JP2006327618A - Bagging apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To construct a mechanism for inserting a photographic paper ejected out of a print unit into a bag material in a streamlined configuration. <P>SOLUTION: A bag material X is set at a position to which a photographic paper P is ejected from an ejecting section of the print unit. After the photographic paper P has been put into a storage space Xa of the bag material X, a bagging apparatus C that delivers the bag material X to a transfer belt 13 is attached removably to the print unit, and a bagging controller 36 of the bagging apparatus C is connected to a controller of the print unit via connectors 36A, 11A. The bagging controller 36 carries out bagging operation based on a control signal from the print controller. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a bag filling device for storing a print medium sent out from a discharge unit after a print process in a print unit in a bag material.

  There exists what is described in patent document 1 as a bagging apparatus comprised as mentioned above. That is, in this patent document 1, a sorting bag is set for a plurality of trays of a sorting mechanism, and print media discharged from the conveyor of the printing unit is stored in the sorting bag in units of orders.

JP 2002-23279 (paragraph number [0022], FIG. 3)

  Taking a photo printing device installed at a DP store as an example, when a photo print order is received from a customer, a plurality of ordered images are printed on a photographic paper, and a plurality of printed papers are printed. Collectively, it is housed in DP bags and delivered to customers.

  Ideally, the photographic paper after printing is pasted on the album by the customer, and the album is stored with necessary messages such as the shooting location and the shooting date. In many cases, photographic paper after printing is inserted and stored in a transparent accommodating portion of a small album called a pocket album or the like.

  However, glossy paper, which is often used for photographic paper, tends to have fingerprints remaining when the finger touches the print surface. In addition, when appreciating the photographic paper after printing, the finger often touches the printed surface of the photographic paper, and the fingerprint remains on the surface, which may damage the image. In particular, even when inserted into a pocket album, fingerprints are likely to remain on the surface, and there is room for improvement.

  In order to eliminate this inconvenience, it may be possible to use gloves when handling photographic paper, but it is cumbersome and time-consuming.

  An object of the present invention is to make the surface of photographic paper after printing difficult to be stained and easy to handle.

A feature of the present invention is a bag filling device for storing a print medium sent out from a discharge unit after a print process in a print unit in a bag material.
The bag material is formed into a bag shape having at least a transparent surface side and an open end,
A bagging unit that performs a supply operation for supplying the bag material to a position near the discharge unit and a reception operation for receiving the print medium in a storage space for the bag material every time the print medium is discharged from the discharge unit. And a control means for controlling the bagging unit,
The control means is to execute the supply operation and the reception operation based on a control signal from the print unit.

  With this configuration, the bag filling unit supplies the bag material to the discharge unit of the print unit, and when the print medium after printing is discharged from the discharge unit, the print medium is stored in the storage space for the bag material. The control means of the bagging unit performs a supply operation for supplying the print medium to a position near the discharge portion based on a control signal from the print unit, and a reception operation for receiving the print medium in the bag material accommodating space. The bagging operation can be performed in synchronization with the operation of the print unit. That is, by mounting the bag filling device on the print unit, the print medium can be accommodated in the bag material whose front side is transparent. As a result, an apparatus has been constructed that makes it difficult to soil the surface of photographic paper after printing and makes it easier to handle.

  In the present invention, the print unit includes a sorter for collecting print media sent from the discharge unit in units of orders, and the control unit receives the print media after receiving operation in the bagging unit. A transfer operation for transferring the bag material to the sorter may be performed.

  With this configuration, the bag material containing the print medium is delivered to the sorter by the control of the control means, and the plurality of bag materials can be sorted by order using the sorter provided in the printing system. It becomes possible.

  In the present invention, the discharge unit is configured to send the print medium horizontally in a horizontal posture, and the bagging unit sets a bag material at a position where the print medium is sent from the discharge unit. An opening mechanism that opens the opening side of the bag material by supplying air to the opening side may be provided.

  With this configuration, the opening mechanism supplies air to the opening side of the bag material to open the opening side, so that the print medium from the discharge unit of the print unit can be smoothly accommodated in the bag material.

  In the present invention, the bag filling unit may include a belt-like feed conveyor that sucks the bag material to the bottom surface side by negative pressure and supplies the bag material to a position near the discharge portion.

