JP2008103025A - Optical disk duplicate device, its control method and control program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain the printed quality high on a label surface in an optical disk duplicate device which records information on a disk type recording medium. <P>SOLUTION: A control unit 10 controlling the optical disk duplicate device which records information on a disk type recording medium whether or not it is needed to refine the base of the printable area on the disk type recording medium. When deciding necessary, it makes the label printer refine the base, then makes it print images based on the print data in the printable area. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an optical disc duplicate device for recording information on a disc type recording medium, a control method for the optical disc duplicate device, and a control program.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a disk-type recording medium such as a CD (Compact Disc) or a DVD, an ink absorber that absorbs printing ink is attached to a label surface to enable printing on the label surface. Also, using such a disk type recording medium, the disk type recording medium is respectively inserted into one or a plurality of information writing drives in accordance with a user instruction, and digital data is written on the recording surface of the disk type recording medium. An optical disc duplicating apparatus that prints an image on a printable area formed on a label surface is known (for example, see Patent Document 1). In recent years, an inkjet printer is used as an apparatus for printing an image in an optical disc duplicating apparatus because of the ease of handling of the apparatus and the high printing quality.
JP 2000-260172 A

  Generally, the printable area of a disk-type recording medium is formed by providing an ink receiving layer on a synthetic resin substrate such as polycarbonate. This ink receiving layer is composed of various materials, and has various characteristics, and there is a great difference between manufacturers of disk type recording media. For this reason, depending on the type of commercially available disc-type recording medium, the color after printing may appear different, and there is a problem that good print quality cannot always be obtained. In order to perform high-quality printing on the label surface, it was necessary to select and use a high-quality disc-type recording medium.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to make it possible to maintain good print quality on a label surface in an optical disc duplicating apparatus that records information on a disc type recording medium.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a printing unit that prints an image in a printable area provided in a disc type recording medium based on printing data in an optical disc duplicating apparatus that records information on the disc type recording medium. Prior to printing by the printing unit, a ground processing unit for performing ground processing for adjusting a printing ground in the printable area, and whether or not ground processing is necessary in the printable area, and determining that ground processing is necessary. An optical disc duplicating apparatus, comprising: a control unit that causes the base processing unit to perform base processing in the case of the above.
According to the present invention, when information is recorded on a disk type recording medium by an optical disk duplicating apparatus and an image is printed on a printable area provided on the disk type recording medium, the disk type recording medium is created and duplicated. In addition, since the background processing is performed on the printable area of the disk type recording medium, good print quality can always be obtained regardless of the characteristics of the original printable area. In addition, since it is determined whether or not background processing is necessary and the background processing is performed only when necessary, the processing can be performed efficiently without reducing the throughput.

In the present invention, the disc specifying information for specifying the type of the disc type recording medium, the storage unit for storing the information indicating whether or not the background processing by the background processing unit is necessary, and the disc type recording medium, And a specific information reading unit for reading the disc specific information when disc specific information for specifying the type of the disc type recording medium is recorded in advance, and the control unit reads the disc specific information by the specific information reading unit. It may be configured to determine whether or not background processing is necessary in the printable area based on the information stored in the storage unit in association with the disc identification information.
In this case, since the necessity of the background processing is determined according to the type of the disk type recording medium based on the disc identification information recorded on the disk type recording medium, the necessity of the background processing can be determined appropriately and easily. . In other words, if the type of the disc type recording medium that can obtain sufficient print quality without performing the background processing is stored in advance that the background processing is not required in association with the disc specific information, the required disk type It is possible to realize control such that the ground processing is performed only on the recording medium. As a result, according to the type or characteristics of the printable area of the disk type recording medium, it is possible to appropriately perform the base processing only when necessary, and to realize good print quality efficiently.

In the above configuration, the control unit may determine that the background processing in the printable area is necessary when the specific information reading unit cannot read the disc specific information from the disc type recording medium. .
In this case, when the disc type recording medium in which the disc specifying information is not recorded, that is, the type of the disc type recording medium cannot be specified, the substrate processing is performed to surely realize a good print quality.

