JPH02139330A - Apparatus for issuing label - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically select the number of labels according to size of print data by a method wherein the number of required labels corresponding to data amount of print data is detected, and the number of issued labels of a print mechanism is controlled. CONSTITUTION:A rate measure device 1 receives a weight signal from a scale 2 and displays a unit price, weight and a price calculated according to such data on a display 3, while it outputs data to an incorporated printer 4 to issue a label. When a abel issue signal is output with a label issue button of a keyboard 8 pressed, a print control circuit 46 receives item data, unit price data, additive name data from a registration data storage circuit 42 and price data from a price calculation circuit 44 and stores all of the data in a buffer, while a circuit 45 for determining the number of labels determines the number of labels required for the product based on data of the required number of labels from the registration data storage circuit 42 and outputs the result to the print control circuit 46.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Industrial Application Field) The present invention is a label issuance label that is attached to a product at the point of sale or packaging to display the product name, price, and additives in the case of food products. Darken the device.

(Prior art) For example, for prepackaged products packed in containers, a label indicating the product name, unit price, weight, and price may be attached to indicate the quality and simplify the checkout process. It is being

Among these products, food products are required to display whether or not they contain so-called food additives such as preservatives, coloring agents, and seasonings. The information is also displayed using a label.

By the way, due to the strengthening of the labeling content of food additives, it has become necessary to write the specific name of the food additive, and a large space is now required in the labeling column for food additives.

(Issue to be solved) In order to solve this problem, it is possible to select the size of label paper according to the number of characters to be printed.
This not only complicates the label issuing work by requiring the label paper to be replaced, but also causes the problem that the label may protrude from the packaging container in some cases.

In order to solve this problem, it has been proposed to prepare another printer and print only the food additives on a separate label, but this is difficult when the number of characters printed for the additives is small. Even if there is, two labels will be uniformly issued, leading to problems such as waste of labels and complicated pasting work.

(Object of the invention) The present invention was made in view of the above problems, and its purpose is to automatically select the number of labels according to the size of print data of food additives, etc. The object of the present invention is to provide a new label issuing device that can.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve such problems, the present invention receives data from a registered memory that stores additive item data and prints the product name, price, and additive items as print data. In the apparatus equipped with a printing mechanism for printing labels, a number of labels determining means detects the required number of labels lFr corresponding to the amount of print data, and the number of labels issued by the printing mechanism is controlled based on data from the means. equipped with the means to do so.

(Function) The label number determination circuit calculates the number of labels to be issued based on the amount of print data when issuing labels, and when all of the print data can be printed on one label, this data is output as is to the printer neck; If the cover cannot be divided with one sheet, it is divided into multiple parts and output to the printer.

(Example) Therefore, the details of the present invention will be explained below based on an illustrated example.6 Figure 1 shows an example of a price scale device using the label issuing device of the present invention. , numeral 1 in the figure is a price weighing device which receives the weight signal from the weighing device 2 and calculates the unit price, weight,
The price is calculated from these data and displayed on the display 3, and is also output to the printer 4 built into the price scale device 1 to issue a label.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a sub-printer device which receives data input from the price scale device 1 and usually prints product name data, price data, etc. as a barcode, issues a barcode label,
This is to print pop information such as campaign text.

Note that reference numeral 8 in the figure indicates a keyboard for inputting registration data into a registration memory and specifying a product code, etc., which will be described later.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the print data management section built in the charge scale device, and the reference numeral 42 in the figure is
The registration data storage circuit takes the call keyword 50 as an address as shown in FIG. If the additive is included, the additive name data 54 that records the specific name of the additive is accessed via the data conversion circuit 43 using the product name inputted from the keyboard 8, and the corresponding data is output. is configured to do so. The data on the number of required labels is determined in accordance with the space required when printing the additive name stored in the additive name field.

Returning to FIG. 2 again, reference numeral 44 is a price calculation circuit which receives weight data from the scale 2 and unit price data from the registered pig storage circuit 42 and calculates the price.

Reference numeral 45 outputs the number of labels to be issued based on the required number of labels data read from the registration data storage circuit 42 to a print control circuit 46 to be described later.

46 is the above-mentioned printing control circuit, and the registration data storage circuit 4
2, the product name data, unit price data, additive name data, and price data from the price calculation circuit 44, and in response to the data from the label number determination circuit 45, are sent to the printer control circuit 20 (FIG. 4). Configured to allocate data.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the above-mentioned label issuing printer main body, and reference numeral 20 in the figure is a printer control circuit which operates a pulse motor 21 in response to a label issuing command from the fee scale device 1. When activated, the take-up roll 22 is rotated to wind up the backing paper P, and the stripping table 23 rotates until the tip of the peeled label paper comes into contact with the sensor, and at this stage, the printing from the price scale device is started. It is configured to print data onto a label on a platen roller 25 by a print head 26. In the drawing, reference numeral 27 indicates a stock roller for stocking label sheets, and 28 and 29 indicate a pulse motor drive circuit for driving the pulse motor 21 and the print head 26 based on signals from the printer control circuit 20, respectively. The print head drive circuit is shown.

