JP3800920B2 - Printing system, printing apparatus, and printing control apparatus - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an advertisement display technique in a printing system, and more particularly to a technique for displaying an advertisement during printing.
[0002]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A printing system that performs printing displays a progress meter that indicates the degree of printing progress while printing.
[0003]
In addition, printers that actually perform printing include a large number of articles that can be attached and detached, such as consumables and parts. These are usually exchanged or replenished at a certain frequency.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, at present, when printing is performed using a printer, advertisements are not displayed during printing. Further, printing is not performed together with an image to be printed on a print medium.
[0005]
However, if an advertisement is made at such a time, the person who sees the advertisement is specified as the user of the printer. For this reason, if an advertisement for a printer user is displayed, it is possible to provide an efficient advertisement narrowing down the target without much effort from the advertiser, which is very preferable.
[0006]
On the other hand, as described above, the consumables must be replenished and the parts may be replaced. For this reason, if information about an advertisement is attached to a consumable item or the like, the consumable item or the like can be provided at a low cost by revenue from the advertisement fee, which is also preferable for the user. Furthermore, it can be effective as means for providing information desired to be provided to the user other than information related to the advertisement.
[0007]
This invention pays attention to such a point, and it aims at providing the technique which outputs information with printing.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, according to a first aspect of the present invention, a storage unit that stores a recording medium that records information about an image to be output, and the recording medium is stored in the storage unit, A printing system is provided that includes a reading unit that reads information related to an image, and an output unit that outputs an image determined by the information related to the image read by the reading unit in association with processing related to printing.
[0009]
According to the above aspect, the image information can be output along with the printing process.
[0010]
In the above aspect, the information related to the image to be output may be advertisement information related to an advertisement, and the image determined by the information related to the image may be an advertisement having a content determined from the advertisement information.
[0011]
According to this, an advertisement can be output with a printing process.
[0012]
To achieve the above object, according to a second aspect of the present invention, in a printing system comprising a printing device and a printing control device for controlling the printing device, the printing device is an advertisement for identifying an advertiser. A storage unit that stores a recording medium in which main information is recorded; and a first reading unit that reads out the advertiser information while the recording medium is being stored in the storage unit. A storage unit that associates and stores the advertiser information and the advertising content of the advertiser determined by the advertiser information, an acquisition unit that acquires the read advertiser information, and the acquired advertiser information A second reading unit that reads out the advertising content corresponding to the storage unit, and an output unit that outputs the read advertising content.
[0013]
According to the above aspect, the advertiser information is acquired from the recording medium accommodated in the printing apparatus, and the advertisement content stored in the print control apparatus is output corresponding to the advertiser information.
[0014]
In the above aspect, the output unit includes a display device that displays the advertising content, and the print control device further includes a time measuring unit that measures the time during which the display device displays the advertising content, The recording medium includes a time storage area for storing information related to the time measured by the time measurement section, and the printing device writes to the time measurement storage area when the recording medium is stored in the storage section. May be further provided.
[0015]
Thereby, it is possible to measure the time during which the advertisement content is displayed.
[0016]
In the above aspect, the recording medium further includes incidental information about the advertiser, and the first reading unit reads the incidental information together with the advertiser information, and acquires the information. The unit may acquire the supplementary information together with the advertiser information, and the output unit may change the output mode of the advertising content based on the supplementary information, or may be stored in the recording medium. Further, expiration date information indicating an expiration date of the advertisement is recorded, the reading unit reads the expiration date information together with the advertiser information, and the acquisition unit acquires the expiration date information as the advertiser information. And the output unit determines whether it is within the expiration date based on the expiration date information, and outputs the advertisement content if it is within the expiration date. There.
[0017]
Thereby, information other than advertiser information can be memorize | stored in a recording medium, and the display mode of advertising content can be changed based on these.
[0018]
In order to achieve the above object, according to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printing apparatus connected to a printing control apparatus, which accommodates a recording medium in which advertising information related to an advertisement is recorded; A reading unit that reads out the advertisement information while storing the recording medium in the storage unit, and an output unit that outputs the read advertisement information as transmission information to the print control apparatus.
[0019]
According to the above aspect, there is provided a printing apparatus that acquires advertisement information from a recording medium and transmits the advertisement information to the print control apparatus.
