JPH05266277A - Machine for printing and issuing ticket or the like - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the machine for printing and issuing a passenger ticket or the like capable of printing the ticket in plural colors although it is a device saving consumables such as a transfer material, etc., and with comparatively simple structure without increasing the kind of consumables. CONSTITUTION:In a carrying process to carry an unprinted ticket P or the like to a ticket issuing part 8 via a ticket carrier path 6, print in black is performed by coloring the thermosensible recording layer Pa of the ticket P or the like by a black print means 10 that is a direct thermosensible print means. The print in other colors (for example, print in red, etc.) is performed by transferring the ink of the transfer material A on the thermosensible recording layer Pa by a red print means 11, and the ticket P or the like on which information is printed in the plural colors is issued to the ticket issuing part 8.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing and issuing machine for printing tickets such as boarding tickets, and more particularly to a ticket printing machine for printing information of a plurality of colors. Regarding printing machines.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, various types of ticket printing machines have been put into practical use. As a printing method of a printing means adopted for these, heat is directly applied to a medium (tickets) made of thermal recording paper. A medium for printing the ink surface of the transfer material by using a direct heat-sensitive method in which the medium itself is colored and printed by adding the ink, and an ultra-thin sheet-like material called a transfer material with one side coated with ink. A heat-sensitive transfer method is mainly used, in which (sheets) are polymerized, and heat is applied from the back side of the transfer material to melt the ink so that the ink adheres to the medium to print.

However, in the printing and issuing machines for passenger tickets, it is required to issue multiple ticket types year by year, and accordingly, the customer's needs such as not only the black single color but also the red or black two-color or multi-color. It is coming. Therefore, in order to answer this, in the case of two colors of red and black, conventionally, the thermal transfer printing method was adopted, and a) the transfer material was used in which black ink and red ink were applied alternately, After printing, the medium is sent again to the printing section to print in red.

B) A printing stage equipped with a transfer material coated with black ink and a printing stage equipped with a transfer material coated with red ink are independently provided, and after printing black, the medium is printed in red. Send it to the stage and print it in red. For example, two-color printing is performed by performing the same process.

[0005]

Conventionally, as described above, there are two methods, a) and b), but the former a) transfer material in which red and black inks are alternately applied is printed, for example, in a single black color. For the type of ticket to be used, the transfer material for red printing is wasted,
There are problems that the number of sheets that can be issued in one roll of transfer material is small, the transfer material is frequently replaced, and the running cost is high.

On the other hand, when the transfer material for red printing and the transfer material for black printing of the latter b) are independently provided, the above problem can be solved, but the printing stage is provided independently. However, the device becomes complicated and large, and the cost of the device increases. Furthermore, since the number of types of consumables increases, it is possible that they may be installed incorrectly, which is problematic in that management is difficult and the initial cost for preparation and the like is high.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the waste of consumables such as a transfer material is small, and the kind of the consumables does not increase. An object of the present invention is to provide a printing and issuing machine for tickets, which is capable of printing in a plurality of colors.

[0008]

As a first means for solving the above problems, the present invention provides a ticket supply means for supplying unprinted tickets having a thermosensitive recording layer and a ticket supply means. A ticket transporting means for transporting the stamped tickets to the ticket issuing unit, and heat is directly applied to the thermosensitive recording surface of the ticket provided on the transportation path of the ticket transported by the ticket transporting means to cause color development. By direct thermal printing means for printing information by this, and a transfer material having an ink layer of a color different from the color printed by the direct thermal printing means is polymerized on the thermal recording surface and from the back side of the transfer material. A heat-sensitive transfer printing means for transferring the ink onto the heat-sensitive recording surface by applying heat to perform printing is provided.

As a second means, a roll paper holding mechanism for holding a roll paper having a thermosensitive recording layer so that it can be drawn out freely, a roll paper feeding mechanism for drawing out the roll paper held by the roll paper holding mechanism, and this roll. A cutting mechanism that cuts the roll paper fed by the paper feeding mechanism to create unprinted tickets, and a ticket that conveys the unprinted tickets having the thermal recording layer cut by the cutting mechanism to the ticket issuing unit. A transport means, a direct thermal printing means for printing information by directly applying heat to the thermal recording surface of the ticket, which is provided in the transport path of the ticket transported by the ticket transport means, A transfer material having an ink layer of a color different from the color directly printed by the thermal printing means is polymerized on the thermosensitive recording surface, and the transfer material is set at an output lower than the coloring temperature of the thermosensitive recording layer. Applying heat from the back side in which the ink was formed by and a thermal transfer printing unit configured to print is transferred to the heat-sensitive recording layer.