  With this configuration, after storing the print medium in the bag material adsorbed by the negative pressure on the bottom surface side of the belt-shaped feed conveyor, the bag material containing the print medium is released by its own weight by releasing the adsorption by the negative pressure. It can be sent out.

  According to the present invention, the bagging unit includes a heat welding portion that forms a pair of long sheet materials and forms the housing space by heat welding, and a cutting that separates the housing space after welding at the heat welding portion. May be provided.

  With this configuration, the size of the accommodation space can be made to correspond to the size of the print medium by setting the welding position of the sheet material, and a plurality of types of bag materials can be used without providing a plurality of types of bag materials corresponding to the print size. The print medium can be stored in the bag material.

  In the present invention, the bag filling unit may include a bag material supply unit that supplies a strip of bag material to a position near the discharge unit.

  With this configuration, the print medium can be accommodated in a strip-shaped bag material having a preset size.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[Overall Configuration] As shown in FIG. 1, an operating unit that converts a frame image of a developed photographic film F into a digital signal, processes the digital image data, and performs basic control of the entire system. A photo that is called a digital minilab by being provided with a print unit B that is provided with A, and is subjected to exposure processing and development processing on a silver salt type photographic printing paper P as a print medium, and after being dried. A printing apparatus is configured.

[Operating Unit] The operating unit A includes a film scanner 2 that converts a frame image of the photographic film F into a digital signal by photoelectric conversion and captures it as image data with respect to the console 1, a display 3 that displays various information, image processing, An image processing apparatus 4 composed of a general-purpose computer that performs various processes necessary for printing is arranged. On the upper surface of the console 1, a keyboard 5 for inputting information to the image processing device 4 and a mouse 6 functioning as a pointing device are provided.

  Each of the image processing apparatuses 4 acquires image data from a disk-type medium such as a CD, MO, or FD, or obtains image data from a semiconductor-type medium (not shown). The media drive 7 corresponding to the structure is provided. The image processing apparatus 4 includes an interface for realizing various processes by operating the keyboard 5 and the mouse 6 according to the display on the display 3. Further, the image processing apparatus 4 displays the image data captured by the film scanner 2 or the media drive 7 on the display 3 and transmits necessary processing information such as correction processing to the print unit B. Software for realizing print processing in the print unit B is installed.

  The film scanner 2 has a light source section having a light emitting diode, a halogen lamp, etc. in the lower part, a zoom lens in the middle part, and frame images from the zoom lens in the upper part as R (red) and G (green). , B (blue), a line CCD type photoelectric conversion unit that separates and captures the three primary colors. In this film scanner 2, when scanning the photographic film F, the film carrier 2A suitable for the size of the photographic film F is mounted on the upper surface of the light source unit, and scanning is started, whereby the photographic film F is moved in the sub-scanning direction. In synchronism with the operation of conveying in the longitudinal direction, the photoelectric conversion unit performs processing to capture the frame image of the photographic film F as a digital signal along the main scanning direction, and the captured image data is stored in the image processing apparatus. Transferred to 4 and saved.

[Print Unit] As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the print unit B includes an exposure block Ex, a development block De, and a drying block Dr housed in a dark box-shaped housing 10. A print controller 11 for controlling the conveyance of the photographic paper P in each of the exposure block Ex, the development block De, and the drying block Dr and a necessary control are provided inside.

  Outside the casing 10 is provided with a conveyor belt 13 that feeds the photographic paper P that is fed horizontally in the horizontal posture from the discharge section 12 at the top of the casing 10 after processing. A sorter 14 having a plurality of trays 14A is provided for sorting and collecting the photographic paper P to be sorted in order units.

  As shown in the figure, the print unit B is detachably provided with a bagging device C for storing the photographic paper P discharged from the discharge unit 12 in a transparent bag material X (see FIG. 6). This bagging device C is supplied as an option of the printing unit B. When the printing paper P is attached to the printing unit B, the printing paper P discharged from the discharge unit 12 is accommodated in the bag material X, and then the conveyance belt 13 is loaded. The bag material X delivered to the upper surface and delivered to the conveyor belt 13 is sent to the sorter 14, and a process of sorting by order on the tray 14A of the sorter 14 is also realized.

