JP2017226098A - Sealed document manufacturing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve convenience in sealed document sealing processing, and to restrain reduction in productivity for manufacturing a sealed document.SOLUTION: A sealed document manufacturing system comprises a paper feeding part 111 for feeding paper of holding envelope paper and content paper by holding the envelope paper and the content paper, a printing part 114 for printing a printing image on the envelope paper and the content paper fed by the paper feeding part 111, a sending-out part 115 for sending out the envelope paper and the content paper printed by the printing part 114 to an inclusion sealing device 3 and a general control part 128 for controlling so as to manufacture a sealed document by the inclusion sealing device by printing by the printing part by feeding the paper from the paper feeding part 111 by selecting the envelope paper or the content paper used for manufacturing the sealed document based on an inclusion sealing job for designating the number of content paper, and the general control part 128 performs control so that the whole content paper can be collectively stored in one envelope or can be dividedly stored in a plurality of envelopes.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a sealed letter preparation system that improves convenience and suppresses a decrease in productivity of letter preparation.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a sealed letter production system including a printing apparatus and an encapsulating and sealing apparatus is known. In this sealed letter preparation system, the printing device performs printing on the envelope paper and the content paper based on the sealed sealing job, and the sealed sealing device forms an envelope from the printed envelope paper and stores the printed content paper. Seal the envelope in the state of making it, and prepare a sealed letter.

  Here, the enclosing / sealing machine includes a folding mechanism for folding a plurality of content sheets, and the number of sheets that can be folded for each sheet basis weight, or the sheet thickness after folding, according to the folding capability of the folding mechanism. The upper limit that can be enclosed is defined. On the other hand, the number of content sheets for one copy may be larger than the number of envelopes that can be stored from the envelope sheet designated by the enclosing sealing job. In this case, even if the enclosing sealing job is executed as it is, one content sheet cannot be stored in one envelope. For this reason, conventionally, a sealed letter job exceeding the above-mentioned upper limit needs to be dealt with by another workflow such as manual sealing on the user side.

  On the other hand, in Patent Document 1, when the number of sheets to be packed in the envelope is too large to be stored in the envelope corresponding to the size of the sheet, an error message is displayed and the envelope packing mode is automatically canceled. Thus, an image forming apparatus that stops producing a sealed letter is disclosed.

JP 05-035030 A

  However, as in Patent Document 1, when the number of sheets to be stuffed in an envelope is too large, if the envelope stuffing mode is automatically canceled, an operation to redo is generated thereafter, which requires extra work for the user. It has become complicated and the convenience has been impaired, leading to a decrease in productivity of sealed letter production.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sealed letter preparation system capable of improving convenience and suppressing a reduction in productivity of letter preparation.

  In order to achieve the above object, a first feature of an envelope preparation system according to the present invention is a printing device that performs printing on envelope paper and content paper, and forms an envelope from the printed envelope paper, and the printing device A sealed letter preparation system including a sealed sealing device for storing the content paper printed in the envelope and preparing a sealed letter, and holds and holds the envelope paper and the content paper Printing by the paper feeding unit that feeds the envelope paper and the content paper, the printing unit that prints a print image on the envelope paper and the content paper fed by the paper feeding unit, and printing by the printing unit The envelope sheet or the content sheet used for preparing the sealed letter is selected based on a sending unit that sends the envelope sheet and the content sheet to the sealed sealing device, and a sealed sealing job that specifies the number of content sheets. The salary A control unit that controls to cause the sealed sealing device to produce the sealed letter, and a sheet of envelope paper designated by the sealed sealing job. When it is impossible to store all the specified number of content sheets in an envelope, a sheet number dividing unit that divides the envelope into a plurality of envelopes and division of the number of content sheets by the sheet number dividing unit An additional print information generation unit that generates information as additional print information, and the control unit selects an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for producing a sealed letter and feeds it from the sheet feeding unit, so that the additional printing is performed. Printing is performed with information added, and control is performed so that all content sheets can be stored together in a single envelope, or divided into a plurality of envelopes.

  The second feature of the envelope preparation system according to the present invention is that the content sheets per envelope added to print the additional print information on the number of content sheets divided by the sheet number dividing section. A job changing unit that changes the sealed sealing job so that the number of sheets can be stored in the envelope is added, and the control unit creates a sealed letter based on the sealed sealed job changed by the job changing unit. Select the envelope paper or content paper to be used, feed it from the paper feed unit, perform printing with the additional print information added, and all the content paper can be stored together in one envelope, Alternatively, it is controlled so that it can be stored by being divided into a plurality of envelopes.