Further, in the above configuration, the control unit performs ground processing in the printable area when the disk specific information read from the disk type recording medium by the specific information reading unit is not stored in the storage unit. It may be determined that it is necessary.
In this case, since the base processing is applied to the disc type recording medium on which the unknown disc specifying information is recorded, it can easily cope with an unknown type disc type recording medium, and can surely realize good print quality.

The present invention also relates to a method for controlling an optical disc duplicating apparatus for recording information on a disc type recording medium, wherein the disc specifying information recorded in advance on the disc type recording medium is read, and based on the read disc specifying information. Determining whether or not background processing is necessary in the printable area provided in the disc type recording medium, and executing the background processing when it is determined that the background processing is necessary, and performing image processing on the printable area based on print data. Is provided, and a method for controlling an optical disc duplicating apparatus is provided.
According to this control method, the information is recorded on the disc type recording medium by the optical disc duplicating device, and the image is printed on the printable area provided in the disc type recording medium, thereby creating and duplicating the disc type recording medium. In this case, since the background processing is performed on the printable area of the disk type recording medium based on the disc identification information recorded in advance on the disk type recording medium, the background processing is performed on the printable area of the disk type recording medium. Regardless of the characteristics, good print quality can always be obtained. Also, based on the disc identification information recorded on the disc type recording medium, it is possible to accurately determine whether or not the background processing is necessary, and to perform the background processing only when necessary. Can handle well.

The present invention also provides a control program for controlling an optical disc duplicating apparatus for recording information on a disc type recording medium by a computer, wherein the disc specific information pre-recorded on the disc type recording medium is read and read. Based on the disc identification information, it is determined whether or not background processing is necessary in the printable area provided on the disc type recording medium. If it is determined that the background processing is necessary, the background processing is executed. A control program for printing an image in the printable area is provided.
According to the program of the present invention, information is recorded on a disc type recording medium by an optical disc duplicating device, and an image is printed on a printable area provided on the disc type recording medium, so that the disc type recording medium is created and duplicated. When it is performed, it is determined whether or not the background processing is necessary based on the disc specific information recorded in advance on the disk type recording medium, and the background processing is performed on the printable area of the disk type recording medium, so that the original printing is possible. Regardless of the characteristics of the region, it is possible to always obtain good print quality. Also, based on the disc identification information recorded on the disc type recording medium, it is possible to accurately determine whether or not the background processing is necessary, and to perform the background processing only when necessary. Can handle well.

  According to the present invention, the printable area of the disk-type recording medium is subjected to the ground treatment when necessary, so that a good print quality can be obtained constantly and efficiently regardless of the characteristics of the printable area.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an optical disc duplicating apparatus 1 according to an embodiment to which the present invention is applied.
The optical disc duplicating apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1 records data on an optical disc 11 as a disc type recording medium and prints an image in a printable area provided on the optical disc 11. Then, the optical disc duplicating apparatus 1 forms a print base in a printable area of the optical disc 11 as necessary, and then performs printing, thereby realizing always good print quality regardless of the type of the optical disc 11 or the like. To do.

The optical disk 11 is an optical recording medium capable of additionally recording and reading data using laser light or the like, and specific examples include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD ± R, DVD ± RW, DVD- It is an optical disk called a RAM or a next-generation DVD. These optical recording media use one or a plurality of substrates made of synthetic resin such as polycarbonate, on which a recording layer made of an organic dye, a reflective layer made of a metal thin film, or the like is laminated, for example, It is formed in a disk shape with a diameter of 120 mm (millimeter).
One disk surface of the optical disk 11 is a recording surface for recording data by laser light, and the other disk surface is a label surface, and a printable area 11A (FIG. 2) capable of receiving ink is formed on the label surface. Has been. The printable area 11A on the label surface is formed by applying a receiving material that receives ink in the range excluding the center hole 11B and the clamp area 11C of the optical disk 11, or a receiving layer that receives ink. The provided sheet is pasted. Note that in the optical disk 11 in which the clamp area 11C is not formed, the printable area 11A may be provided in a portion other than the center hole 11B. The receiving layer is configured using, for example, an ink swelling type component mainly composed of a polymer or a gap absorption type component mainly composed of an inorganic pigment. Specific examples of the material include resin components such as a copolymer of a fatty acid vinyl ester and a cationic monomer, particles such as silica particles and pigments, and silica colloid.

