JP2014050058A - Facsimile apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facsimile apparatus which has a communication history printing function and easily manages a printed matter being a result of output.SOLUTION: A facsimile apparatus 1 comprises: a storage unit 17 for storing a communication history of facsimile communication; and a communication history printing unit 15a for printing the communication history. In the facsimile apparatus 1, the communication history printing unit 15a prints the communication history such that the sequence of having printed the communication history is identifiable.

Description

  The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus having a communication history printing function.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, some facsimile apparatuses store facsimile communication date / time, transmission / reception destination, transmission / reception result, and the like, and print them as a communication history.
The facsimile apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1 transmits a communication history to the centralized management apparatus after 50 communication is performed or when a transfer date designated by the user is reached, and stores the communication history in a memory. Then, the communication history is automatically printed on the day registered in advance.

JP 2004-192464 A

  However, when printing the communication history as disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is difficult to print only the communication history, and it is difficult to manage the printed material as an output result, for example, whether or not a part of the printed material is lost.

  SUMMARY An advantage of some aspects of the invention is that it provides a facsimile apparatus that has a communication history printing function and can easily manage printed matter as an output result.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, a first technical means of the present invention is a facsimile apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores a communication history of facsimile communication; and a communication history printing unit that prints the communication history. The communication history printing unit prints the communication history so that the order in which the communication history is printed can be identified.

  According to a second technical means of the present invention, in the first technical means, the printing date and time is stored in the storage unit when the communication history is printed, and the communication history printing unit It prints the date and time and the print date and time of the most recent previous communication history.

  According to a third technical means of the present invention, in the first or second technical means, the communication history printing unit prints a serial number updated every time the communication history is printed when the communication history is printed. It is characterized by.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a facsimile apparatus that has a communication history printing function and can easily manage printed matter as an output result.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a printing result of a facsimile communication history by the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 1. It is a block diagram explaining another structural example of the facsimile apparatus of this invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a printing result of a facsimile communication history by the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 3. It is a block diagram explaining another structural example of the facsimile apparatus of this invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a printing result of a facsimile communication history by the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 5. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an example of a facsimile communication history printing process of the facsimile apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.
1 includes a scanner unit 11, an operation unit 12, a display unit 13, a facsimile communication unit 14, a printing unit 15, a control unit 16, a storage unit 17, and a clock unit 18.

The scanner unit 11 includes an automatic document feeder (ADF) and the like, and optically reads a document and generates image data of the document.
The operation unit 12 is configured by an operation panel having a numeric keypad, a facsimile transmission execution key, and the like, a touch panel provided on the front surface of the display unit 12, and the like for the user to operate the facsimile apparatus 1.
The display unit 13 is composed of a liquid crystal display device or the like, and displays information such as a facsimile number of a facsimile communication partner, information on the state of the facsimile device 1 and the like.

  The facsimile communication unit 14 is for transmitting and receiving image data. The facsimile communication unit 14 generates facsimile transmission data obtained by performing various kinds of image processing on the image data of the document generated by the scanner unit 11, and specifies a destination specified via the operation unit 12. Processing for transmitting to a facsimile number and processing for receiving transmission data from another facsimile apparatus are performed.

The printing unit 15 is for performing various types of printing such as printing of data received via the facsimile communication unit 14, and includes a communication history printing unit 15a for printing a facsimile communication history.
The control unit 16 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and controls the entire facsimile apparatus 1.
The storage unit 17 is composed of a storage medium such as a hard disk drive (HDD), and stores various data. The storage unit 17a stores a destination facsimile number and a destination name in association with each other, a facsimile communication date and time, and a destination. The communication history storage unit 17b stores the communication result and whether or not the communication history is printed as a facsimile communication history, and the communication history printing date storage unit 17c stores the date and time when the communication history was printed.
The clock unit 18 is for measuring the current date and time.

The facsimile apparatus 1 having the above-described configuration performs normal facsimile transmission / reception processing, automatically at a predetermined timing, or based on a user instruction via the operation unit 12, by the communication history printing unit 15a. The facsimile communication history is printed. The predetermined timing is, for example, every time the number of facsimile communications exceeds a predetermined number or every predetermined date and time. The predetermined number of times and the predetermined date / time may be specified by default or may be specified by the user via the operation unit 12. Information on the predetermined number of times and the predetermined date and time is stored in the storage unit 17.
In the facsimile apparatus 1, when the communication history is printed by the communication history printing unit 15a, the communication history is printed so that the printing order can be identified. Specifically, the current date and the previous date and time when the communication history was printed are printed when the communication history is printed by the previous date and time printing function of the communication history printing unit 15a.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a printing result of a facsimile communication history by the facsimile apparatus 1 of FIG.
As described above, the facsimile apparatus 1 can print the facsimile communication history. If the printing is the first printing after the apparatus 1 is installed, for example, the printed matter A in FIG. Print.

