JP2009217285A - Label - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a label with merchandise information and notice information separately printed on the front and rear sides of the label. <P>SOLUTION: The label detachable from merchandise is printed with merchandise information on one side to be the front surface when stuck to the merchandise, and notice information on the other side. The merchandise information is the name, volume, manufacturer's name, seller's name, etc. of the merchandise, and the notice information is a message and an advertisement to be notified. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a label attached to a product and printed with product information.

  Conventionally, in containers for products such as beverages and seasonings (bottles, cans, plastic bottles, etc.), a service is known that allows the product purchaser to produce the label design to be attached to the product rather than the product supplier. Yes. This type of service, for example, gives a purchaser who has purchased a lot of merchandise (eg, a barrel of wine) the right to make an original label. This type of label is produced only for purchasers who purchase a lot of merchandise.

  Alternatively, the supplier creates a product with only the label that displays the minimum information (product name, material, manufacturer, seller, etc.) necessary for sales, and the label to be attached to this product is stored in the retail store. There is also proposed a sales method in which a consumer who purchases a product from a retail store can attach labels on which various messages are written to the product by making it possible to manufacture the product (see, for example, Patent Document 1). The purchaser and the consumer described above are users who use the label of the product, and the design and message written on the label by the user become notification information that the user notifies others.

JP 2004-326060 A

  As described above, the label affixed to the product is known to include product information written by the supplier of the product and information written by the user. There is no known information in which a user's notification information is written on one label.

  In addition, in the case of the label described in Patent Document 1, it is conceivable that the product information and the notification information are written side by side on one side of the label, but the label is printed using a printer in a retail store or handwritten on the label. Because it is written, it cannot be finished as beautifully as it is printed by a printing company. Furthermore, if product information and notification information are written side by side on one label, the area for describing product information and notification information will both be reduced, resulting in a smaller amount of information between product information and notification information. In addition to the problem of reduction, when the notification information is written adjacent to the product information, the design of the product information is impaired.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above reasons, and its purpose is to divide product information and notification information separately on the front and back of the label, and to print them beautifully by printing them at a printing company. Is to provide a customized label.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, the present invention is a label that is affixed to a product and can be removed from the product. The notice information by is printed.

  What is stuck to the container of goods and can be easily peeled off by one part peeling can be used.

  Moreover, you may affix on the thin film peeled from goods.

  Alternatively, it may be made of a resin film that is overlapped on the outside of the product container and can be torn along the perforation.

  Alternatively, it may be made of paper wound around the outer periphery of the product.

  According to the configuration of the present invention, the product information is printed on one surface of the front and back of the label that can be removed from the product when attached to the product, and the notification information is printed on the other surface. You can see the notification information by separating the label from the product after purchasing the product. In other words, both sides of the label have the advantage of being able to provide beautiful products printed by the printing company. In addition, since the entire surface of the label is used for product information, the design of the product information prepared by the supplier is not impaired, and the notification information can be presented using the entire back surface of the label. There is an advantage that the amount of information can be increased. Furthermore, since the label must be removed from the product in order to view the notification information, if the product is in a container, it is possible to motivate the label to be removed from the container. In particular, in recent years, many municipalities have required that PET bottles be peeled off and collected for container recycling, and there are also local governments that recommend removing labels from glass bottles. By motivating this, there is also an effect that the separate collection can be promoted.

  The product can be removed from the product by being attached to the product container and easily peeled off by a part of the product, attached to a thin film that is peeled off from the product, and stacked on the outside of the product container. Either a resin film that can be torn along a perforation or a paper that is wound around the outer periphery of a product can be employed. By adopting any of these configurations, it is possible to view only the product information when purchasing the product, and it is possible to view the notification information by removing the label from the product after purchasing the product.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of the goods which affixed the label. It is a block diagram which shows embodiment of this invention. It is operation | movement explanatory drawing same as the above.

  The embodiment described below is premised on printing on a label attached to a product and removable from the product, and this type of label includes the following forms. Basically, it is a label affixed to various beverages such as alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, glass bottles for foods, metal cans, and plastic containers. A label that can be used is assumed. However, it may be in a form in which a label is attached to a thin film called a so-called shrink label or stretch label. This type of label can be removed at the same time when the film is peeled off from the product. Moreover, it is a form employ | adopted in PET bottle, Comprising: You may use as a label the resin film which can be piled up on the outer side of a container, and can be torn off along a perforation. Alternatively, the technical idea of the present invention can also be applied to a paper label wound around the outer periphery of a can, such as a canned can.

