JP2004243710A - Business form - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a read error of an OCR from being caused by the see-through state of ink printed on the backside of a business form. <P>SOLUTION: When the business form is manufactured by using thermal paper wherein a thermal layer 13 is applied to the surface of a paper material 11, a shielding layer 15, whereon the printing is done in white ink alone, is formed on the backside of the paper material 11 by being limited to a place corresponding to the thermal layer 13, so as to prevent the see-through state of advertisement information 16 printed on the shielding layer 15. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a form suitable for use as a transfer sheet placed in, for example, a bank or a post office.
[0002]
[Prior art]
2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, for example, in a bank transfer business, automatic reading by an optical character reading device (hereinafter, referred to as OCR) has been performed in order to speed up business processing. Further, as the transfer paper, an OCR paper as in Patent Document 1 is used. The OCR sheet is printed with dropout color ink whose entry frame is unreadable by OCR, and reads only characters written by hand in the entry frame and characters printed by OCR ink.
[0003]
[Patent Document 1]
JP, 7-89261, A By the way, the user who produces the transfer paper often prints the advertisement information in a place other than the entry frame. Generally, such advertising information must be printed on the back side of the paper so as not to hinder reading by the OCR. Also, if the advertising information is transparent on the front side of the paper, this will overlap with the reading information on the front side and a reading error will occur, so the information printed on the back side should be printed with dropout color ink or light pale color ink. Limited.
[0004]
Under such circumstances, the transfer paper using the conventional OCR paper has a problem that the advertisement cannot be printed in a design and a color scheme desired by the user, and the degree of freedom in printing is greatly restricted. .
[0005]
Such a problem may occur not only in the above-described OCR paper but also in thermal paper. For example, transfer paper using thermal paper is used at post offices, and optical reading codes such as OCR characters are printed with the color of the thermal layer coated on the paper surface, and this code is read by OCR. And Even in such a case, the information printed on the back side of the paper is limited to printing with dropout color ink or light and pale color ink in order to avoid erroneous reading of the code due to see-through, and the degree of freedom in design and color arrangement is restricted. It will be.
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to improve the degree of freedom in the design and color arrangement of information printed on the back side of a form read by OCR. It is to provide a form that can be done.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to a form produced by using thermal paper having a thermal layer coated on the surface of a paper material, wherein a shielding layer is provided on the back surface of the paper material. The layer is characterized in that it has such a shielding property that the information printed later on the back surface of the paper material cannot be OCR-read from the front surface of the paper material.
[0008]
The present invention also relates to a form produced by using a sheet having an OCR reading section printed on a surface of a paper material with printing ink, wherein at least a lower layer of the OCR reading section on the front surface, the back surface, or the front and back surfaces of the paper material. A shielding layer is provided at a position located at a position where the information printed on the back surface of the paper material has such a shielding property that OCR cannot be read from the front surface of the paper material. Here, the paper is not limited to the dedicated OCR paper, but may be high quality paper or the like.
[0009]
Although various methods of forming the shielding layer are conceivable, for example, the shielding layer can be formed by solid printing of a printing ink.
[0010]
As such a printing ink, an ink containing a pigment selected from titanium oxide, zinc oxide, or zinc sulfide, a dropout color ink that cannot be read by OCR, and the like can be used.
[0011]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[0012]
First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an example in which the present invention is applied to transfer paper, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line II-II of the transfer paper.
[0013]
The transfer paper 10 of the present embodiment is a paper used for a transfer operation at a post office, and is an example of a form using thermal paper. The transfer paper 10 is provided with perforations 14 for vertically traversing the paper material 11 formed in a required shape, and divided into two forms, a payment handling slip 10-1 and a receipt 10-2, through the perforations 14. I have.
[0014]
An entry frame 12 is printed on the surface of a paper material 11 on each of the payment handling slip 10-1 and the receipt 10-2, and an entry column in the entry frame 12 is constituted by a thermal layer 13. The thermal layer 13 is formed by dispersing two components, an electron donor and an electron acceptor, as solid fine particles in a resin binder and coating the resin. It reacts with each other to develop color.
[0015]
At the post office, in the transfer business performed using the transfer paper 10, in order to speed up the paperwork, the items to be entered in the entry fields in the entry frame 12 are provided by an OCR reading unit which is automatically read by the OCR. ing. In the present embodiment, predetermined items such as the name of the transfer bank, the transfer amount, and the transfer destination are printed with an optical read code in which the thermal layer 13 is heated and colored.