  In the printed matter A, whether or not the communication date / time A1, the destination A2, the communication result A3, and the communication history are confirmed as the communication history of the last 50 cases stored in the communication history storage unit 17b, that is, whether or not the communication history is printed. Whether or not information A4 is printed for each communication, and further, the date and time A5 when the printing is performed is printed. At the time of this printing, the facsimile apparatus 1 refers to the clock unit 18 and stores the date and time when the printing was performed in the communication history printing date and time storage unit 17c. In the communication result A3 of the printed matter A, “OK” means “communication completed”, and “NG” (see FIG. 2B described later) means “communication failed”. In the information A4 indicating whether or not the communication history printing of the printed matter A has been performed, “not yet” means “not printed”, and “completed” (see FIG. 2B described later) is “printed”. "Means.

The facsimile apparatus 1 prints the printed matter A ′ in FIG. 2B after printing the printed matter A, that is, after printing the first facsimile communication history and then printing the facsimile communication history, for example. To do.
The communication date and time A1 'in the printed matter A', the destination A2 ', the communication result A3', the information A4 'whether or not the communication history has been performed, and the date and time A5' in which the facsimile communication history has been printed are the communication date and time A1 in the printed matter A , Destination A2, communication result A3, information A4 indicating whether or not a communication history has been performed, and date and time A5 of printing. The meanings of “OK”, “NG”, “not yet”, and “done” are as described above. At the time of printing, the facsimile machine 1 refers to the clock unit 18 and indicates the date and time when the printing was performed. Stored in the communication history print date storage unit 17c.

The printed matter A ′ differs from the printed matter A in FIG. 2A in that the date and time A6 of the previous communication history printing stored in the printing date and time storage unit 17c is printed.
In this way, in the facsimile apparatus 1, the date and time of the current communication history, that is, the current date and time, and the date and time of the previous communication history printing, as in the printed matter A ′, in the second and subsequent facsimile communication history printing. Therefore, when the printed material is filed and managed, the presence or absence of the printed material can be easily found, and the management of the printed material can be facilitated.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating another configuration example of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention. In this example, the same components as those in the facsimile apparatus 1 in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted.
3 is different from the facsimile apparatus 1 of FIG. 1 in that the communication history printing unit 15a ′ has a function of assigning a serial number that is updated each time the facsimile communication history is printed, and stores the serial number. The storage unit 17 ′ has a serial number storage unit 17d.

  The facsimile apparatus 1 ′ also performs normal facsimile transmission / reception processing, and uses the communication history printing unit 15a ′ automatically at a predetermined timing or manually based on a user instruction via the operation unit 12. The facsimile communication history can be printed. At the time of printing the communication history, the communication history is printed so that the printing order can be identified. This printing mode is different from that of the facsimile apparatus 1 shown in FIG. Specifically, in the facsimile apparatus 1 ′, the serial number updated every time the communication history is printed is printed by the serial number printing function of the communication history printing unit 15a ′.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a printing result of a facsimile communication history by the facsimile apparatus 1 ′ of FIG. In this example, the same reference numerals are assigned to the same contents as the printed matter in FIG. 2, and the description thereof is omitted.
As described above, the facsimile apparatus 1 can print the facsimile communication history, and for example, prints the printed matter B in FIG.

  In the printed matter B, in addition to the printing contents of the printed matter A in FIG. 2, a serial number B1 that is updated every time the facsimile communication history is printed, “0001” in the example in the figure, is printed. At the time of printing, the facsimile machine 1 stores the printed number in the serial number storage unit 17d.

  The facsimile machine 1 prints the printed matter B ′ shown in FIG. 2B, for example, when the facsimile communication history is printed next after the printed matter B is printed.

The printed material B ′ differs from the printed material B in that the serial number B1 ′ is updated.
In this way, the facsimile apparatus 1 ′ prints the serial number updated for each printing at the time of communication history printing, and therefore, when filing and managing the printed matter, the facsimile device 1 ′ detects the presence or absence of the printed matter. This makes it easier to manage the printed matter.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating another configuration example of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention. In this example, the same components as those of the facsimile apparatus 1 of FIG. 1 and the facsimile apparatus 1 ′ of FIG. 3 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted.
5 is different from the facsimile apparatus 1 in FIG. 1 or the facsimile apparatus 1 ′ in FIG. 3 in that the communication history printing unit 15a ″ previously printed the current date and time and the communication history when printing the communication history. The date and time when the storage unit 17 ″ printed the communication history is provided, both of the previous date and time printing function for printing the date and time, and the serial number printing function for printing the serial number updated every time the facsimile communication history is printed. Both a printing date storage unit 17c for storing and a serial number storage unit 17d for storing the serial numbers are included.

  The facsimile apparatus 1 ″ also performs normal facsimile transmission / reception processing, and uses the communication history printing unit 15a ″ automatically at a predetermined timing or manually based on a user instruction via the operation unit 12. Print the facsimile communication history.

