JP2008068571A - Optical disc duplicating apparatus, controlling method and controlling program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a printing quality of printing of a label face by setting an optimum printing condition even in the case of using various optical discs. <P>SOLUTION: In the optical disc duplicating apparatus 10 which performs duplication of an optical disc, a controlling unit 17 reads out from the optical disc 11 a manufacture ID as optical disc specification information which is information for specifying the optical disc such as a manufacturer and a kind of the optical disc, and carries out control to make label printers 14-1 to 14-2 print by reading out printing control information corresponding to the manufacture ID. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an optical disc duplicating device, a control method, and a control program, and more particularly, to an optical disc duplicating device, a control method, and a control program for duplicating data on a recording surface of an optical disc and printing on a label surface.

A business optical disc duplicating apparatus has a plurality of unrecorded optical discs (CD-R, DVD-R, etc.) prepared in advance, and each of these unrecorded optical discs is supplied to one or a plurality of information writing drives according to a user instruction. It is configured to insert and write digital data on the information recording surface of the unrecorded optical disc (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
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The optical disc for which the digital information writing process has been completed is taken out from the information writing drive and is once stocked in the stacker.
After that, the optical disk is taken out from the stacker and printed on the label surface of the optical disk by the printing apparatus.
As such a printing apparatus, an inkjet printer has been used in recent years because of the ease of handling of the apparatus and the high printing quality.
Incidentally, the characteristics of the label surface of a commercially available optical disc are greatly influenced by the manufacturer and the product type, and have a great influence on the print quality.

In general, an optical disc having a large amount of ink that can be held on the label surface (so-called ink imprintable amount) tends to have rich expressive power and high print quality. On the other hand, an optical disk with a small amount of ink that can be held on the label surface has a problem in that printing quality is greatly deteriorated such that the ink cannot be dried if the ink is applied too much and surface contamination occurs.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an optical disc duplicating apparatus, a control method, and a control program capable of setting optimum printing conditions and ensuring the printing quality of the label surface even when various optical discs are used. Is to provide.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in an optical disc duplicating apparatus for duplicating an optical disc, an optical disc specifying information that is information for specifying the optical disc is read out from the optical disc, and an optical disc based on print data A printing unit that prints on the label surface with ink, a printing control information storage unit that stores in advance a plurality of printing control information corresponding to the optical disc identification information, and any printing control information corresponding to the optical disc identification information A print control unit that reads from the control information storage unit and performs print control in the print unit based on the read print control information.

According to the above configuration, the print control information storage unit stores a plurality of print control information corresponding to the optical disc specifying information in advance.
The specific information reading unit reads optical disc specific information, which is information for specifying the manufacturer and type of optical disc from the optical disc, and notifies the print control unit.
Accordingly, the print control unit reads any print control information corresponding to the optical disc identification information from the print control information storage unit, and print data for performing print control in the print unit based on the read print control information. Based on the above, printing is performed with ink on the label surface of the optical disk by the printing unit.
As a result, the printing unit can perform optimum printing on the optical disc according to the optical disc identification information, and can perform high-quality label surface printing.

In this case, the print control information may be a look-up table for referring to the ink discharge amount corresponding to each print data.
According to this configuration, it is easy to refer to the ink discharge amount, and the processing can be simplified.
The look-up table may include a dedicated look-up table and a general-purpose look-up table that respectively correspond to the optical disc specifying information.
According to this configuration, when the optical disc identification information is known, high-quality printing can be performed by referring to the dedicated lookup table, and when the optical disc identification information is not recorded or is recorded. If it is not known, it is possible to perform printing with an appropriate quality by referring to the general-purpose lookup table.

Further, the print control information may be an ink amount per unit area, and may include a high image quality printing ink amount and a normal image quality printing ink amount respectively corresponding to the optical disc specifying information.
According to this configuration, when the optical disc identification information is known, high-quality printing can be performed by setting the ink amount for high-quality printing, and when the optical disc identification information is not recorded or recorded. However, if it is not known, it is possible to perform printing with an appropriate quality by setting the ink amount for normal image quality printing.