  In the exposure block Ex, two photographic paper magazines M are arranged in the lower part and an exposure head H is arranged in the upper position. In this exposure block Ex, the roll-shaped color photographic paper P stored in one of the photographic paper magazines M, M is pulled out by the pressure-advanced advance roller 16, cut into a print size by the cutter unit 17, and the cut prints. Information such as color correction information is printed on the back side of the paper P by the print head 18, and thereafter, the printing paper P is nipped and conveyed by the chuck unit 19 and sent to the exposure path.

  In the exposure path, the photographic paper P from the chuck unit 19 is received by the receiving roller 20, and the photographic paper P is pressed by a pair of driving rollers 21 and a pair of driven rollers 22 corresponding to the photographic paper P. Transport in the sub-scanning direction). When the photographic paper P reaches the exposure position by this conveyance, exposure is performed in the horizontal direction (main scanning direction) with the laser beam from the exposure head H.

  Then, the photographic printing paper P that has been exposed is converted into a horizontal direction in the front conveyance path including the plurality of pressure rollers 23. After that, the relatively small size of the photographic paper P conveyed in the horizontal direction is distributed to the two rows of distribution paths by the two chuckers 24, and the large size of the photographic paper P is sent to the single row of paths. Further, it is transferred from the rear conveying path provided with a plurality of pressure rollers 25 to the pressure-introducing type introduction roller 26 of the developing block De.

  The development block De includes a development processing tank 27 in which a plurality of processing tanks including a color developing tank, a bleach-fixing tank, and a stabilization tank are integrally formed with a resin, and transports the photographic paper P to each of the development processing tanks. A mechanism 28 is provided, and the photographic printing paper P supplied from the exposure block Ex is transported by the transport mechanism 28 to the development processing tank 27 to perform development processing. The drying block Dr dries the photographic paper P sent out from the developing block De with dry air from the blower 29 and discharges it from the discharge unit 12. A discharge roller 12 </ b> A that discharges the photographic paper by pressure is provided at the end position on the discharge side of the discharge unit 12.

[Bag filling device] As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the bag filling device C includes a sheet material supply unit 32, a sheet material conveyance unit 33, and a heat welding unit 34 in a case 31 that is open at the bottom. , A cutting unit 35, a bag filling unit 40, a bag filling controller 36 as a control means, and a notification panel 37 on the outer wall of the case 31.

  The bag filling device C includes a connecting member 38 having a plate shape or an angle shape, and is connected to the print unit B via the connecting member 38 by a clamp or a bolt. Further, the bag filling device C can be separated from the print unit B by releasing the connection by operation of a clamp, a bolt or the like.

  The sheet material supply unit 32 rotatably supports a sheet roll on which two types of transparent long resin sheet materials S are wound, and the sheet material conveyance unit 33 is a resin sheet from the sheet material supply unit 32. A plurality of rollers 33R arranged along the conveyance path so as to convey the material S in an overlapping manner, and a conveyance motor 33M for driving the set roller 33R among the plurality of rollers 33R are provided.

  The thermal welding section 34 includes a sealer 34S that forms the resin sheet material S conveyed along the conveyance path into a bag shape having a storage space for the photographic paper P by thermal welding. The cutting part 35 includes a cutter 35C formed of a pair of blades for cutting the resin sheet material S after heat welding and cutting the bag material X, and a cutter motor 35M for driving the cutter 35C. The notification panel 37 includes an operation lamp 37A indicating an operating state and a stop lamp 37B indicating an inoperable state. The operating lamp 37A is a light emitting diode such as blue or green, and the stop lamp 37B is a red light emitting diode.

  As shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, the bagging unit 40 includes a belt-shaped and air-permeable material that is wound around a pair of pulleys 41, a feed motor 41 </ b> M that drives the pulleys 41, and a feed A negative pressure chamber 43 for applying a negative pressure to the bottom surface side of the conveyor 42, a suction fan 44 for discharging air inside the negative pressure chamber 43, and an air supply for introducing air from the negative pressure chamber 43 to the suction fan 44 A control valve 45 disposed in the path, a guide body 46 for opening the opening Xb of the bag material X, an opening mechanism 47 for opening the opening Xb of the bag material X by blowing air, and a print discharged from the discharge unit 12 And a plurality of non-contact type presence / absence sensors 48 for detecting the paper P.

