JP4997156B2 - Print management system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a printed matter management system that manages a production history of a printed matter, and more particularly to a technique that enables confirmation of a production history of a printed matter using information printed on the printed matter.

  2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the development of a card society, it has become widespread to use a credit card to pay for shopping or travel or event applications. In this way, payment of the price using a credit card does not need to carry cash, and points due to the use of the credit card may be given, so that consumers are increasing.

  When paying with a credit card, the price will be deducted from the specified account. However, before the price is deducted from the account, the user will be charged for what and when. You will receive a usage statement that states whether it will be withdrawn. Depending on the number of times the credit card is used, there may be a plurality of usage statements. In that case, it may be possible to print a plurality of usage statements in series for each user in order to ensure matching. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

  In addition, such a usage statement is used not only for the use of a credit card but also for the use of a mobile phone, a cable TV, etc. In this case, the usage statement describing the monthly usage fee is also provided. It will be sent to the user.

  In addition, in securities companies that handle securities such as stock certificates, various notices are sent to customers.

As in the case of general printed materials, it is preferable to manage the history in the production process for the above-described usage statement and notification. Therefore, when editing the print information printed on the usage statement or notification as print data including print control information that is a control command, the production lot number and page number are associated with each print information. The history is managed using the production lot number and the page number. As a result, when printing information to be printed on the usage statement or notification is specified to confirm the history of the usage statement or notification in the production process, the production lot associated with the printing information is specified. The history can be checked using the number or page number.
JP-A-8-118757

  In a printed matter such as the above-described usage statement or notice, the print information printed on the printed matter is edited as print data including print control information, and this print data is input to the printing apparatus for printing. However, after the print information is edited as print data including the print control information, it is not possible to associate the production lot number and the page number with each print information.

  Therefore, when print information is supplied in a state edited as print data including print control information, even if print information to be printed on the printed material is specified in order to check the history of the printed material production process, the print information There is a problem that the history of printed matter corresponding to the information cannot be confirmed.

  The present invention has been made in view of the problems of the conventional techniques as described above, and the print information to be printed on the printed matter is supplied in a state of being edited as print data including print control information. Even so, an object of the present invention is to provide a printed matter management system capable of confirming a production history of printed matter using print information printed on the printed matter.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides:
Identification information providing means for providing identification information for each of the plurality of printed materials, with respect to print data edited by adding print control information to text information to be printed on the plurality of printed materials;
Printing means for producing the plurality of printed materials using the print data to which the identification information is attached;
History management means for managing a production history for each of the plurality of printed matter in the printing means using the identification information;
The search data generating means for extracting the text information from the print data together with the identification information for each printed matter, and generating search data in which the text information and the identification information are associated with each printed matter;
When text information to be printed on the printed material is designated, identification information associated with the text information is searched for in the search data, and is managed by the history management means using the identification information. History search means for searching for the production history of printed matter.

  In the present invention configured as described above, when print data edited by adding print control information to text information printed on a plurality of printed materials is supplied, first, a plurality of sheets are identified by the identification information adding unit. Identification information is assigned to each printed matter. The print data to which the identification information is assigned is passed to the printing means, and a plurality of printed materials are produced by using the print data to which the identification information is assigned. At this time, the history management means manages the production history for each of a plurality of printed materials in the printing means using the identification information. Note that text information and identification information are printed on a printed matter produced using the print data. On the other hand, in the search data generating means, text information is extracted from the print data for each printed matter together with the identification information, and search data in which the text information and the identification information are associated with each other is generated for each printed matter. Thereafter, when the text information to be printed on the printed material is specified, the history search means searches for the identification information associated with the specified text information in the search data, and the history is searched using the searched identification information. The production history of the printed matter managed by the management means is searched.

  As described above, when text information to be printed on a printed material is supplied in a state of being edited as print data including print control information, identification information is given to the printed data for each printed material, and the identification information is used. While the production history of the printed material is managed, text information is extracted for each printed material together with the identification information, search data in which the text information and the identification information are associated with each other is generated, and then the text printed on the printed material When the information is designated, the identification information associated with the text information is searched, and the production history of the printed material managed using the identification information is searched.