The optical disc duplicating apparatus 1 includes a plurality of optical disc drives 12 that record data by irradiating a recording surface of the optical disc 11 with a laser, and a plurality of label printers 2 that print images on the optical disc 11. Here, the image includes characters and images.
The optical disk duplicating apparatus 1 is loaded on the first stacker 13 on which a plurality of unused optical disks 11 are loaded, on the second stacker 14 on which the optical disks 11 that have undergone data recording and printing are loaded, and on the first stacker 13. A transport unit 15 is provided for transporting the optical disk 11 to the optical disk drive 12 and the label printer 2 and transporting the optical disk 11 on which data has been recorded and printed to the second stacker 14.

  The transport unit 15 includes a handling unit 15A that grips the clamp area 11C (FIG. 2) of the optical disc 11, an arm 15B that supports the handling unit 15A, and a drive unit 15C that drives the arm 15B. The drive unit 15C moves the arm 15B up and down along the rod-shaped guide 15D and rotates it around the guide 15D, thereby causing the optical disk 11 to move to the first stacker 13, the optical disk drive 12, the label printer 2, and It is conveyed between the second stackers 14.

  Data such as an image to be printed on the optical disk 11 by the label printer 2 is transmitted to the control unit 10 from the personal computer 16 (FIG. 6) externally connected to the optical disk duplicating apparatus 1, and is transmitted to the label printer 2 from the control unit 10. .

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing the configuration of the label printer 2. 2 and the subsequent drawings indicate the scanning direction of a carriage 30 (FIG. 3), which will be described later, and Y indicates the transport direction of the disc tray 20.
As shown in FIG. 2, a front opening 22 into which the optical disk 11 is inserted is formed in the main body 21 of the label printer 2, and a disk tray 20 is attached to the front opening 22. The disc tray 20 is formed with a recess 20A into which the optical disc 11 is fitted. With the optical disc 11 set in the recess 20A, the disc tray 20 is conveyed into the main body 21 and printing on the optical disc 11 is performed.
A switch 23 for turning on / off the power of the label printer 2 is disposed on the upper surface of the main body 21. Further, an opening panel 24 covering the front opening 22 is disposed on the front surface of the main body 21 so as to be openable and closable.

  As described above, one disk surface of the optical disk 11 is a recording surface, and the other disk surface is a label surface, and is set on the disk tray 20 so that the label surface faces upward. At this time, the printable area 11 </ b> A formed on the label surface of the optical disk 11 is exposed on the upper surface side of the disk tray 20.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing the configuration of the label printer 2.
As shown in FIG. 3, a plurality of legs 25 that support the main body 21 in contact with the installation surface are provided on the bottom surface of the main body 21 of the label printer 2.
In FIG. 3, the conveyance path W along which the disc tray 20 inserted from the front opening 22 is conveyed inside the main body 21 is indicated by phantom lines. The transport path W extends substantially linearly from the front side to the back side of the main body 21, and the first transport unit 41 and the second transport unit 45 are disposed along the transport path W. The first transport unit 41 is positioned on the front opening 22 side of the label printer 2, and the second transport unit 45 is positioned on the back side of the label printer 2 and grips and transports the disc tray 20.

  The first transport unit 41 is adjacent to the transport drive roller 42 positioned below the transport path W, the transport driven roller 43 positioned above the transport path W so as to face the transport drive roller 42, and the transport driven roller 43. And a conveyance follower auxiliary roller 44 arranged in this manner. The conveyance driven roller 43 and the conveyance driven auxiliary roller 44 are urged toward the conveyance driving roller 42 by a roller holder (not shown). For this reason, in the first transport unit 41, the disc tray 20 on the transport path W is sandwiched between the transport drive roller 42, the transport driven roller 43, and the transport driven auxiliary roller 44. The conveyance drive roller 42 is connected to a conveyance motor 40 (FIG. 5) described later via a gear (not shown) and a drive belt (not shown), and is driven by the conveyance motor 40. The conveyance driven roller 43 and the conveyance driven auxiliary roller 44 are driven rollers that are rotatably supported by the roller holder (not shown).

