JP4647859B2 - Personal information printing system and method for reproducing personal printed matter - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a printing system for personal prints, and more particularly to the reproduction of personal prints due to reasons such as defects.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, personal information printing systems that receive digitized personal information and print it at high speed without using a plate have been operating in printing personal information such as direct mail and billing details.
[0003]
In such a personal information printing system, volume management is performed to inspect whether or not all production scheduled items have been produced. Items determined to be defective or unproduced in volume management need to be produced again.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The personal printed material is created through a process as shown in FIG.
First, personal information is created through processes such as extraction of print targets, name identification, rearrangement, and addition of management numbers using master data and transaction data submitted from customers via magnetic media and networks. .
[0005]
Next, print layout data is created in accordance with a print layout instruction such as where each item is to be placed and what character is printed. Based on the print layout data, each item of the original data is converted into image data for each item for typesetting.
[0006]
Finally, the above-described item-unit image data is converted into a printer format that can be handled by an inkjet printer or a Kanji printer (hereinafter collectively referred to as a printer), and actual printing is performed.
[0007]
The personal printed matter produced in this way is a product that is different for each printing unit, unlike a general printed matter. For example, in the direct mail, even if the configuration as a printed matter is the same, the contents to be printed including the address are different from each other, so it is necessary to handle them as individual products. In direct mail, one printing unit is one specific address.
[0008]
Therefore, in the production of personal printed matter, it is necessary to manage the production volume of whether or not the production of each printed matter for each printing unit is completed. Volume management is performed using a system that compares a printed record list with a bar code read list, as proposed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2000-40119.
[0009]
As a result of inspecting all the products, if printing fails, or if a product to be produced is not produced for some reason, it is necessary to carry out reproduction and make sure that all products are available.
[0010]
In the conventional reproduction, both the manual production and the production management system proposed in the above-mentioned JP 2000-40119A manage the production in the final production process, create a list of unproduced items, etc. Return to the process of formatting the image data for each item and print again. For this reason, there is a problem that man-hours in reproduction are increased and it takes time.
[0011]
In addition, there may be cases where image data for each item to be reproduced exists in multiple files or recording media, and when the font used in each file or recording media is different, the relevant file or There is also a problem in that each recording medium must be reproduced from a typesetting process for each item.
[0012]
Accordingly, the present invention has an object to provide a personal information printing system and a method for reproducing personal printed matter that reduce the man-hours necessary for reproduction and shorten the reproduction time in order to eliminate such problems. To do.
[0013]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-described problems, a first aspect of the present invention is a personal information printing system for creating personal prints having different contents one by one, and a printer including personal information including a font set and personal print contents and print data creating means for editing the print data is a use format, a printing unit for printing in the actual printer the print data, a volume management means for managing a result of the printing of personal information, from the print data, the Based on the information of unproduced items managed by the volume management means, the font set of the items that need to be reproduced and the print data extracting means for extracting the personal print contents, and the extracted font sets are a plurality of different font sets. Sometimes a new font set that extracts the necessary fonts from those font sets Create, those having a re-print data creating means for creating reprinting data including personal printing contents the extracted and the new font set, the.
[0015]
According to a second aspect of the present invention, personal information is reprinted into print data that is a printer format including a font set and personal print contents in a personal information reprint method for creating personal prints having different contents one by one. A print data editing stage, a printing stage for actually printing the print data on a printer, a volume management stage for managing the result of printing personal information, and an unproduced item managed by the volume management means from the print data And a print data extraction stage for extracting personal print contents based on the information of the item, and when the extracted font sets are a plurality of different font sets, the necessary fonts from those font sets are extracted. Create a new font set that extracts the new font And reprinting data creation stage to create a re-print data including Tsu preparative personal printing contents the extracted, in which said the reprinting performing a printing again using the reprint data, the provided.
[0016]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on embodiments shown in the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of a personal information printing system 1 of the present invention. The personal information printing system 1 includes a print data editing unit 2, a printing unit 3, a volume management unit 4, and a print data extracting unit 5. The personal information printing system 1 has a function of producing personal prints while creating necessary data each time. is doing.