  As described above, in the present invention, identification information is assigned to each printed matter with respect to print data that is edited by including print control information in text information printed on a plurality of printed matter, and this identification information is used. The production history of the printed matter is managed, while the text information is extracted for each printed matter together with the identification information, search data in which the text information and the identification information are associated with each other is generated, and then printed on the printed matter. When text information is specified, the identification information associated with the text information is searched, and the production history of the printed material managed using the identification information is searched. Even when the information is supplied in the edited state as print data including print control information, the print information printed on the printed material is used to It is possible to confirm the production history.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a printed matter management system of the present invention. In the present embodiment, an example of producing a written notice regarding securities as printed matter is given.

  In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the data processing unit 10 which is identification information providing means for processing the input PIT data and outputting the data as printing data 62, and the printing data output from the data processing unit 10 62 is output from the data processing unit 10, the printing unit 20 that produces a notification 70 that is printed matter using 62, the production history management unit 30 that manages the production history of the notification 70 in the printing unit 20 as production management data 63. The search data generation unit 40 that generates the search data 64 from the print data 62, the search data 64 generated by the search data generation unit 40, and the production management data managed by the production history management unit 30 63, and a production history search unit 50 that searches for a production history of the notification 70.

  The PIT data 61 is obtained by editing text information printed on the notification form 70 as print data including a control code that is print control information, and is for printing a plurality of notification forms 70.

  The data processing unit 10 assigns production management numbers, which are identification information different from each other, to the input PIT data 61 for each of the plurality of notifications 70 and outputs the data as printing data 62. In addition, a database is created for each production management number assigned to the PIT data 61 and set as production management data 63.

  The printing unit 20 receives the printing data 62 output from the data processing unit 10, and the text information and the production management number included in the printing data 62 are printed according to the control code included in the printing data 62. A plurality of notices 70 are produced.

  The production history management unit 30 manages the production history in the printing unit 20 for each of the plurality of notifications 70 as production management data 63 using the production management number. At this time, the production history management unit 30 uses a database for each production management number set in the production management data 63 by the data processing unit 10.

  The search data generation unit 40 extracts the text information to be printed on the notification form 70 together with the production control number from the print data 62 output from the data processing unit 10 for each notification form 70, and the text for each notification form 70. Search data 64 in which information and production control numbers are associated is generated and output.

  When the production history of the notification form 70 is inquired by designating the text information to be printed on the notification form 70, the production history search unit 50 first associates the text information with the search data 64. The production management number is retrieved, and then managed using the production management number retrieved from the retrieval data 64 out of the production history information of the notification 70 managed as the production management data 63 in the production history management unit 30. The production history of the notified notice 70 is searched.

  Below, the management method of the notification form 70 in the printed matter management system comprised as mentioned above is demonstrated.

  First, a process until the notification 70 is produced and sent to the user by the printed matter management system shown in FIG. 1 and the search data 64 is generated will be described.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining processing until the notification data 70 is produced and sent to the user and the search data 64 is generated in the printed matter management system shown in FIG.

  Data for producing the notice 70 is supplied as PIT data 61 in which text information printed on the notice 70 is edited as print data including a control code, and this PIT data 61 is input to the data processing unit 10. Then (step S 1), first, the data processing unit 10 assigns a different production management number to the input PIT data 61 for each of the plurality of notifications 70 and outputs the data as printing data 62. (Step S2).

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the structure of the print data 62 output from the data processing unit 10 shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the print data 62 output from the data processing unit 10 shown in FIG. 1 includes the control code 1 and text information 2 included in the PIT data 61 input to the data processing unit 10. Includes the production management number 3 assigned to each of the plurality of notifications 70 by the data processing unit 10, and the printing data 62 including the control code 1, the text information 2 and the production management number 3 is notified. Each document 70 is output from the data processing unit 10. The production control number 3 may be composed of the order number of the notice 70 and the continuous page number in the order. Further, if code information indicating the type of the printed matter is given to the production management number 3, it becomes easy to search when searching for the production management number 3 later.

  In the data processing unit 10, a database is created for each production management number assigned to the PIT data 61 and set as production management data 63.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of a database created for each of the production management numbers assigned to the PIT data 61 in the data processing unit 10 shown in FIG.