  The second transport unit 45 includes a transport driving roller 46 positioned below the transport path W and a transport driven roller 47 positioned above the transport path W so as to face the transport drive roller 46. The transport driven roller 47 is urged toward the transport drive roller 46 by a roller holder 48. For this reason, the second transport unit 45 is configured such that the disc tray 20 on the transport path W is sandwiched between the transport drive roller 46 and the transport driven roller 47. The conveyance drive roller 46 is connected to a conveyance motor 40 (FIG. 5) described later via a gear (not shown) and a drive belt (not shown), and is driven by the conveyance motor 40. The conveyance driven roller 47 is a driven roller that is rotatably supported by the roller holder 48.

The label printer 2 is provided with a carriage 30 that reciprocates along a carriage guide shaft 33 that extends in the width direction of the main body 21. The carriage 30 is mounted with a print head 31 that discharges ink facing the conveyance path W and an ink cartridge 32 that supplies ink to the print head 31.
The carriage 30 engages with an endless belt 35 that is stretched substantially parallel to the carriage guide shaft 33, is driven by the endless belt 35, and reciprocates in the scanning direction indicated by a symbol X in FIG. 2. The endless belt 35 is hung on a pulley 37 (FIG. 4) attached to the rotation shaft of the carriage drive motor 36 (FIG. 4) on one end side outside the scanning range of the carriage 30. Driven by. The scanning direction of the carriage 30 is substantially perpendicular to the extending direction of the transport path W.
A predetermined number of digits are virtually set in the scanning range of the carriage 30. In this embodiment, 80 digits are set, one end of the scanning range is a 0 (zero) digit position, and the other end is an 80 digit position. The 0-digit position is on the right side in FIG. 2, and the 80-digit position is on the left side in FIG. The scanning direction of the carriage 30 and the digit direction described in the present embodiment are synonymous.

The print head 31 prints on the label surface of the optical disk 11 by ejecting ink droplets of a predetermined color, and includes a nozzle opening 50 (FIG. 4) described later for each ink color. The print head 31 protrudes toward the conveyance path W, and ejects ink at a printing position indicated by a symbol P in FIG. The printing position P is located between the first transport unit 41 and the second transport unit 45.
The ink cartridge 32 includes a tank for storing ink ejected by the print head 31, and the carriage 30 is mounted with the ink cartridges 32 storing the colored inks of the number of colors used in the label printer 2 side by side. .
In the label printer 2, an ink cartridge 32 storing a liquid base material is mounted along with the ink cartridge 32 storing colored ink.

Here, as a base material used in the label printer 2, as a hydrophilic polymer (water-soluble polymer), polyethylene oxide, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl methyl ether, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyvinyl formal, carboxyvinyl polymer, cellulose resin, Examples thereof include resin materials such as morpholine and urethane resins, water-soluble polymers obtained by cationically modifying polyvinyl alcohol, and cross-linked products thereof. In addition, the above-mentioned hydrophilic polymer containing amorphous silica, and the above water-soluble polymer are porous substances (for example, clay, talc, diatomaceous earth, calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, barium sulfate, silicic acid). And inorganic pigment particles such as aluminum, synthetic zeolite, alumina, zinc oxide, lithobon, and titanium white). In addition, for example, as a photosensitive resin composition, N-alkoxymethyl (meth) acrylamide, a resin composition containing a photopolymerization initiator and a polymer, a monofunctional acrylate monomer, a polyfunctional acrylate monomer, corn starch, a polymer, an inorganic filler And a resin composition containing a photopolymerization initiator, an acrylate polymer, an ether acrylate, an alicyclic monomer photopolymerization initiator, a resin composition containing a pigment, and the like. Moreover, for example, a silica colloid or a copolymer of a fatty acid vinyl ester and a cationic monomer can be used.
In order to give appropriate fluidity, these base materials are dissolved or dispersed in a liquid such as water or an organic solvent as necessary, and further diluted as necessary to be used as a liquid base material.
By using these base materials, the ink absorption speed is fast, the ink fixing property is excellent, the water resistance is excellent, the ink dots appear sharply, and the coloring property is rich. A suitable printing substrate can be realized.