  The opening mechanism 47 has a structure for guiding the air from the blower fan 47A to the nozzle 47C through the tube 47B. In the print unit B, depending on the operation mode of the chucker 24, the photographic paper P is selected from any one of three discharge positions, that is, a central position in the width direction of the discharge section 12 and a sorting position that is a target position across the central position. Therefore, the presence / absence sensor 48 is also arranged at three positions corresponding to the three locations.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the bag filling controller 36 includes a connector 36 </ b> A and a control cable 36 </ b> B that receive a control signal from the print unit B and electric power, and inputs signals from the plurality of presence / absence sensors 48. In addition to a signal system, a control system for controlling the conveyance motor 33M, sealer 34S, cutter motor 35M, feed motor 41M, suction fan 44, control valve 45, blower fan 47A, operation lamp 37A, and stop lamp 37B is provided. Yes.

  Although not shown in the drawing, the bag filling controller 36 includes a microprocessor that executes processing according to a set program, an input interface that acquires the control signal, an output interface that outputs the control signal, and the electric power to the motor. It has a driver etc.

  The print controller 11 of the print unit B sends control information about the exposure posture of the photographic paper in the print unit B, the size of the photographic paper P, the transport position of the photographic paper P, and the power to the connector 11A via the control cable 11B. A control system is provided.

  The print controller 11 transmits the control information from the connector 11A to the controller 36A of the bag filling controller 36. Thereby, the bag filling controller 36 grasps the size, the discharge posture, the discharge position, and the discharge timing of the photographic paper P discharged from the discharge unit 12.

  The sealer 34S includes a plurality of welding heads (not shown) along the width direction of the resin sheet material S, and includes a control circuit that controls each of the welding heads independently. By simultaneously driving, the resin sheet material S is welded along the width direction. Further, the welding point is formed along the longitudinal direction of the resin sheet material S by driving one of the plurality of welding heads in synchronization with the conveyance of the resin sheet material S.

[Structure of Bag Material] A bag material X shown in FIG. 6 is obtained by welding a transparent resin sheet material S on the front side and a transparent resin sheet material S on the back side at a welding position W shown in FIG. A housing space Xa for housing P is formed, and an opening Xb is formed on one end side. As the bag member X, a sheet material that is translucent on the back surface side or a sheet material having a different thickness may be used. Further, by setting a predetermined distance Xd from the end of the resin sheet material S on the opening Xb side of the bag material X to the end of the welding position W in the width direction, the overlapping position on the opening Xb side The distance between the resin sheet materials S is increased to facilitate the introduction of the photographic paper P into the accommodation space Xa.

  As the resin sheet material S, a thermoplastic material such as polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyvinyl chloride is used. When forming the bag material X from the resin sheet material S, The transparent resin sheet material S and the transparent resin sheet material S to be the back surface are overlapped, and the sealer 34S is welded at the welding position W set in advance in synchronization with the transport of the resin sheet material S. The bag material X having the above structure is produced.

  Further, in the bag filling device C of the present invention, instead of the bag material X having the above-described structure, as shown in FIG. 7, a structure having a through hole Xc may be used. In order to use the bag material X, a punch for forming the through hole Xc is provided, and a step of forming the through hole Xc by punching when the bag material X is formed is required. What you did is fine.

  In addition, when the bag material X in which the through-hole Xc is formed as shown in FIG. 7 is used, an album is easily created by overlapping and binding a plurality of bag materials X using the through-hole Xc. Can also be done easily.

[Bag-packing operation] When the bag-packing device C of the present invention is set in the print unit B and print processing is executed, the bag-packing device C performs an operation according to the sequence shown in FIG. Bagging is performed in which the photographic paper P is fed into the storage space Xa for the material X.

  That is, the bag filling controller 36 confirms the communication state with the print controller 11 through the communication path having the connectors 11A and 36A, and proceeds to the next process when communication is normally performed. If normal communication cannot be confirmed, the stop lamp 37B is blinked (it may be lit continuously) to notify that the operation is impossible and the process is terminated (steps # 01 to # 03). ).

  When the communication is normally performed, the bag filling controller 36 obtains the order data and notifies the operational state by turning on the operation lamp 37A (step # 04). In this step, when the bag filling controller 36 acquires the order data, the size of the photographic paper P discharged from the discharge unit 12 and the discharge posture (the posture determined from the relationship between the discharge direction and the length of the photographic paper P) and , The discharge position (the three positions based on the operation mode of the chucker 24) and the discharge timing are grasped.

