JP2012133710A - Management label issuance method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly achieve ordering of food management labels and update of a layout and print data at food stores by chain stores and a plurality of food factors of the same business operator.SOLUTION: The present invention includes a step in which a management-side computer 2 is equipped with encoding means 6, which generates a code management ledger 22 by generating two-dimensional codes 21 including food management labels 10 input and created by input means 3 and information associated with entry contents thereof; a step in which the code management ledger 22 is copied and distributed to respective manufacturing departments 11 by known common-use means such as electronic mail, facsimile, a homepage, mail, correspondence delivery; and a step in which the two-dimensional codes 21 of the code management ledger 22 are read in by label printing means 12 at the respective manufacturing departments 11, and decoded and converted by decoding means 17 into layout information and readable character information to the print food management labels 10.

Description

  The present invention relates to a management label issuing method suitable for use in a food safety management system for managing a plurality of food stores or food factories such as a fast food chain store.

  In general, individual foods or ingredients handled in food stores and food factories are managed according to food management rules established by the administrator.

  For example, when taking out the sauce from the refrigerator and using it at room temperature, a label or a seal indicating the period (secondary shelf life) that can be used after it is removed from the refrigerator is pasted, and the ingredients after this period are discarded. .

  If the secondary shelf life of the source is 2 days, a management label meaning “2 days” is put on the source container.

  Here, the management label is not necessarily the number of days or the time display, but may be “business day” management. In the case of business day management, if the sauce is taken out of the refrigerator on Monday in the previous example, it can be used on Monday and Tuesday.

  In the above examples, some foods and foods are stored in a refrigerator, and some foods and foods can be used by addition, and the expiration date is finely controlled for each food and food.

  Conventionally, the food management label has been used by hand-written on a blank label or by purchasing a label printed on an order from a label supplier or a day of the week label. In this case, inventory management of labels and stickers becomes complicated and the cost of purchase increases.

On the other hand, a user self-prints a food management label using a label printer.
The label printer (an example shown in FIG. 2) used here is input via a memory card or the like after it is created by layout information directly input from the input means 13 or a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a personal computer). Printed layout information, character information to be printed, and the like are printed on a label.

  The roll paper for labels is a label printer body in which a seal-like label of a predetermined size is continuously temporarily fixed to a strip-like release paper at a constant pitch and is wound in a roll shape. It is attached to.

  As described above, the label printer is provided with a memory unit as a storage means for storing print information, and reads layout information (standard version) including print information for items to be produced, manufactured and processed by a user. After changing to the appropriate display item and display contents, each is stored in association with the item.

  In actual printing, the stored item layout (layout information) is read out, the deadline printed in the deadline item column is corrected, and a predetermined number of labels are printed.

In relation to this type of label printer, Patent Document 1 discloses a system that performs printing based on a product master for each user distributed from a management server.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 discloses a method in which the selling price can be updated efficiently by receiving print information from a central device connected via a communication line.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 makes it possible to access a file storing product sales price information and the like via a communication line.

JP 2004-351775 A JP-A-7-205950 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-232067

  However, businesses that have many stores and factories have a problem that it is difficult to introduce them because it is necessary to arrange products and services uniformly in all stores and factories, which requires huge investment in capital investment in information networks. .

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems of the prior art, and a management label can be printed and issued using a label printer for each of a plurality of stores and factories as manufacturing departments, and label layout and character information to be printed can be added or updated. The object is to provide a management label issuing method that can be performed smoothly.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the management side computer is provided with an encoding unit, and has the management label print data (readable character information and / or label layout information regarding the contents of the label) input and created by the input unit. Creating a two-dimensional code and creating a code management ledger; replicating the code management ledger and distributing it to each manufacturing department by well-known and conventional means such as e-mail, facsimile, homepage, postal mail, and mail Each manufacturing department reads the two-dimensional code of the code management ledger by means of label printing means, decodes it by the decoding means (converts it into readable character information and / or label layout information as the description contents of the label), and the management label As a management label issuing method comprising a printing step.