  Further, in the present embodiment, it is assumed that the products are alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, sake, whiskey, various beverages such as tea, carbonated beverages, and dairy beverages, and various products in containers such as powdered coffee, vinegar, and soy sauce. ing. Product information such as the name, capacity, manufacturer name, and seller name of the product is printed on the surface of the front and back of the label that is attached to the container. Further, the present invention is based on the premise that the back side of the label is used for describing notification information by a user other than the manufacturer or seller of the product, and the notification information includes a message that the user intends to notify, It is possible to describe advertisements.

  The purchaser of the product can see only the product information printed on the label when purchasing the product, and can see the notification information by detaching the label from the product and looking at the back side. FIG. 1 shows an example of a product. In the example of illustration, the example which stuck the peelable label Lb to the bottle Bt which is a container is shown.

  Since the bin Bt with the label Lb on which the notification information is printed is normally assumed to be purchased by an unspecified number of people, the notification information is also viewed by an unspecified number of people. In other words, the user must write notification information whose contents are supposed to be viewed by an unspecified number of people. In other words, it is necessary to manually examine the contents of the notice information so that the notice information that is considered inappropriate when viewed by an unspecified number of people is not printed on the label.

  Hereinafter, a label production support system used for printing product information on one side of a label and printing notice information on the back side will be described. The label production support system is assumed to be used by a printing company that prints labels to be attached to containers or a planning company that orders printing from a printing company. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the label production support system manages label production using a computer server 1 connected to the Internet NT as a computer network and information acquired by the computer server 1. The management computer 2 is used. The computer server 1 can perform data communication between a terminal device 3 managed by a product supplier (for example, a brewery company or a food company) and a terminal device 4 operated by a general consumer who is a user. It has become. The computer server 1 and the terminal device 3 construct an intranet, and are encrypted so that data to be exchanged does not leak outside.

  The terminal device 3 is used when ordering printing of a label from a printing company, and is used when notifying the printing contents of a label described later from the printing company. The supplier of the product requests the printing company to produce a label on which the product information is printed, and when ordering the printing of the label, at least the quantity of the label, the delivery date, and the planned release date of the product are notified. The computer server 1 includes a first communication unit 11 that performs data communication with the terminal device 3, and the first communication unit 11 manages the quantity, delivery date, and planned release date acquired from the terminal device 3. 2 is stored in the first production management means 21 provided in 2.

  The design of the label can be transferred as electronic data through the terminal device 3, and the actual sample can be handed over to the printing company without passing through the terminal device 3. The product supplier may also notify the printing company of the quantity, delivery date, and planned release date, verbally or by facsimile. When various data given from the supplier of the product is not digitized, the data is manually input into the first production management means 21. This data includes the label quantity, delivery date, planned product release date, and label design.

  In the printing company, when the necessary data is stored in the first production management means 21, the production of one surface which becomes the surface when the label is attached to the product is started. When printing is possible, a label for the prototype is produced and sent to the supplier of the product, and the supplier instructs the correction part as necessary. This operation is repeated a plurality of times as necessary, and printing of a label as a product is started when there are no correction points. The first production management means 21 manages the quantity and the delivery date. When there is no correction in the label design, it creates and outputs a schedule so that the required number can be printed before the delivery date. The schedule plan output form includes a form displayed on the screen of a display device, a form printed on paper by a printer, and a form directly controlling a printing apparatus for printing a label. These forms may be used alone or in combination. Is possible.

  By the way, notification information requested by the user who operates the terminal device 4 is printed on one side (glue side) which is the back side of the label when it is attached to the product. The computer server 1 includes second communication means 12 that can perform data communication with the terminal device 4. The second communication means 12 has a function of presenting various designs that can be created by the design creation means 26 provided in the management computer 2 to the terminal device 4, and the user creates a desired design in the terminal device 4. Then, the design is stored in the second production management means 22 provided in the management computer 2.

  More specifically, the design creation means 26 has various functions that can be used when creating an application program having the same function as an application program for label production provided for a personal computer and a label design. The design of the label can be easily created by combining figures and characters on the screen of the display device provided in the terminal device 4.