Next, the operation of the apparatus configured as described above will be explained based on the flowchart shown in FIG.

When a product name of a specific product is inputted from the keyboard 8 of the price scale M1 in order to pack a specific product, the product name data conversion circuit 43 converts the product name data from the registered data storage circuit 42 based on the key manual data. When the weight data from the scale 2 is input at this stage, the price calculation circuit 44 calculates the price and displays it on the display together with the product name data and unit price data. Display on 3.

When the label issue button on the keyboard 8 is pressed and a label issue signal is output, the print control circuit 46 receives the product name data, unit price data, additive name data from the registered data storage circuit 42, and the price calculation circuit 44. The price data is received and stored in a buffer, and the label number determination circuit 45 determines the number of labels required for this product based on the required label number data from the registered data storage circuit 42.
The result is output to the print control circuit 46.

If the target product is a product with few additives, in this embodiment a hamburger steak, "1" is registered as the label number data in the registration data storage circuit 42, so the print control circuit 46 is the product name, additive name,
All data such as unit price, weight, and price are output to printer device 4, and all of these data are printed on one sheet of label paper (FIG. 6).

On the other hand, in the case of a product with many additives, "sliced ham" in this embodiment, the label number determination circuit 45 determines the number of labels to be issued as "2" from the registered data, and sends this to the print control circuit 46. Output. The print control circuit 46 divides the data stored in the buffer according to the number of labels; in this embodiment, the data is divided into product name, unit price, weight, and price data, and additive name data, and first, only the former data is divided. Output to a printer device. As a result, only the product name, unit price, weight, and price are printed on the first sheet of label paper (Figure 7 B).
When printing of the first sheet is completed, the print control circuit 46 outputs the remaining data, that is, the additive name data, to the printer device. As a result, only the additive name is printed on the second sheet of label paper (see Figure 1).

By attaching the two labels printed in this manner to the container, all data will be displayed on the container.

In this example, if the additive data cannot be stored on one label, all the additive data is printed on a separate label paper, but as shown in Fig. 8, the additive data is printed on a separate label paper. The number of characters that can be printed may be printed as many characters as possible (a) in the same figure, and the data that cannot be printed may be printed on another label paper as a continuation (b).

Figures 9 and 10 each show an example of the printing results, and the one shown in Figure 9 is for a product with a large number of additives, and is attached to the front of the product package. The product name, price, expiration date, and barcode are shown on the product (A in the figure), and the additive data is attached on the back of the product (B). In addition, Figure 10 shows that if there is relatively enough space on the first sheet (A) to print the price, expiration date data, and additive items, these data are printed, and only the barcode is printed on the second sheet (A). By editing and selecting such data, unnecessary data for the customer can be moved to the back of the container.

In this way, in the present invention, labels can be used effectively by allocating print items according to the amount of print data.

In addition, in this embodiment, label data for a plurality of sheets is divided over time into one printer device for printing, but in a system equipped with a sub-printer device M, the label data shown in FIG. As shown, it is also possible to divide the buffer contents and output them to the main printer device and the sub printer device, so that the two printer devices can print in parallel.

Roughly speaking, in this embodiment, the number of required labels is prepared in advance as registered data, but the same effect can be achieved even if the data M to be printed is aggregated and the number of required labels is determined individually at the time of printing. It is clear that it will play.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, in the present invention, the product name,
A printer equipped with a printing mechanism that prints a label by binding the price and additive items with the print data (the printer includes a label number determining means for detecting the required number of labels corresponding to the amount of the print data, and a label number determining means for detecting the required number of labels corresponding to the amount of the print data, and Since it is equipped with means for controlling the number of labels issued by the printing mechanism based on data,
The label number determining means calculates the number of labels to be issued based on the amount of print data at the time of label issuance, and when all of the print data can be printed on one label, this data is output as is to the printer device, while when the cover cannot be divided, multiple labels are printed. The number of labels can be automatically adjusted according to the number of characters to be printed by dividing the label into two parts and outputting it to a printer, thereby avoiding the cost of label issuance and the unnecessary complexity of pasting work.・

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an overview diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the invention, Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of registered data in Fukuro Go, and Fig. 4 5 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the printer device used in the same bag.
The figure is a flowchart showing the operation of snowmaking as above, Section 6.7.
Figure 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the result of label printing by snowmaking,
Figures 9 and 10 are diagrams each showing an example of printing by the bag coater of the present invention, and Figure 11 is a 0-chart showing another embodiment of the present invention. Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 6 Figure 8 (A) (B) Figure 5 Figure 9 (A) (B) Figure 10

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a printer equipped with a printer that receives data from a registered memory storing additive item data and prints a label by using the product name, price, and additive item as print data, the required number of labels corresponding to the data amount of the print data. What is claimed is: 1. A label issuing device comprising: label number determining means for detecting label number determining means; and means for controlling the number of labels issued by said printing mechanism based on data from said means.