JPH0962871A - Ticket issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set energy impressed on a thermal head in accordance with plural kinds of ticket sheets. SOLUTION: A write head 33 recording ticket issuing information in a recording part formed on a ticket, a printing part 35 printing ticket issuing information of the printing surface of the ticket, read means which are added to the ticket sheets 13 and 14 and read information showing the types of the ticket sheets 13 and 14 and a control part are provided. Furthermore, an energy setting means setting energy impressed on the printing part 35 is provided. Energy corresponding to the types of the ticket sheets 13 and 14 is set, and it is set in the printing part 35. Since printing can be executed by energy corresponding to the types of the ticket sheets 13 and 14, printing dignity can be improved. Then, energy impressed on the printing part 35 can automatically be set.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket issuing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a ticket issuing device has a magnetic recording section and a printing section. When issuing a ticket, the ticket issuing information is not only recorded on the magnetic stripe of the ticket by the magnetic recording section, The printing unit can print the ticket issuing information on the front surface or the back surface of the ticket.

For this reason, the ticket issuing device can accommodate ticket paper such as cut paper or continuous paper having a magnetic stripe and a printing surface. Then, the ticket paper is fed to the magnetic recording unit and the printing unit,
Ticketing information is recorded and printed. By the way, in the printing unit, printing is performed by a direct thermal printing method. In the direct thermal printing method, the ticket paper is locally heated by the thermal head, and an image is formed by coloring the heated portion of the ticket paper.

In this case, the material, components, etc. of the printing surface, the heat-sensitive layer, the protective layer, etc. of the ticket paper differ depending on the manufacturer of the ticket paper. Therefore, at the time of printing, the energy applied to the thermal head (hereinafter referred to as "applied energy") is set for each manufacturer.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional ticket issuing device, since the applied energy of the thermal head is manually input by the operator, not only the operation is troublesome but also the operation may be erroneous. Further, when a plurality of hoppers are provided in one ticket issuing device and ticket papers of different manufacturers are set in the respective hoppers, the applied energy can only be set for one kind of ticket paper. However, at the same time, an appropriate applied energy cannot be set for other types of ticket paper. Therefore, when printed on other types of ticket paper,
The print quality becomes poor.

The present invention solves the problems of the conventional ticket issuing device and provides a ticket issuing device capable of setting the applied energy of the thermal head corresponding to a plurality of types of ticket paper. To aim.

[0007]

Therefore, in the ticket issuing device of the present invention, a write head for recording ticketing information in a recording portion formed on the ticket and a printing for printing the ticketing information on the printing surface of the ticket. Unit, a reading unit attached to the ticket paper and reading information indicating the type of the ticket paper, and a control unit, and the control unit applies to the printing unit based on the information indicating the type of the ticket paper. An energy setting means for setting the energy to be used is provided.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a ticket issuing device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
In this embodiment, continuous paper is used as the ticket paper, but cut paper can also be used.

In the figure, reference numerals 11 and 12 denote hoppers for accommodating ticket papers 13 and 14, respectively.
4 is housed in the hoppers 11 and 12 in a folded state. In this case, different types of ticket papers 13, 1
4 is accommodated, but ticket papers 13 and 14 of the same type can also be accommodated. 16 is a hopper feeding section,
The hopper feeding unit 16 feeds the ticket papers 13 and 14 accommodated in the hopper units 11 and 12 and makes them stand by. Then, when receiving the instruction of the operator, the ticket papers 13, 1
4 is selected and is transported to the common transport path 18.

A ticket cutting section 21 is arranged downstream of the hopper feeding section 16 in the conveying path 18. The ticket cutting unit 21 has a cutter 22 which cuts the ticket papers 13 and 14 into a set length and cuts into a ticket. Further, an encoder section 31 is arranged on the downstream side of the ticket cutting section 21 in the transport path 18. The encoder unit 31 is provided in the transport path 1
8 has a write head 32 and a read head 33 as a reading means from the upstream side, and on the other hand, a magnetic stripe (not shown) as a recording portion is formed on each of the bills.
Then, the write head 32 writes ticketing information on the magnetic stripe, and the read head 33 reads and checks ticketing information written on the magnetic stripe.

A printing unit 35 is arranged downstream of the encoder unit 31 in the transport path 18. The printing unit 35 includes a platen roller 37 rotatably arranged,
It has a thermal head 38, which is disposed so as to face the platen roller 37 and locally heats a ticket for printing, and discharge rollers 39, 40. In the present embodiment, the ticket has a heat-sensitive layer, and an image is formed by coloring the heated portion of the ticket, but the thermal transfer ribbon is heated and the image is formed. It is also possible to form an image by transferring the ink of the heated portion of the sheet onto the printing surface of the ticket. In the figure, 41
Is a discharge stacker, 60 is a cover, and 61 is a caster.