  After grasping the data necessary for the operation in this way, an operation sequence is set, and the sealer 34S is operated according to the operation sequence, so that the bag material X corresponding to the print size and the discharge posture from the resin sheet material S is obtained. , Cut by the cutter 35C, transported in a state of being attracted by the negative pressure on the feed conveyor 42, and is set to the receiving position on the bottom side of the feed conveyor 42 (steps # 05 to # 07).

  When the bag material X is set in the receiving position in this way, the guide body 46 comes into contact with the opening Xb of the bag material X to forcibly open the opening Xb and at the same time air from the nozzle 47C. To open and expand the accommodation space Xa.

  When the photographic paper P is discharged from the discharge unit 12 in this state, the feeding force of the photographic paper P is used, that is, as shown in FIG. 5A, the discharging force by the discharging roller 12A is used. The receiving operation of feeding into the storage space Xa of the bag material X is performed. Further, the discharge timing is detected by the presence / absence sensor 48. Based on this detection, the control valve 45 is controlled to cancel the negative pressure action, and as shown in FIG. A delivery operation for dropping the bag material X in which P is inserted onto the transport belt 13 is performed (steps # 08 and # 09).

  In this bagging device C, as the receiving operation, the dynamic inertia when the photographic paper P is sent out by the driving force of the discharge roller 12A of the discharge unit 12 is used, but the photographic paper P sent out from the discharge unit 12 is bagged. You may provide the drive roller and chucker which make the moving force to the direction inserted in the material X act.

  The operation according to this operation sequence is continuously performed until the order is completed. If there is a next order after the order is completed, the process from step # 04 is performed again, and the next order is performed. If no order exists, the process is terminated (steps # 10 and # 11).

  During the bagging operation, the transport belt 13 of the print unit B is continuously operated, and when the bag material X is received from the bagging device C, it is sent to the tray 14A of the sorter 14. And it accumulates in the form which sorts into different tray 14A for every order.

  As described above, the bagging apparatus C according to the present invention can be attached to the print unit B without any structural change such as special modification of the discharge portion 12 of the print unit B. . Then, by attaching the bag filling device C to the print unit B and connecting the connector 11A on the print unit side and the connector 36A on the bag filling device side, the bag filling device C receives a control signal and power from the print unit B. Then, a bag material X corresponding to the print size for each order is created, the bag material X is made to stand by at the discharge position of the photographic paper P, and the photographic paper P from the discharge unit 12 is received in the bag material X. Then, the process of delivering to the conveyor belt 13 and accumulating in the state in which the sorter 14 sorts by order is realized.

  Further, since the bag filling device C creates the bag material X corresponding to the print size from the long resin sheet material S, there is no need to prepare a plurality of types of bag materials X corresponding to the print size. It has an effective aspect of eliminating waste. Furthermore, since the photographic paper P is accommodated in the bag material X, the inconvenience of soiling the surface of the photographic paper P is avoided to facilitate removal.

[Another embodiment]
In addition to the above-described embodiment, the present invention may be configured as follows (in this another embodiment, components having the same functions as those in the above-described embodiment are given the same numbers and symbols as in the embodiment). is doing).

(A) As shown in FIG. 9, a bagging apparatus C may be configured. This bagging device C is a bag material storage unit 51 for storing strip-shaped bag material X in which an accommodation space corresponding to the print size is formed in advance, and the bag material X is sent out from the bag material storage unit 51 one by one. The bag material supply unit 52 and the bag material X sent from the bag material supply unit 52 are set at a receiving position in the vicinity of the discharge unit 12 to receive the photographic paper P from the discharge unit 12. And a bagging controller 53 as a control means for controlling them, and a presence / absence sensor 54 for detecting the presence / absence of the photographic paper P on the discharge side of the photographic paper P.

  In this other embodiment, the bag material X may be prepared by thermally welding a resin sheet, or a paper material and a resin may be bonded to each other. Further, the bag material X has a through hole Xc formed in the side portion of the accommodation space Xa, and a positioning rod 55 inserted into the through hole Xc is provided at a position where the bag material X receiving the photographic paper P is delivered. I have.

  The photographic paper insertion unit 60 includes a plate-shaped guide 61 that guides the photographic paper P delivered from the discharge unit 12 to the storage space Xa of the bag material X, an actuator (not shown) that switches the posture of the guide 61, and A roller 62 that conveys the photographic paper P along the guide 61 and an electric motor (not shown) that drives the roller 62 are provided.

