JP2007045590A - Printed matter carrying method and its device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printed matter carrying method using one carrying device for carrying individual printed matters to positions where they can be appropriately and accurately aligned to a printing device even when the printed matters of various kinds have thicknesses and widths different in double or more, and to provide its carrying device. <P>SOLUTION: The printed matter carrying method is provided for handling printing information in coordination with the carriage of the individual printed matters. Herein, shape information for the printed matters as information to be coordinated with the carriage is handled in addition to the printing information and the set thickness and the set width of the printed matters in the carrying device are changed in accordance with the shape information. The carrying device is also provided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to individual printed materials when printing is performed by various methods such as offset, inkjet, transfer, letterpress on various printed materials such as cards, passports and other securities, security devices used for authentication media, etc. In particular, the present invention relates to a transport method and a transport apparatus for printing at a fixed position, and is particularly suitable when the shapes or print positions of individual prints, print information, and the like are different.

  Conventionally, in a substrate transport device, a substrate with a different shape such as size and thickness has been flowed to the printing line. Even so, it could be used by moving the shaft due to the deformation of the roller or the spring effect of the roller shaft.

  Also, in the width direction, the center or width could be adjusted by pressing from the side if it was a little.

  Incidentally, when a substrate is conveyed using such a conveyance device, it does not relate to any information about the substrate, and only print information for performing printing in this case is directly transferred from the print settings to the printing device. The printing apparatus is printed at a position positioned by the conveying apparatus based on the print information.

Patent documents are as follows.
JP 2000-118845 A JP-A-11-1047

  However, when the types of printed materials are various and the thickness and width are double or more, the conventional method cannot cope. In other words, it is necessary to prepare various apparatuses corresponding to the substrate to be printed, which is similar to a certain degree in a form close to that of a dedicated machine.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to convey a printing material to an accurate position with one printing apparatus.

  According to the present invention, in order to solve the problem, according to a first aspect of the present invention, in a method for conveying a printing material in which printing information is handled in association with the conveyance of each printing material, the printing material is added to the printing information as information associated with the conveyance. The shape information is also handled in association with each other, and the set thickness and set width of the print material in the transport device are changed based on the shape information.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the method for conveying a printed material according to the first aspect, the set thickness of the printed material is determined by adjusting a central axis interval of the feed roller or adjusting a height of the gate. It is a conveyance method.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the method for conveying a printed material according to the first aspect, the set width of the printed material is changed by adjusting a guide interval. In this case, each of the substrates having a conveyance function for conveying the substrate to the printing mechanism, an information receiving function for receiving the shape information together with the print information, a thickness setting function for the substrate in the conveyance device, and a width setting function for the substrate in the conveyance device. In a transport device for printed materials that handles print information in association with the transport of printed materials, the thickness and width of the printed material thickness setting function in the transport device and the set width and width of the printed material in the transport device are controlled by the transport state control. It is a conveying apparatus for a printed material, which is set based on information.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the apparatus for conveying a printed material according to the second aspect, the conveying function includes a function of feeding while being sandwiched by two rollers, and a function of adjusting the center axis of the roller and a function of adjusting the guide interval And a function of adjusting the center axis distance of the roller and the function of adjusting the guide distance are controlled by shape information.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the apparatus for conveying a printed material according to the second aspect, the feeding function has a function of feeding the roller while rubbing the lower part of the printed material. A method for transporting a substrate having a gate adjustment function and a guide interval adjustment function, and further comprising a gate adjustment function and a guide interval adjustment function controlled by shape information.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the apparatus for conveying a printed material according to the second aspect, the conveying function includes a function of picking up the printed material and sending it by nail conveyance, and the printed material when a plurality of printed materials are sent. A method for conveying a substrate, comprising a gate adjustment function and a guide interval adjustment function, wherein the gate adjustment function and the guide interval adjustment function are controlled by shape information.

  Even if the types of printed materials are diverse and the thickness and width are double or more, it is possible to provide each printed material to the printing device at a position where accurate alignment can be performed as needed. It became possible to realize.

  This will be described below using typical embodiments of the present invention. 1 to 3 show a transport apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 1 is a perspective view thereof, FIG. 2 is a sectional view in the front direction, and FIG. 3 is a plan view of the transport apparatus.

  An upper feed roll 2 and a lower feed roll 3 are provided in the central portion and rotate in different directions. The gap between the rolls can be adjusted, and either one or both of the shafts can be moved up and down (not shown). The interval in this case is set to be narrower than the thickness based on the set thickness in the shape information of the substrate to be described later. It is then conveyed to a printing apparatus (not shown).

Further, width adjustment guides 4 and 5 are provided on the left and right sides, and the distance between the width adjustment guides 4 and 5 is movable in the width direction. Further, the width adjusting guides 4 and 5 are spread at the entrance portion, and the width adjusting guide 4 is automatically supplied while being fed by the upper feed roll 2 and the lower feed roll 3 even if the loading position is shifted in the width direction. It is a mechanism that moves between five.
The interval in this case is set as appropriate based on a set width in the shape information of the substrate to be described later.

  Next, the control of the gap between the upper feed roll 2 and the lower feed roll 3 and the spacing between the width adjusting guides 4 and 5 will be described below using the data flow applied to the substrate of FIG.

  Information flowing from the print settings does not go directly to the print control device, but passes through the transport mechanism. Note that the information flowing from the print settings may be sent directly to the print control apparatus or sent to the transport mechanism at the same time. The information flowing at this time includes not only print information but also shape information. The shape information includes at least the thickness and width of the substrate. If necessary, it may include length information in the feeding direction and other information such as a bookbinding method.