  The process of the design creation means 26 may be simplified. For example, a configuration may be adopted in which a user can select a desired design from several types of designs prepared in advance and a limited number of characters can be input for the design. An example of the operation in this case is shown in FIG. In FIG. 3A, a plurality (six in the illustrated example) of designs P1 to P6 are arranged on the screen of a display device attached to the terminal device 4. Each design P1 to P6 is displayed in the form of a thumbnail. The desired design P1 to P6 is selected by clicking with the mouse, and the design P1 to P6 is enlarged and displayed by double-clicking. A “return” button B1 and a “confirm” button B2 are displayed on the lower right of the screen, and the selected designs P1 to P6 are determined by clicking the “confirm” button B1. The “return” button B1 is for returning to the previous screen (not shown).

  When the designs P1 to P6 are confirmed, it becomes possible to input characters into the field F1, as shown in FIG. By checking the check boxes C1 and C2, it is possible to select horizontal writing or vertical writing. If the “Format” button B3 is clicked, the character size, color, typeface, etc. can be specified. Is possible. In the lower right of this screen, a “return” button B4 and a “confirm” button B5 are provided. When the “confirm” button B5 is clicked, the screen proceeds to the screen of FIG. 3C and the selected designs P1 to P6 are displayed. It is possible to confirm the image Im of the notification information in a state where characters are entered. The “return” button B4 is clicked when returning to the screen of FIG.

  The screen shown in FIG. 3C is a screen for only confirmation. Since a “return” button B6 and a “forward” button B7 are attached to the lower right of the screen, a “return” button is necessary if correction is necessary. The screen returns to the screen of FIG. 3B by B6, and if no correction is required, the screen advances to the screen of FIG. 3D by a “forward” button B7.

  The screen in FIG. 3 (d) is a screen for instructing the quantity to be printed and the desired delivery date, and designates the quantity and the desired delivery date by entering appropriate numerical values in the input fields F2 and F3. can do. The quantity that can be input in the field F2 can be input only in units of 100 sheets or 1000 sheets, for example. The desired delivery date can be omitted. A “return” button B8 and a “confirm” button B9 are attached to the lower right of the screen of FIG. 3D, and when the “return” button B8 is clicked, the screen returns to the screen of FIG. If button B9 is clicked, it will transfer to the screen of FIG.3 (e).

  The screen of FIG. 3 (e) is a confirmation screen, and an image Im of notification information in which the characters P1 to P6 selected on the screen of FIG. 3 (a) are arranged with the characters input on the screen of FIG. 3 (b). Then, the quantity Qa and desired delivery date Qb designated on the screen of FIG. 3D and the estimated amount Qc are displayed. Since the “Cancel” button B10 and the “Send” button B11 are displayed at the lower right of the screen of FIG. 3E, when the input is again performed, the “Cancel” button B10 is clicked and displayed. In order to print the label with the contents, the “Send” button B11 is clicked.

  When the “Send” button B11 is clicked, the content displayed on the screen of FIG. 3E is transferred to the second production management means 22 of the management computer 2. Although not specifically explained, personal information such as the user's name, address, and e-mail address is also displayed for confirmation on the screen of FIG. 3 (e), and the personal information is also transferred to the management computer 2. The When a user who is difficult to operate the terminal device 4 uses the system, he / she may contact the printing company by postcard, facsimile, telephone, etc. to perform the input at the printing company.

  By the way, since the notification information is described by diverting the label for presenting the product information, the number of labels for printing the notification information must be within the range of the number of labels for printing the product information. Depending on the content of the notification information, the time of notification may be important. Therefore, not only the quantity but also the desired delivery date can be designated for the notification information. However, the desired delivery date specified by the user corresponds to the scheduled sale date of the product because it is a time when the notification information is to be shown to others. On the other hand, since the delivery date in the printing company is a delivery date for delivering the label to the supplier of the product, it must be set before the desired delivery date designated by the user. Therefore, the desired delivery date specified by the user is collated with the expected release date stored in the first production management means 21, and the label which is the expected release date within the specified allowable period including the desired delivery date specified by the user. And the delivery date stored in the first production management means 21 for the label is stored in the second production management means 22 as the actual delivery date. Determination of the quantity and delivery date for printing the notification information is performed by the order receiving means 23 provided in the management computer 2.

  The order receiving means 23 has a function of determining that the characters written as the notification information are not ineligible, in addition to determining the quantity and delivery date of the label on which the notification information is printed. This determination is simple, and a vocabulary that is considered to be inappropriate as notification information is registered in advance as a reserved word, and when a reserved word is included in the characters entered by the user, It prompts you to fix it. The same applies to the quantity and desired delivery date. However, the determination by the order receiving means 23 is simple, and the final determination as to whether or not to receive an order for printing notification information is made manually.