[0020]
In the above aspect, the recording medium may be at least one of a partial product of the printing apparatus and a cut sheet packaging member used for printing by the printing apparatus.
[0021]
The partial product includes at least one of an image forming medium container having a storage element and a consumable part to which the storage element is attached, and the storage element stores the advertisement information. Also good.
[0022]
In order to achieve the above object, according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printing control apparatus for controlling a printing apparatus, an obtaining unit for obtaining advertisement information related to an advertisement from the printing apparatus, and the obtained advertisement information. And an output unit that outputs an advertisement having a content determined by.
[0023]
According to the above aspect, there is provided a print control apparatus that receives advertisement information from a printing apparatus and outputs an advertisement based on the advertisement information.
[0024]
In the above aspect, the advertisement information may be advertiser information for identifying an advertiser, and the output unit may output an advertiser's advertisement content determined by the acquired advertiser information.
[0025]
Thereby, the advertising information acquired from the recording medium may not be the advertising content itself.
[0026]
The output unit may include a display device that displays the advertisement.
[0027]
In order to achieve the above object, according to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a partial product of the image forming apparatus accommodated in the image forming apparatus, and when the image forming apparatus is accommodated in the image forming apparatus, Advertisement information relating to advertisements read by the reading unit of the apparatus is attached.
[0028]
According to the above aspect, the partial product of the image forming apparatus to which the advertisement information read by the image forming apparatus is attached is provided.
[0029]
In order to achieve the above object, according to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image forming medium container which can be attached to an image forming apparatus and has a storage element attached thereto, A storage area is provided for storing advertisement information read by the image forming apparatus during attachment to the image forming apparatus.
[0030]
According to the above aspect, there is provided an image forming medium container including a storage area in which advertisement information read by the image forming apparatus is stored.
[0031]
In the above aspect, the advertisement information may include at least one of advertiser information for identifying an advertiser and advertisement content.
[0032]
In order to achieve the above object, according to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cut paper packaging member that accommodates a plurality of cut sheets used by the image forming apparatus for image formation,
A cut paper wrapping member having advertisement information related to an advertisement read by a sensor of the image forming apparatus when attached to the image forming apparatus.
[0033]
According to the said aspect, the cut paper packaging member which memorize | stored the advertisement information which the sensor of an image forming apparatus memorize | stores is provided.
[0034]
In order to achieve the above object, according to an eighth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium that includes a display device and that records a program executed by a print control device that performs print control. Processing to accept advertising content,
A process of receiving information related to the degree of progress of printing, and a process of displaying the advertisement content and the degree of printing determined by the degree of progress information together with the display device.
[0035]
According to the above aspect, there is provided a recording medium that records a program that causes the print control apparatus to display the print progress and the advertisement together.
[0036]
In order to achieve the above object, according to a ninth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printing apparatus capable of mounting an image forming medium container having a storage element attached thereto, and a print control apparatus for controlling the printing apparatus. In the printing system, the storage element includes a storage area for storing advertiser information for identifying an advertiser, and the printing apparatus includes a mounting unit for mounting the image forming medium container, and the image forming medium container. A reading unit that reads out the advertiser information stored in the storage area of the storage element when a device is mounted on the mounting unit, and the printing control device includes the advertiser information, the advertiser's information A storage unit that associates and stores advertisement content, an acquisition unit that acquires the advertiser information read by the reading unit, and an advertisement content that corresponds to the acquired advertiser information is read from the storage unit. Comprising a read unit for issuing a display unit for displaying the advertisement content read, the.
[0037]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0038]
As shown in FIG. 1, the printing system according to the present embodiment includes a host computer (hereinafter referred to as “host”) 1 and a printer 6 that is a printing apparatus that prints print data output from the host 1. Prepare.
[0039]
The host 1 includes a host main body 11, a display device 12, and a keyboard 13. The host body 11 includes a CPU 20 that executes various programs, a ROM 21 that stores various data and various programs, a RAM 22 that temporarily stores various data and various programs, and a display that controls the display device 12. A controller 23, a keyboard controller 24 for controlling the keyboard 13, a floppy disk drive 25, a hard disk drive 26, a CD-ROM drive 27, a printer interface 28, and a net interface 29 are provided.
