 as a reversing unit for reversing a plurality of collated documents and printing papers conveyed by the conveyor 2.
And an enclosing and sealing section 16 for enclosing and enclosing the plurality of forms and printing papers passed through the inside-out device 14 in an envelope 15.
And a stacking unit 17 for stacking the envelopes that have been subjected to the enclosing / sealing process.

Further, an operation section 18 as a control section and a microcomputer 19 are disposed on the opposite side of the form supply section via the conveyor 2. The operation unit 18
The microcomputer 19 is a computer operated by an operator, and is a computer that controls the operation of the automatic selection / collation apparatus 1.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the automatic selection / collation apparatus 1 of FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, a first form supply unit 8, a second form supply unit 9 as a form supply unit, and a first print paper supply unit 1 as a print paper supply unit
0, second printing paper supply unit 11, third printing paper supply unit 12
The flip-over device 14, the code reader 13, the transport conveyor 2, the enclosing / sealing unit 16, the operation unit 7, and the customer database 23 are electrically connected to the microcomputer 19. It is controlled by the control means 20 of the computer 19.

Therefore, based on the machine-readable code read from the form by the code reader 13 of the form supply unit 8 by the control means 20 of the microcomputer 19, the first printing paper supply unit 10 and the second printing Paper supply unit 1
First, an instruction signal as to whether or not to supply the printing paper to the conveyor 2 is transmitted from each of the feeding units to the third printing paper supply unit 12. That is, the code reader 13 of the form supply unit 8
Automatically selects which printing paper supply unit to enclose the printing paper based on the machine-readable code read from the form, such as a product catalog or pamphlet that meets the needs of each recipient. Printing paper for sales promotion etc. can be sent.

The form 3 supplied from the first form supply unit 8 is a form on which a machine readable code is displayed. In FIG. 3, a bar code 21 is displayed as the machine readable code. FIG. 4 shows an example of the form 3a in the case where the code is readable.
An example of the form 3b when the OCR character 22 is displayed is shown.

Even if only the code for selecting and supplying the printing paper to the transport conveyor 2 from the plurality of printing paper supply units is displayed on the machine-readable code displayed on the form, each of the recipients may be displayed. An ID number specified and determined for use in each information management and a code for selecting and supplying a printing paper may be written together. For example, an example in which a machine-readable code composed of OCR characters is used will be described.
If the digits are used as a management ID number and the printing paper supply information for a printing paper supply unit provided with five 6 to 10 digits,
By presetting “0” as no printing paper supply and “1” as printing paper supply, each of the first, third, and fourth printing paper supply units from above the conveyor 2 The printing paper from the printing paper supply unit is supplied to the conveyor 2 at any time, and is collated with the form. In this way, the operation of the plurality of printing paper supply units can be controlled by the machine-readable code.

Form 3 supplied from first form supply unit 8
In a and 3b, in addition to the address and name of the recipient, desired messages are printed by a printer as necessary, and a machine-readable code such as a bar code 21 or an OCR character 22 is also provided for each recipient. Arbitrarily determined and displayed by printer.

The selection of which printing paper should be enclosed with each recipient may be made by inputting information from the operation unit 18 or by purchasing a product registered in the customer database 23 or the like in advance. Based on the customer information such as the history, a printing paper for sales promotion such as a product catalog or a pamphlet to be sent to each recipient is selected, and a barcode 21 or an OCR character 22 is supplied so that the selected printing paper is supplied. A machine-readable code such as the above may be displayed on a form for each recipient by a printer.

FIG. 5 shows an envelope in a state where each form and each printing paper are collated and then sealed and sealed.
For 5, it is preferable to use a window-opening envelope, and it is possible to send the address or name of the recipient printed on the form from the window so as to be visible from the outside. Further, the envelope 15 is not limited to the window-opening envelope, but may be a film envelope or a film pillow package.

Next, the processing procedure of the automatic selection and collation apparatus 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. For example, the form 3 of the guide book is set in the first form supply unit 8, and the form 4 of the account transfer book on which personal information such as the name of the recipient is printed in advance is set in the second form supply unit 9. In addition, each of the first printing paper supply unit 10, the second printing paper supply unit 11, and the third printing paper supply unit 12,
It is assumed that printing papers 5, 6, and 7 of different catalogs for mail order are set.

When the operation unit 18 is turned on, the conveyance of the conveyor 2 is started.
A machine readable code such as a bar code 21 or an OCR character 22 displayed on the form 3 of the guide book is read by the code reader 13 (S1). Then, the first form supply unit 8 sends the form 3 to the transport conveyor 2.
Is supplied, and the form 4 is supplied from the second form supply unit 9 to the conveyor 2 (S2).

The code information read by the code reader 13 is transmitted to the control means 20 of the microcomputer 19. Then, when the form is conveyed from the control means 20 to each of the printing paper supply units requiring collation by the conveyor 2, the printing paper is supplied from the respective printing paper supply units and collated at any time. An instruction signal is sent to
The printing paper is sent from each printing paper supply unit selected based on this signal to the conveyor 2 and collated (S3).

Next, the form and the printing paper collated by the enclosing and sealing section 16 are put in an envelope and sealed (S4). Then, the sealed envelope is accumulated in the accumulation section (S
5). As described above, the printing paper to be sent to each recipient can be selected, collated, and sent out by enclosing and sealing.

The automatic selection / collation apparatus of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be variously modified without departing from the gist of the present invention. In the above-described embodiment, an example in which two form supply units and three print paper supply units are provided has been described. However, the form supply unit and the print paper supply unit may have a desired number if necessary. May be provided. In the embodiment, the form is a continuous folding form, but a cut form that has already been cut may be used.

[0025]

As described above, the automatic selection collating apparatus according to the present invention can be used to print a form on which personal information of a recipient who is a consumer is displayed and a sales promotion such as a product catalog or a pamphlet. When collating paper, it is possible to automatically collate the form with the selected printing paper for sales promotion, etc., without manual work. In addition, there is an effect that collation errors do not occur. Further, the machine-readable code may be replaced with a commonly used barcode or OC.
By using the R character, this code can be used in combination with other information processing, which is convenient.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration of an embodiment of an automatic selection / collation apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the automatic selection / collation apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing one embodiment of a form on which a machine-readable code used in the present invention is displayed.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing another embodiment of a form on which a machine-readable code used in the present invention is displayed.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of an envelope used for the present invention, which seals a collated form and a printed material.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the automatic selection / collation apparatus of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic selection collating apparatus 2 Conveyor 3,4 Form 5,6,7 Printed paper 8 1st form supply section 9 2nd form supply section 10 1st print paper supply section 11 2nd print paper supply section 12 Third Printing Paper Supply Unit 13 Code Reader 14 Turnover Device 15 Envelope 16 Enclosure Sealing Unit 17 Stacking Unit 18 Operation Unit 19 Microcomputer 20 Control Means 21 Bar Code 22 OCR Character 23 Customer Database

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A form supply unit for supplying a form on which personal information of a recipient and a machine readable code for specifying a print sheet to be collated are displayed, and a form supplied from the form supply unit to a predetermined form. A transport unit that transports paper in a direction, a plurality of printing paper supply units that supply printing paper to the form being transported by the transport unit, a code reader that reads a machine-readable code of the form, and a code reader that reads the code. An automatic selection collating apparatus comprising: a microcomputer having control means for selecting a print sheet to be supplied to a transport section from the plurality of print sheet supply sections based on the obtained code. 2. The automatic selection collating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said machine-readable code is a barcode or an OCR character.