Further, in the control method of an optical disc duplicating apparatus that duplicates an optical disc in which optical disc specifying information that is information for specifying an optical disc is recorded, the optical disc duplicate device preliminarily prints print control information corresponding to the optical disc specifying information. A plurality of print control information storage units; a printing unit that performs printing on the label surface of the optical disc; a specific information reading process for reading the optical disc specific information from the optical disc; and any one of prints corresponding to the optical disc specific information Control information is read from the print control information storage unit, and the print unit is controlled based on the read print control information, and printed on the label surface of the optical disc by ink based on the print data. And a printing process It is a symptom.
According to the above configuration, the printing unit can perform optimum printing on the optical disc in accordance with the optical disc specifying information, and can perform high-quality label surface printing.

The optical disc includes: a print control information storage unit that stores in advance a plurality of print control information corresponding to optical disc specifying information that is information for specifying an optical disc; and a printing unit that performs printing on a label surface of the optical disc. In a control program for controlling, by a computer, an optical disc duplicating apparatus that duplicates an optical disc on which specific information is recorded, the optical disc specific information is read from the optical disc, and any of the optical disc specific information corresponding to the read optical disc specific information The print control information is read from the print control information storage unit, and the control unit is controlled based on the read print control information, and the label surface of the optical disc is controlled based on the print data. The printer is made to print with ink.
According to the above configuration, the printing unit can perform optimum printing on the optical disc in accordance with the optical disc specifying information, and can perform high-quality label surface printing.

Next, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an optical disc duplicating apparatus having a printing function on a label surface.
An optical disc duplicating apparatus 10 includes a first stacker 12 that stores a plurality of optical discs 11 to supply an unrecorded optical disc 11 and a plurality of optical disc drives that record recording data prepared in advance on the unrecorded optical disc 11. 13-1 to 13-3, a plurality of label printers 14-1 to 14-2 (printing unit) for printing on the label surface of the optical disc 11 after recording, and a second for storing the optical disc after recording and label printing. The stacker 15 includes a transport unit 16 for transporting the optical disk 11 to each unit, and a control unit 17 (printing control unit) that controls the entire optical disk duplicating apparatus 10.
The transport unit 16 includes a handling unit 16A that actually handles an optical disc, a rotating arm unit 16B that rotates the handling unit 16A, and a driving unit that drives the handling unit 16A and the rotating arm unit 16B in the vertical direction. 16C and a guide portion 16D for guiding the drive portion.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of the control unit.
The control unit 17 controls the optical disk drives 13-1 to 13-3, the label printers 14-1 to 14-2, and the transport unit 16, and a microprocessor unit (MPU) 21 that controls the entire control unit 17, A lookup table group including a ROM 22 that stores various control programs in advance, a RAM 23 that temporarily stores various programs and various data, and a plurality of dedicated lookup tables and general-purpose lookup tables that are associated with the manufacture IDs. Communication for performing communication between the EEPROM 24 that stores various data including 30 in a non-volatile manner, the optical disk drives 13-1 to 13-3, the label printers 14-1 to 14-2, and the transport unit 16 Interface unit 25 and hard disk An external storage device 26 that is configured by a drive or the like and has a large storage capacity, and a bus line 27 that connects the respective units to each other are provided.
The communication interface unit 25, the optical disk drives 13-1 to 13-3, the label printers 14-1 to 14-2, and the transport unit 16 are connected via a predetermined communication line (not shown). Furthermore, connection from the communication interface unit 25 to the PC 40 is also possible.

Here, the lookup table group stored in the EEPROM 24 will be described.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the lookup table group.
The lookup table group 30 is roughly divided into an address reference table 31 for referring to a storage address of a lookup table to be referred to based on the manufacturer ID, and a plurality (n) of actual lookup tables. The table storage unit 32 is provided.
The address reference table 31 associates the manufacturer ID with the storage address of each lookup table, and should be referenced when the manufacturer ID cannot be read or when an unregistered manufacturer ID is read. The storage address of the general-purpose lookup table is also associated.

More specifically, the address reference table 31 stores a dummy manufacture ID corresponding to the case where the manufacturer ID or the manufacturer ID cannot be read or the unregistered manufacturer ID is read. And a lookup table address section 34 in which a storage address of a lookup table corresponding to the manufacture ID or the dummy manufacture ID is stored.
The table storage unit 32 stores n-1 dedicated lookup tables LUT1 to LUTn-1 corresponding to the manufacturer ID and one general lookup table LUTn.