[0040]
The printer 6 is, for example, an ink jet printer capable of color printing, and when printing data is received from the host 1, executes a predetermined printing process to form an image on a printing paper as a printing medium. The printer 6 includes a printing mechanism 68 that actually performs printing, and a print control unit 61 that controls them. The print controller 61 includes a CPU 62 that executes various programs, various data and various programs, an EEPROM 63, a RAM 64 that temporarily stores various data and various programs, and the host 1 or the printing mechanism 68. Interfaces 65 and 66 for performing data transmission / reception, a barcode reader 67 for reading the barcode 36 attached to the cut paper packaging member 35, and a printing mechanism 68 are provided. The printing mechanism 68 includes a storage element 90. The storage element 90 is preferably attached to a case that accommodates an image forming medium such as ink or toner that is detachable from the printing mechanism 68. More preferably, the memory element 90 is configured by a semiconductor memory device such as an IC (integrated circuit).
[0041]
2 and 3 show the appearance of the printer 6 according to the present embodiment and the packaging member 35 containing the cut paper 3.
[0042]
The printing control unit 61 and the printing mechanism 68 are housed in the casing 30. In the casing 30, a paper feed port 32 and a paper discharge port 33 are formed. The barcode reader 67 is provided in the paper feed port 32. When the cut paper 3 packaged in the cut paper packaging member 35 is inserted into the paper feed port 32, the barcode reader 67 reads the barcode 34 attached to the cut paper packaging member 35.
[0043]
As shown in FIG. 3, the cut paper packaging member 35 is formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape with cardboard, hard paper, cardboard, or the like in order to wrap a plurality of cut papers 3 in a stacked state. The cut paper wrapping member 35 is formed with a separation line 38 that is divided into a lid 36 and a main body 37 in order to take out a plurality of cut papers 3 inside. The separation line 38 is formed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cut paper packaging member 35. The separation line 38 is formed by perforations so that the lid 36 and the main body 37 can be easily separated. On one surface 39 of the main body 37, advertisement information related to the advertisement is printed. One surface 39 of the main body 37 is a surface facing the surface of the cut paper 3 accommodated therein. The advertisement information is printed with a barcode 34 at a position adjacent to the separation line 38, for example.
[0044]
Next, an example of a case for accommodating an image forming medium with the storage element 90 attached will be described with reference to FIG.
[0045]
FIG. 4 shows the appearance of the ink cartridge 80 to which the storage element 90 is attached. The ink cartridge 80 includes a cartridge main body 81 that forms an ink storage portion that stores ink therein, and a storage element 90 built in the side frame portion 82 of the cartridge main body 81. This storage element 90 stores advertisement information.
[0046]
The storage element 90 is connected to an interface 66 of the printer main body when the ink cartridge 80 is mounted in a cartridge mounting portion (not shown) of the printer main body 11, and exchanges various data with the printer main body. Since the storage element 90 is mounted in the concave portion 83 whose lower side is open with respect to the side frame 82 of the ink cartridge 80, only the plurality of connection terminals 84 are exposed. Although the toner cartridge has been described here, a toner cartridge including a toner storage unit that stores toner may be used.
[0047]
The functional configurations of the host 1 and the printer 6 are shown in FIG. The host main body 11 includes an application 40, a communication control unit 45, and a printer driver 50.
[0048]
The communication control unit 45 outputs a print request including print data, a display information acquisition request, and the like to the printer 6. Further, advertisement display information 900 and the like are received from the printer 6.
[0049]
The printer driver 50 includes a print management unit 51, a display control unit 52, an advertisement management unit 53, and an advertisement database 54 as its functions.
[0050]
The print management unit 51 receives a print instruction from the application 40 or the keyboard 13 and generates print data based on the print instruction. When advertising printing is performed on printing paper, print data based on the advertising content acquired from the advertising database 54 is generated. The generated print data is passed to the communication control unit 45.
[0051]
The display control unit 52 displays a user interface screen or the like on the display device 12. For example, the progress display screen 100 shown in FIG. 8 is displayed.