  In the data processing unit 10, a database is created for each production management number assigned to the PIT data 61. Since this database is for recording the production history of the notification form 70 as the production management data 63, as shown in FIG. 4, for each production management number assigned to the PIT data 61, printing in the printing unit 20 is performed. The production status of each process, the date when the notification 70 is completed, the date when the notification 70 is sent to the customer, and the like can be recorded and set as the production management data 63.

  When the printing data 62 output from the data processing unit 10 is input to the printing unit 20, in the printing unit 20, the text included in the printing data 62 according to the control code included in the input printing data 62. A plurality of notices 70 on which information and production management numbers are printed are produced (step S3). The control code included in the printing data 62 defines how and in what area of the notification form 70 the text information and the production control number included in the printing data 62 are printed. As shown in FIG. 3, the text information 2 and the production control number 3 are inserted immediately before the text information 2, respectively. In the printing unit 20, when the control code 1 is read, the text information 2 or the production management number 3 immediately after the control code 1 is printed in an area or font according to the control code 1.

  At this time, the production history management unit 30 manages the production history in the printing unit 20 for each of the plurality of notifications 70 as the production management data 63 using the production management number.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing production management data 63 in which the production history in the printing unit 20 is recorded by the production history management unit 30 shown in FIG.

  In the production history management unit 30, the production history in the printing unit 20 is managed for each of the plurality of notifications 70, and as shown in FIG. 5, the printing process in the printing unit 20 is performed for each of the production management numbers. The production management data 63 records the production status, the date when the production of the notice 70 is completed, the date when the notice 70 is sent to the customer, and the like.

  After the production of the notice 70 is completed, the produced notice 70 is sent to a customer of the securities company (step S4).

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a notification 70 produced by the printing unit 20 shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 6, in the notification form 70 produced by the printing unit 20 shown in FIG. 1, the text information 4 including the name and address of the customer included in the PIT data 61, and the data processing unit 10, the production control number 5 assigned to each notification 70 is printed.

  The print data 62 output from the data processing unit 10 is also input to the search data generation unit 40. In the search data generation unit 40, when the print data 62 output from the data processing unit 10 is input, first, text information to be printed on the notification form 70 is produced from the input print data 62. It is extracted for each notification 70 together with the number (step S5). As shown in FIG. 3, the print data 62 output from the data processing unit 10 is composed of the control code 1, the text information 2, and the production management number 3 for each notification 70. The text information 2 and the production management number 3 excluding the control code 1 are extracted.

  Then, the search data generation unit 40 generates and outputs search data 64 in which the text information extracted from the input print data 62 and the production management number are associated with each other (step S6).

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the structure of the search data 64 generated by the search data generation unit 40 shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the search data 64 generated by the search data generation unit 40 includes the production management number 3 and text information 2 extracted from the input print data 62 for each notification 70. It is configured as a CSV format record with the production management number 3 as the head, whereby the production management number 3 extracted from the input print data 62 and the text information 2 are associated with each other. It should be noted that the search data 64 output from the search data generation unit 40 may be grouped for each folder with the type of the notification 70, the scheduled shipping month of the notification 70, etc. as file names.

  Next, processing when searching for production histories managed by the printed matter management system shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining processing when searching for a production history managed by the printed matter management system shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the customer's name is printed on the notification 70 produced by the printing unit 20 and shipped to the customer. The customer's name is included in the search data 64 as text information. Therefore, the customer can inquire about the production history of the notice 70 using his / her name. For example, if the notice is not delivered to the customer every year when it is sent to the customer 70, or if the customer does not receive the change completion notice 70 when the customer changes the address or the like, the customer The production history of the notice 70 can be inquired using the name. In addition, when the credit card user uses the credit card but the usage statement does not arrive, or when the usage statement of the mobile phone or cable TV used by the user is sent monthly If it does not arrive even if it becomes, the user's name can be used to inquire about the production history of the usage statement. This inquiry is made to the call center, and in the call center where the inquiry is made, the production history is searched using the printed matter management system shown in FIG.

  When the production history of the notification form 70 is inquired by designating text information such as the customer's name printed on the notification form 70 (step S11), the production history search unit 50 first searches for the search data 64. And the production management number associated with the text information is searched in the search data 64 (step S12). As shown in FIG. 7, in the search data 64, since the production control number 3 and the text information 2 are associated with each notification 70, text information to be printed on the notification 70 is designated. The production management number 3 associated with this text information is retrieved.

