JP4867688B2 - Print issue device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an improvement of an issuance apparatus that automatically prints and issues certificates, tickets, and the like. In particular, due to the nature of printed matter to be issued, printing is performed halfway when a jam occurs due to the occurrence of a paper jam in the printer, and printing resumes The present invention relates to a printed matter issuing apparatus that can cope with a case where it is necessary to discard a printed matter and perform printing from the first sheet.

In recent years, automatic issuing devices have been introduced and used in various local governments, companies, schools, and the like as means for issuing certificates, tickets, and the like (hereinafter referred to as certificates). Due to the nature of certificates and tickets, it is necessary to issue the required number of sheets accurately without excess or deficiency.
As this type of automatic issuing device, a combination of a commercially available general-purpose printer, a post-processing device for stapling or signing printed paper output from the printer, and a control device for controlling them is used. Is known, and each automatic device is configured by storing each device in a housing having a plurality of storage shelves.

4 (a), 4 (b) and 4 (c) are an external view of the automatic issuing device as described above, a front door open state explanatory view, and a view showing the door open state of the printer accommodating portion. FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the connection state between each apparatus accommodated.
A housing 101 of the automatic issuing device includes a main body 102, a front door 103 pivotally supported to open and close the front surface of the main body 102, a printer storage unit 105 disposed in the main body 102, and a post-processing device storage unit. 106 and the like. A laser printer 110 is housed in the printer housing unit 105, and a post-processing device 111 is housed in the post-processing device housing unit 106. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, a control device 115 including a control PC 116, a user touch panel display 117, a maintenance keyboard 118, and a maintenance mouse 119 is arranged in the main body 102. The laser printer 110, post-processing The apparatus 111 is configured to be controlled. Doors 105a and 106a for opening and closing them are pivotally supported on the front surfaces of the storage units 105 and 106 as necessary.

  A commercially available laser printer or the like is configured to stop the operation of the entire printer when a jam occurs during execution of a print job or when a soft error of the printer or the control device occurs. When the operation is stopped due to a jam, the front door 103 is opened, the door 105a is opened, the printer is pulled out, the printer cover is opened, the jam processing is performed, and the cover is closed. When the operation is stopped due to a soft error, the keyboard 118 and mouse 119 of the control device 115 are operated to reset.

Incidentally, the print data in the cache memory provided in the printer 110 is not erased even if the operation is stopped due to each of the above causes. Accordingly, when the cause of the operation stop is resolved and the print job is resumed, the printing is restarted from the middle based on the print data relating to the page that has been printed until the printing is interrupted. .
However, if such print processing is performed after recovery due to jam processing or soft error resolution, missing pages or duplicate printed pages are included in the final output certificate after post processing. Often included. If missing pages or duplicate prints occur as a result of resuming printing, the reliability of the certificates may be significantly reduced, so this type of certificate issuing device is not preferable. is there.
For this reason, when the operation is stopped due to a soft error, the worker continues to input the specific command to the control device to clear the cache data of the printer.

In addition, in the case of operation stoppage due to the occurrence of a jam, the worker can store the data in the cache memory in the printer by turning off the printer power switch or removing the printer power plug from the outlet after the jam processing. It is necessary to erase the print data and then restart the printing by turning on the power again. If the printer power switch layout and the power plug installation position make the printer power off and on operations complicated, use the maintenance keyboard and mouse that make up the control unit. It is necessary to output a command to erase print data to the cache memory.
However, the work for clearing the cache accompanying the restoration work is complicated, and there is a strong demand for improvement in this respect.

Patent Documents 1, 2, and 3 disclose a method of canceling print data and quickly starting the next printing in order to eliminate dust printing at the start of reprinting after the printer stops printing. It does not propose a technique for solving the conventional problems as described above.
JP 2003-044243 A JP-A-2005-242713 JP 2006-088688 A

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and in an apparatus that issues a document such as a certificate that does not allow page missing or duplicated printing, when printing is resumed after the jam processing is completed, a particularly troublesome operation is performed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a printed matter issuing apparatus that can redo a job in which a jam has occurred from the first page.

  In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention provides a printer that prints on paper, a post-processing device that performs post-processing on printed paper output from the printer, a control device, and power supply Power supply apparatus, a printer power supply control apparatus for controlling power supply to the printer disposed between the power supply apparatus and the printer apparatus, a printer, a post-processing apparatus, a control apparatus, a power supply apparatus, and a printer power supply control A printed matter issuance apparatus comprising: a housing for housing the apparatus, wherein the housing includes a printer housing for housing the printer; and a door for opening and closing the printer housing; The control device is connected to an open / close detection unit that detects the open / closed state of the door, and the printer power supply control device is configured to detect the open / closed state of the door when the open / closed detection unit detects the closed state of the door. Controlled so as to perform power supply to the printer, wherein the close detection portion is configured to control so as to stop the power supply to the printer when it is detecting the open state of the door.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the printer has a built-in storage unit for storing print data, temporarily holds the supplied print data in the storage unit, and prints the print data read from the storage unit on paper. Yes, when the door is opened between the start of printing data supply to the printer and the completion of printing by the printer , the printer power control device supplies power to the printer. while clearing print data held in the storage unit of the printer by stopping, together with the control device controls so as to reject the printed sheet based on the print data to the post-processing device, then the door When the printer is in a closed state, control is performed so that the print data is again supplied to the printer from the control device .