[0052]
The progress display screen 100 indicates the degree of progress of the printing process requested to the printer 6 and includes a print cancel button 102 and a pause button 103. The progress display screen 100 further includes a progress meter display area 110 and an advertisement display area 130. In the advertisement display area 130, predetermined advertisement content delivered from the advertisement management unit 53 is displayed. The advertising content may be displayed on a screen other than the progress display screen 100. For example, you may display on other user interface screens, such as a printing condition setting screen, and you may display advertisement content independently.
[0053]
The advertisement management unit 53 manages acquisition of advertisement display information and input / output of the advertisement database 54. For example, an advertisement display information acquisition request is generated and transmitted to the printer 6 via the communication control unit 45. All or part of the advertisement display information 900 is acquired from the printer 6. The advertisement content 542 in the advertisement database 54 is acquired, added, updated, and the like. The acquired advertisement content 542 is passed to the print management unit 51 or the display control unit 52.
[0054]
Here, the advertisement display information 900 is stored as advertisement information in the storage element 90 attached to an ink cartridge or the like, or the barcode 36 attached to the cut sheet 3.
[0055]
For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the advertisement display information 900 includes advertiser information 901 for identifying an advertiser that provides an advertisement, an index 902 for determining the display level of the advertisement, and a reference time indicating the date and time when the advertisement is received. 903 and display time 904 which records the time which displayed the advertisement. The display time 904 is an area for recording the time when the advertisement is actually displayed as measured by the time measuring unit 55. For this reason, when the user purchases an ink cartridge or the like, a predetermined initial value (0 hours or the like) is recorded. The measurement time may be integrated. The bar code 36 does not store the display time 904.
[0056]
The advertisement display information 900 may include a plurality of advertiser information 901 and an index 902 corresponding to each.
[0057]
Further, the advertisement management unit 53 refers to the index 902 included in the acquired advertisement display information 900 to determine the output mode such as the size of the advertisement display, the display location, the display priority, and the display time. For example, the size of the displayed advertisement area, the size of characters or graphics, the display color, the display location, etc. may be changed according to the size of the index (see FIGS. 8A and 8B). ).
[0058]
In addition, when a plurality of advertiser information 901 is set, a larger index 902 may be displayed with priority.
[0059]
Furthermore, the total advertisement display time may be limited according to the size of the index 902. At this time, the total advertisement display time is determined with reference to the display time 904. Thereby, the effective display time of an advertisement can be set.
[0060]
Further, the advertisement management unit 53 acquires the current date and time from a date mechanism (not shown), and determines whether or not the advertisement can be displayed by comparing with a reference time 903 described later. For example, when a certain time has elapsed since the reference time 903, the advertising content may not be output. That is, the expiration date of the advertisement can be set. In addition, at the reference time 903, the effective date of the advertisement may be stored and the expiration date of the advertisement may be managed.
[0061]
Further, referring to the current date, a special advertisement for a limited time may be displayed within a predetermined period. For example, in a certain period such as Christmas or New Year, advertisement content suitable for each may be output.
[0062]
The advertisement database 54 stores advertisement information. For example, the advertisement content correspondence table 540 shown in FIG. 6 stores therein advertiser information 541 for identifying an advertiser providing an advertisement and the advertisement content 542 of the advertiser in association with each other. The advertising content 542 may store the image content itself (541a) to be displayed, or a pointer to the area where the advertising content is stored, or the file name (542b) of the advertising content. Also good. The image content includes characters and a logo, and the format of the stored data is arbitrary.
[0063]
The contents of the advertisement database 54 can be updated. For example, the advertisement management unit 53 can use the Internet or the like to acquire new advertisement content from each advertiser's server (not shown) and update the advertisement database 54. Thereby, advertisement content can be changed and displayed in a timely manner.
[0064]
The timer 55 measures the time when the advertisement is displayed.
[0065]
The print control unit 61 includes a communication control unit 71, a printing mechanism control unit 72, an advertisement information acquisition control unit 73, a storage element management unit 74, and a barcode reader control unit 75.
[0066]
The communication control unit 71 receives print data and display information acquisition requests from the host 1. Further, the advertisement display information 900 is output for transmission to the host 1.
[0067]
The printing mechanism control unit 72 receives a print request from the host 1, passes the print data to the print control unit 68, and executes printing.