  Thickness information is taken out from this shape information, and based on the thickness information, the thickness setting function of the conveying device, that is, the gap between the upper feed roll 2 and the lower feed roll 3 is adjusted. Alternatively, for example, adjustment is performed by moving the axis of the upper feed roll 2 up and down.

  Similarly, the width information is extracted from the shape information, and the width setting function of the transfer device, that is, the interval between the width adjusting guides 4 and 5 is adjusted based on the width information. The positions of both width adjusting guides 4 and 5 are adjusted by half and adjusted while maintaining symmetry.

  As a result, both of them were conveyed to the printing apparatus in a state where both of them were mixed and the center positions were matched.

  Further, simultaneously with such conveyance, print information is sent to the printing apparatus, and individual printing such as an inkjet printer is appropriately performed.

  This type of conveyance is performed sequentially for each individual substrate, and the thickness and width are set for each substrate, and by carrying it, all the substrates can be appropriately provided to the printing device. is there. Of course, it is also possible to sequentially carry in the flow process method in which the conveyance of the next substrate is started before the conveyance of the previous substrate is completely completed.

  A specific apparatus will be described below with an example of adjusting the gate only in the vertical direction. FIG. 5 shows an apparatus for carrying the present invention by a conveyance roller 13, which is fixed by a weight 12 mounted thereon. When this passes through the gate 16, the gate 17 moves up and down by the gate up-and-down mechanism 17 to a height considering the height of the weight 12.

  FIG. 6 shows an example using the nail transport device 14, and FIG. 7 shows an example using the suction transport 15.

  The present invention relates to a technical field in which printing is performed by various methods such as offset, inkjet, transfer, letterpress, etc., on a transfer object such as a security device used for securities such as cards and passports, and an authentication medium.

It is a perspective view of the conveying apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is sectional drawing of the front direction of the conveying apparatus of FIG. It is a top view of the conveying apparatus of FIG. FIG. 3 is a data flow relating to a printing material in the case of conveyance using the conveyance device of FIG. 1. FIG. It is a sectional side view of a gate adjustment mechanism. FIG. 6 is a side sectional view of a gate adjustment mechanism different from FIG. 5. FIG. 7 is a side sectional view of a gate adjustment mechanism different from those in FIGS. 5 and 6.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Substrate 2 Upper feed roll 3 Lower feed roll 4 Width alignment guide 5 Width alignment guide 11 Substrate 12 Weight 13 Transport roller 14 Claw transport device 15 Adsorption transport device 16 Gate 17 Gate up / down mechanism

Claims (7)

  In the method of conveying a printed material in which individual substrates are conveyed and printed based on the print information, in addition to the print information as information associated with the conveyance, the shape information of the printed material is also associated and handled based on the shape information. A method for conveying a printing material, comprising: changing a set thickness of the printing material in a conveyance device. Or / and changing the set width.   2. The method for conveying a substrate according to claim 1, wherein the set thickness of the substrate is adjusted by adjusting a center axis distance of the feed roller, or by adjusting a height of a gate through which the substrate passes. 2. The method for conveying a printing material according to claim 1, wherein the setting width is changed by adjusting a guide interval. Printed material in which printing information is handled in association with the conveyance of individual printed materials having a conveyance function for conveying the printed material to the printing mechanism, an information receiving function for receiving shape information together with printing information, and a thickness setting function for the printed material in the conveyance device In this transport apparatus, the set thickness and transport state control of the substrate in the transport apparatus are set based on the shape information.
Or / and
Printed material in which print information is handled in association with the conveyance of individual printed materials having a transport function for transporting the printed material to the printing mechanism, an information receiving function for receiving shape information together with print information, and a width setting function for the printed material in the transport device In this transport apparatus, the set width of the width setting function of the print medium in the transport apparatus is set based on the shape information in the transport state control. 3. The apparatus for conveying a substrate according to claim 2, wherein the conveyance function is a function of feeding while being sandwiched between two rollers and rotating, has a function of adjusting the center axis interval of the roller, and the function of adjusting the center axis interval of the roller is shape information. A method for conveying a substrate to be printed, characterized in that it is controlled by the above.
Or / and
3. The apparatus for conveying a printed material according to claim 2, wherein the conveyance function includes a function of feeding while being sandwiched by two rollers and having a function of adjusting the guide interval, and the function of adjusting the guide interval is controlled by shape information. A method for transporting a substrate to be printed. 3. The apparatus for conveying a printed material according to claim 2, wherein the conveying function includes a function of feeding the roller while rubbing the lower part of the printed material, and a gate adjusting function for dividing the printed material into one when a plurality of printed materials are fed. And a gate adjustment function is controlled by shape information.
Or / and
3. The substrate transport apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transport function includes a function that the roller feeds while rubbing the lower part of the substrate, has a guide interval adjustment function, and the guide interval adjustment function is controlled by shape information. A method for transporting a substrate to be printed. 3. The substrate transport apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transport function has a function of picking up the substrate to be fed and moving it by nail transport, and when a plurality of substrates are fed, a gate for dividing the substrate into one A method for transporting a substrate, comprising: an adjustment function; and further, a gate adjustment function is controlled by shape information.
3. The substrate transport apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transport function includes a function of picking and feeding the substrate by nail transport, and has a guide interval adjustment function, and the guide interval adjustment function is controlled by shape information. A method for conveying a substrate to be printed.

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