  A third feature of the sealed letter preparation system according to the present invention is that the print image is changed so that the additional print information generated by the additional print information generation unit is printed in a predetermined area of the envelope paper. A control unit configured to select an envelope sheet or a content sheet to be used for preparing a sealed letter based on the print image changed by the print image change unit and feed the selected sheet from the paper supply unit; Then, printing is performed by adding the additional print information, and control is performed so that all content sheets can be stored together in a single envelope, or can be stored divided into a plurality of envelopes.

  A fourth feature of the envelope preparation system according to the present invention is that content sheets per envelope added for printing the additional print information on the number of content sheets divided by the sheet number dividing unit. A job changing unit that changes the sealed sealing job so that the number of sheets can be stored in the envelope and the additional print information generated by the additional print information generating unit are printed in a predetermined area of the envelope paper As described above, the print image changing unit for changing the print image, the division number divided by the sheet number dividing unit, and the content sheet added to print the additional print information on the number of content sheets A comparison unit that compares the number of divisions of the content sheet to which the number of sheets has been added, and the control unit changes the encapsulated sealing job changed by the job changing unit according to the comparison result by the comparison unit Control based on the print image changed by the print image changing unit is selected and executed, and all content sheets can be stored together in one envelope, or divided into a plurality of envelopes and stored It is to make it possible.

  According to the first feature of the envelope preparation system of the present invention, it is impossible to store all the specified number of content sheets in one envelope formed from the envelope sheet specified by the sealed sealing job. When possible, feed, print, and print all envelopes so that they can be stored together in a single envelope, or divided into multiple envelopes. Enclose and seal. At this time, printing is performed by adding information related to the division of the content sheet divided into a plurality of envelopes as additional print information.

  As a result, even if it is impossible to store all of the specified number of contents sheets in an envelope formed from the specified type of envelope paper, it is possible to avoid error-stopping printing for envelope preparation. It becomes possible to execute printing for preparing a sealed letter. In addition, since additional print information related to the number of divided content sheets is printed on the envelope sheet or contents sheet, the person who received the sealed letter can confirm that the envelope is related to the division, You can tell which range is enclosed. As a result, the convenience for the user can be improved, and the decrease in the productivity of sealed letter production can be suppressed.

  The form of the additional print information includes displaying the total number of contents and the range of the contents enclosed in the sealed letter as text or thumbnail images. Further, the additional print information can be printed on the added content paper, the margin of the envelope paper, or both, as in the second to fourth features of the present invention described above. .

  According to the second feature of the envelope preparation system according to the present invention, a content sheet on which additional printing information is printed is added to the originally encapsulated content sheet, and all these content sheets are included in a plurality of envelopes. Divide and enclose. As a result, the information related to the division of the content sheet can be described in detail on the added content sheet. The content sheet on which the additional print information is printed can be, for example, a sheet on which thumbnails obtained by reducing the images of the respective content sheets are displayed. The thumbnails are enclosed in the envelope. Can include thumbnails that indicate the content paper that is being stored, thumbnails that indicate the content paper that is enclosed in other divided envelopes, and each sheet must contain an explanation of the divided envelopes Can do.

  According to the third feature of the envelope preparation system according to the present invention, the additional print information is simply printed on the flaps and the margins of the envelope paper. It is possible to avoid an increase in the number of sealed letters due to an increase in the number of sheets.

  According to the fourth feature of the sealed letter production system according to the present invention, the number of divisions for the original number of content sheets, and the number of divisions of content sheets increased by printing additional print information on the content sheets, If the number of sealed letters increases by printing the additional print information on the contents paper, the additional print information is printed on the flap or margin of the envelope paper, and when the number of sealed letters does not increase The balance between the amount of additional print information and the number of sealed letters can be adjusted according to the situation, such as printing detailed additional print information on the content sheet.

It is a schematic block diagram which shows the structure of the sealed letter preparation system which concerns on embodiment. It is a functional lineblock diagram showing typically a sealed letter preparation system concerning an embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement (when using a thumbnail sheet) of the sealed letter production system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement (when using a thumbnail sheet) of the sealed letter preparation system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement (in the case of a margin and flap printing) of the sealed letter preparation system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation | movement (in the case of a margin and flap printing) of the sealed letter preparation system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement (when performing by comparing output modes) of the sealed letter preparation system which concerns on 3rd Embodiment.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Throughout the drawings, the same or equivalent parts and components are denoted by the same or equivalent reference numerals. However, it should be noted that the drawings are schematic and different from the actual ones. Moreover, the part from which the relationship and ratio of a mutual dimension differ also in between drawings is contained.