Next, the ticket papers 13 and 14 will be described. FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a ticket sheet according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In this case, only the ticket paper 13 will be described. As shown in the figure, the ticket paper 13 is formed of continuous paper, and perforations 51 are formed at set intervals.
Is formed. The perforation 51 is formed by alternately repeating a cut portion of 2 [mm] and a non-cut portion of 1 [mm]. In the hopper portions 11 and 12 (FIG. 1), the perforation 51 is used as a fold. It is folded and stored.

A printing surface is formed on the surface of the ticket paper 13, and the thermal head 38 prints on the printing surface. On the other hand, on the back surface of the ticket paper 13, a magnetic stripe 53 is formed as a recording unit for recording the information indicating the type of the ticket paper 13 and the ticket issuing information. next,
The operation of the ticket issuing device having the above configuration will be described.

First, when a ticket issuing command is sent from a control unit (not shown), the hopper units 11 and 12 are selected, a transport motor (not shown) is driven, and the ticket paper 13 held in the hopper feeding unit 16 is fed. It is conveyed to the ticket cutting unit 21 by the rollers. And the ticket cutting unit 2
The ticket paper 13 conveyed to 1 is cut along the perforations 51 by the cutter 22 to become tickets separated from each other.

Next, the ticket is conveyed to the encoder section 31, and the read head 33 reads the kind of the ticket previously recorded on the magnetic stripe 53, for example, the information of the manufacturer of the ticket paper 13. The read result is recognized by the control unit. Thereafter, the ticket issuing information is written on the magnetic stripe 53 by the write head 32, and the ticket is conveyed to the printing unit 35. At this time, the energy setting means of the control unit reads the data of the applied energy corresponding to the information of the manufacturer from a memory (not shown), sets the applied energy corresponding to the type of the ticket paper 13, and applies it to the thermal head 38. To do. Therefore, printing can be performed with the applied energy corresponding to the type of the ticket paper 13, so that the printing quality can be improved.

Then, the printed sheets in the printing section 35 are discharged by the discharging rollers 39 and 40 to the discharging stacker 4.
It is discharged to 1. Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a ticket issuing device according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of ticket paper according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In addition, about the thing which has the same structure as 1st Embodiment, the description is abbreviate | omitted by giving the same code | symbol.

In this case, the bar code lead portion 24 is arranged on the conveying path 18 downstream of the ticket cutting portion 21. The bar code reading section 24 has a bar code reader 25 as a reading means for reading a bar code formed on a ticket. Further, a bar code portion 52 for recording the type of each ticket paper 13 and 14 is formed on the back surface of the ticket paper 13 and 14.

In the present embodiment, the ticket cutting section 21.
The ticket cut in (1) is conveyed to the bar code reading section 24, and the bar code reader 25 reads the kind of the ticket recorded in the bar code section 52 in advance, for example, the information of the manufacturer of the ticket paper 13. The read result is recognized by a control unit (not shown). Then, the control unit reads the applied energy data corresponding to the information of the manufacturer from a memory (not shown), and applies the applied energy corresponding to the type of the ticket paper 13 to the thermal head 38. Therefore, the ticket paper 1
Since printing can be performed with the applied energy corresponding to the three types, the printing quality can be improved.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified based on the gist of the present invention, and they are not excluded from the scope of the present invention.

[0020]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, in the ticket issuing device, the ticket issuing information is recorded on the printing surface of the ticket and the write head for recording the ticket issuing information in the recording portion formed on the ticket. And a reading unit attached to the ticket paper for reading information indicating the type of the ticket paper, and a control unit, and the control unit, based on the information indicating the type of the ticket paper, An energy setting unit that sets the energy applied to the printing unit is provided.

In this case, the energy corresponding to the type of the ticket paper is set and applied to the printing section. Therefore, it is possible to perform printing with energy corresponding to the type of ticket paper, and thus it is possible to improve the printing quality. Also,
Since the energy applied to the printing unit can be automatically set, not only the work can be simplified, but also the operation is not mistaken.

Even when a plurality of hoppers are arranged in one ticket issuing device and ticket papers of different manufacturers are set in the respective hoppers, an appropriate energy is set for each kind of ticket papers. can do.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a ticket issuing device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a ticket sheet according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a ticket issuing device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a ticket sheet according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of Codes] 13, 14 Ticket Paper 25 Bar Code Reader 32 Write Head 33 Read Head 35 Printing Section 52 Bar Code Section 53 Magnetic Stripe

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Masatoshi Kawaji 1-7-12 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (72) Sadao Sone 1-1-12 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A light head for recording ticketing information on a recording portion formed on a ticket, (b) a printing portion for printing ticketing information on a printing surface of the ticket, and (c) attached to a ticket sheet. Reading means for reading information indicating the type of the ticket paper, and (d)
A ticket issuing device comprising: a control unit, and (e) the control unit includes energy setting means for setting energy to be applied to the printing unit based on information indicating a type of ticket paper. 2. The ticket issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the reading unit is a read head that reads information indicating a type of ticket paper from the recording unit. 3. The ticket issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the reading means is a bar code reader that reads information indicating a type of ticket paper from a bar code section.