JPH02151442A - Printing base plate storage apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate taking-out work by performing the control of a printing base plate allowed to correspond to the necessity of the reference classified by a customer and a product name by a personal computer and indicating the taking-out of a required printing base plate from a printing base plate receiving cell group gathered to be arranged by a light emitting display means. CONSTITUTION:A personal computer main body 4 is started according to the preliminarily formed and stored program of a disk memory 5 and a starting display picture 14 is displayed on a CRT display 12 and, when the 'start' part of the starting display picture 14 is touched with a finger tip through a transparent touch panel 1, the display of the CRT display 2 is changed to a customer selecting picture 15 according to the program in the computer main body 4 and said picture 15 is changed to a product name selecting picture 16 when the part of a customer's name is touched with a finger tip. Next, the picture 16 is changed to a system selecting picture 17 by the transparent touch panel 1 and, when a desired printing base plate is taken out, 'calling' is selected and, when said printing base plate is received, 'keeping' is selected. By this method, the desired printing base plate can be easily taken out at any time and use area efficiency can be enhanced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Application in WL Business) This invention relates to printing original plate storage equipment for storing and managing a large number of sheet-like articles, particularly offset printing original plates and the like.

(Prior art) Offset printing and other printing plates are often reused, and each printing plate is stored and stored to accommodate a large number of customers, and the printing plates in storage are retrieved in response to orders. Reused.

On the other hand, the original printing plates in the form of sheets were stored in large numbers stacked on top of each other, and were stored separately from the above-mentioned ledgers with customer names.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) Retrieving the necessary printing original plates for reuse from the stacked printing original plates as described above is a troublesome operation, and there is a risk of damaging the printing original plates. Ta.

(Means for Solving the Problem) A large number of storage cells each having a slit shape that can accommodate each printing original plate are placed in a group of printing original storage cells that are closely arranged in parallel. A light-emitting display means for displaying the presence or absence of a stored printing original plate and an electric contact for detecting the presence or absence of a stored printing original plate are arranged in each of these printing original storage cells, and customer name data of the stored printing original plate, and A personal computer that stores and manages whether or not a printing original is stored in each of these printing original storage cells, and an electric contact that detects the presence or absence of the stored printing original and the light emitting display means are electrically connected to the I10 boat of this personal computer. We will provide printing original plate storage equipment equipped with a means to do so.

(Function) The printing original plate storage equipment of the present invention uses a personal computer to manage printing originals that correspond to the need for reference by customer, product name, etc., and also stores the required printing originals from a group of printing original storage cells that are installed collectively. The light-emitting display means facilitates taking out the display.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the configuration of an embodiment of printing original plate storage equipment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a transparent touch panel arranged on the front of a CRT display 2 of a personal computer, 3 is a keyboard, 4 is a main body of the personal computer, 5 is a disk memory, 6 is a printer, and 7 is the light emitting display means on the I10 board of the personal computer. and an electrical contact point for detecting the presence or absence of a stored printing original plate, 8 is a printing original storage cell, and 9 is an LE of a light emitting display means for indicating the presence or absence of a stored printing original plate.
D, 10 is a small switch with electrical contacts that detects the presence or absence of a stored printing original plate, and when the printing original plate is stored in the printing original storage cell 8, the small switch IO disposed in that cell is closed;
It is closed when the printing original plate is taken out from the printing original plate storage cell 8.

Both the LED 9 and the small switch 10 are arranged in each of the printing original plate storage cells 8, 11 is a printing aggregate, that is, a printing original storage cell mount, and 12 and 13 are both cell mounts 11.
A flashing light source for displaying the stand and a buzzer are respectively disposed on the mount.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an example of use, and parts common to those in the configuration explanatory diagram of FIG. 1 are given the same reference numerals.

In these figures, when in use, the personal computer main body 4 is started with a program in the disk memory 5 created and stored in advance, a startup display screen 14 is displayed on the CRT display 2, and a startup display screen is displayed via the transparent touch panel l. When you touch the "start" part 14 with your fingertip, the display on the CRT display 2 changes to the customer J1 selection screen 15 according to the program in the personal computer processor main body 4, and the corresponding customer name part is displayed on the transparent touch panel 1. When a customer is selected by touching , the screen changes to a product name selection screen 16 for selecting a printing original plate related to that customer.