  Further, the embodiment described below exemplifies an apparatus or the like for embodying the technical idea of the present invention, and the technical idea of the present invention is to arrange the components and the like as follows. It is not something specific. The technical idea of the present invention can be variously modified within the scope of the claims.

[Basic configuration of sealed letter production system]
First, the basic configuration of the sealed letter production system 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing the configuration of a sealed letter production system 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and is a functional configuration diagram schematically showing the sealed letter production system according to the embodiment of FIG. In the following description, the paper surface direction of FIG. 1 where the user is located is the front, and as shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the sealed letter production system 1 according to the present embodiment includes a printing device 2 and an encapsulating and sealing device 3. Note that a path indicated by an arrow in FIG. 1 is a conveyance path along which the sheet is conveyed. Here, the paper is a dedicated envelope paper that can be used to produce a sealed letter in the sealed sealing device 3. The envelope paper is preliminarily coated with a re-wetting paste that can be bonded when water adheres and a pressure-sensitive adhesive that is bonded by pressure contact. Envelope paper includes regular envelope paper and non-standard envelope paper. The regular envelope paper is an envelope paper on which a regular envelope is formed. A regular envelope is an envelope that satisfies the conditions of a regular mail. The non-standard envelope paper is an envelope paper on which a standard envelope is formed. The non-standard envelope is an envelope other than the standard envelope.

  Next, the sealed letter production system 1 according to the present embodiment will be described. The envelope preparation system 1 is composed of a printing device 2 and an encapsulating sealing device 3, and is a sheet molded product by enclosing and sealing the contents with the envelope paper P after printing on the envelope paper P and the content paper. Make a sealed letter.

  The printing device 2 is a device that prints and discharges envelope sheets and contents sheets. A plurality of types of sheets (sheet-like sheets and envelopes as contents) are provided inside or on the side of a housing that stores each section. A plurality of paper feed units 111 that can store paper), a loop-like conveyance path 113 that conveys the paper from the introduction path 112, cyan (C), black (K), magenta (M), and yellow (Y). A printing unit 114 composed of four inkjet heads C, K, M, and Y that eject ink of each color, a sending unit 115 that discharges the paper to the enclosing and sealing device 3, and a paper discharge unit 116 that discharges the paper out of the loop. And a reversing unit 117 that reverses the sheet after receiving the sheet conveyed through the conveyance path 113 and returns the sheet to the conveyance path 113 to invert the sheet upside down.

  The enclosing and sealing device 3 forms an envelope from the envelope paper printed by the printing device 2, and stores the content paper printed by the printing device 2 in the envelope to produce a sealed letter. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the encapsulating and sealing apparatus 3 performs overall control of the content folding unit 121, the envelope forming unit 123, the sealing unit 126, the discharge unit 127, and each unit of the sealed letter preparation system 1. And an overall control unit 128.

  The content folding unit 121 accumulates and aligns the printed content sheets sent from the printing apparatus 2 for each number of envelope sheets, and folds the aligned content sheets as necessary. Mechanism. The content folding unit 121 is configured to be capable of a plurality of folding processes such as bi-folding and tri-folding.

  The envelope forming unit 123 stores the content sheet in the envelope while forming the envelope from the printed envelope sheet sent from the printing apparatus 2, and also applies water to the re-humidified glue provided at a predetermined position of the envelope sheet. Is applied, and the envelope is formed by adhering the facing surfaces at predetermined positions while folding the envelope paper. Specifically, the envelope forming unit 123 encloses the contents while enveloping the envelope paper as an envelope, and the water application processing unit 124 forms a re-wetting paste portion formed on the envelope paper containing the contents. Water is applied by the water application unit 124a, and a predetermined folding process is performed along the fold line while conveying the envelope paper after the water application at the paper folding unit 125. Note that a folding part 122 is connected to the envelope forming part 123, and this folding part 122 is a mechanism used for a four-fold envelope (that is, when the envelope paper is folded three times). When the envelope is a three-fold envelope, the folding part 122 is not used, and the envelope forming part 123 performs folding and sealing at the same time.