FIG. 4 is a top view of the vicinity of the carriage 30 excluding the ink cartridge 32.
The print head 31 is provided with a nozzle opening 50 for ejecting ink. The nozzle opening 50 discharges a base material to form a good print base on the surface of the nozzle opening row 50A provided corresponding to the number of colors of ink used in the label printer 2 and the printable area 11A. The nozzle opening array 50B is arranged side by side in the scanning direction indicated by the symbol X. The nozzle opening row 50A is a nozzle opening, which is a fine hole, arranged in a direction substantially perpendicular to the scanning direction of the carriage 30, and this nozzle opening contains fine ink droplets of dye-based or pigment-based colored ink. It is a very fine hole for discharging. On the other hand, the nozzle openings of the nozzle opening row 50B uniformly spray a liquid base material having a higher viscosity than the colored ink on the entire surface of the printable area 11A, and the nozzle openings larger than the nozzle opening row 50A. The openings are arranged side by side in a direction substantially perpendicular to the scanning direction of the carriage 30.

FIG. 5 is a top view showing how the carriage 30 scans.
As shown in FIG. 5, the carriage 30 is driven by the carriage drive motor 36 via the endless belt 35 and is reciprocated in the scanning direction indicated by the symbol X. In the state where the printing operation or the like is not performed, the carriage 30 stops at the end position on the 0-digit side and stands by, and is moved from the 0-digit position toward the 80-digit position at the start of the operation.
The disc tray 20 on which the optical disc 11 is placed is moved in the carrying direction indicated by the symbol Y by a carrying drive roller 46 driven by the carrying motor 40 and a carrying drive roller 42 (FIG. 3). The position of the disc tray 20 can be detected by a transport position sensor 54 (not shown). The transport position sensor detects, for example, the rotary encoder that detects the rotation angle of the transport motor 40, the linear encoder that detects the position of the disk tray 20 itself, or the presence or absence of the disk tray 20 at a specific position in the transport path W. It is an optical sensor.

  Then, after the disc tray 20 is conveyed in the direction indicated by the symbol Y and reaches a predetermined printing position, the carriage 30 is scanned in the direction indicated by the symbol X, and coloring is performed from the nozzle opening row 50A (FIG. 4) of the print head 31. Ink is sprayed and an image is printed in the printable area 11A. In addition, after the image is printed in the printable area 11A, a transparent base material is sprayed from the nozzle opening row 50B (FIG. 4) of the print head 31 to the printable area 11A as necessary. A printing foundation layer is formed on the surface.

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the control unit 10 of the optical disc duplicating apparatus 1. FIG. 6 does not limit a specific implementation mode of the control unit 10, and each functional unit in the figure may be realized by independent hardware, or by cooperation of hardware and software. In this case, a plurality of functional units may be realized by common hardware.

The control unit 10 controls the optical disk drive 12, the label printer 2, and the transport unit 15, and also controls a microprocessor unit (MPU) 101 that controls the entire control unit 10, a ROM 102 that stores various control programs in advance, and various programs Further, the RAM 103 for temporarily storing various data, and the background processing setting table 110 including a plurality of background necessity flag portions associated with the manufacture ID (manufacturer ID) as the disk identification information can be updated. An EEPROM 104 that stores data in a nonvolatile manner, a communication interface 105 for performing communication between the optical disk drive 12, the label printer 2, and the transport unit 15, an external storage unit 106 that includes a hard disk drive and the like and has a large storage capacity, Part a bus 107 interconnecting a, and a.
The communication interface 105, the optical disk drive 12, the label printer 2, and the transport unit 15 are connected via a predetermined communication line (not shown). Furthermore, connection from the communication interface 105 to the personal computer 16 is also possible.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the background processing setting table.
A background processing setting table 110 stored in the EEPROM 104 serving as a storage unit is a table in which a known manufacture ID and a background necessity flag unit are associated with each other.
More specifically, the background processing setting table 110 corresponds to the manufacturer ID unit 111 in which the manufacturer ID or the dummy manufacturer ID is stored, and the manufacturer ID or the dummy manufacturer ID. A background necessity flag section 112 in which a background necessity flag is stored. The dummy manufacturer ID is a manufacturer ID corresponding to the case where the manufacturer ID cannot be read or the manufacturer ID not included in the manufacturer ID unit 111 is read. .

