JPH09240643A - Image printing labeler device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To print the data on an additional remittee and the data on the bar code for a back side on a label based on the data on a remittee provided on the surface of a registered envelope. SOLUTION: An image input device 15 and a bar code reader 6 are successively brought close to a registered envelope 1 on which the data 31 on a remittee and the bar code data 32 for a surface are provided in advance. The data 31 on the remittee and the bar code data 32 for the surface are read by the image input device 15 and the bar code reader 6. Based on the information from the image input device 15 and the bar code reader 6, the data 33a on an additional remittee and the bar code data 33b for the back side are printed on a continuous label 35 in a printing device 10 by a control device 16, and a first label 33 is prepared.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention produces a label on which additional recipient data such as a delivery certificate and bar code data are printed based on recipient data such as a delivery destination displayed on a document such as a registered mail envelope. Image printing labeler device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, according to the Postal Law, when handling registered mail, recording of registered mail (registered envelope) from acceptance to delivery is performed, and if the registered mail is lost or lost during delivery. In the case of damage, all or part of the proposed damage compensation amount will be compensated.

[0003] Therefore, in registered mail, a receipt of registered mail is issued to the sender at the time of underwriting, and the receipt and receipt of the registered mail is recorded when carrying, and a stamp of receipt is received when delivering to the recipient. Has become. Such records are also applied mutatis mutandis to registered mail.

[0004] From 1991, in order to facilitate tracking of registered mail, a system for attaching a bar code to registered mail has been adopted. The type of registered mail, area code, classification code, and serial number have been adopted. Etc. are now recorded as barcodes.

In this case, the division code is a code of a large user or the like, and a number is assigned by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
Large users are required to use this code to display the registered code in advance (printing the barcode) using a barcode before sending registered mail.

[0006] From July 19, 1995, if a registered mail delivery letter and original mark are created and submitted, or if they are attached to an envelope for delivery, the postage will be reduced. The system has been adopted, and large users need to use this system effectively.

Heretofore, such pasting of delivery certificates and original marks has been performed manually in the postal service, and in fact, it has required a lot of labor and labor.

In such a case, if additional recipient data such as delivery certificate and original mark and bar code data can be created from the recipient data of the registered mail, the work efficiency can be improved by fully automating the manual work. Therefore, it is possible to ensure the accuracy of work and prevent delivery mistakes.

[0009]

On the other hand, various devices have been developed for producing and recording stamps for producing postal matter of the same standard from continuous forms. For example, JP
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 69255/1995 discloses an invention of a method for producing an integrated body of a card-shaped recording medium and a stamp.

However, the invention described in the above publication reads information recorded on a magnetic card,
This information is printed by a printer on a mount that is continuously supplied with the necessary information from that information.From recipient data such as the delivery destination of registered mail, additional recipient data such as delivery certificate, original mark and bar code data. Cannot be made.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and based on the recipient data displayed on the surface of the registered mail, the additional recipient data such as a delivery certificate and the bar code data are used as labels. An object is to provide an image printing labeler device capable of printing.

[0012]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
An image input device that reads the recipient data provided on the document surface, a printing device that prints various data on the label, and an additional receipt based on the recipient data from the image input device and the built-in bar code data that is built in in advance. An image printing labeler device, comprising: a control device that controls a printing device to print human data and backside barcode data on a label.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, an image input device for reading the recipient data provided on the surface of the document, a printing device for printing various data on a label, and bar code data for the surface provided on the surface of the document are provided. Based on the barcode reader to read, the recipient data from the image input device and the barcode data for the surface from the barcode reader,
An image printing labeler device, comprising: a control device that controls a printing device to print additional recipient data and backside barcode data on a label.

According to the present invention, the control device controls the printing device based on the recipient data from the image input device and the built-in bar code data or the front surface bar code data from the bar code reader, This printer prints the additional recipient data and the backside barcode data on the label.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a view showing an image printing apparatus according to the present invention.