  The sealing unit 126 seals the envelope formed by the envelope forming unit 123 and containing the content paper, thereby completing the sealed letter. In the sealing part 126, it can also seal by pressure-bonding the pressure sensitive adhesives of an envelope. The discharge unit 127 lifts and conveys the sealed letter to the outside of the apparatus housing, and then horizontally discharges and conveys the sealed letter to the discharge tray 127a.

  The overall control unit 128 controls the overall operation of the printing apparatus 2 and also controls the overall operation of the enclosing / sealing apparatus 3. The overall control unit 128 includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, a hard disk, and the like.

  The overall control unit 128 stores a paper table in a memory device such as a RAM. The paper table is a table showing paper types that are stacked and held on each of the external paper feed trays of the paper feed unit 111 and the first to third internal paper feed stands. The paper type includes envelope paper, plain paper of each size, and the like.

  The overall control unit 128 stores an envelope information table. The envelope information table is a table that indicates the storable size and the storable number of contents sheets in the envelope corresponding to the envelope sheet held by the paper feeding unit 111. The storable size is the maximum size that can be stored in each envelope, and can be stored as long as it is smaller than the storable size. In the envelope in which the content paper folded by the content folding unit 121 of the enclosing sealing device 3 is stored, the storable size indicates the maximum size of the content paper that can be stored after being folded.

  Then, the general control unit 128 controls to select and feed the envelope sheet and the content sheet from the sheet feeding unit 111 with reference to the sheet table based on the encapsulated sealing job at the time of printing for creating the sealed letter. . At this time, the overall control unit 128 performs an envelope paper selection process with reference to the envelope information table. The sealed sealing job is a print job that includes print image data and setting information for sealed sealing, and is transmitted from the external terminal device to the printing apparatus 2 at the time of sealed letter preparation printing. The enclosing and sealing job designates the type of envelope paper, the size of the content paper, and the number of content papers for producing one sealed letter.

  Further, the overall control unit 128 feeds paper so that it can be divided and stored in a plurality of envelopes when it is impossible to store all of the designated number of content sheets in one envelope. In addition to performing printing and enclosing sealing, it has a function for performing printing in which information relating to the division of content sheets divided into a plurality of envelopes is added as additional printing information. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the overall control unit 128 includes a sheet number extracting unit 128a, a sheet number dividing unit 128b, an additional print information generating unit 128c, a print image changing unit 128d, and a job changing unit. 128e and a comparison unit 128f.

  The sheet number extraction unit 128a is a module that analyzes the received sealed sealing job and extracts the number of sheets of content paper sealed in each envelope. The number of sheets of each envelope extracted by the sheet number extracting unit 128a is transferred to the sheet number dividing unit 128b.

  Based on the number of sheets for each envelope extracted by the sheet number extraction unit 128a, the sheet number dividing unit 128b reaches the upper limit number of sheets that can be sealed per envelope, and the content sheet This module divides the envelope into a plurality of envelopes when it is impossible to store all of the envelopes. In the present embodiment, the output mode of additional print information when dividing is a sheet output mode using a thumbnail sheet, and a margin / flap output mode for printing on margins or flaps of envelope paper, and the above upper limit number Is set according to these output modes.

  As the output mode of the additional print information, the output mode can be switched as appropriate by comparing the number of divisions when adding a thumbnail sheet and the number of divisions when margin / flap printing is performed. In this case, the number of divisions simply divided based on the upper limit number is compared with the number of divisions when a thumbnail sheet is added to print additional print information, and the division is performed by adding the thumbnail sheet. It is possible to adopt a technique such as switching to a margin / flap output mode when the number of mails increases.

  The additional print information generating unit 128c is a module that generates information regarding the division of the number of contents sheets by the sheet number dividing unit 128b as additional print information, and includes a sheet output mode using thumbnail sheets, and margins and flap portions of envelope sheets. In the margin / flap output mode for printing, the description items and format of the additional print information are selected.

  The print image changing unit 128d is a module that processes print image data in order to print the additional print information generated by the additional print information generating unit 128c. The print image changing unit 128d is used for the thumbnail sheet according to the output mode of the additional print information described above. Print image data is generated, or print image data on envelope paper is processed for margin / flap printing.

  The job changing unit 128e adds a printing process and an enclosing sealing process for inserting an increased number of envelope sheets and thumbnail sheets to the original enclosing sealing job according to the output mode of the additional print information described above. This is a module for changing the sealed sealing job so that all the content sheets can be stored in the envelope. The overall control unit 128 selects an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for preparing the sealed letter based on the sealed sealing job changed by the print image changing unit 128d and the job changing unit 128e, and feeds it from the paper feeding unit 111. The print image data to which the additional print information is added is printed, and all the content sheets can be stored together in one envelope or controlled so as to be stored in a plurality of envelopes.

