JPH04238528A - Printing processor for 'noshigami' (paper for covering gift) - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To correctly and automatically print 'NOSHIGAMI' (paper for covering gift). CONSTITUTION:An application slip 4 written by a client is read by an OCR 5, and its file 6 is distributed to an invoice slip file 8 and a 'NOSHIGAMI' file 9 respectively by a distributing device 7, and the printing of an invoice slip and the 'NOSHIGAMI' is executed automatically and correctly on the basis of this data. The printing processing of the invoice slip 12 and the 'NOSHIGAMI' 16 is executed in parallel, and the outputs of the both are synchronized, and the convenience of gift dispatching work is improved. The information of a customer master file 3 is used for indication characters of the 'NOSHIGAMI', and its contents are made capable of being corrected by a correcting device 2 so that only the character of 'CHUGEN' (midyear gift) and 'SEIBO' (year-end gift), etc., is corrected and other indication characters of the 'NOSHIGAMI' are re-used. A file 13 to designate the layout of the indication characters of the 'NOSHIGAMI' is provided so that the layout optimum for every user is set.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[Object of the invention]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a label printing processing apparatus incorporated into a gift system in the distribution industry.

0002

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Conventionally, the paper tags attached to gifts are handwritten one by one by a skilled calligrapher based on the image written on the invoice (so-called delivery slip). Therefore, it takes a lot of time and effort to create the paper, and the amount of data reaches its peak during the midsummer/year-end gift season, so many skilled workers must be hired.

[0003] In addition, there are cases in which a word processor equipped with a calligraphy font is used to print out stickers, but the settings are complicated, and the characters to be printed, the number of sheets, etc. must be manually set for each application. .

0004

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, the conventional method relies on manual printing of paper sheets, which takes time and requires a great deal of effort. Because the settings differ depending on the client or destination, setting operations take time and are prone to operational errors. The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a wrapping paper printing processing device that can automatically print wrapping paper without errors.

[Configuration of the invention]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The wrapping paper printing processing device of the present invention includes a customer master file that holds information necessary for printing on wrapping paper in correspondence with a customer code, and customer code, client information, and destination information. A reading means for reading the contents of the gift application form filled in, a reading data file for holding the data from the reading means, an invoice slip file for holding the data printed on the invoice, A bookmark display data file that holds data for the bookmark display, a bookmark paper parameter file that holds parameter information for the layout of the bookmark display characters, and data necessary for printing an invoice slip from the data held in the above-mentioned read data file. information necessary to search the customer master file using the above customer code held in the read data file as a key and print it on the corresponding cover sheet. data storage means for printing the invoice by using the data in the invoice file and storing the data in the invoice display data file; The present invention is provided with a booklet printing means for editing and printing a booklet, and a file modification means for modifying the customer master file.

[0006]

[Operation] According to the present invention, when the application form filled out by the client is read by the reading means, the information is stored in the invoice slip file and the label display data file by the invoice data storage means and the label data storage means. The invoice and the labeling paper will be printed out by each printing means based on that data, and the printing process will be performed based on the contents of the application form, so the labeling paper will be automatically printed without errors. It happens. In addition, the printing processing systems for the invoice slip and the wrapping paper are provided as separate systems, and the printing processing for both can be performed in parallel, so that the required number of invoice slips and wrapping paper can be output at the same time.
Each invoice and its corresponding label are synchronized,
Easy to send gifts. Furthermore, information from the customer master file is used as the information necessary to print on the wrapping paper, and the content can be modified using a file modification method. It is efficient because information can be reused. Furthermore, a paper parameter file is provided that specifies the layout of the paper stamp display characters, and the printing means for the paper stamp display characters uses that information to perform the print layout, so the optimal layout can be set for each user. can.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Examples of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, a display terminal 1 is used to perform new registration operations for customers (requesters), update operations for registered contents, input operations for modifying display characters on paper, etc., and issue file modification instructions according to the input contents. Output. The file modification device 2 modifies the contents of the customer master file 3 according to the file modification instruction. This customer master file 3 stores request record data for each customer, and this record data includes each customer's destination name, destination address, and characters displayed on gift cards such as "mid-year gift" and "year-end gift." included.

[0008] In the gift application form 4, information such as the client's name, client's address, client's customer number, destination name, destination address, gift product, etc. is entered. OCR (Optical Character Device) 5
The system reads the contents of the gift application form 4 and outputs the read information of the above-mentioned contents for each form as is to the OCR data file 6 that stores each application form 4 as shown in Figure 2. Perform processing. First, in step S201, the above information of the gift application form 4 is read and stored in the memory. Then, in step S202, the number of invoices is counted for each application form from the read gift application form 4 and stored in a memory. Next, in step S203, the gift application form 4 and the information on the number of forms stored in the memory are output to the OCR data file 6 for each application form. Step S for one application form 4
When the processing of steps 201 to S203 is completed, step S20
In step 4, it is determined whether there is any further application form 4 to be read, and if so, the processing in steps S201 to S203 is performed again, and the processing is repeated until the determination in step S204 becomes NO.