6 is a diagram showing an example of a printing result of a facsimile communication history by the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ of FIG. 5. In this example, the same reference numerals are given to the same contents as the printed matter of FIG. 1 and FIG. Therefore, the description is omitted.
As described above, the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ can print the facsimile communication history. If the printing is the first printing after the apparatus 1 ″ is installed, for example, the printed matter shown in FIG. B is printed by the communication history printing unit 15a ". At this time, the facsimile apparatus 1 refers to the clock unit 18 and stores the date and time when the printing was performed in the communication history printing date and time storage unit 17c and printed it. The number, that is, the serial number B1 is stored in the serial number storage unit 17d.

The facsimile machine 1 prints the printed material C shown in FIG. 6, for example, when printing the printed material B, that is, after the first facsimile communication history printing, and the next facsimile communication history.
The printed matter C differs from the printed matter B in FIG. 4A in that the date and time A6 of the previous communication history printing stored in the printing date and time storage unit 17c is printed, and the serial number B1 ′ is It has been updated.
As described above, when printing the communication history, the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ prints and manages the printed matter in order to print the date and time when the previous communication history printing was performed and the serial number updated for each printing. For example, it is possible to easily detect whether or not a printed material is lost, and management of the printed material can be facilitated.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the facsimile communication history printing process of the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ determines whether or not a facsimile transmission / reception has occurred (step S1). If there is a facsimile transmission (YES), the facsimile communication history is stored in the history storage unit 17b (step S2). It is determined whether or not 50 facsimile communications have been performed since the printing of the facsimile communications history (step S3) If 50 communications are not being performed (in the case of NO), the process returns to step S1 and has been performed. (In the case of YES), the process proceeds to step S5.
In step S1, if there is no facsimile transmission / reception (in the case of NO), it is determined whether or not a manual print instruction has been given via the operation unit 12 (step S4). If there is no print instruction (in the case of NO), The process returns to step S1, and if there is an instruction (in the case of YES), the process proceeds to step S5.

In step S5, it is determined whether or not the printing date / time of the previous facsimile communication history is stored in the printing date / time storage unit 17c. When the printing date / time is not stored (in the case of NO), that is, for the first printing, the previous printing date / time information added to the printing information is set to blank (step S6), and the serial number to be printed is “001”. Is set (step S7), and the process proceeds to step S10.
If it is determined in step S5 that the print date / time is stored (in the case of YES), that is, in the case of the second and subsequent prints, the print date / time storage unit 17c is referred to and the previous print time is added to the print information. Information on the printing date and time is set (step S8), and the serial number stored in the serial number storage unit 17d is set to the serial number to be printed (step S9), and the process proceeds to step S10. Proceed.

In step S10, the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ adds serial number information to the print information. Further, the information of the previous print date and time is added to the print information (step S11), and the current date and time are referred to the clock unit 18. Is added to the print information (step S12), and the history storage unit 17b is referred to, and information on the 50 most recent facsimile communication histories is added to the print information (step S13). If the number of histories stored is less than 50, all facsimile communication history information is added to the print information.
Then, the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ performs printing based on the print information by the communication history printing unit 15a ″, and together with the facsimile communication history, the current date and time, the date and time when the previous history printing was performed (only the second and subsequent printings), and the continuous The number is printed (step S14).

  Thereafter, the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ overwrites and stores the serial number added to the print information in the serial number storage unit 17d (step S15), and sets the current date and time in the print date and time storage unit 17c as the date and time when the previous print history was performed. In step S16, the facsimile apparatus 1 ″ stores information on whether or not the information indicating whether or not the communication history printing stored in the history storage unit 17b has been performed is “unprinted”. It is updated to “printed”, which means that it has been printed (step S17). Then, the process returns to step S1.

  In the above description, at the time of communication history printing, the information indicating whether or not the printing has been performed is printed for each facsimile communication. However, the information does not need to be printed. Of these, the printed one is preferably erased. Also, when printing information indicating whether or not communication history printing has been performed, if a predetermined number or more are stored, it is preferable to overwrite the old one and store it.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Facsimile apparatus, 11 ... Scanner part, 12 ... Operation part, 13 ... Display part, 14 ... Facsimile communication part, 15, 15 ', 15 "... Printing part, 15a, 15a', 15a" ... Communication history printing part, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 16 ... Control part 17, 17 ', 17 "... Memory | storage part, 17a ... Phone book part, 17b ... History memory | storage part, 17c ... Print date storage part, 17d ... Serial number memory | storage part, 18 ... Clock part.

Claims (3)

In a facsimile apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores a communication history of facsimile communication; and a communication history printing unit that prints the communication history.
The facsimile machine, wherein the communication history printing unit prints the communication history in an identifiable manner.   The printing history is stored in the storage unit when the communication history is printed, and the communication history printing unit prints the current date and the printing date of the latest previous communication history when the communication history is printed. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1.   The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication history printing unit prints a serial number updated every time the communication history is printed when the communication history is printed.

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