  The comparison unit 128f includes the division number divided by the sheet number division unit 128b and the number of content sheets divided by adding the number of content sheets added to print additional print information to the number of content sheets. Compare

[First Embodiment]
A sealed letter preparation system 1 according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, a sheet output mode using a thumbnail sheet is executed to output additional print information. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the sealed letter production system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an explanatory view schematically showing the operation of the sealed letter production system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  First, when the overall control unit 128 receives a sealed sealing job from an external terminal device or reads out a sealed sealing job from a recording medium (step S101; YES), The sheet number extraction unit 128a analyzes the received sealed sealing job, and extracts the number of sheets of content paper sealed in each envelope (step S103).

  The number of sheets of each envelope extracted by the sheet number extracting unit 128a is transferred to the sheet number dividing unit 128b. As shown in FIG. 4, the sheet number dividing unit 128b can enclose a specified number of envelopes per envelope based on the sheet number PA of each envelope extracted by the sheet number extracting unit 128a. When the maximum number of sheets is reached, it is divided into a plurality of envelopes, and the divided numbers PS1, PS2,... Are calculated (step S105). Here, since the output mode of the additional print information when dividing is the sheet output mode using the thumbnail sheets SS1 and SS2, the upper limit number is the normal upper limit of the envelope formed from the envelope paper designated by the encapsulating and sealing job. The number is set by subtracting one thumbnail sheet from the number of sheets. Note that the division number is calculated as 0 when all the contents sheets can be stored in one envelope.

  Then, the additional print information generation unit 128c generates information regarding the division of the number of contents sheets by the sheet number division unit 128b as additional print information (step S107). Here, since the sheet output mode uses the thumbnail sheet, as shown in FIG. 4, the description items and the format of the additional print information for the thumbnail sheets SS1 and SS2 are selected. Specifically, the thumbnail sheets SS1 and SS2 describe information related to the division of content sheets, and thumbnails obtained by reducing the images of the respective content sheets are displayed. This thumbnail includes a thumbnail SN11 indicating the content sheet enclosed in the envelope, and a thumbnail SN12 indicating the content sheet enclosed in another divided envelope. Each thumbnail sheet SS1, SS2 can be described with explanations regarding these divided sealed letters. The print image changing unit 128d generates print image data for thumbnail sheets in order to print the additional print information generated by the additional print information generating unit 128c.

  The job changing unit 128e adds printing processing and enclosing sealing processing for inserting an increased number of envelope sheets and thumbnail sheets to the original sealed sealing job, and can store all content sheets in the envelope. In this manner, the encapsulating and sealing job is changed (step S109). In step S105, it is determined that all the content sheets can be stored in one envelope, and for the sealed letter whose division number is calculated as 0, generation of the additional print information (step S107) and The change of the encapsulating and sealing job (step S109) is omitted.

  Thereafter, the overall control unit 128 selects an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for preparing the sealed letter based on the sealed sealing job changed by the print image changing unit 128d and the job changing unit 128e and supplies it from the paper supply unit 111. Paper is printed (step S111), and the print image data to which the additional print information is added is printed (step S113). The printed envelope paper or content paper is sent to the sealing device 3 side (step S115), and all the content papers can be stored together in a single envelope, or divided into a plurality of envelopes and stored. Then, sealing and sealing are performed (step S117). The overall control unit 128 repeats these steps S111 to S117 until all the encapsulating and sealing jobs are completed (step S119; YES).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, even when it is impossible to store all the specified number of contents sheets in an envelope formed from a specified type of envelope sheet, printing for preparing a sealed letter is possible. It is possible to execute printing for sealed letter preparation while avoiding an error stop. Further, since additional print information relating to the number of divided content sheets is printed on the thumbnail sheets SS1 and SS2, a person who receives the sealed letter can tell the envelope that the envelope is related to the division, Can tell if the range is enclosed. In particular, in the present embodiment, the information regarding the division of the content sheet is described in the added thumbnail sheets SS1 and SS2, so that the information regarding the division can be transmitted in more detail. As a result, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to improve the convenience for the user and to prevent the productivity of sealed letter production from being lowered by avoiding the error stop.