  Here, the code management ledger includes a label management ledger capable of referring to visible information such as names, abbreviations, symbols, and readable characters of management labels to be printed, and the two-dimensional code of the code management ledger and the visibility of the label management ledger. It is desirable to construct a collation table that is paired with information and described at the corresponding position.

  In addition, the label printing unit includes a timing unit, and the two-dimensional code includes management time limit data. When printing the management label, the time stamp information obtained from the timing unit is decoded from the two-dimensional code. The management information can be printed by adding the value of the management time limit data.

  According to the above means, the operation of inputting the print data into the label printing means in each manufacturing section is facilitated by reading the two-dimensional code, and can be introduced without incurring a large expense for constructing an information network.

  Also, by using the code management ledger in association with the print sample of each management label, it becomes easy to access the two-dimensional code of the print data from the sample of the management label.

  Furthermore, the management deadline data is included in the two-dimensional code, and when the management label is printed, the time stamp information is obtained from the timing means, and the management deadline data decoded from the two-dimensional code is added to obtain the management information. By printing, it is possible to eliminate the risk of omission of management data and misprinting.

  According to the management label issuing method of the present invention, the management label necessary at the site where the management label is used by using a label printing means such as a label printer without purchasing a label or a day-of-week sticker ordered and printed from a label supplier. Can be self-printed.

  In addition, since the print data can be input at once by the computer on the management unit side, it is easy to input the label printing means in each manufacturing unit using a two-dimensional code, and it is introduced without incurring a large expense such as building an information network. it can.

  Furthermore, when the management deadline data is included in the two-dimensional code and the management label is printed, the time stamp information is acquired from the time measuring means, and the management deadline data decoded from the two-dimensional code is added to print the management information. By doing so, it is possible to obtain an excellent effect of eliminating omissions and mistakes in management data.

It is a block block diagram which shows the food-management label issuing method by the two-dimensional code of this invention. It is an external view which shows an example of a label printer and a two-dimensional code scanner, (a) Front view, (b) Side view, (c) External view of a two-dimensional code scanner. It is explanatory drawing which shows a code management ledger. It is explanatory drawing which shows a label management ledger. It is an example of the code management ledger provided with the label management ledger. It is an example of the code management ledger provided with the label management ledger. It is an example of the code management ledger provided with the label management ledger, (a) external view, (b) the external view which struck a part of code management ledger.

  Hereinafter, the food management label issuing method will be described with reference to FIGS.

  In FIG. 1, a management computer 1 as a side that creates a food management label and a code management ledger is provided with a management computer 2. The management computer 2 is composed of, for example, a personal computer or a workstation, and includes an input unit 3 such as a keyboard and a mouse, an output unit 4 such as a display device and a printing device, and a two-dimensional code reading unit 5 such as a two-dimensional code scanner. (A label printer can also be used as the management-side computer 2).

  The management side computer 2 includes an encoding unit 6, a decoding unit 7, a storage unit 8, and a time measuring unit 9, and the encoding unit 6 and the decoding unit 7 are RAMs according to a program stored in the ROM by the CPU of the management side computer 2. It is embodied by operating while using.

  That is, the encoding unit 6 and the decoding unit 7 are configured by cooperation of hardware such as a CPU and storage unit of a personal computer and software such as data and programs.

  A label printer 12 (see FIG. 2) as a label printing unit is provided in the manufacturing unit 11 that issues and uses the food management label 10.

  The label printer 12 is connected to an input means 13 such as a keyboard, an output means 14 such as a display device 14a or a printing device 14b, and a two-dimensional code reading means 15 such as a two-dimensional code scanner.

  The label printer 12 includes an encoding unit 16, a decoding unit 17, a storage unit 18, and a timing unit 19. The encoding unit 16 and the decoding unit 17 use a RAM according to a program stored in the ROM by the CPU of the label printer 12. It is realized by operating.

  That is, the encoding unit 16 and the decoding unit 17 are configured by the cooperation of hardware such as the CPU and storage unit of the label printer and software such as data and programs.

  Using the management-side computer 2 as described above, the management department 1 creates a food management label 10 (see reference numeral 10 in FIG. 4). The operator of the management department 1 operates the input means 3 to input the readable character information relating to the description contents of the label and the label layout information to the management computer 2, whereby the input print data of the food management label 10 is obtained. The data is stored in the storage unit 8 of the management computer 2.