According to the background processing setting table 110, the background necessity flag is set to OFF for a certain manufacture ID (for example, “ABCD100” in FIG. 7). In this case, the optical disk 11 on which the manufacture ID is recorded is not subjected to the base processing for forming the base in the printable area 11A. This is because the optical disk 11 specified by the manufacturer ID can obtain good print quality when the ink used in the label printer 2 is used, so that it is not necessary to perform the ground treatment. by. Similarly, the background necessity flag is set to ON for a certain manufacture ID (for example, “TTT03” in FIG. 7). In this case, a print ground is formed in the printable area 11A of the optical disc 11 in which the manufacture ID is recorded before printing. This is because, for example, the optical disk 11 specified by the manufacturer ID is difficult to achieve good print quality when the ink of the label printer 2 is used.
As described above, by using the background processing setting table 110, the necessity of the background processing for the printable area 11A can be determined appropriately and easily for each type of the optical disc 11 identified by the manufacturer ID. Efficient processing.
Further, the background necessity flag is set to ON for the dummy manufacture ID in the background processing setting table 110. That is, since the optical disk 11 on which the unknown manufacture ID is recorded has unknown characteristics (such as compatibility with ink) of the printable area 11A, the printable area 11A is set to be subjected to background processing. As a result, it is possible to deal with an unknown optical disk 11, and it is possible to maintain good print quality of the optical disk 11 created or duplicated by the optical disk duplicating apparatus 1.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the optical disc duplicating apparatus 1 according to the embodiment to which the present invention is applied.
In the operation shown in FIG. 8, the optical disk drive 12 functions as a specific information reading unit, the label printer 2 functions as a printing unit and a ground processing unit, and the control unit 10 functions as a control unit.
The control unit 10 of the optical disc duplicating apparatus 1 controls the transport unit 15 to transport the optical disc from the first stacker 13 to one of the plurality of optical disc drives 12 and set it on a disc tray (not shown) (step S11).
Thereby, the control unit 10 determines whether the optical disk drive 12 with the optical disk 11 set on the disk tray irradiates the surface of the optical disk 11 with the laser beam and whether the irradiation surface is a recording surface. (Step S12).

If it is determined in step S12 that the irradiated surface is not a recording surface, that is, a label surface (step S12; No), the control unit 10 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 S12 that the irradiated surface is a recording surface, the control unit 10 causes the specific information reading unit to read the manufacture ID written in advance on the optical disc 11 (step S15). Here, the specific information reading unit is realized when the optical disc drive 12 reads disc specifying information which is information for specifying an optical disc such as a manufacturer and a type from the optical disc 11 based on an instruction from the MPU 101.
Next, the control unit 10 refers to the manufacturer ID section 111 of the EEPROM 104, and the manufacturer ID read is the known manufacturer ID, that is, the manufacturer ID stored in the manufacturer ID section 111. It is determined whether or not (step S16).

If it is determined in step S16 that the read manufacturer ID is a known manufacturer ID (step S16; Yes), the control unit 10 associates the manufacturer ID with the background necessity flag portion. With reference to the background necessity flag stored in 112, it is determined whether or not background processing is required for the printable area 11A (step S17).
When the background necessity flag is set to OFF, the control unit 10 determines that the background processing for the printable area 11A is unnecessary (step S17; No), and sets the background processing not to be performed. (Step S18).
On the other hand, when the background necessity flag of the background necessity flag unit 112 is set to ON, the control unit 10 determines that the background processing is necessary (step S17; Yes) and sets the background processing to be performed. (Step S19).
Further, in the determination of step S16, also when the read manufacturer ID is not a known manufacturer ID (step S16; No), the control unit 10 uses the dummy manufacturer as the manufacturer ID of the optical disc 11. A texture ID is assigned, and setting is performed so that the background processing is performed on the printable area 11A according to the background necessity flag corresponding to the dummy manufacture ID (step S19).

After setting whether or not the background processing is necessary in step S18 or step S19, the control unit 10 stores the optical disk 11 on the optical disk 11 set based on the recording data stored in the external storage device 26 in advance. Data is written by irradiating the recording surface with a laser (step S20).
When the writing is completed, the control unit 10 ejects the optical disk after the writing (step S21).
As a result, the control unit 10 controls the transport unit 15 to handle the written optical disk 11, transport it to the label printer 2, and set the optical disk 11 on the disk tray 20 (step S22).