[Second Embodiment]
A sealed letter preparation system 1 according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, a margin / flap output mode using margin / flap printing is executed to output additional print information. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the sealed letter production system according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is an explanatory view schematically showing the operation of the sealed letter production system according to the second embodiment of the present invention. It is. Here, the processing of steps S101 to S103 is the same as the processing of steps S101 to S103 in the flowchart shown in FIG.

  The number of sheets of each envelope extracted in step S103 is transferred to the sheet number dividing unit 128b. In the sheet number dividing unit 128b, when the number of sheets designated for one envelope reaches the upper limit number that can be sealed per envelope based on the number of sheets for each envelope extracted by the sheet number extracting unit 128a, Divided into a plurality of envelopes, and the division numbers PS1, PS2,... Are calculated (step S201). In this case, since the output mode of the additional print information when dividing is the margin / flap output mode, the content paper is not increased, and the upper limit number of sheets is the same as that of the envelope formed from the envelope paper designated by the sealed sealing job. The normal upper limit is set. Note that the division number is calculated as 0 when all the contents sheets can be stored in one envelope.

  Next, the additional print information generating unit 128c generates information regarding the division of the number of contents sheets by the sheet number dividing unit 128b as additional print information (step S203). Here, since it is a margin / flap output mode for performing margin / flap printing, as shown in FIG. 6B, the description items and format of the additional print information for the envelope sheets L1 to L3 are selected. Specifically, the envelope sheets L1 to L3 simply describe information related to the division of the contents sheet, and the envelope numbers M11, M21, and M31 of the envelope and the numbers of the other divided envelopes are included. Messages M12, M22, and M32 notifying separately arrived are printed. The print image changing unit 128d generates print image data for margin / flap printing in order to print the additional print information generated by the additional print information generating unit 128c.

  The job changing unit 128e adds printing processing and enclosing sealing processing for inserting an increased number of envelope sheets and thumbnail sheets to the original sealed sealing job, and can store all content sheets in the envelope. In this manner, the encapsulating and sealing job is changed (step S205). In step S201, it is determined that all the content sheets can be stored in one envelope, and for the sealed letter whose division number is calculated as 0, generation of the additional print information (step S203) and The change of the encapsulating and sealing job (step S205) is omitted, and normal printing and encapsulating and sealing as shown in FIG. 6A are set as they are.

  Thereafter, the overall control unit 128 selects an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for preparing the sealed letter based on the sealed sealing job changed by the print image changing unit 128d and the job changing unit 128e and supplies it from the paper supply unit 111. Paper is printed (step S207), and the print image data to which the additional print information is added is printed (step S209). The printed envelope paper or content paper is sent to the sealing and sealing device 3 side (step S211), and all the content paper can be stored together in one envelope, or can be stored divided into multiple envelopes. Then, sealing and sealing are performed (step S213). The overall control unit 128 repeats these steps S207 to S213 until all the encapsulating and sealing jobs are completed (step S215; YES).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, even when it is impossible to store all the specified number of contents sheets in an envelope formed from a specified type of envelope sheet, printing for preparing a sealed letter is possible. It is possible to execute printing for sealed letter preparation while avoiding an error stop. In addition, because additional print information related to the number of content sheets divided is printed on the margins and flaps of the envelope paper, the envelope recipient is notified that the envelope is related to the division and the total number of sheets. Can tell which range of is enclosed. In particular, in the present embodiment, additional print information is simply printed on the flaps and margins of envelope paper, and therefore, additional printing of thumbnail sheets and the like avoids an increase in the number of content sheets and an increase in the number of envelopes. be able to. As a result, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to improve the convenience for the user and to prevent the productivity of sealed letter production from being lowered by avoiding the error stop.

[Third Embodiment]
A sealed letter preparation system 1 according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, in order to output additional print information, the output mode is switched as appropriate by comparing the number of divisions when adding a thumbnail sheet and the number of divisions when margin / flap printing is performed. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the sealed letter production system according to the third embodiment of the present invention. Here, the processing of steps S101 to S103 is the same as the processing of steps S101 to S103 in the flowchart shown in FIG.

  The number of sheets of each envelope extracted in step S103 is transferred to the sheet number dividing unit 128b. The sheet number dividing unit 128b calculates a division number S1 when adding a thumbnail sheet (step S301). Specifically, based on the number of sheets for each envelope extracted by the sheet number extraction unit 128a, the upper limit number of sheets is determined from the normal upper limit number of each envelope formed from the envelope paper designated by the enclosing envelope job. When the number of sheets specified for one envelope reaches the upper limit number of sheets that can be sealed per envelope, it is divided into a plurality of envelopes, and the divided number of passages S1 is set. calculate. Note that the division number is calculated as 0 when all the contents sheets can be stored in one envelope.