[0017]
The print data editing means 2 is actually constituted by a computer system, and edit processing for creating personal information 6, print layout data 7 and item-specific image data 8, and conversion into print data 9 in a format that can be handled by the printer. It consists of conversion processing. At the same time, it has a function of recording the created print data list 10.
[0018]
The printing means 3 is actually a printer, receives the print data 9 created by the print data editing means 2 and directly prints without using a plate.
[0019]
The yield management means 4 is actually configured by a computer system, and creates a manufactured item list 11 based on information such as a barcode printed on a personal printed matter.
Further, by collating the print data list 10 with the manufactured item list 11, an unproduced item list 12 that is an item to be printed but whose output cannot be grasped is created.
[0020]
The print data extraction unit 5 is actually configured by a computer system, and extracts unproduced print data from the print data 9 based on the unproduced product list 12 created by the volume management unit 4. The extracted print data is again input to the printer of the printing means 3 and is reprinted.
[0021]
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the personal information printing system shown in FIG. 1, taking as an example the case where the personal printed matter to be created is a monthly service usage statement such as a bill of a telephone company or a credit company.
[0022]
In step S1, text data submitted from a customer via an external storage medium such as magnetic tape or MO, or a communication line, is sorted by printing target data extraction, name identification, zip code, etc. Processing such as addition of a management number for enabling identification is performed, and personal information 6 in which attributes such as personal names and addresses and monthly usage details are recorded as shown in FIG. 3 is created.
[0023]
The next step S2 designates how to print each item on the page, such as font type, character size, print position coordinates, etc., based on the print layout specifications, and print layout data 7 Create The created print layout data 7 is printed using test data, and the layout is confirmed.
In practice, step S2 can proceed in parallel with step S1.
[0024]
Next, in step S3, image data 8 for each item is created for all personal information 6 based on the print layout data 7 as individual parts used in the subsequent typesetting process.
[0025]
Next, in step S4, a typesetting process for arranging the image data 8 in the print layout data 7 is performed. As shown in FIG. 4, print data 9 describing personal print contents 13 in which font sets, print samples, and image data 8 are grouped into one print unit is created. The personal print contents 13 shown in FIG. 4 can be identified by the management number for each printing unit, and this management number is recorded as the print data list 10.
[0026]
Next, step S5 is the printing unit 3 in which the printer inputs the print data 9, develops it into a bitmap, and actually prints personal information. At this time, an item for which printing has failed for some reason is discharged.
[0027]
Next, in step S6, the production volume management unit 4 performs inspection for each printing unit, and creates a manufactured item list 11 in which items that have become non-defective products are recorded.
[0028]
Next, in step S7, the volume management unit 4 collates the print data list 10 with the manufactured item list 11 at the stage where all personal printed matter inspections are completed. Items that do not exist in the finished item list 11 are recorded as unproduced items that need to be reproduced, and the management number is recorded in the unproduced item list 12.
[0029]
Step S8 and subsequent steps are the reproduction procedure of the present invention. First, the print data extracting means 6 refers to the recorded unproduced product list 12 and, when there is an unproduced product, the personal printout of the print data 9 for all the management numbers recorded in the unproduced product list 12. The content 13 is searched, and the personal printed content 13 of the corresponding unproduced product is extracted (steps S8 and S9).
[0030]
The personal print content 13 can be extracted from one print data 9 file or from a plurality of different print data 9 files. In either case, the extracted personal print content 13 is in the same format as the print data 9, and font set information and print samples are added, and the extracted personal print content 13 is incorporated to create reprint data 14 (Step S10).
[0031]
FIG. 5 shows an example in which “personal print content B” is extracted as an unproduced product from one print data 9 file. In order to use the same format as the print data 9, the font set and “personal print content B” are copied to create reprint data 14.