[0068]
The storage element management unit 74 manages input / output and update of information stored in the storage area of the storage element 90. For example, when a display information acquisition request is received, the advertisement display information 900 stored in the storage element 90 is read. When the advertisement information update request is received, the advertisement display information 900 stored in the storage element 90 is updated.
[0069]
The barcode reader controller 75 controls the barcode reader 67 and reads the barcode 36 attached to the cut paper packaging member 35. For example, the barcode is read when a display information acquisition request is received. The bar code includes advertisement display information 900.
[0070]
Next, a processing flow of the printing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 11 and 12.
[0071]
FIG. 11 shows a case where advertisement content is displayed on the progress display screen 100.
[0072]
First, the printer driver 50 receives a print instruction from the application 40 or the like (S101). When the print instruction is received, the print management unit 51 generates print data and transmits it to the printer 6 via the communication control unit 45 (S102). The print control unit 61 that has received the print data instructs the print mechanism 68 to print, and the print mechanism 68 starts printing.
[0073]
The advertisement management unit 53 transmits a display information acquisition request to the printer 6, and the storage element management unit 74 or the barcode reader control unit 75 of the printer 6 acquires the advertisement display information 900. The communication control unit 71 returns the advertisement display information 900 to the host 1 (S103). The advertisement management unit 53 acquires the advertisement content 542 from the advertisement database 54 based on the advertiser information 901 of the advertisement display information 900 (S104).
[0074]
The advertisement management unit 53 passes the advertisement display information 900 and the advertisement content 542 to the display control unit 52, and the display control unit 52 displays the progress display screen 100 including the advertisement content on the display device 12 (S105). At this time, the timer 55 starts measuring the display time. The advertisement management unit 53 may change the display mode based on information included in the advertisement display information.
[0075]
When printing is completed, the advertisement content is deleted from the display device 12 together with the progress meter (S106, S107). The time measuring unit 55 ends the measurement of the display time, and writes back the time during which the advertisement is displayed in the storage element 90 (S108).
[0076]
Thus, when printing is performed, an advertisement can be displayed on the host 1 in association with printing such as printing. In the present embodiment, an advertisement is displayed in response to reception of a process or operation related to printing execution. However, it is not always necessary to display advertisements or the like. For example, it may be displayed on the user interface screen when performing any processing or operation related to printing, such as when the user sets printing conditions.
[0077]
FIG. 12 shows a case where the advertising content is printed on the printing paper.
[0078]
Steps S201 to S204 are the same as steps S101 to S104 in FIG.
[0079]
When the predetermined advertisement content 542 is acquired, it is transferred to the print management unit 51. The print management unit 51 generates print data for printing the advertisement content and transmits it to the printer 6 (S205). Upon receiving this print data, the printer 6 prints the advertising content on the printing paper. FIG. 9 shows a state of the printing paper 200 on which the advertisement printing is performed at that time. On the printing paper 200 on which the advertisement printing is performed, a printing area 201 such as an image to be originally printed and an advertisement printing area 202 are arranged.
[0080]
Accordingly, the advertisement can be printed on the printing paper together with the image to be originally printed.
[0081]
In the present embodiment, the advertising content is held by the host 1, but as shown in FIG. 10, the advertising content is stored in a storage element, and is read and displayed when necessary, printed, or the like. May be performed.
[0082]
In the present embodiment, the medium for transmitting information related to the advertisement is an image forming medium container such as the cut sheet 3 and an ink cartridge or a toner cartridge, but is not limited thereto. For example, the advertisement information may be recorded on other parts such as consumable parts and optional parts of other printers. In this case, each partial product is provided with a storage element or the like, and may be stored in the storage device, or may be attached to the outside or a part of the internal part.
[0083]
Furthermore, by attaching advertisement information to the above-mentioned partial products and the like, the selling price of these partial products and the like can be reduced. The ink cartridge or the like may be collected after use of the ink, the display time 904 is checked, and consumables may be sold at a discount according to the length of the displayed time.
[0084]
In the above embodiment, the image content is displayed on the display device 12, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, sound or sound output may be performed based on sound or sound content.
