JP2906666B2 - Passbook printer - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a passbook inlet and a form inlet which are independently provided and joined together in the middle to connect to a medium transport path.
The present invention relates to a passbook printer in which a printing unit is provided on the medium transport path, and forms input processing and printing processing on the medium transport path are performed in an overlapping manner (performing an overlap processing).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a passbook printer performing an overlap process will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing such a passbook printer. In the figure, 1 is a form transport path, 2 is an image sensor (IOCR) provided on the form transport path 1 and reads a form 3, 4 is a passbook transport path,
Reference numeral 5 denotes a magnetic reading unit (MSR) provided on the passbook transport path 4 for reading the magnetic part of the passbook 6, reference numeral 7 denotes a junction where the form transport path 1 and the passbook transport path 4 merge, and 8 denotes a form and passbook printed thereon. A print head 9 for printing on forms and passbooks; a magnetic write unit (MSW) 10 provided downstream of the print unit 8 for writing to a magnetic part of the passbook 6; It is a discharge path provided in.

[0003] Some forms are long.
When such a long form is read, the front end of the form enters the printing section 8 beyond the merging section 7 in a state where the rear end of the form is read. Such a long form is the form transport path 1
When a passbook is set in the printing unit 8 and the processing of the long form is to be performed prior to the passbook processing, the following processing is performed.

FIG. 9 is a timing chart showing this processing. First, a passbook is inhaled, magnetic data is read by the MSR 5, and the magnetic data is set in the printing unit 8. Almost in parallel with this, an OCR form (a form read by the image sensor) is inhaled. In order to give priority to the processing of the OCR form, the passbook set in the printing unit 8 is once discharged, the OCR form is read, printed, and discharged. After printing, discharge.

[0005]

As described above, when a passbook is set in the printing section 8, a long form in which the front end enters the printing section 8 when reading the entire book is input, and priority is given to the passbook. When the processing is requested, it is necessary to discharge the passbook once, inhale and print again. In addition, since the operation of inhaling the once discharged passbook is performed again by the operator, the burden on the operator is increased.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and when a medium is set in a printing unit, a long form that reaches the printing unit when reading is performed is processed in preference to this medium processing. It is an object of the present invention to provide a passbook printer which can process a request without burdening an operator.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a passbook printer according to the present invention is provided on a form input path, a form reading section for reading the length and contents of a form conveyed on the input path, and a passbook. A passbook input unit for inputting a passbook, a confluence unit where the passbook conveyed from the passbook input unit and the form conveyed by the form reading unit are merged, and a printing unit provided downstream of the confluence unit, When a form longer than a predetermined length is input to the form reading unit, and a passbook is placed on the printing unit, when processing a form longer than the predetermined length in preference to printing the passbook , The passbook of the printing unit is intermediately retracted to the passbook input unit side upstream of the merging unit, and after processing the form having the predetermined length or more, the sheet is transported to the printing unit again to perform the printing process.

[0008] The form reading section may detect that the form is longer than the predetermined length by a display member previously described on the form.

[0009]

[Function] When a passbook is set in the printing section, a form is input, and the length of the form is such that when the entire length of the form is read by the reading section, the front end enters the printing section. Also, when a request is made to perform this form processing in preference to the processing of the passbook set in the printing unit, first, the passbook set in the printing unit is changed to a passbook input unit upstream of the merging unit. After the document is read, printed, and discharged, the passbook is set again on the printing unit, printed, and discharged. This operation is automatically performed inside the passbook printer, and the operator does not need to be aware of evacuation, resetting, and the like of the passbook. Therefore, such form priority processing does not burden the operator.

[0010] Further, a display body indicating that the length is longer than a predetermined length is described in the form, and if the form reading unit reads this display body, the length of the form can be easily detected. can do.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of the present embodiment, and each component is as described above. From FIG. 1 to FIG.
When the full length is read as a form, the form whose length is such that the front end enters the printing unit 8 is input. It shows each operation. Figure 5
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a flow of the above operation. Less than,
The operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to these drawings. First, as shown in FIG. 1, the form 3 and the passbook 6 are inhaled almost in parallel, and the form 3 is read by the image sensor 2 at a length represented by a predetermined display body. After the magnetic data is read by the magnetic reading unit 5, the passbook 6 is set at the position of the print head 9 as shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing on the application side, and requests an inhalation request for the form 3 (step 51).