[0010]

According to the first and second means, black printing is performed by directly printing the color on the heat-sensitive recording layer by the heat-sensitive printing means while the unprinted tickets are conveyed to the ticket issuing section. The printing of other colors (for example, red) is performed by transferring the ink of the transfer material onto the heat-sensitive recording layer by the heat-sensitive transfer printing means, and printing the tickets on which information of a plurality of colors is printed. Can be issued to

As described above, since the direct thermal printing means and the thermal transfer printing means are provided and the direct thermal printing method and the thermal transfer printing method are used together, the direct thermal printing means has a simpler structure than the thermal transfer printing means. Therefore, the size can be reduced, the device can be inexpensive, and the reliability of the device can be improved. In addition, the number of consumables used by the thermal transfer printing means is small and economical, and most of the tickets are printed in black, and when printing other colors, special tickets with few issues are issued. The amount of consumables used is small, the replacement period of consumables is extended, and maintenance is easy.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 schematically shows the construction of a printing and issuing machine for boarding tickets. In FIG. 1, 1 is a ticket supply mechanism as a ticket supply means, and this ticket supply mechanism 1 is a roll. Roll paper 3 made of thermal recording paper held by paper holding mechanism 2
Is fed by a roll paper feeding mechanism 4 including a guide roller 4a and a conveying roller pair 4b by a predetermined amount, and a cutter mechanism 5 as a cutting mechanism cuts the paper into a predetermined size to produce unprinted notes P and the unprinted paper. The ticket P is sent to the ticket transport path 6.

The ticket conveying path 6 includes a plurality of conveying roller pairs 7b.
It is formed by a ticket transport mechanism 7 as a ticket transport means configured by, for example, and transports the ticket P to the ticket issuing port 8 as a ticket issuing unit. In addition, ticket transportation path 6
Black printing means 10 which is a direct thermal printing means corresponding to
And a red printing means 11 as a thermal transfer printing means.

FIG. 2 shows a control system, which is a control unit 1.
5, a roll paper feeding mechanism 4, a cutter mechanism 5, a ticket conveying mechanism 7, a black printing means 10 and a red printing means 11 are connected, and an information input means 16 for inputting print information and a print pattern etc. Storage device 1 that stores
7 is connected.

Next, the operation of issuing a commuter pass will be described. First, after inputting variation information such as station name, transit, period, date, etc. by the information input means 16, an issue button (not shown) is pressed. As a result, the unprinted ticket P having a predetermined size is supplied from the ticket supply mechanism 1 to the ticket transport path 6.

The tickets P supplied to the ticket conveying path 6 are
The sheet is conveyed with the surface on which the thermal recording layer Pa is formed facing upward, and first, directly faces the black printing means 10 which is the thermal printing means. Then, as shown in FIG. 3, while the tickets P are conveyed while being sandwiched between the thermal head 20 and the platen roller 21,
Pulsed heat is applied to the heat-sensitive recording layer Pa via the heating element group 22 to directly develop the color on the heat-sensitive recording layer Pa as shown in FIG. 5, and a black pattern B such as a station name, a passage, a period, etc. is printed.

Then, it faces the red printing means 11 as the thermal transfer printing means. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, while the transfer material A is superposed on the tickets P, the heating element group 2 is sandwiched and conveyed by the thermal head 23 and the platen roller 24.
Pulsed heat is applied to the transfer material A via 5, and a red pattern R such as a date is printed on the thermosensitive recording layer Pa as shown in FIG. The red printing means 11 has a transfer material A.
There is a mounting mechanism 28 and a winding mechanism 30.

FIG. 6 schematically shows this series of printing operation states. That is, the right side of the drawing shows the unprinted notes P, the center of the drawing shows the state of black printing, and the left of the drawing shows the state of further red printing. The ticket P for which the predetermined printing has been completed in this manner is issued to the ticket issuing port 8 as shown in FIG.