[0032]
FIG. 6 shows an example in which a plurality of unproduced products are extracted from two print data 9 files. If the two files have different font sets such as font set A and font set B, a new font set C is created from the font set A 'and font set B' extracted from the necessary fonts as shown in FIG. And incorporated into the reprint data 14. Further, the validity of the font set C is confirmed using a font check mechanism. Thereafter, “personal print content A” and “personal print content D” extracted from each file are incorporated to create reprint data 14.
[0033]
The present invention does not limit the format of the print data 9. The format shown in FIG. 4 is merely used for explanation. In the present invention, the data used by the printer for actual printing may be a file format that can be identified for each printing unit and that can manipulate the data for each printing unit, such as personal printing contents. .
[0034]
In FIGS. 5 and 6, the print sample existing in the original print data 9 is omitted from the reprint data 14; The print sample can be included in the reprint data 14.
[0035]
Since the newly created reprint data 14 has already been laid out with the items for the individual print contents, the process returns to step S5 and can be immediately input to the printing means 3 and reprinting can be performed.
Since creation of the image data 8 for each item and time-setting processing which take time can be omitted, it is possible to reproduce only unproduced items without returning to the print data creation means 2.
[0036]
There is a possibility that defects may occur even in reprinting, or items that are not produced for some reason. Therefore, when extracting the personal print contents 13 in step S9, the print data list 10 is created in the same manner as in step S4, and the volume management is performed even in reprinting. Items that are production can be extracted. Reprinting is repeated until all production items are available.
[0037]
However, if it is necessary to complete the production of all the production items as soon as possible due to delivery time restrictions or the like, it is possible to print a plurality of copies of the same print unit extracted at the time of reprinting.
[0038]
The print data list 10, the manufactured item list 11, and the unproduced item list 12 are data in which management numbers are recorded. By creating the list data in which the management number is recorded at the separation of processing, it is possible to manage the output by the computer system and extract the print data of unproduced products.
[0039]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the personal information printing system according to the present invention, when remanufacturing unproduced products generated in the process of creating personal printed matter, it is possible to omit print data creating means that requires a lot of man-hours and takes time. Reproduction can be performed in a short time.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an outline of a configuration of a personal information printing system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the personal information printing system according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is an example of personal information used by the personal information printing system according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is an example of print data of the personal information printing system according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram when a reprint data file is created from one print data file.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram when a reprint data file is created from two print data files.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a procedure for producing and reproducing a conventional personal printed matter.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Personal information printing system 2 Print data creation means 3 Printing means 4 Volume management means 5 Print data extraction means 6 Personal information 7 Print layout data 8 Image data 9 Print data 10 Print data list 11 Manufactured item list 12 Unproduced item list 13 Personal print contents 14 Reprint data

Claims (2)

A personal information printing system for creating personal prints with different contents one by one,
Print data creation means for editing personal information into print data which is a printer format including a font set and personal print content ;
Printing means for actually printing the print data on a printer;
A volume management means for managing the results of printing personal information;
From the print data , based on information on unproduced items managed by the yield management means, a print data extraction means for extracting a font set and personal print contents of items that need to be reproduced;
When the extracted font set is a plurality of different font sets, a new font set is created by extracting necessary fonts from those font sets, and the new font set and the reprint including the extracted personal print contents Reprint data creation means for creating data;
A personal information printing system comprising: In the personal information reprinting method for creating personal printed matter with different contents one by one,
A print data editing stage for editing personal information into a print data which is a printer format including a font set and personal print contents ;
A printing step of actually printing the print data on a printer;
A volume management stage for managing the results of printing personal information,
From the print data , based on information on unproduced items managed by the yield management means, a print data extraction step for extracting a font set and personal print contents of items that need to be reproduced;
When the extracted font set is a plurality of different font sets, a new font set is created by extracting necessary fonts from those font sets, and the new font set and the reprint including the extracted personal print contents Re-print data creation stage to create data,
A reprinting step of reprinting using the reprinting data ;
A personal information reprinting method characterized by comprising:

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