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect, a manual switch is connected to the printer power supply control device, and the printer power supply control device is configured such that the open / close detection unit detects an open state of the door. Even in such a case, the operator controls the power supply to the printer by operating the manual switch.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first, second, or third aspect, when the operator operates the control device and shifts to the maintenance mode of the printer, the printer power supply control device includes the open / close detection unit. Control is performed so as to supply power to the printer even when the open state of the door is detected.

  The present invention relates to a paper jam stored in the storage unit by turning off the printer power when the paper conveying means and the printing unit are stopped due to the occurrence of a paper jam during continuous printing in the printer operation mode. The print data is deleted, and after the jam processing is completed, the print data for the same job is newly transmitted to the storage unit, and then the operation of the paper transport unit and the print unit is restarted to control printing from the first sheet. I did it.

  That is, according to the present invention, the printer is accommodated in a printer accommodating portion provided in the casing, and a door for opening and closing the printer accommodating portion, an open / close detecting portion that detects opening / closing of the door and interlocked with a power switch of the printer is provided. As long as the door is closed while the printer is operating, the open / close detector will not detect the opening of the door, so the printer will continue to turn on, but if the door is opened while the printer is operating, this will be detected. The operation of the printer is stopped by detection by the unit. This is because when the door is opened for paper jam processing, it is often necessary to stop the operation of the printer. By the way, when the printer is configured to automatically resume printing from the page related to the paper that has been removed due to the occurrence of jam when the printing is resumed after the jam processing ends, when the job is finally completed, Missing pages and duplicate prints may occur. When issuing certificates, it is necessary to avoid issuing such printed matter.

  In the present invention, the operation of the printer is stopped by opening the door of the printer housing portion, and at the same time, the old print data stored in the print portion of the printer is deleted, so that printing is started from the middle page of the job when printing is resumed. I'm losing things.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.
FIGS. 1A, 1B, and 1C are an external view of a certificate automatic issuing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, a front door opening state explanatory view, and a view showing a printer housing portion door opening state. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a connection state between the devices accommodated in the casing, and FIG. 3 is a configuration explanatory diagram of the printer power supply control device.
A casing 1 of the automatic issuing device includes a casing main body 2, a front door 3 that is pivotally supported to open and close the front surface of the casing main body 2, and includes an operation unit, a display, a printed matter issuing unit, and the like. 2 includes a printer storage unit 5 and a post-processing device storage unit 6. A printer 10 is housed in the printer housing 5, and a post-processing device 11 is housed in the post-processing device housing 6.

  The automatic issuing device is a device that prints and issues necessary items on special paper from the necessity of preventing counterfeiting, such as certificates and tickets, and the printer 10 as a printing unit that prints predetermined items on special paper. And a post-processing device 11 that receives a printed certificate or the like discharged from the printer 10 and performs stapling processing, marking processing, and the like, and is provided upstream of the post-processing device 11 (or in the post-processing device). A temporary holding device (not shown) that stacks a required number of sheets of paper output from the printer 10 and a reject paper storage (not shown) that receives the paper when the paper (bundle) held in the temporary holding device is discarded without post-processing. And a sheet conveying means for conveying the sheet along the conveying path between the above-described components.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, a control device 20 including a control PC 21, a user touch panel display 22, a maintenance keyboard 23, and a maintenance mouse 24 is disposed in the housing body 2. The post-processing device 15 is configured to be controlled. Doors 5a and 6a for opening and closing them are pivotally supported on the front surfaces of the storage units 5 and 6, respectively.
As the printer 10, for example, a laser printer, a thermal printer, a wire dot printer, an ink jet printer, or the like is used. In these printers, printing is performed by feeding special sheets of a predetermined shape to a printing unit one by one using a sheet feeding roller, a separation roller, etc. in a state where a special sheet having a predetermined shape is stacked on a sheet feeding unit such as a sheet feeding cassette. In the present situation, it is impossible to reliably prevent jamming in the paper transport path. When a paper jam occurs, the printer stops operating and the jamming process is performed after the printer cover is opened. It will be in an operable state.