  The encoding unit 6 converts (encodes) the layout information and readable character information of the food management label stored in the storage unit 8 into two-dimensional code information, and stores the two-dimensional code information in the storage unit 8.

  When the operator operates the input means 3 and inputs an output command to the management computer 2, the print data of the food management label 10 stored in the storage means 8 is obtained as a two-dimensional code 21 from the printing device (output means 4). Is output.

  The operator repeats the above-described operation according to the type of food / food material to be managed, and creates the required number of food management labels 10 (two-dimensional code 21 in which the print data is converted).

Then, a plurality of two-dimensional codes 21 are arranged vertically and horizontally to create a code management ledger 22 as shown in FIG.
The code management ledger 22 associates each two-dimensional code 21 with visible information such as the name / abbreviation and symbol of the food management label 10 corresponding thereto.

  The number of code management ledgers 22 created as described above is duplicated as many as necessary for distribution, and distributed to each manufacturing unit 11 by well-known and commonly used means such as e-mail, facsimile, homepage, postal mail, and personal mail.

  Each manufacturing unit 11 receives the code management ledger 22, reads the two-dimensional code 21 printed thereon by a two-dimensional code reading means 15 such as a two-dimensional code scanner, and inputs it to the label printer 12.

  The read two-dimensional code is decoded by the decoding means 17 (converted into readable character information consisting of the label layout and the contents printed on the label) and stored as character information in the storage means 18 of the label printer 12. Is done.

  A desired food management label 10 is printed from the label printer 12.

  As described above, the manufacturing unit 11 can print the food management label 10 on which the readable character information is printed simply by reading the two-dimensional code printed on the code management ledger 21 with the two-dimensional code reading means 15. There is no need to input the description content of the management label by operating the input means 13 such as a keyboard or a mouse, or to enter it by handwriting.

  Also, since the print data necessary for printing the food management label 10 is described in the code management ledger 22 as the two-dimensional code 21, the master data for each food management label 10 is stored in the storage means of the label printer 12. There is no need.

  It should be noted that the above-described embodiment is merely an example, not a limitation, and modifications can be made within the scope described in the claims.

  For example, a personal computer or a workstation is exemplified as the management-side computer 2, but instead of this, a label printer 12 of the same type as that used in the manufacturing department is used to create a two-dimensional code 21 corresponding to the food management label 10, The code management ledger 22 (and the label management ledger 23) may be created by pasting on the mount.

  The management label issuing method of the present invention can also be used for issuing management labels other than food.

2 ... Management computer,
3, 13 ... input means, 4, 14 ... output means, 5, 15 ... two-dimensional code reading means, 6, 16 ... encoding means, 7, 17 ... decoding means, 11 ... manufacturing section, 12 ... label printing means (label Printer), 21 ... two-dimensional code, 22 ... code management ledger, 23 ... label management ledger

Claims (3)

The management computer is provided with an encoding means, and creates a two-dimensional code having print data (readable character information and / or label layout information regarding the contents of the label) input and created by the input means. A process of creating a code management ledger, a process of copying the code management ledger and distributing it to each manufacturing department by means of well-known and customary means such as e-mail, facsimile, homepage, postal mail, mail service, etc. It includes the steps of reading the two-dimensional code of the code management ledger by the printing means, decoding it by the decoding means (converting it into readable character information and / or label layout information as the description contents of the label), and printing it as a management label. Management label issuing method. The code management ledger is provided with a label management ledger capable of referring to visible information such as names, abbreviations, symbols, and readable characters of management labels to be printed, and the two-dimensional code of the code management ledger and the visible information of the label management ledger The management label issuance method according to claim 1, comprising a collation table described in a corresponding position as a pair. The label printing means includes timing means, and the two-dimensional code includes management deadline data. When printing the management label, the management deadline decoded from the two-dimensional code is added to the time stamp information obtained from the timing means. The management label issuing method according to claim 1, wherein the management information is printed by adding data values.

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