[0085]
【The invention's effect】
ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, an advertisement display can be performed with a printing process.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a hardware configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an external appearance of a printer to which a cut paper packaging member according to an embodiment of the present invention is attached.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an example of a packaging member containing cut paper in an embodiment according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an ink cartridge to which a storage element is attached in the embodiment according to the invention.
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a functional configuration of a printer and a host in the embodiment according to the invention.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an advertisement content correspondence table stored in an advertisement database according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of advertisement information stored in the storage element according to the embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a progress display screen in the embodiment according to the invention.
FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of print paper on which advertisement printing is performed in the embodiment according to the invention.
FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram illustrating another example of advertisement information stored in the storage element according to the embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure when an advertisement content is displayed on the screen according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure when printing the advertising content on the printing paper in the embodiment according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 ... Host computer
3 ... Cut paper
6 ... Printer
11 ... Host body
35. Packaging member
36 ... Barcode
61: Print control unit
40 ... Application
50 ... Printer driver
51. Print management section
52 ... Display control
53 ... Advertisement Management Department
54 ... Advertising database
55 ... Timekeeping section
72. Printing mechanism control unit
74: Memory element management unit
75 ... Bar code reader controller

Claims (16)

In a printing system comprising a printing device and a printing control device for controlling the printing device,
The printing apparatus includes:
A storage unit for storing a recording medium on which image information for displaying advertisement information is recorded;
A reading unit that reads out information about the image from the recording medium while the recording medium is being stored in the storage unit ;
The print control device includes:
Along with processing related to printing, the information acquisition unit acquires information about the image read by the reading unit, and has a display unit that displays advertisement information determined by the information about the acquired image on the screen.
The recording medium is at least one of a consumable part of the printing apparatus and a cut sheet packaging member used for printing by the printing apparatus,
The information on the image includes incidental information that specifies a display mode on the screen of the advertisement information,
The printing system , wherein the display unit displays the advertisement information in a display mode specified by supplementary information included in the acquired information about the image . In a printing system comprising a printing device and a printing control device for controlling the printing device,
The printing apparatus includes:
A storage unit for storing a recording medium in which advertiser information for identifying an advertiser is recorded;
A first reading unit that reads out the advertiser information while accommodating the recording medium in the accommodating unit,
The print control device includes:
A storage unit that stores the advertiser information in association with the advertising content of the advertiser determined by the advertiser information;
An acquisition unit for acquiring the advertiser information read by the first reading unit;
A second reading unit that reads out the advertising content corresponding to the advertiser information acquired by the acquiring unit from the storage unit;
An output unit for outputting the advertisement content read by the second reading unit ;
A display device,
The recording medium is at least one of a consumable part of the printing apparatus and a cut sheet packaging member used for printing by the printing apparatus,
The output of the advertising content includes a process of displaying the advertising content on the display device,
In the recording medium, additional information for specifying a display mode of the advertisement content to be displayed on the display device is recorded,
The first reading unit reads the incidental information together with the advertiser information,
The acquisition unit acquires the incidental information together with the advertiser information,
The output unit changes a display mode of the advertisement content based on the incidental information. The printing system according to claim 2,
In the incidental information, at least one of the display position of the advertisement content displayed on the display device, the size of the display area of the advertisement content, and the size of characters included in the advertisement content is designated. Information to be included
A printing system featuring. The printing system according to claim 2 or 3 ,
Before SL print control apparatus, a timer portion for counting a time during which the display device is displaying the advertising content, further comprising,
The recording medium includes a time storage area for storing information related to the time measured by the time measuring unit,
The printing system further includes a writing unit that writes into the timing storage area when the recording medium is stored in the storage unit. The printing system according to claim 2 or 3 ,
In the recording medium, further, expiration date information indicating an expiration date of the advertisement is recorded,
The reading unit reads the deadline information together with the advertiser information,
The acquisition unit acquires the deadline information together with the advertiser information,
The output system determines whether the expiration date is within the expiration date based on the expiration date information, and outputs the advertisement content when the expiration date is within the expiration date. A printing device connected to a printing control device having a display device ,
An accommodating portion for accommodating a recording medium in which advertisement information for displaying an advertisement image on the display device is recorded;
A reading unit that reads out the advertisement information while the recording medium is stored in the storage unit;
An output unit that outputs the read advertisement information as transmission information to the print control apparatus ;
The advertisement information includes at least information specifying either the position on the screen of the advertisement image displayed by the display device and the size of the advertisement image on the screen <br / > Printing device. The printing apparatus according to claim 6 .