[0009] The sorting device 7 has an OCR data file 6.
The contents of the file are divided into an invoice file 8 and a label file 9 for each client, and the processing contents are as shown in FIG. First, in step S301, data is sequentially read from the OCR data file 6 and stored in the memory. In step S302, information necessary for the invoice slip is sequentially output from the memory to the invoice slip file 8. Then, in step S303, it is determined whether or not the processing of the invoice for one client has been completed, and the processing of steps S301 and S302 is repeated until this determination becomes YES. If the determination in step S303 is YES, the process moves to the paper. First, in step S304, the customer master file 3 is searched from the customer number in the OCR data file 6, information necessary for the paper is fetched, and the information is stored in memory. next,
In step S305, the information necessary for the wrapping paper is sequentially output from the memory to the wrapping paper file 9. and,
In step S306, it is determined whether or not processing has been completed for all data in the OCR data file 6, and as long as the determination is NO, the processing from step S301 is repeated. The data in the invoice file 8 is appropriately edited by the invoice editing device 10, and the invoice 12 is printed using the edited data by the invoice output device 11.

The wrapping paper editing device 14 edits the data in the wrapping paper file 9, and obtains and determines the wrapping paper layout from the wrapping paper parameter file 13. That is, as shown in FIG. 4, first, in step S401, the data of the paper file 9 is read and stored in the memory. Next, in step S402, the print layout is edited according to the contents of the paper parameter file 13. In step S403, an instruction is given to output the content and layout information of the cover sheet printing to be delivered to the cover sheet output device 15.

[0011] The gift paper output device 15 is designed to print the edited gift paper in a calligraphy font. As shown in FIG. 5, first, in step S501, a print instruction is received from the paper editing device 14. Then, in step S502,
Character arrangement processing and enlargement/reduction processing are performed based on the data received from the paper editing device 14. In step S503,
The characters are converted into a calligraphy font, and in step S504, the characters are edited and printed in the calligraphy font 16 on paper. When printing of one sheet of paper is completed, it is determined in step S505 whether printing for the number of destination slips 12 has been completed, and as long as this determination is made by the brain, the process of step S504 is repeated.

According to this embodiment configured as described above, when the application form 4 filled out by the client is read by the OCR 5, the information is transferred to the invoice slip file 8 by the sorting device 7 via the OCR data file 6. , paper file 9
Based on the data, each print processing system prints an invoice and a label. Therefore, since the printing process is performed based on the contents of the application form 4, the paper is automatically printed without errors. In addition, since the printing processing systems for the invoice slip and the wrapping paper are provided as separate systems, the printing processing for both is performed in parallel.
6 are output at the same time for the required number of sheets, each invoice 1
The output of 2 and the corresponding output of the label 16 can be synchronized, making it easier to send gifts. Furthermore, the information from the customer master file 3 is used as the character information for the gift card display, and the contents can be modified by the file modification device 2. Therefore, if only the characters such as chugen, year-end gift, etc. are modified depending on the time, other gift cards can be displayed. It is efficient because characters can be reused. Then, a label paper parameter file 13 that specifies the layout of the label display characters is provided, and the label editing device uses that information to perform the print layout, so it is possible to set the optimal layout for each user. can.

[0013]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, if the application form filled out by the client is read by the reading means,
The information is sorted into an invoice file and an invoice display data file by the invoice data storage means and the wrapping paper data storage means, and the invoice slip and the wrapping paper are printed out by each printing means based on these data. Since the printing process is performed based on the contents of the application form, the paper is automatically printed without errors. In addition, the printing processing systems for invoice slips and wrapping paper are provided as separate systems, and printing processing for both can be performed in parallel, so that only the required number of invoice slips and wrapping paper are output at the same time, and each invoice slip and It can be synchronized with the Surunoshi paper, making it easier to send gifts. Furthermore, the information necessary to print on the wrapping paper is from the customer master file, and the content can be modified using the file modification means, so if you only modify the characters such as mid-year gifts and year-end gifts depending on the time, other characters can be edited. It is efficient because information can be reused. Furthermore, a paper parameter file is provided that specifies the layout of the paper stamp display characters, and the printing means for the paper stamp display characters uses that information to perform the print layout, so the optimal layout can be set for each user. can.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of a signboard printing processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the contents of OCR processing shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing contents of the sorting device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing contents of the introductory paper editing device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing contents of the label paper output device shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Display terminal 2 File modification device 3 Customer master file 4 Gift application form 5 OCR 6 OCR data file 7 Sorting device 8 Invoice slip file 9 Noshi paper file 10 Invoice editing device 11 Invoice slip output device 12 Invoice slip 13 Paper parameter file 14 Paper editing device 15 Paper output device 16 Noshi paper

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A customer master file that stores the information necessary for printing on paper in correspondence with the customer code, and the contents of the gift application form in which the customer code, client information, and destination information are entered. a reading means for reading; a reading data file for holding data from the reading means;
An invoice slip file that holds the data to be printed on the invoice slip, a slip display data file that holds the data to be printed on the cover sheet, and a cover sheet parameter file that holds parameter information for the layout of the cover sheet display characters. an invoice data storage means for extracting data necessary for printing the invoice from the data held in the read data file and storing it in the invoice file; A labeling paper data storage means for searching the customer master file using a customer code as a key, extracting information necessary for printing on the corresponding labeling paper file, and storing the information in the labeling paper file; and using data in the invoice slip file. an invoice printing unit that prints the invoice using the invoice, a label printing unit that prints the invoice by editing the data in the invoice display data file using data in the invoice parameter file, and a file that modifies the customer master file. A label printing processing device comprising: a correction means; and a correction means.