[0016]
That is, the data for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is printed in the upper part of the OCR print column provided in the center part of the payment handling slip 10-1, and the data for the subscriber is printed in the lower part in OCR characters 13-1. Also, predetermined data is printed in a payee address and name field by a barcode 13-2 so that payment at a convenience store or the like besides the post office is possible.
[0017]
In this embodiment, when reading a predetermined item thermally recorded in the entry frame 12 on the front surface of the paper material 11 by OCR, the advertisement information 16 to be printed later on the back surface of the paper material 11 overlaps the predetermined item and is read by misreading. The feature is that a shielding layer 15 for shielding the transparency of the advertisement information 16 is provided so that no error occurs.
[0018]
The shielding layer 15 only needs to have such a shielding property that at least the advertising information 16 cannot be read from the surface of the paper material 11 by OCR, and the advertising information 16 is post-printed on the shielding layer 15. Although various methods of forming the shielding layer 15 are conceivable, for example, the shielding layer 15 can be formed by solid printing of a printing ink. In the present embodiment, solid white ink is printed on the back surface side of the paper material 11 only at locations corresponding to the thermal layer 13 applied to the front surface of the paper material 11.
[0019]
The white ink to be used is preferably a printing ink containing a pigment selected from titanium oxide, zinc oxide or zinc sulfide. The reason is that pigments such as titanium oxide have high shielding properties, and if the background shielding layer is white, there is no restriction on the design or color arrangement of the ink to be subsequently printed on it, and the degree of freedom in printing is high. Is to be greatly expanded.
[0020]
Further, when applied to thermal paper as in the present embodiment, the shielding layer 15 needs to be provided on the back side of the paper material 11. This is because the thermal layer 13 serving as an OCR reading unit is provided on the front side of the paper material 11 to prevent the shielding layer 15 from interfering with the thermal layer 13. That is, if the shielding layer 15 is provided on the same surface as the thermal layer 13, for example, the coloring of the thermal layer 13 is hidden by the shielding layer 15 and thermal printing cannot be performed. In addition, depending on the matching between the thermal paper and the ink of the shielding layer 15, it is expected that the ink of the shielding layer 15 will cause the paper to yellow and the appearance of the paper will deteriorate, and these disadvantages will be corrected. In order to prevent this, the shielding layer 15 is provided on the back side of the paper 11.
[0021]
Further, as the printing ink for forming the shielding layer 15, instead of the white ink as described above, for example, a dropout color ink such as red, orange, and blue is used as a printing ink of a color that is not read by the OCR. Is also possible.
[0022]
Also in this case, in order to avoid interference with the thermal layer 13, the shielding layer 15 made of a dropout color ink is applied to the back side of the paper material 11. The print density of the dropout color ink is controlled to a predetermined value by measuring the PCS value with an OCR tester, and the advertisement information 16 printed on the shielding layer 15 is printed with ink of a color other than the dropout color. Is done.
[0023]
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an example in which the present invention is applied to transfer paper, and FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line IV-IV of the transfer paper.
[0024]
The transfer paper 20 of the present embodiment is a paper used for a bank transfer business, and is an example of a form using OCR paper. The transfer paper 20 is provided with an entry frame 22 on the surface of a paper material 21 formed into a required shape. The entry frame 22 is offset-printed with a dropout color ink such as red, orange, blue or the like so as to be visible but not read by the OCR.
[0025]
At the bank, in order to speed up paperwork in the transfer business performed using the transfer form 20, items to be entered in the entry fields in the entry frame 22 are provided by an OCR reading unit which is automatically read by the OCR. ing. In the present embodiment, predetermined items such as a bank name of a transfer destination, a transfer amount, and a payee name are printed, and these predetermined items are printed with a printing ink 23 readable by an OCR.
[0026]
Also in the present embodiment, predetermined items printed with the printing ink 23 in the entry frame 22 on the surface of the paper 21 are read by the OCR. At this time, a shielding layer 25 for shielding the advertisement information 26 is provided so that the advertisement information 26 to be printed later on the back surface of the paper material 21 does not overlap with a predetermined item and a reading error due to erroneous reading does not occur. Have been. In the present embodiment, the shielding layer 25 is provided on the lower surface side of the paper 21 so as to be limited to a portion located below the OCR reading section, that is, within the range of the entry frame 22. The printing ink used to form the shielding layer 25 is the same as in the first embodiment, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.