  The dedicated lookup tables LUT1 to LUTn-1 and the general-purpose lookup table LUTn have the same configuration, and each color (for example, black, yellow, magenta, cyan) according to the print color corresponding to the print data that is the input data Data (print control information) for controlling the amount of ink (including the size of ink droplets and the number of ink droplets) is stored.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.
FIG. 4 is a processing flowchart of the embodiment.
The control unit 17 of the optical disc duplicating apparatus 10 controls the transport unit 16 to transport the optical disc from the first stacker 12 to any one of the plurality of optical disc drives 13-1 to 12-3 and set it on a disc tray (not shown). (Step S1).
As a result, the control unit 17 irradiates the surface of the set optical disc with the laser beam when the optical disc drive with the optical disc 11 set on the disc tray, and determines whether or not the irradiated surface is a recording surface (step). S2).

If it is determined in step S2 that the irradiated surface is not a recording surface, that is, a label surface (step S2; No), the control unit 17 ejects (rejects) the optical disk as an error (step S13). Then, the operator is warned (notified) to that effect and the processing is terminated (step S14).
If it is determined in step S2 that the irradiated surface is a recording surface, the control unit 17 causes the specific information reading unit to read the manufacture ID (manufacturer ID) written in advance on the optical disc 11 (step S2). S3). Here, the specific information reading unit reads the optical disc specifying information, which is information for specifying the optical disc such as manufacturer and type, from the optical disc based on the instruction from the MPU 21. Realized.
Next, the control unit 17 refers to the manufacturer ID section 33 of the EEPROM 24 and the manufacturer ID read is a known manufacturer ID, that is, the manufacturer ID stored in the manufacturer ID section 33. It is discriminate | determined whether it is (step S4).

If it is determined in step S4 that the read manufacturer ID is not a known manufacturer ID (step S4; No), the control unit 17 does not have an ink amount lookup table dedicated to the optical disc. As a setting at the time of label surface printing so as to achieve normal image quality printing, a setting is made so as to refer to the general-purpose ink amount lookup table LUTn (step S12), and the process proceeds to step S6.
If it is determined in step S4 that the read manufacturer ID is a known manufacturer ID (step S4; Yes), the control unit 17 corresponds to one of the dedicated lookup tables LUT1 to LUTn-1. Settings are made to refer to the dedicated lookup table (step S5).

Next, the control unit 17 writes the set optical disk 11 based on the recording data stored in advance in the external storage device 26 (step S6).
Then, when the writing is completed, the control unit 17 ejects the optical disk after writing (step S7).
As a result, the control unit 17 controls the transport unit 16 to handle the written optical disk 11 and transport it to one of the label printers 14-1 to 14-2 serving as a printing unit, and a printer tray (not shown). (Step S8).
Next, the control unit 17 refers to the lookup table set in step S5 or step S12, and causes the printing unit to perform label printing (step S9).
When printing is completed, the control unit 17 ejects the optical disk 11 on which label printing has been completed from the label printers 14-1 to 14-2, controls the transport unit 16, and handles the optical disk on which label printing has been completed. The process is finished after being conveyed to the second stacker 15.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the optical disk to be printed is specified based on the manufacturer ID, and optimal print control is performed for the specified optical disk. For example, the quality of the label surface is very high. Even if there is no optical disc, the print quality can be maintained.
In the above description, the optical discs on which known manufacture IDs are recorded are configured to refer to the dedicated lookup tables corresponding to the optical discs, but whether or not high-quality printing is possible is determined. For optical discs that can be discriminated and printed with high quality, refer to the lookup table for high quality printing, and for optical discs that can only print with normal quality, see the lookup table for normal quality printing. It is also possible to perform printing.