FIG. 6 shows a detailed flow chart of this form inhalation request. First, the form 3 is inhaled (step 61).
This inhalation process is an operation of detecting the length of the form 3 by downloading the display body to the apparatus and checking the recorded information before inhaling the form 3. When the passbook 6 is set at the printing position, it is determined from the detected length whether the operation of reading the form 3 by the image sensor 2 and the printing operation of the passbook 6 can be performed in parallel (step 62). . When the form 3 has a normal length and the form reading and the passbook printing can be performed in parallel (step 62), the parallel work is performed as it is, and a completion notification is given (step 64). If the parallel work cannot be performed, a flag is set for intermediately retreating the passbook 6 to the passbook input section upstream of the merging section 7 (step 63), and then a completion notification is made (step 64). Returning to FIG. 5, a request for reading the form 3 is made (step 52).

FIG. 7 shows a detailed flowchart of this form reading request. First, it is checked whether the intermediate save flag is ON and whether or not the printing unit 8 has a medium (in this case, the passbook 6) (step 71). If there is no medium, the form 3 is read from the image sensor 2 (step 73), and a completion notification is made (step 74). When the passbook 3 is set in the printing unit 8 (step 71), the passbook 6 is retracted intermediately (step 72). FIG. 3 shows a state in which the bankbook 6 is intermediately retracted from the merging unit 7 to the bankbook input unit side. Thereafter, the image sensor 2 reads the form 3 (step 73) and notifies completion.
(Step 74). FIG. 4 shows a state in which the form 3 is read to the rear end.

FIG. 8 is a timing chart showing the above operation in a time-series manner. First, the passbook 6 and the form 3 are inhaled almost simultaneously. When the passbook 6 is inhaled, the magnetic data is read by the magnetic reading unit 5 and set at a printing position. On the other hand, when the display body is downloaded to the apparatus by the image sensor 2 and the recorded information is checked, the printing process of the passbook 6 is longer than the predetermined value and the reading process of the form 3 by the image sensor 2 is performed in parallel. It is determined that the passbook cannot be executed, and the passbook 6 is evacuated intermediately. When the intermediate retraction is completed, the form 3 is read by the image sensor 2, the form 3 is set in the printing unit 8 and printed, and after the printing is completed, the form 3 is discharged. Next, the passbook 6 evacuated to the intermediate position is set at the printing position again, and the printing is performed and discharged. In this case, since the passbook data such as the position where printing is started remains, printing processing can be performed as it is. In the past, such data did not remain because the paper was completely discharged once, and it was necessary to inhale the passbook again.

The above operation has been described in connection with the case where the form 3 is long and cannot be processed in parallel with the passbook printing process and there is a request to give priority to the form 3 passbook 6. When the length of the document 3 is normal and printing and reading can be performed in parallel, parallel processing is performed. When there is no request for priority processing of the form 3, the form 3 is read and printed after the passbook 6 is printed.

[0016]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, even when the form is longer than a predetermined value and the reading of the form and the printing of the passbook cannot be processed in parallel, the passbook is intermediately evacuated. Since the form processing is performed automatically, the operator does not need to be aware of the parallel processing of the form and the passbook, and does not put a burden on the operator.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a form and a passbook are inhaled substantially in parallel.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a form is intermediately evacuated;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state in which a long form is read in which the form reading and the passbook printing cannot be performed in parallel.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a detailed flowchart of one step in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a detailed flowchart of another step in FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a timing chart of the present embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a timing chart of the related art.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Form conveyance path 2 Image sensor 3 Form 4 Passbook conveyance path 5 Magnetic reading part 6 Passbook 7 Merging part 8 Printing part 9 Printing head 10 Magnetic writing part 11 Ejection path

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A form reading unit provided on a form input path for reading the length and contents of a form conveyed on the input path, a passbook input unit for inputting a passbook, and a passbook conveyed from the passbook input unit. A converging section in which the forms conveyed from the form reading section merge, and a printing section provided downstream of the merging section; a form having a predetermined length or more is input to the form reading section; When a passbook is placed in the passbook , when processing a form longer than the predetermined length in preference to printing the passbook , the passbook of the printing unit is moved to the passbook input unit side upstream from the merging unit. A passbook printer, wherein the passbook printer is retracted, and after processing the form longer than the predetermined length, is conveyed to a printing unit again for printing processing. 2. The passbook printer according to claim 1, wherein the form reading unit detects that the form is longer than the predetermined length by using a display body described in advance on the form.