  The bagging controller 53 includes a microprocessor that executes processing according to a set program, an input interface that acquires the control signal, an output interface that outputs the control signal, a driver that supplies the power to the motors, and the like. And a control system for controlling the bag material supply unit 52 and the photographic paper insertion unit 60, and a connector 53A and a control cable 53B for receiving a control signal from the print controller 11 of the print unit B and power. .

  Then, before the photographic paper P is discharged from the discharge unit 12, the bag filling controller 53 operates the bag material supply unit 52 to set the bag material X in the photographic paper insertion unit 60, and the discharge unit 12. When the presence / absence sensor 54 detects that the photographic paper P has been discharged from the paper, the conveying force accompanying the rotation of the roller 62 is applied to the photographic paper P, and at the same time, the photographic paper P is moved along the guide 61 to the bag The receiving operation of feeding into the storage space Xa is performed. Further, after the discharge timing is detected by the presence / absence sensor 54 and the acceptance of the photographic paper P is grasped based on the detection, the holding of the bag material X in the photographic paper insertion unit 60 is released and dropped. Thus, the bag material X is sent out downward and accumulated in such a form that the positioning rod 55 is inserted into the through hole Xc of the bag material X.

(B) As shown in FIG. 10, a continuous material in which a plurality of accommodation spaces Xa are formed on a long material is used as the bag material X. When the bag material X having this structure is used, the bag filling device C includes a supply system having a structure for supplying the long bag material X to a position in the vicinity of the discharge unit 12 of the print unit B. Thus, when the bag material X having this structure is used, the bag material X can be handled in the same manner as an album by folding as shown in FIG.

(C) In the above embodiment, the operation mode is set so that the bagging device C is operated to perform bagging in accordance with the operation of the printing unit B. For example, an operation signal in the bagging device C is set as the print unit B. The print form may be set so that the operation form of the print unit B is changed in consideration of the operation speed of the bagging apparatus C, such as by slightly increasing the print interval in the exposure block Ex.

  The print unit may include a sublimation type or ink jet type print head, and the bagging device may be configured to receive control information from the print unit wirelessly.

Perspective view of photo printing device Vertical section of print unit Perspective view showing structure of bag filling device Block circuit diagram showing the control system of the bagging device Diagram showing details of bagging operation Diagram showing the structure of the bag material Diagram showing bag material with different structure Flow chart of bagging operation The perspective view which shows the structure of the bagging apparatus of another embodiment (a). The perspective view which shows the structure of the bag material of another embodiment (b).

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 12 Discharge part 14 Sorter 34 Thermal welding part 35 Cutting part 36 Control means: Bag filling controller 40 Bag filling unit 42 Feed conveyor 47 Opening mechanism 52 Bag material supply part A Print unit P Print medium: Printing paper X Bag material Xa Storage space

Claims (6)

A bagging device for storing in a bag material a print medium sent from a discharge unit after a print process in a print unit;
The bag material is formed into a bag shape having at least a transparent surface side and an open end,
A bagging unit that performs a supply operation for supplying the bag material to a position near the discharge unit and a reception operation for receiving the print medium in a storage space for the bag material every time the print medium is discharged from the discharge unit. And a control means for controlling the bagging unit,
The control means is a bagging device that performs the supply operation and the reception operation based on a control signal from the print unit.   The print unit includes a sorter that accumulates print media sent from the discharge unit in units of orders, and the control means is configured to receive the bag material that has received the print media after the receiving operation in the bagging unit. The bagging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a delivery operation for delivering to the sorter is performed.   The discharge unit has a structure in which the print medium is sent out in a horizontal direction in a horizontal posture, and the bagging unit sets a bag material at a position where the print medium is sent out from the discharge unit, and air is placed on the opening side of the bag material. The bagging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an opening mechanism that opens the opening side of the bag material by supplying the bag.   The said bagging unit is provided with the belt-shaped feed conveyor which adsorb | sucks the said bag material to the bottom face side with a negative pressure, and supplies it to the vicinity position of the said discharge part. Bagging equipment.   The bagging unit includes a heat welding part that overlaps a pair of long sheet materials and forms the accommodation space by thermal welding, and a cutting part that separates the accommodation space after welding at the thermal welding part. The bagging apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4.   The bagging device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the bagging unit includes a bag material supply unit that supplies a strip-shaped bag material to a position near the discharge unit.

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