JPH0360676B2 - - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent price figures from being staggered and print them to be larger than unit price figures and the like, by a method wherein a printing position for price is located at a position deviated toward a side edge of a label, and printing of a lower part of price figures is started at the starting position of printing an upper part of the figures after printing the upper part. CONSTITUTION:The printing position for a plurality of figures representing the price 6 is located at a position deviated toward one side edge of the label 1, and the figures of the price 6 larger than those of unit price 4 and weight 5 are divided into the upper part and the lower part. After printing the upper part of the figures of the price 6, printing of the lower part of the figures is started at the starting position of printing the upper part. Following to the printing of the price 6, the figures of the unit price 4 and the weight 5 are sequentially printed in a predetermined order by a serial dot type printer capable of printing one complete from figure at a time.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for printing data such as the weight, unit price, price, etc. of a prepackaged product on a label attached to the product.

When general consumers purchase the above-mentioned pre-packaged products, what they are most interested in is the price, so it is desirable that the price be printed most prominently among the data printed on the above-mentioned label. Furthermore, in order to prevent operators of cash registers from making operational errors in supermarkets and the like, it is desirable to print the price in a way that makes it most conspicuous. Therefore, it is conceivable to print the price larger than the weight or unit price, but with a label printer using a serial printer configured to print each character within the number of pins that the dot head has, It was not possible to print characters larger than a number, and it was not possible to print a price larger than the weight or unit price.

An object of the present invention is to provide a printing method that can print a price larger than the weight or unit price on a label using a serial printer.

The printing method according to this invention sets the printing position of a plurality of numbers representing the price at a position biased towards one side edge of the label, divides these numbers larger than the unit price and weight numbers into upper and lower parts, and prints the numbers on the upper and lower parts. Print the parts from the largest digit to the smallest digit, or conversely from the smallest digit to the largest, using a serial dot printer, then print the lower part from the largest digit to the smallest digit,
Or, conversely, use a serial dot printer to print the unit price and weight in order from the smallest digit to the largest digit, and then print the unit price and weight using a number that is smaller than or equal to the number that the serial dot printer can print one at a time. Printing is performed sequentially in a predetermined order by a printer, and by placing the price print position toward the side edge of the label, high-speed printing is possible. By starting printing on the lower side from the initial position, it is possible to prevent misalignment of the price characters.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail based on one embodiment shown in the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the label printed by the printing method according to the present invention has the product name 2 in the upper part, and the manufacturing date 3, unit price 4, weight 5, and price 6 in the lower part in order from left to right. It is printed,
In particular, as shown in an enlarged view in FIG. 2, the price 6 is printed larger than the manufacturing date 3, unit price 4, and weight 5.

As shown in FIG. 3, the printing device used in this method has a mount 8 on which unprinted labels 1 are adhered at regular intervals, and both ends of the mount 8 have a supply roller 10 and a take-up roller 12. is wrapped around. A feed roller 14 and a push roller 16 for pressing the mount 8 against the feed roller 14 are provided in the middle of the mount 8. A paper feed motor 18 is connected to the feed roller 14, and rotates the feed roller 14 in the direction of arrow A to cause the mount 8 to travel. A peeling plate 20 is separately provided in the middle of the mount 8, and peels off the label 1 after printing from the mount 8.

A serial type dot head 22 is arranged above the peeling plate 20, and this is fixed to a mounting plate 24 as shown in FIG.
are slidably provided on two guide pins 26 fixedly passed vertically in parallel along the width direction of the mount 8. On the opposite side of the mounting plate 24 from the mounting surface of the dot head 22, a rope mounting plate 28 having an inverted U-shaped planar shape is mounted along the width direction of the mount 8. A rope 30 is stretched between them, and the middle of the rope 30 is wound around a pulley 34 that is fixed to a fixedly provided dot head feed pulse motor 32. Therefore, the dot head 22 is intermittently moved in the D or E direction by the intermittent rotation of the motor 32 in the B or C direction. This dot head 2
2 and the mount 8, a printing ribbon 36 is fixedly provided along the width direction of the mount 8, and one of the plurality of wires (not shown) included in the dot head 22 is connected to a dot head control section 58, which will be described later. The selected one is then driven by the wire drive coil 60 in the dot head 22 and impinges on the label 1 on the mount 8 via the ribbon 36 to print a number.
Note that 38 is an optical detector for detecting whether a predetermined printing position on the label 1 to be printed is located below the dot head 22 or not.

The electrical circuit configuration of this printing device is as shown in FIG. That is, the pre-packed product is weighed in the weighing section 40, the weighing signal is stored in the weight storage section 42, and the price is calculated by multiplying this by the unit price set in the unit price storage section 46 using the numeric keypad 44 in the arithmetic section 48. The price, unit price, and weight are stored in the data storage section 50 and displayed on the display section 52. Each stored value in the data storage section 50 is supplied to the dot head control section 58 together with the product name selected by the product name selection device 54 and stored in the product name storage section 56. Based on these, the dot head control section 58
controls the wire drive coil 60, dot head feed motor 32, and paper feed motor control section 62 to print on the label 1 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.

