JPH10100498A - Passbook slip printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To deal with a passbook or a bond using an identical data by providing a control means for determining the type of a medium being taken in, validating an unprintable region being set according to the seam of a passbook when the medium is a passbook and invalidating the unprintable region when the medium is a slip. SOLUTION: When a medium is inserted into an insertion port 1a on the passbook carrying path 1 side and a medium insertion detecting sensor 4a is turned on, a carrying roller 5 group is turned through a pulse motor and the medium is taken in. Pulse motor drive pulses are counted started from a moment of time when the rear end of the medium passes through the sensor 4a. When the forward end of the medium reaches a carrying roller 5a, thickness of the medium of detected by a thickness sensor 8. Length of the medium is detected from the count of the pulse and a decision is made whether the medium is a passbook or a slip. Unprintable region being set according to the seam of the passbook is validated in case of a passbook but invalidated in case of a slip thus performing print control.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a passbook slip printer capable of handling both a booklet passbook and a single slip slip or certificate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A passbook voucher printer is a window device of a financial institution capable of handling a booklet-like passbook as a print medium and a voucher or voucher. As an example of such a passbook slip printer, a passbook insertion slot and a slip insertion slot are separately provided, a transport path extends from each of the insertion ports, and joins one transport path in the middle. A print head is provided in the merged transport path, and a passbook or a slip inserted from a separate insertion slot can be printed by one print head.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing a passbook. The passbook has a binding portion 100 in a double-page spread state, and printing cannot be performed on this portion. Therefore, it is determined whether the fetched medium is a passbook or a non-passbook, and if it is a passbook, the binding is defined as a non-printable area so that printing is not performed. Whether the fetched medium is a passbook or a non-passbook is determined by detecting the length of the medium and determining the difference in the length.

[0004]

When a magnetic stripe is provided on a cut sheet, the magnetic head is inserted from the passbook insertion slot because the magnetic head is provided on the side of the passbook. However, since it is determined whether the fetched medium is a passbook or a non-passbook based on the size of the medium, a cut-sheet having the size of the passbook is determined to be a passbook. In this case, the position corresponding to the binding of the passbook is defined as a non-printable area, and if print data exists in this area, an error occurs and there is a problem that the data cannot be handled.

Further, if the print data in the non-printable area at the position corresponding to the binding of the passbook is made valid, there is a problem that when the passbook is inserted, the print head hits the binding and an error occurs. .

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention determines the type of a fetched medium and, if it is determined that the medium is a passbook, sets it to match the binding of the passbook. This is a passbook slip printer provided with control means for making the non-printable area valid and determining that the loaded medium is a single sheet, and invalidating the non-printable area setting.

[0007]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of a passbook slip printer according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of the passbook slip printer according to the first embodiment. First, the configuration of the passbook slip printer will be described with reference to FIG. 2. Reference numeral 1 denotes a passbook transport path, 2 denotes a slip transport path, and the passbook transport path 1 and the slip transport path 2 are independent in the vicinity of the respective insertion openings 1a and 2a. .

Then, the passbook transport path 1 and the slip transport path 2 merge on the way to form a print transport path 3. 4a is the passbook transport path 1
Medium insertion detection sensor provided in the side insertion opening 1a, 4b
Is a medium insertion detection sensor provided at the insertion port 2a of the slip transport path 2. Reference numeral 5 denotes a transport roller provided in the passbook transport path 1, the slip transport path 2, and the print transport path 3, and is driven by a motor (not shown).