  In the above-described example, it is assumed that the user specifies a desired delivery date for printing the notification information on the label. However, depending on the content of the notification information, the user may not specify the desired delivery date. If the desired delivery date is not specified, printing may be delayed and the notification information may become obsolete. Therefore, the second production planning means 22 is provided with a delivery date setting unit 22a that automatically sets the delivery date according to the order date when the delivery date is not designated by the user. In the delivery date setting unit 22a, the order date of the request from the user is taken into consideration, for example, the next month end of the month including the order date is set as the delivery date requested by the user. When the user does not specify the desired delivery date, the delivery date setting method by the delivery date setting unit 22a is not limited to the above-described method, and can be set as appropriate.

  As described above, when the quantity and the delivery date of the label on which the notification information is printed are determined, the second production management unit 22 creates a schedule for printing the notification information. The schedule plan output form is the same as that of the first production management means 21. The printing of the notification information on the label is not only made known through the Internet NT, but may be made known to the user using various media. Can be collected quickly. In addition, since the notification information is collected in the form of electronic data, it is not necessary to prepare a composition, and the printing work regarding the notification information is facilitated.

  Here, when the label on which the notification information is printed is determined, the planned release date of the product is determined, so the planned release date is set as the delivery date to the user. When the delivery date for the user is determined, the notification means 24 provided in the management computer 2 notifies the terminal device 4 of the planned release date (delivery date) of the product through the second communication means 12 of the computer server 1. For users, there is a possibility that the scheduled release date of the product printed with the notification information may be shifted from the desired delivery date specified by the user within the range of the above-mentioned allowable period. It is necessary to notify that.

  The first production management means 21 and the second production management means 22 described above create a schedule according to the ability of the printing apparatus for printing the labels. Therefore, depending on the relationship between the quantity of labels and the delivery date, Sometimes it is not possible to create a plan. When it is impossible to create a schedule, the terminal devices 3 and 4 are notified to adjust the quantity and delivery date. Also, notification information from a plurality of users can be printed within the quantity range of labels on which product information is printed.

  By the way, as described above, since both the supplier and the user of the commodity receive an order for printing the label, it is necessary to charge the printing cost to both. Also, the notice information is printed on the label within the range of the number of labels on which the product information is printed, and the number of labels on which the product information is printed is larger than the number of labels on which the notice information is printed. The time for printing on the label is longer than the time for printing the notification information. In addition, when printing product information, it is necessary to create a prototype and make a meeting with the supplier of the product, and it is not necessary to create a prototype for the notification information. The time from receipt to delivery is significantly longer than the time from receipt of an order from the user to completion of label printing.

  The management computer 2 is provided with billing means 25 for issuing a bill. When receiving an order for printing a label from a supplier, the first production management means 21 creates a schedule so that the printing operation starts immediately, and the billing means 25 issues a bill when the finished product is delivered. On the other hand, when an order for printing notification information is received from the user, the billing means 25 issues a bill when notifying the user of the planned release date (delivery date) of the product. When an invoice can be issued in response to an order from a user, the user is notified by e-mail of the fact that the order has been received and the amount charged. Also, even if an invoice is issued to the user, the printing operation is not started, and printing of the notification information is started after the payment is confirmed. Accordingly, the second production management means 22 calculates the final deadline for starting the printing of the notification information by calculating backward from the delivery date when the label on which the product information is printed is delivered to the supplier of the goods. When the invoice is issued to the person, the final date of payment is notified in the invoice.

  The second production management means 22 instructs to start the work of printing the notification information on the label when the payment from the user can be confirmed with respect to the bill issued by the billing means 25 to the user. . Here, since the terminal device 4 and the management computer 2 operated by the user can exchange data through the Internet NT, when the user deposits using electronic money or a credit card, the notification information Printing work can be started quickly.

  In the second production management means 22, when the user who requests the printing of the notice information is an existing customer or public institution, the notice information is printed on the label without waiting for the above payment. The procedure can be changed to start.

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Claims (5)

  A label that is affixed to a product and can be removed from the product, wherein product information about the product is printed on one surface that is the surface when the product is affixed, and notification information by the user is printed on the other surface label.   The label according to claim 1, wherein the label is attached to the container of the product and can be easily removed by partly peeling.   The label according to claim 1, wherein the label is attached to a thin film peeled off from the product.   The label according to claim 1, wherein the label is made of a resin film that is overlapped on the outside of the container of the commodity and can be torn along a perforation.   The label according to claim 1, wherein the label is made of paper wound around an outer periphery of the product.

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