The recording medium is
A printing apparatus comprising at least one of a partial product of the printing apparatus and a cut paper packaging member used for printing by the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus according to claim 7 .
The partial product includes at least one of an image forming medium container to which a storage element is attached and a consumable part to which the storage element is attached.
The printing device, wherein the storage element stores the advertisement information. A printing control device for controlling a printing device,
An acquisition unit for acquiring advertisement information about the advertisement from the printing device;
An output unit for outputting the contents of the advertisement determined by the acquired the advertisement information,
A display device,
The output of the advertisement performed by the output unit includes a process of displaying the advertisement on the display device,
The advertisement information includes at least supplementary information that specifies either the position on the screen of the advertisement displayed on the display device and the size of the advertisement on the screen,
The output unit is
The print control apparatus , wherein the advertisement is displayed on the display device in a display mode specified by supplementary information included in the acquired advertisement information . The print control apparatus according to claim 9 ,
The advertising information is advertiser information for identifying an advertiser,
The print control apparatus, wherein the output unit displays an advertising content of an advertiser determined by the acquired advertiser information on the display device. A part of the image forming apparatus accommodated in the image forming apparatus,
Information about an advertisement read by the reading unit of the image forming apparatus when accommodated in the image forming apparatus is attached,
The advertisement information is information used to display an image of the advertisement, and at least one of the position on the screen of the advertisement when the image is displayed and the size of the advertisement on the screen A part of the image forming apparatus, characterized in that the information includes information for designating . An image forming medium container that can be attached to an image forming apparatus and has a storage element attached thereto,
The storage element includes a storage area that stores advertisement information read by the image forming apparatus during mounting on the image forming apparatus,
The advertisement information is information used to display an image of the advertisement, and at least one of the position on the screen of the advertisement when the image is displayed and the size of the advertisement on the screen An image forming medium container, characterized in that information for designating is included . The image forming medium container according to claim 12 , wherein
The image forming medium container, wherein the advertisement information further includes at least one of advertiser information for identifying an advertiser and advertisement content. A cut paper wrapping member that accommodates a plurality of cut sheets used for image formation by the image forming apparatus,
When attached to the image forming apparatus, advertisement information related to an advertisement read by a sensor of the image forming apparatus is attached,
The advertisement information is information used to display an image of the advertisement, and at least one of the position on the screen of the advertisement when the image is displayed and the size of the advertisement on the screen A cut-paper wrapping member characterized in that information for specifying is included . A recording medium that includes a display device and that records a program executed by a print control device that performs print control,
The program is
Receiving information about the ad ;
Receiving information about the progress of printing ;
Causing the printing control device to execute the display of the advertising content determined by the information related to the received advertisement and the printing progress determined by the progress information together with the display device,
The information related to the advertisement includes at least incidental information for designating a display mode on the screen of the advertisement content to be displayed on the display device,
The displaying step includes
A recording medium , wherein advertising content is displayed on the display device in a display mode specified by supplementary information included in the information related to the received advertisement . In a printing system comprising: a printing apparatus capable of mounting an image forming medium container having a storage element attached; and a printing control apparatus for controlling the printing apparatus.
The storage element includes a storage area for storing advertisement information including advertiser information for identifying an advertiser,
The printing apparatus includes:
A mounting portion for mounting the image forming medium container;
A reading unit that reads out the advertisement information stored in the storage area of the storage element when the image forming medium container is mounted on the mounting unit;
The print control device includes:
A storage unit that stores the advertiser information and the advertising content of the advertiser in association with each other;
An acquisition unit for acquiring the advertisement information read by the reading unit;
A reading unit that reads out the advertising content corresponding to the advertiser information included in the acquired advertising information from the storage unit;
A display unit for displaying the read advertisement content,
The advertisement information includes incidental information that specifies the display mode of the advertisement,
The printing system , wherein the display unit displays the advertisement content in a display mode specified by supplementary information included in the acquired advertisement information .

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