1 and 2, the image printing labeler device is provided with a registered mail or delivery record envelope (hereinafter referred to as a registered mail envelope) 1 on which recipient data 31 such as a recipient's address name (destination) is displayed on the front surface. Recipient data 31
An image input device 15 such as a CCD camera for reading the image is provided, and the image input device 15 is connected to the control device 16. Further, the control device 16 is connected to a bar code reader 6 which reads the front surface bar code data 32 displayed on the front surface of the registered envelope 1. The recipient data 31 provided on the front surface of the document envelope 1 has the recipient member number 31a.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a printer 10 is connected to the controller 16. The printing device 10 is driven and controlled by the control device 16, and based on the recipient data 31 from the image input device 15 and the front surface bar code data 32 from the bar code reader 6,
Additional recipient data 33a consisting of a registered mail delivery certificate and the same original number on the continuous label 35 and the back side barcode data 3
3b is printed on each to produce the first label 33 (FIG. 2A).

The first label 33 formed by printing the additional recipient data 33a and the back side barcode data 33b on the continuous label 35 is then attached to the back side of the document envelope 1 (FIG. 2 (a)).

In some cases, only the recipient data 31 is provided on the front surface of the document envelope 1 and the front surface barcode data 32 is not initially provided. In this case, the control device 1
Reference numeral 6 is an additional recipient data 33a consisting of a document mail delivery certificate and the same original code by the printing device 10 based on the recipient data 31 from the image input device 15 and the built-in bar code data previously stored, and the back bar. Code data 33b
Is printed on each continuous label 35 to produce the first label 33. At the same time, the control device 16 prints the front surface bar code data 34a on the continuous label 35 by the printing device 10 based on the built-in bar code data to produce the second label 34 (FIGS. 2B and 2C). In this case, the first label 3
Regarding the arrangement position of the third label 34 and the second label 34, the second label 34 may be arranged below the document postal delivery certificate of the first label 33 (FIG. 2B). And the second label 34 may be arranged so as to form a rectangle.

Registered mail delivery certificate and additional recipient data 33a consisting of the same original number and backside bar code data 33b
The attachment of the first label 33 on which is printed requires that the entire surface be in close contact with the registered envelope 1.
When the product is delivered to each household, it is preferable that the “pseudo-adhesive label” be used because the delivery member must bring the “delivery certificate” back after the receipt is stamped. Pseudo-adhesion has a structure in which it is adhered in a peelable state, and is a technique known to those skilled in the art.

Next, the image input device 15 and the bar code reader 6 will be described in detail. When the recipient data 31 such as the recipient's address name is read as an image by the image input device 15, the input image data is converted into the control device 16
Sent to The control device 16 binarizes the image data. Further, the barcode data 32 read by the barcode reader 6 is sent to the control device 16. Based on the information from the image input device 15 and the information from the bar code reader 6, the control device 16 prints the additional recipient data 33a and the back side bar code data 34a on the continuous label 35 in the printing device 10, and The label 33 is created. Printing in the printing device 10 is a known method, for example, thermal color printing, thermal transfer printing,
It is possible to print with a water jet, etc., and it is necessary to design a label and a printing device according to each printing method.

Further, the control device 16 is connected to a receipt preparation device 36 for preparing a receipt including at least receipt barcode data and a membership number (see FIGS. 3 and 4). This receipt creating device 36 is a receipt, for example, as shown in FIG.
The registered mail receipt shown in Fig. 4 and the delivery record mail receipt shown in Fig. 4 are created.

Next, the operation of this embodiment having such a configuration will be described. First, the operation of the registered envelope 1 in which the recipient data 31 including the member number 31a and the front surface barcode data 32 are displayed will be described. The image input device 15 and the barcode reader 6 sequentially approach the document envelope 1, and the recipient data 31 and the barcode data 32 are read by the image input device 15 and the barcode reader 6, respectively. In this case, the member number 31a is displayed on the document envelope 1 as OCR character information.

When the recipient data 31 such as the recipient's address name on the surface of the registered envelope is read by the image input device 15, the controller 16 binarizes the recipient data. Next, the control device 16 adds the additional recipient data 33a to the continuous label 35 in the printer 10 based on the recipient data 31 from the image input device 15 and the front side bar code data 32 from the bar code reader 6 and the back side bar data. The barcode data 33b is printed, respectively, and the first label 33 is produced (FIG. 2A).

Next, the first label 33, which is peeled from the continuous label 35 and has the additional recipient data 33a and the back side bar code data 33b, is attached to the back side of the registered envelope 1.