The characteristic configuration of the automatic issuing device according to the present invention is arranged between a power supply device and a printer, a printer power supply control device 30 for controlling power supply to the printer, and a printer connected to the printer power supply control device 30. And an open / close detector 35 that detects an open / closed state of the door 5a that opens and closes the storage unit 5.
When the printer 10 is set to the operation mode and the door 5a is closed, the printer power supply control device 30 turns the printer power switch when the open / close detection unit 35 detects the closed state of the door. When the door 5a is opened and the open / close detection unit 35 detects the door open state, the printer power switch is turned off and the print data stored in the printer cache memory is erased.
As shown in FIG. 3, the printer power supply control device 30 includes a switch unit 31 that receives power from the power supply unit, an outlet 32 that is connected to the output side of the switch unit 31 and is detachably connected to the printer power cable. A control device 33 connected to the open / close detection unit 35 to control the switch unit 31 and a manual switch 40 described later connected to the control device 33 are provided.

In the present invention, when performing maintenance of the printer in which the door 5a is opened during operation of the printer, an extremely simple operation naturally performed by maintenance personnel is performed to turn off the power switch of the printer, and the old memory in the cache memory. Print data can be deleted. Next, when the power switch is turned on by closing the door 5a after the jam processing and an instruction to resume printing is issued, the control device 20 newly transmits print data relating to a series of jobs related to the occurrence of the jam to the cache memory. Then, the printing operation relating to the job that has been interrupted by restarting the operations of the sheet conveying means and the printing unit is performed again from the first page.
In other words, according to the present invention, the printer power switch is manually turned off, the power plug is pulled out, or a maintenance keyboard or mouse constituting the control device is used for the cache memory in the printer. There is no need to perform a complicated operation of outputting a command for erasing print data.

Next, in the case of the configuration described above, if the printer 10 cannot be turned on as long as the printer housing door 5a is opened, the test print with the printer turned on can be performed. It becomes impossible to perform maintenance such as this, and maintenance work is delayed. Therefore, the present invention includes a manual switch 40 for forcibly turning on the power supply from the printer power supply control device to the printer. When the manual switch 40 is turned on, the opening / closing detection unit detects the opening / closing of the door. Regardless of the, the power switch of the printer is always turned on.
Further, when the maintenance staff operates the control device 20 to change the mode from the normal operation mode to the printer maintenance mode, power may be supplied to the printer regardless of the open / close switch 35 and the manual switch 31. .

(A) (b) And (c) is an external view of an automatic issuing device for a certificate or the like according to an embodiment of the present invention, and an explanatory view of a front door open state. It is explanatory drawing which shows the connection state between each apparatus accommodated in a housing | casing. FIG. 2 is a configuration explanatory diagram of a printer power supply control device. (A) (b) And (c) is an external view of a conventional automatic issuing device such as a certificate, and a front door open state explanatory diagram. It is explanatory drawing which shows the connection state between each apparatus accommodated in a housing | casing.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Housing | casing 2 ... Housing | casing main body, 3 ... Front door, 5 ... Printer storage part, 5a ... Door, 6 ... Post-processing apparatus storage part, 10 ... Printer, 11 ... Post-processing apparatus, 15 ... Post-processing apparatus, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 20 ... Control device, 21 ... Control PC, 22 ... Display, 23 ... Maintenance keyboard, 24 ... Maintenance mouse, 30 ... Printer power supply control device, 31 ... Switch part, 32 ... Outlet, 33 ... Control device, 35 ... Open / close detection unit, 40 ... manual switch.

Claims (4)

A printer that prints on paper, a post-processing device that performs post-processing on printed paper output from the printer, a control device, a power supply device for supplying power, and the power supply device and the printer device Printed matter issuing apparatus comprising: a printer power supply control device for controlling power supply to a printer disposed between; and a printer, a post-processing device, a control device, a power supply device, and a housing for housing the printer power supply control device Because
The housing includes a printer housing portion that houses the printer, and a door that opens and closes the printer housing portion,
The printer power supply control device is connected to an open / close detection unit that detects an open / closed state of the door,
The printer power supply control device controls to supply power to the printer when the open / close detection unit detects the closed state of the door, and the open / close detection unit detects the open state of the door. The printed matter issuing apparatus controls the power supply to the printer to stop when the printer is operating. The printer has a built-in storage unit for storing print data, temporarily holds the supplied print data in the storage unit, and prints the print data read from the storage unit on paper,
When the door is opened between the start of supply of print data to the printer and the completion of printing by the printer,
While clearing print data held in the storage unit of the printer by the printer power supply controller stops the power supply to the printer, printed based on the print data to the control device the post-processing apparatus 2. The printed matter issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein control is performed so as to reject the sheet, and when the door is closed thereafter, the control device controls to supply the print data to the printer again from the beginning. . A manual switch is connected to the printer power supply control device,
The printer power control device controls the operator to supply power to the printer by operating the manual switch even when the open / close detection unit detects the open state of the door. The printed matter issuing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. When the operator operates the control device and shifts to the maintenance mode of the printer,
The printer power supply control device controls to supply power to the printer even when the open / close detection unit detects an open state of the door. The printed matter issuing apparatus according to 3.

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