Next, the control unit 10 controls the label printer 2 and refers to the necessity of the background processing set in step S18 or S19. When the background processing is necessary, the base material is sprayed onto the printable area 11A. Is executed (step S23), and a print base is formed in the printable area 11A. Here, if it is set in step S18 not to perform the base processing, the base material is not sprayed in step S24.
Thereafter, the control unit 10 controls the label printer 2 to print an image on the printable area 11A formed on the label surface of the optical disc 11 (step S24), and ejects the disc tray 20 from the label printer 2. (Step S25), the transport unit 15 is controlled to handle the optical disk on which label printing has been completed, transported to the second stacker 14 (Step S26), and the process is terminated.

As described above, according to the optical disc duplicating apparatus 1 according to the embodiment to which the present invention is applied, the data is recorded on the recording surface of the optical disc 11, while the printable area 11A provided on the label surface of the optical disc 11 is recorded. Images can be printed to create and duplicate disc-type recording media. In addition, in the optical disc duplicating apparatus 1, in order to obtain a good print quality, a base process for forming a print base in the printable area 11A is executed before printing. Thereby, it is possible to always obtain good print quality regardless of the characteristics of the printable area 11A. In addition, an image can be printed with high print quality without particularly specifying the type of the optical disc 11, and the burden on selecting the optical disc 11 can be reduced. Furthermore, there is an advantage that the reliability of the ink used in the label printer 2 and the degree of design freedom are increased by always setting the printable area 11A as the printing base to a good state.
Further, since the control unit 10 determines whether or not the base material is attached to the printable region 11A and performs the base processing only when necessary, the unnecessary processing can be omitted and the throughput can be improved. .

  Here, the control unit 10 stores, in the EEPROM 104, the background processing setting table 110 in which the manufacture ID for specifying the type of the optical disc 11 is associated with the background necessity flag indicating whether the background processing is necessary. Thus, the manufacturer ID is read from the optical disc 11, and the necessity of background processing is determined based on the background necessity flag section 112 with reference to the background processing setting table 110 based on the read manufacturer ID. . Thereby, it is possible to appropriately and easily determine whether or not the background processing of the printable area 11A is necessary. For example, it is possible to realize a control in which the base material is not attached to the optical disc 11 with sufficient print quality, and the base material is attached only when necessary. Thereby, according to the kind or characteristic of the printable area 11A, the ground treatment is appropriately performed only when necessary, and good print quality can be obtained efficiently.

  Further, when the manufacture ID cannot be read from the optical disk 11 or when the manufacture ID not included in the manufacture ID unit 111 is read, the control unit 10 performs the dummy manufacture. Since the background processing is performed according to the background necessity flag associated with the dummy manufacture ID by applying the ID, it is possible to easily cope with the case where the unknown type optical disk 11 or the manufacture ID cannot be read. Good print quality can be obtained.

In addition, embodiment mentioned above shows the one aspect | mode of this invention to the last, and a deformation | transformation and application are arbitrarily possible within the scope of the present invention.
For example, in the above-described embodiment, the example in which the base processing is performed by spraying the base material from the nozzle opening row 50B to the printable region 11A has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, photocurable It is good also as what forms a favorable printing ground by irradiating light (ultraviolet rays etc.) after spraying resin on printable field 11A, and hardening resin. In addition, a layer serving as a printing base is formed in the printable region 11A by dropping a base material on the printable region 11A and spin-coating or by screen printing the base material. It may be prepared. Furthermore, for example, a printable region 11A is transferred by bringing a sheet (web) having a print base formed on one surface into close contact with the printable region 11A and transferring the print base to the surface of the printable region 11A by heating or pressure bonding. It is good also as what forms a printing ground.