[0027]
Further, when the present invention is applied to OCR paper as in the present embodiment, a configuration as shown in FIG. 5 or FIG.
[0028]
The transfer paper 20-1 shown in FIG. 5 is characterized in that the shielding layer 25 is provided on the front side of the paper material 21. In the case of the OCR paper, unlike the thermal paper, the surface side of the paper material 21 is not affected by the heat of the thermal head, and there is no danger of stain due to ink adhesion and yellowing of the ink. Therefore, the shielding layer 25 made of white ink or dropout color ink can be formed on the surface of the paper 21. In the transfer paper 20-1, the entry frame 22 and the printing ink 23 of the dropout color ink are printed on the shielding layer 25, and the advertisement information 26 is printed directly on the back surface of the paper 21.
[0029]
The transfer paper 20-2 shown in FIG. 6 is characterized in that a first shielding layer 25-1 and a second shielding layer 25-2 are provided on the front side and the back side of the paper material 21, respectively. In the transfer sheet 20-2, the entry frame 22 and the printing ink 23 of the dropout color ink are printed on the first shielding layer 25-1, and the advertisement information 26 is provided on the second surface provided on the back surface of the paper 21. Is post-printed on the shielding layer 25-2.
[0030]
Thus, even when applied to OCR paper, the shielding layer 25 (25-1, 25-2) having a shielding property prevents the advertisement information 26 printed on the back surface of the paper material 21 from being transparent. The OCR reading of the printing ink 23 is not affected. Therefore, the printing of the advertisement information 16 can be freely performed without being restricted by the ink to be printed later on the back surface of the paper 21.
[0031]
In each of the above-described embodiments, the location where the shielding layer is formed is limited from the viewpoint of manufacturing cost reduction. However, the shielding layer may be applied to the entire back surface. In this case, the advertisement printed on the shielding layer is used. There is an advantage that a wide printing space for information can be secured. Further, the present invention is particularly effective when applied to a form made using a thin and easily transparent paper material.
[0032]
【The invention's effect】
As described in detail above, according to the form according to the present invention, when applied to thermal paper or OCR paper, the shielding layer having a shielding property prevents the ink printed on the back side of the paper material from being transparent, and the paper There is no problem in automatically reading the thermal layer or printing ink printed on the material surface by OCR. Therefore, the information printed later on the back surface of the paper material has an effect that the degree of freedom in printing is greatly expanded without being restricted by the design and color arrangement.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an example in which the present invention is applied to transfer paper at a post office.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line II-II shown in FIG.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example in which the present invention is applied to bank transfer paper.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing another configuration example of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing another configuration example of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
10 Transfer paper (thermal paper)
10-1 Payment handling slip 10-2 Receipt 11 Paper material 12 Entry frame 13 Thermal layer 13-1 OCR character 13-2 Bar code 14 Perforation 15 Shielding layer 16 Advertising information 20, 20, -1, 20-2 Transfer paper (OCR paper)
21 Paper Material 22 Entry Frame 23 Printing Ink 25 Shielding Layer 25-1 First Shielding Layer 25-2 Second Shielding Layer 26 Advertising Information

Claims (5)

A form produced using thermal paper having a thermal layer coated on the surface of a paper material, wherein a shielding layer is provided on the back surface of the paper material, and this shielding layer is information to be printed later on the back surface of the paper material. Is provided with such a shielding property that OCR cannot be read from the surface of the paper material. A form produced using paper having an OCR reading section printed on a surface of a paper material with a printing ink, and shielding at least a portion of the front or back surface of the paper material located at a lower layer below the OCR reading section. A form provided with a layer, wherein the shielding layer has such a shielding property that information printed later on the back surface of the paper material cannot be read by OCR from the front surface of the paper material. The form according to claim 1, wherein the shielding layer is formed by solid printing of a printing ink. The form according to claim 3, wherein the printing ink is an ink containing a pigment selected from titanium oxide, zinc oxide, or zinc sulfide. The form according to claim 3, wherein the printing ink is a dropout color ink that cannot be read by OCR.

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