Next, as in the case of the customer type selection screen 15, the screen is changed to the system selection screen 17 using the transparent touch panel 1, and ``call'' is selected to take out the desired printing original plate, and ``save'' is selected to store it.

When "Recall" is selected, L of the printing original plate storage cell 8 in which the printing original plate selected on the product name selection screen 16 is stored.
ED9 lights up and displays the position of the desired printing original plate. When taking out a desired printing original plate from the printing original storage cell 8, the small switch 10 of the printing original storage cell 8 is opened to notify the personal computer main body 4 that the printing original plate has been taken out, and the disk is transferred via the personal computer main body 4. Store it in memory 5.

When saving a printing original, select the customer name and product name corresponding to the printing original on the customer type selection screen 15 and product name selection screen 16, and the LED 9 of the empty printing original storage cell 8 that can be stored will light up. Therefore, store the printing original plate to be stored in the printing original plate storage cell 8, close the small switch 10 of the printing original plate storage cell 8, and notify the personal computer main body 4 that the printing original plate is stored at that position. .

In addition, when there are a large number of printing original plates to be stored and the printing original plate storage cell 8 is divided into a number of mounts, the flashing light source 12 for displaying the gantry and the buzzer 13 shown in FIG. 1 are arranged on each cell mount 11, To facilitate discovery of a target original printing plate storage cell 8 from a position in a blind spot.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, each printing original plate storage cell 8
A small switch 10 was installed in the printing plate storage cell 8, and the small switch 10 was operated when the printing plate was taken out and put in from the printing plate storage cell 8. However, a small micro switch or reed switch was used to automatically operate the small switch 10 when the printing plate was put in and taken out from the printing plate storage cell 8. It is also possible to notify the personal computer main body 4 of the presence or absence of the original printing plate.

(Effects of the Invention) As detailed above, according to the printing original plate storage equipment of the present invention, when storing printing original plates, each printing original plate is stored and stored in the printing original plate storage cell without stacking them as in the conventional case. Therefore, it is possible to take out a desired printing plate at will, and since a large number of storage cells are placed in close contact with each other to form a printing plate storage cell group, the usage area efficiency is excellent. Since the printing original storage cell in which the desired printing original is stored in accordance with the managed customer list is indicated by a light-emitting display means such as an LED, the retrieval work is easy.

Furthermore, when storing printing original plates, the storage operation is facilitated because a light-emitting display means such as LE I) is provided to indicate an empty printing original storage cell.

In addition, in this invention, the cell racks 11 are distributed in separate rooms or on different floors in order to accommodate the use of printing original plates.
It has excellent auxiliary functions such as managing it with the personal computer on the machine, grouping and managing the original printing plates by size, and displaying the image of the printing plate using the video stem. The present invention can provide the excellent printing original plate storage equipment described in detail above.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the configuration of an embodiment of printing M plate storage equipment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an example of use.・l Transparent touch panel 2 Cr1T display 3 Keychain 4 Personal record converter body 5 Disk memory printer Printing original storage cell Small switch point, Ikou Genki @ display screen Product name selection screen Interface LED Cell mount buzzer True correction selection screen Nostem selection - Engraving of surface drawings 19 No. 20 Procedural amendment (method) % formula % 16 Indication of the case 1988 Patent Application No. 305600Ji4 2゜Name of the invention Printing original plate storage equipment 3゜Relationship with the case by the person making the amendment

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a printing original storage facility that stores and manages a large number of printing originals, there is a group of printing original storage cells in which slit-shaped printing original storage cells that store the printing originals are collectively arranged, and a group of printing original storage cells that store the printing originals. Luminous display means for detecting the presence or absence of a stored printing original plate disposed in each of these printing original plate storage cells, electrical contacts for detecting the presence or absence of a stored printing original plate similarly arranged in each of these printing original plate storage cells, and customer name data for each stored printing original plate. and a personal computer that stores and manages whether or not printing originals are stored in each of these printing original storage cells, and an electric contact that detects the presence or absence of the light emitting display means and the stored printing original at the I/O port of this personal computer. Printing original plate storage equipment equipped with means for electrically connecting each.