  Next, the production history search unit 50 uses the production management number retrieved from the search data 64 in the production history information of the notification 70 managed as the production management data 63 in the production history management unit 30. The production history of the managed notification 70 is searched (step S13). As shown in FIG. 5, in the production management data 63, for each notification 70, the production status of each printing process in the printing unit 20 for each production management number, the date of completion of the production of the notification 70, and the notification Since the production history such as the date 70 is sent to the customer is recorded, the production history of the inquired notification 70 can be retrieved by using the production management number retrieved from the retrieval data 64. . Further, if the search data 64 is summarized as a file name of the type of the notification form 70 and the scheduled shipping month of the notification form 70 as described above, the type of the notification form 70 and the scheduled shipping month can be specified. History search becomes easy.

  The production history retrieved from the production management data 63 is notified to the customer via the call center. For example, when there is an inquiry that the notice 70 has not arrived, and when the production management data 63 manages that the notice 70 has been shipped, when the notice 70 is The customer is notified if it has been shipped to the customer.

  In this way, a production management number is assigned to each notification letter 70 for the PIT data 61 edited by including the control code in the text information printed on the plurality of notice letters 70, and this production management number is used. While the production history of the printed matter is managed, text information is extracted together with the production management number for each notification 70, and search data 64 in which the text information and the production management number are associated with each other is generated. When the text information to be printed on the notice 70 is designated, the production management number associated with the text information is retrieved, and the production history of the notice 70 managed using the production management number is retrieved. Therefore, even when the print information printed on the notification form 70 is supplied in the edited state as the PIT data 61 including the control code, it is printed on the notification form 70. It is possible to confirm the production history of the notice 70 using the print information.

  In the present embodiment, as shown in the data structure shown in FIG. 3, the case where there is one notice 70 for each customer has been described as an example. However, a plurality of notices 70 are provided for one customer. In some cases, In particular, when the printed matter to be produced is a credit card usage statement, there may be a plurality of usage statements depending on the number of credit card usages. Even in such a case, the production management number as described above is assigned to each of the plurality of notifications 70 and the usage statements. In this case, among a plurality of notifications 70 and usage statements, the second and subsequent items include information such as the customer's name, which is a search key when the customer inquires about the production history of the notifications and usage statements. For example, it is possible that a customer inquires that the second or later notice or usage statement is missing among multiple notifications or usage statements. In this case, the production management number is searched as described above using the information such as the name of the customer included in the first sheet as a search key, and the production history of the notices and usage statements specified by the production management numbers before and after that is searched. Will search.

It is a figure which shows one Embodiment of the printed matter management system of this invention. 7 is a flowchart for explaining processing until a notification is produced and sent to a user and search data is generated in the printed matter management system shown in FIG. 1. It is a figure which shows the structure of the data for printing output from the data processing part shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the structure of the database produced | generated about each of the production control number provided to PIT data in the data processing part shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the production management data by which the production history in the printing part was recorded in the production history management part shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the notification letter produced in the printing part shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the structure of the data for a search produced | generated in the data production | generation part for a search shown in FIG. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the process at the time of searching the production history managed by the printed matter management system shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control code 2, 4 Text information 3, 5 Production control number 10 Data processing part 20 Printing part 30 Production history management part 40 Search data generation part 50 Production history search part 61 PIT data 62 Printing data 63 Production management data 64 Search Data 70 Notice

Claims (1)

Identification information providing means for providing identification information for each of the plurality of printed materials, with respect to print data edited by adding print control information to text information to be printed on the plurality of printed materials;
Printing means for producing the plurality of printed materials using the print data to which the identification information is attached;
History management means for managing a production history for each of the plurality of printed matter in the printing means using the identification information;
The search data generating means for extracting the text information from the print data together with the identification information for each printed matter, and generating search data in which the text information and the identification information are associated with each printed matter;
When text information to be printed on the printed material is designated, identification information associated with the text information is searched for in the search data, and is managed by the history management means using the identification information. A printed matter management system comprising history retrieval means for retrieving a production history of printed matter.

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