Further, for example, the background processing setting table 110 has been described as being stored in the EEPROM 104 in the above embodiment, but a configuration having the background processing setting table 110 in the personal computer 16 is also possible. In this configuration, a table is mounted in the form of a file in an application or driver on the personal computer side.
In the above embodiment, only the manufacturer ID is given as an example of the disc identification information. However, when the media type ID is set in addition to the manufacturer ID, it is also considered. It is also possible to configure to specify an optical disc. In this case, it can be easily realized by including the media type ID in the background processing setting table 110 stored in the EEPROM 104.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to the inkjet label printer 2 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and various recording apparatuses (printers) such as a sublimation printer and a thermal transfer printer. ), It is applicable to all printing apparatuses having a configuration for scanning the print head and printing an image. In this case, a mechanism for discharging the base material may be provided in addition to the mechanism for coloring the printable area 11A. Further, it can be applied to a printing apparatus incorporated in another device. Furthermore, as a method of ejecting ink in the ink jet type label printer 2, an arbitrary method such as a method of extruding ink by vibration of a piezoelectric element or a method of extruding ink based on the volume change by heating the ink can be applied. is there. Further, the number of colors of the color ink used in the label printer 2 can be applied to any number of colors. In addition, it is needless to say that other detailed configurations in the above embodiment can be arbitrarily changed.

1 is a schematic diagram of an optical disc duplicating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is an external appearance perspective view which shows the structure of a label printer. It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of a label printer. It is a top view of the vicinity of the carriage. It is a top view which shows the mode of scanning of a carriage. It is a block diagram which shows the control unit of an optical disk duplicate apparatus. It is a figure which shows the structure of a base process setting table. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of an optical disk duplicate apparatus.

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  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Optical disk duplicating apparatus, 2 ... Label printer (printing part, ground processing part), 10 ... Control unit (control part), 11 ... Optical disk (disk type recording medium), 11A ... Printable area, 12 ... Optical disk drive (specific) (Information reading section), 13 ... first stacker, 14 ... second stacker, 15 ... conveying unit, 16 ... personal computer, 20 ... disc tray, 21 ... main body, 30 ... carriage, 31 ... print head, 32 ... ink cartridge, 33 ... Carriage guide shaft, 35 ... Endless belt, 36 ... Carriage drive motor, 37 ... Pulley, 38 ... Head drive unit, 40 ... Conveyance motor, 41 ... First conveyance unit, 45 ... Second conveyance unit, 50A, 50B ... Nozzle opening row, 101... MPU, 104... EEPROM (storage unit), 110.

Claims (6)

In an optical disc duplicating apparatus for recording information on a disc type recording medium,
A printing unit that prints an image in a printable area provided in the disk-type recording medium based on printing data;
Prior to printing by the printing unit, a base processing unit that performs base processing for adjusting a print base in the printable area;
A control unit that determines whether or not background processing is necessary in the printable area, and performs background processing by the background processing unit when the background processing is necessary;
An optical disc duplicating apparatus comprising: A storage unit for storing disc specifying information for specifying the type of the disc type recording medium and information indicating whether or not the background processing is required by the background processing unit;
When disc specific information for specifying the type of the disc type recording medium is recorded in advance on the disc type recording medium, the disc type recording medium further includes a specific information reading unit that reads out the disc specific information,
The control unit determines whether or not background processing is necessary in the printable area based on the information stored in the storage unit in association with the disc specific information read by the specific information reading unit. ,
The optical disk duplicating apparatus according to claim 1.   The control unit, when the disc specific information cannot be read from the disc type recording medium by the specific information reading unit, determines that the background processing in the printable area is necessary. 2. The optical disk duplicating apparatus according to 2.   The control unit determines that background processing is necessary in the printable area when the disc specific information read from the disc type recording medium by the specific information reading unit is not stored in the storage unit. The optical disk duplicating apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, wherein A method of controlling an optical disc duplicating apparatus for recording information on a disc type recording medium,
Read disc specific information recorded in advance on the disc type recording medium,
Based on the read disc identification information, it is determined whether or not background processing is necessary to prepare the print background of the printable area provided in the disc type recording medium,
When it is determined that the ground processing is necessary, the ground processing is performed,
Printing an image in the printable area based on print data;
A method of controlling an optical disc duplicating apparatus characterized by the above. A control program for controlling an optical disc duplicating apparatus for recording information on a disc type recording medium by a computer,
Read disc specific information recorded in advance on the disc type recording medium,
Based on the read disc identification information, it is determined whether or not background processing is necessary to prepare the print background of the printable area provided in the disc type recording medium,
When it is determined that the background processing is necessary,
Printing an image in the printable area based on the print data;
A control program characterized by that.

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