The output of the red printing means 11 as the thermal transfer printing means, that is, the heating temperature of the heating element group 25 of the thermal head 23 is set smaller than the output of the black printing means 10 which is the direct thermal printing means. There is. Specifically, the output of the black printing means 10 which is a direct thermal printing means is about 90 ° C., and the output of the red printing means 11 which is a thermal transfer printing means is lower than the coloring temperature of the thermal recording layer Pa of the ticket P. The temperature is set to about 60 ° C. so that the heat-sensitive recording layer Pa of the ticket P does not develop color during heat-sensitive transfer printing.

In addition, in the above-mentioned one embodiment, the case of printing and issuing the commuter pass has been described, but it may be other ticket, and is also applied to the printing and issuing of other ticket which is not a ticket. You may. Further, the same effect can be obtained by disposing the black printing means 10 which is a direct thermal printing means in the former stage and the red printing means 11 as the thermal transfer printing means in the latter stage. Further, in this embodiment, the color that is developed by the direct printing method is black and the color that is developed by the thermal transfer printing method is red, but the present invention is not limited to this. In addition, it goes without saying that the present invention can be variously modified and implemented within the scope of the invention.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the direct thermal printing means and the thermal transfer printing means are provided and the direct thermal printing method and the thermal transfer printing method are used together, the direct thermal printing means is a thermal transfer method. Since the structure is simpler than that of the printing means, the size can be reduced, the device can be inexpensive, and the reliability of the device can be improved. In addition, the number of consumables used by the thermal transfer printing means is small and economical, and most of the tickets are printed in black, and when printing other colors, special tickets with few issues are issued. The amount of consumables used is small,
This has the effect of extending the replacement period of consumables and facilitating maintenance.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control system of the same.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a printing state of the direct thermal printing unit.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a printing state of the thermal transfer printing unit.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of tickets subjected to the same direct thermal printing and thermal transfer printing.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view schematically showing a series of printing operation states.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Ticket supply mechanism (ticket supply means), 2 ... Reel mechanism (roll paper holding mechanism), 3 ... Roll paper (thermal recording paper),
4 ... Roll paper feeding mechanism, 5 ... Cutter mechanism (cutting mechanism), 6 ... Ticket transportation path, 7 ... Ticket transportation mechanism (ticket transportation means), 8 ... Ticket issuing port (ticket issuing section), 10 ... Black printing means (Direct thermal printing means), 11 ... Red printing means (thermal transfer printing means), 20, 23 ... Thermal heads 21, 24
... Platen rollers, 22, 25 ... Heating element group, A ... Transfer material, P ... Tickets, Pa ... Thermal recording layer, B ... Black pattern,
R ... Red pattern.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A ticket supply means for supplying an unprinted ticket having a heat-sensitive recording layer, a ticket transfer means for transferring the ticket supplied by the ticket supply means to a ticket issuing section, and this ticket Direct thermal printing means for printing information by providing heat to the thermal recording surface of the notes provided in the transportation path of the tickets conveyed by the conveying means, and printed by the direct thermal printing means. Of a color different from the color of the color of the transfer material. A heat-sensitive transfer in which a transfer material having an ink layer of a color different from that of the ink A printing and issuing machine for tickets, comprising a printing means. 2. A roll paper holding mechanism for holding a roll paper having a thermosensitive recording layer so that it can be drawn out freely, a roll paper feeding mechanism for drawing out the roll paper held by the roll paper holding mechanism, and a roll paper feeding mechanism. A cutting mechanism that cuts the rolled-out roll paper to create unprinted tickets, and a ticket conveying unit that conveys the unprinted tickets having the thermal recording layer cut by the cutting mechanism to the ticket issuing unit, A direct thermal printing means, which is provided on a transportation path of a ticket transported by the ticket transportation means, prints information by directly applying heat to the thermal recording surface of the ticket to develop color, and the direct thermal printing means. The transfer material having an ink layer of a color different from the color printed by is polymerized on the heat-sensitive recording surface and heat generated from the back side of the transfer material by the output set lower than the color development temperature of the heat-sensitive recording layer. In addition the printing issuing machine for ticket such that the thermal transfer printing unit, characterized by comprising comprises a Print by transferring the ink on the thermosensitive recording layer with.