  Next, the sheet number dividing unit 128b calculates a divided total number S2 in the case of flap printing (step S303). Specifically, based on the number of sheets for each envelope extracted by the sheet number extraction unit 128a, the upper limit number of sheets is set to the normal upper limit number of envelopes formed from the envelope paper specified in the enclosing envelope job. When the number of sheets designated for one envelope reaches the upper limit number of sheets that can be sealed per envelope, the number of envelopes is divided into a plurality of envelopes and the divided number S2 is calculated. In this case as well, the number of divisions is calculated as 0 when all the content sheets can be stored in one envelope.

  Then, the comparison unit 128f compares the division number S1 when the thumbnail sheet is added with the division number S2 when the margin / flap printing is performed, and the division number S1 is normal even when the thumbnail sheet is added. If the number of divided sheets S2 is the same (step S305; YES), the number of divided sheets S1 is adopted (step S307), and a thumbnail sheet output mode using a thumbnail sheet is selected.

  In the thumbnail sheet output mode, the additional print information generation unit 128c generates information regarding the division of the number of contents sheets by the sheet number division unit 128b as additional print information (step S309). Here, since the sheet output mode uses the thumbnail sheet, as shown in FIG. 4, the description items and the format of the additional print information for the thumbnail sheets SS1 and SS2 are selected. Specifically, the thumbnail sheets SS1 and SS2 display information related to the division of content sheets as thumbnails obtained by reducing the images of the respective content sheets. The print image changing unit 128d generates print image data for thumbnail sheets in order to print the additional print information generated by the additional print information generating unit 128c.

  On the other hand, in step S305, when the number of divisions S2 is increased from the normal number of divisions S1 by adding a thumbnail sheet (step S305; NO), the number of divisions S2 is adopted (step S311). , Switch to margin / flap output mode.

  In the margin / flap output mode, the additional print information generation unit 128c generates information regarding the division of the number of content sheets by the sheet number division unit 128b as additional print information (step S313). Here, since it is a margin / flap output mode for performing margin / flap printing, as shown in FIG. 6B, the description items and format of the additional print information for the envelope sheets L1 to L3 are selected. At the same time, the print image changing unit 128d changes the print image data for margin / flap printing in order to print the additional print information generated by the additional print information generating unit 128c.

  The job changing unit 128e adds printing processing and enclosing sealing processing for inserting an increased number of envelope sheets and thumbnail sheets to the original sealed sealing job, and can store all content sheets in the envelope. Thus, the encapsulating and sealing job is changed (step S315). Note that in steps S301 and S303, it is determined that all the contents sheets can be stored in one envelope, and the processing in steps S307 to S313 is omitted for a sealed letter whose division number is calculated to be 0. Ordinary printing and encapsulating sealing are set as they are.

  Thereafter, the overall control unit 128 selects an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for preparing the sealed letter based on the sealed sealing job changed by the print image changing unit 128d and the job changing unit 128e and supplies it from the paper supply unit 111. Paper is printed (step S317), and the print image data to which the additional print information is added is printed (step S319). The printed envelope paper or content paper is sent to the sealing device 3 side (step S321), and all the content papers can be stored together in one envelope, or can be stored in multiple envelopes. Then, sealing and sealing are performed (step S323). Then, the overall control unit 128 repeats steps S317 to S323 until all the encapsulating and sealing jobs are completed (step S325; YES).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, even when it is impossible to store all the specified number of contents sheets in an envelope formed from a specified type of envelope sheet, printing for preparing a sealed letter is possible. It is possible to execute printing for sealed letter preparation while avoiding an error stop. In addition, additional print information related to the number of divided content sheets is printed on thumbnail sheets, envelope paper margins, and flaps, so that the envelope is related to the division of the recipient. Or you can tell which range of the total number is enclosed.

  In particular, in the present embodiment, the number of sealed letters is increased by the thumbnail sheet by comparing the number of divided sheets S2 for the original number of contents sheets with the number of divided sheets S1 of the contents sheets increased by the thumbnail sheets. The margin / flap output mode is selected, and if the number of sealed letters does not increase, the thumbnail sheet output mode is selected. As a result, basically, the information regarding the division is conveyed in detail by the thumbnail sheet, and the increase in the number of sealed letters is avoided by adding the thumbnail sheet, and the number of sealed letters is reduced as much as possible to reduce the shipping cost. It can be prevented from increasing. As a result, the balance between the amount of additional print information to be written and the number of sealed letters can be adjusted according to the situation, which can improve the convenience for the user and reduce the productivity of sealed letter production. it can.