The control by the dot head control section 58 is a feature of this printing method, and will be explained in detail below. Currently, the data storage unit 50 has "Beef (loin)" as the product name, "500" as the unit price, "100" as the weight, "500" as the price, and "56, 3, 30'' are stored respectively, and the dot head 22 is located above the point G of the label 1 shown in FIG.

In this state, the dot head control section 58 energizes the wire drive coil 60 to print the upper side of the character "ox". Next, the dot head feed motor 32 is controlled to move the dot head 22 by one character toward H to print the upper part of the character ``meat''. Thereafter, the upper portions of the remaining characters "(roast)" are printed in the same manner. When this printing is finished,
The dot head 22 is located above the position H on the right side of the label 1.

After this printing is completed, the dot head control section 58
The paper feed motor control section 62 controls the paper feed motor 8, and the mount 8 is moved so that the dot head 22 is located at the J position. That is, the mount 8 is moved by the vertical dimension of the upper side of the characters "beef (loin)". The dot head control section 58 controls the dot head feed motor 32 to move the dot head 2.
2 to position I, and from I to J, print the lower part of "beef (loin)" sequentially starting with the character "beef".

After this printing is completed, the paper feed motor control section 62 causes the mount 8 to run so that the dot head 22 is located at the position K on the LM line, and the dot head control section 58 controls the dot head feed motor 32 to move the dot head 22. to the L position, and
The upper part of the "1" digit of "500" toward M,
The upper part of the "10" digit and the upper part of the "100" digit are printed in this order.

After the printing of the upper part of the "100" digit is completed, the mount 8 is moved by the paper feed motor control section 62 so that the dot head 22 is located at the N position on the OP line. In other words, the "100" digit of the price, the "10" digit,
The mount 8 is run by the vertical dimension of the upper side of the "1" digit. Then, the dot head control section 58 controls the dot head 22 to return it to the O position.
From N to N, the lower part of the price is printed in order from the "1" digit to the "100" digit, and from N to P, the weight, unit price, and date of manufacture are printed in the specified order on the dot head 22. Each character is printed using a number made up of the number of dots it has. After this printing is completed, the paper feed motor control unit 62 runs the mount 8 until the optical detector 38 detects the subsequent label 1, peels off the printed label 1 from the mount 8, and starts the next non-printed label. Move the dot head 22 onto the GH line of label 1, and turn the dot head feed motor 3.
2, the dot head 22 is positioned at position G in preparation for the next printing. This is repeated sequentially.

In this printing method, a large number made up of more dots than the number of dots in the serial dot head 22 can be printed as a price by printing in two stages, upper and lower. Moreover, since the second printing starts from the same number as the first printing, the numbers divided into two stages do not shift vertically or horizontally.
Furthermore, since the printing position of the price is set toward the side edge of the label 1, printing can be performed at high speed. That is, if the printing position of the upper part of the price is set at the center of the label 1, for example, the position shown by M'L' in FIG.
It must be moved as M′, (KM − KL) +
Although the time required to move the dot head 22 by M'M is longer than in the present invention, the printing method according to the present invention allows the price to be printed at a position that is biased towards the side edge of the label 1, so the dot head 22 is
Only KL needs to be moved, which reduces the time required for movement and enables high-speed printing.

In the above example, the price printing position is set to label 1.
Although the position is biased toward the right side edge of , the position may be biased toward the left side edge. Furthermore, although the dot head 22 was moved after the mount 8 was run after one line of printing was completed, the mount 8 may be moved after the dot head 22 was moved. Also, the price was printed twice the size of the unit price and weight,
The magnification can be freely selected.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a label printed by the printing method according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the same label, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the main part of the printing device used in the printing method according to the present invention. 4 is a perspective view of the main parts of the printing device, FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the printing device, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the printing order of the printing method according to the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Label, 8... Mounting paper, 18... Mounting paper drive part, 22... Dot head, 50... Data storage part.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Weight data representing the weight to be printed,
A data storage section in which unit price data representing the unit price to be printed and price data representing the price to be printed larger than the above weight and unit price are stored, and non-printing labels are pasted at predetermined intervals in the length direction. The dot head is provided with a movable backing paper and a dot head that is provided to move along the width direction of the backing paper above the appropriate position of the blank label to be printed and has a predetermined number of dot pins along the length direction. In the printing device, the step of running the mount until it reaches a predetermined position of the blank label to be printed below the mounting position of the dot head, and the process of moving the mount to the upper side of the price to be printed based on the price data. is printed by the dot pin while moving the dot head along the width direction of the non-printed label from one side edge of the non-printed label, and the vertical dimension of the upper side of the printed price. The process of running the backing paper a corresponding distance, and moving the dot head along the width direction of the label from one side edge of the label to the lower part of the price to be printed using the dot pin. Then, based on the unit price data and weight data, the unit price and weight to be printed are printed on the lower side of the price while moving the dot head in the width direction of the label. A method for printing a label in a printing device, comprising the step of printing using a number of dot pins equal to or less than those used in the above.