Next, the front side bar code 32 displayed on the front side of the registered envelope 1 and the back side bar code data 33a printed on the back side first label 33 are read again by the bar code reader 6, and the bar code reader 6 is read. The front-side bar code data 32 and the back-side bar code data 33b read by are matched by the matching circuit (comparison circuit) of the control device 16. The matching result is displayed from the control device 16.

In the meantime, the control device 16 uses the recipient data 31 of the image input device 15 and the front side bar code data 31 from the bar code reader 6 to send the registered mail receipt (FIG. 3) and the delivery record in the receipt preparation device 36. Create each mail receipt (Fig. 4). In this case, the document mail receipt (Fig. 3) consists of the acceptance number (receipt barcode data), the name and the member number below the name (XXXXX
X) and. The delivery record mail receipt (FIG. 4) also has an acceptance number (receipt barcode data) and a membership number. These registered mail and delivery record mail receipts are attached when the registered mail and delivery record envelope 1 is presented to the post office. Further, the registered mail receipt shown in FIG. 3 links the recipient data and the bar code data, and can also serve as management data for the sender.

Next, the operation of the document envelope 1 in which only the recipient data 31 is displayed on the front surface and the front surface barcode data 32 is not displayed will be described. The image input device 15 approaches the document envelope 1 and the recipient data 31
Is read by the image input device 15.

This recipient data 31 is sent to the control device 16, and the control device 16 additionally receives by the printing device 10 based on the recipient data 31 from the image input device 15 and the built-in bar code data. Person data 33
a and the barcode data 33b for the back side are continuous labels 35
To print the first label 33. At the same time, the controller 16 causes the printer 10 to produce the second label 34 having the front surface barcode data 34a (see FIG. 2).
(B) (c)).

Next, the first label 33 having the additional recipient data 33 and the back side barcode data 33b is attached to the back surface of the document envelope 1, and the front surface of the document envelope 1 is
Second label 34 having front surface barcode data 34a
Is affixed. After that, the back surface barcode data 33b of the first label 33 and the front surface barcode data 34a of the second label 34 are read by the barcode reader 6 and matched by the control device 16.

During this time, the control device 16 causes the receipt preparation device 36 to make a document mail receipt (FIG. 3) and a delivery record mail receipt (FIG. 4) based on the recipient data 31 and the built-in bar code data of the image input device 15. ) Are created respectively.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, the control device prints the additional recipient data and the back barcode data based on the recipient data and the built-in barcode data or the front barcode data. To print on the label. In this way, the label on which the additional recipient data and the back surface barcode data are printed can be easily manufactured.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an image printing labeler device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a first label on which additional recipient data and backside barcode data are printed and a second label on which a display barcode is printed.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a registered mail receipt.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a delivery record mail receipt.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Registered Mail Envelope 6 Bar Code Reader 15 Image Input Device 16 Control Device 31 Recipient Data 32 Front Side Bar Code Data 33 First Label 33a Additional Recipient Data 33b Back Side Bar Code Data 34 Second Label 34a Front Side Bar Code Data 35 Continuous label

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An image input device for reading recipient data provided on the surface of a document, a printer for printing various kinds of data on a label, a recipient data from the image input device, and a built-in bar code data pre-installed. An image printing labeler device, comprising: a control device that controls the printing device to print the additional recipient data and the back side barcode data on the label based on the above. 2. The image printing labeler device according to claim 1, wherein the control device controls the printing device to further print the front surface bar code data on the label based on the bar code data stored in advance. . 3. An image input device for reading the recipient data provided on the surface of the document, a printing device for printing various data on a label, and a bar code reader for reading the surface bar code data provided on the surface of the document. A control device for controlling the printing device so as to print the additional recipient data and the back side bar code data on the label based on the recipient data from the image input device and the front side bar code data from the bar code reader. An image printing labeler device characterized in that 4. The image printing labeler device according to claim 1, further comprising a receipt preparation device which is connected to the control device and produces a receipt including at least receipt barcode data. . 5. The recipient data has the membership number of the recipient,
5. The image printing labeler device according to claim 4, wherein the receipt creation device creates a receipt including a membership number. 6. The image printing labeler device according to claim 4, wherein the document is a registered mail or delivery record envelope, and the receipt created by the receipt creation device is a registered mail or delivery record mail receipt.