In the above description, the case where the print control is performed using the look-up table has been described. However, the ink amount is set in multiple stages such as the high image quality ink amount and the normal image quality ink amount, and the manufacture ID is set. It is also possible to select one of these ink amounts based on the above. In this case, the ink amount is set to be large for an optical disc capable of high-quality printing, and the ink amount is set to be small for an optical disc capable of only normal image quality printing.
Although the description has been given assuming that the lookup table group is stored in the EEPROM 24, a configuration having the lookup table group in the PC 40 is also possible. In this configuration, a look-up table group is implemented in the form of a file in an application or driver on the PC side.

In the above description, only the manufacturer ID is given as an example of the optical disc specifying information. However, when the media type ID is set in addition to the manufacturer ID, the optical disc is also taken into consideration. It can also be configured to be specific.
In the above description, the ink jet printer method was not clearly described, but a printer of an arbitrary method such as a method of pushing out ink by vibration of a piezoelectric element or a method of heating ink and pushing out ink based on the volume change thereof. Is applicable.
In addition, the number of ink colors can be applied to any number of colors.

It is a schematic block diagram of the optical disk duplicate apparatus which has a printing function to a label surface. It is a general | schematic block diagram of a control unit. It is explanatory drawing of a lookup table group. It is a processing flowchart of an embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Optical disk duplicate apparatus, 11 ... Optical disk, 12 ... 1st stacker, 13 ... Optical disk drive, 14 ... Label printer, 15 ... 2nd stacker, 16 ... Conveyance unit, 16A ... Handling part, 16B ... Rotating arm part, 16C DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS ... Drive part, 16D ... Guide part, 17 ... Control unit, 22 ... ROM, 23 ... RAM, 24 ... EEPROM, 25 ... Communication interface part, 26 ... External storage device, 27 ... Bus line, 30 ... Look-up table group, 31 ... Address reference table, 32 ... Table storage section, 33 ... Manufacturer ID section, 34 ... Look-up table address section, LUT1-LUTn-1 ... Dedicated lookup table, LUTn ... General-purpose lookup table.

Claims (6)

In an optical disc duplicating apparatus that duplicates an optical disc,
A specific information reading unit for reading from the optical disc optical disc specifying information that is information for specifying the optical disc;
A printing unit that prints with ink on the label surface of the optical disk based on the printing data;
A print control information storage unit that stores a plurality of print control information corresponding to the optical disc specifying information in advance;
A print control unit that reads any print control information corresponding to the optical disc identification information from the print control information storage unit, and performs print control in the print unit based on the read print control information;
An optical disc duplicating apparatus comprising: The optical disk duplicating apparatus according to claim 1,
The optical disc duplicating apparatus, wherein the print control information is a look-up table for referring to an ink discharge amount corresponding to each print data. In the optical disc duplicating device according to claim 2,
The optical disk duplicating apparatus, wherein the lookup table includes a dedicated lookup table and a general-purpose lookup table respectively corresponding to the optical disk identification information. The optical disk duplicating apparatus according to claim 1,
The optical disc duplicating apparatus, wherein the print control information is an ink amount per unit area, and includes an ink amount for high image quality printing and an ink amount for normal image quality printing respectively corresponding to the optical disc specifying information. In a control method of an optical disc duplicating apparatus for duplicating an optical disc on which optical disc specifying information, which is information for specifying an optical disc, is recorded,
The optical disc duplicating apparatus includes a print control information storage unit that stores a plurality of print control information corresponding to the optical disc specifying information in advance, and a printing unit that performs printing on the label surface of the optical disc,
A specific information reading process of reading the optical disc specific information from the optical disc;
Any print control information corresponding to the optical disc specifying information is read from the print control information storage unit, and the optical disc is controlled based on print data while controlling the print unit based on the read print control information. A printing process in which printing is performed by the printing unit with ink on the label surface of
An optical disc duplicating apparatus control method comprising: An optical disc specifying information, comprising: a print control information storage unit that stores in advance a plurality of print control information corresponding to optical disc specifying information that is information for specifying an optical disc; and a printing unit that performs printing on a label surface of the optical disc. In a control program for controlling an optical disc duplicating apparatus for copying an optical disc on which is recorded by a computer,
Reading the optical disc specific information from the optical disc;
Any print control information corresponding to the read optical disc specifying information is read from the print control information storage unit,
Based on the read print control information, the printing unit is controlled, and the label surface of the optical disc is printed with ink based on the print data.
A control program characterized by that.

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