  In the present embodiment, the overall control unit 128 is provided in the enclosing / sealing device 3. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the overall control unit 128 may be provided in the printing device 2. Further, the overall control unit 128 includes a sheet number extracting unit 128a, a sheet number dividing unit 128b, an additional print information generating unit 128c, a print image changing unit 128d, a job changing unit 128e, and a comparing unit 128f. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and some of them may be provided in the enclosing / sealing device 3 and others may be provided in the printing device 2.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Seal preparation system 2 ... Printing apparatus 3 ... Sealing sealing apparatus 111 ... Paper feed part 112 ... Introduction path 113 ... Conveyance path 114 ... Printing part 115 ... Sending part 116 ... Paper discharge part 117 ... Reversing part 121 ... Contents folding Section 122 ... Folding section 123 ... Envelope forming section 124 ... Water application processing section 124a ... Water application section 125 ... Paper folding section 126 ... Sealing section 127 ... Discharge section 127a ... Discharge tray 128 ... General control section 128a ... Sheet number extraction section 128b ... number of sheets dividing section 128c ... additional print information generating section 128d ... print image changing section 128e ... job changing section 128f ... comparing section

Claims (4)

A printing device for printing on envelope paper and content paper;
An envelope preparation system comprising: an envelope sealing device that forms an envelope from the printed envelope paper, stores the content paper printed by the printing device in the envelope, and prepares a seal;
A paper feeding unit that holds the envelope paper and the content paper, and feeds the envelope paper and the content paper held;
A printing unit for printing a print image on the envelope paper and the content paper fed by the paper feeding unit;
A sending unit for sending the envelope paper and the content paper printed by the printing unit to the sealed sealing device;
Based on an encapsulating sealing job that specifies the number of content sheets, an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for preparing a sealed letter is selected, fed from the sheet feeding unit, and printed by the printing unit. A controller that controls the apparatus to produce the sealed letter;
Dividing the number of sheets to be divided into a plurality of envelopes when it is impossible to store all of the designated number of contents sheets in one envelope formed from the envelope sheets designated by the sealed envelope job And
An additional print information generating unit that generates information regarding the division of the number of content sheets by the sheet number dividing unit as additional print information;
With
The control unit selects an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for producing a sealed letter, feeds the sheet from the sheet feeding unit, performs printing with the additional print information added, and prints all the content sheets on one sheet The envelope preparation system is controlled so that it can be stored in a single envelope or divided into a plurality of envelopes. The number of content sheets per envelope added for printing the additional print information is added to the number of content sheets divided by the sheet number dividing unit so that the contents can be stored in the envelope. A job changing section for changing the sealed sealing job;
The control unit selects an envelope sheet or content sheet to be used for preparing a sealed letter based on the sealed sealing job changed by the job changing unit, and feeds the additional print information from the sheet feeding unit. 2. The envelope according to claim 1, wherein the additional printing is performed and control is performed so that all the content sheets can be stored together in one envelope, or can be divided and stored in a plurality of envelopes. Production system. A print image changing unit for changing the print image so as to print the additional print information generated by the additional print information generating unit in a predetermined area of the envelope paper;
The control unit selects an envelope sheet or a content sheet to be used for preparing a sealed letter based on the print image changed by the print image changing unit, and feeds the additional print information from the sheet feeding unit. 2. The envelope according to claim 1, wherein the additional printing is performed and control is performed so that all the content sheets can be stored together in one envelope, or can be divided and stored in a plurality of envelopes. Production system. The number of content sheets per envelope added for printing the additional print information is added to the number of content sheets divided by the sheet number dividing unit so that the contents can be stored in the envelope. A job changing section for changing the sealed sealing job;
A print image change unit that changes the print image so that the additional print information generated by the additional print information generation unit is printed in a predetermined area of the envelope paper;
Comparison comparing the division number divided by the sheet number division unit with the division number of the content sheet obtained by adding the number of content sheets added to print the additional print information to the number of content sheets And further comprising
The control unit selects and executes control based on the encapsulated sealing job changed by the job change unit or control based on the print image changed by the print image change unit according to the comparison result by the comparison unit. 2. The envelope preparation system according to claim 1, wherein all the content sheets can be stored together in one envelope, or can be stored divided into a plurality of envelopes.

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