Reference numeral 6a denotes a magnetic head provided in the passbook transport path 1 for reading and writing data of a magnetic stripe. Reference numeral 6b denotes a print head provided in the print transport path 3. Reference numeral 7 denotes a print position detection sensor provided in the print conveyance path 3 for detecting the position and length of the taken-in medium. Reference numeral 8 denotes a medium thickness detection sensor connected via a spring 8a to a conveyance roller 5a provided near the insertion slot 1a of the bankbook conveyance path 1 among the conveyance rollers 5 provided in the bankbook conveyance path 1, and determines the type of the medium. Used to Here, the reason why the medium thickness detection sensor 8 is provided only in the passbook transport path 1 is that, when handling a single form provided with a magnetic stripe, this single form needs to be processed in the passbook transport path 1. It is necessary to determine whether the medium conveyed is a passbook or a non-passbook.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an example of a medium thickness detecting sensor, in which ferromagnetic ferrite cores 11a and 11b are provided.
A winding 12 is applied to one of the two, and an inductance corresponding to the distance between the cores is converted from a LC oscillation circuit with a capacitor 13 into a pulse by a pulse conversion circuit 14, and a change in the frequency is detected. The core 11a is connected to the spring 8a described with reference to FIG. 2, and when the transport roller 5a is pushed up by the thickness of the medium, the core 11a moves upward, and the cores 11a and 1a are moved upward.
1b is widened.

The passbook slip printer having the above configuration is controlled by the control unit 21 shown in FIG. The control unit 21
Receives from the higher-level device 22 the definition data that defines in advance which position of the medium is to be printed according to the type of the medium, and a printing slip for forming characters and numerals to be printed, Printing is performed by controlling the above-described units.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing an example of definition data corresponding to a passbook. A medium designation 31 for designating the type of medium to be handled (passbook, certificate, etc.), from the leading end of the medium to the center of the characters on the first line , A first line print position 32 for specifying the distance, a center hold specification 33 for specifying a non-printable area near the binding of the passbook with a start position and an end position, and the like.
This center hold designation is unique to the passbook.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing executed by the functions provided in the control unit 21. The operation of the passbook slip printer according to the first embodiment will be described below. First, when the medium is inserted into the insertion slot 1a on the passbook transport path 1 side and the medium insertion detection sensor 4a is turned on, the control unit 2
1 controls the pulse motor 23 and controls the pulse motor 2
By rotating the group of transport rollers 5 driven by 3, the suction of the medium is started (SA 1). At this time, the control unit 21
Counts the number of pulse motor drive pulses from the time when the rear end of the medium passes through the medium insertion detection sensor 4a and the medium insertion detection sensor 4a is turned off.

When the leading end of the medium reaches the conveying roller 5a in the group of conveying rollers 5, the controller 21 detects the medium thickness by the medium thickness detecting sensor 8 connected to the conveying roller 5a via a spring 8a. Is detected (SA2). When the medium is further conveyed by the conveying roller group 5 and the leading end of the conveyed medium reaches the print position locating sensor 7 and the print position locating sensor 7 is turned on, the control unit 21 sets the print position locating sensor 7 to ON. Obtaining a value obtained by subtracting the count value of the pulse motor drive pulse count up to the point of time when the distance between the medium insertion detection sensor 4a and the print position determination sensor 7 is represented by the pulse motor drive pulse count. To detect the length of the medium and determine whether the size is the passbook size (SA3). In addition, as the processing for obtaining the length of the medium,
In addition to the above-described processing, for example, it can be obtained from the number of pulse motor drive pulses while the medium insertion detection sensor 4a is ON.

If it is determined in SA3 that the medium is not the passbook size, the center hold designation 33 of the definition data described with reference to FIG. 4 is unconditionally invalidated (SA4), and the medium suction operation ends. If it is determined in SA3 that the medium is the passbook size, the thickness of the medium detected in SA2 is compared with a predetermined value (SA5). The specified value is set to a value slightly thicker than the maximum thickness in the slip or certificate to be handled, so as to exceed the specified value on one of the facing pages of the passbook.

In the process of SA5, when it is determined that the thickness of the medium exceeds the specified value, it is determined that the medium is a passbook, the center hold designation 33 of the definition data is made valid (SA6), and the medium is sucked. End the operation. If it is determined in the process of SA5 that the thickness of the medium is smaller than the specified value, the medium is determined to be a single sheet, the center hold designation 33 of the definition data is invalidated (SA4), and the medium suction operation ends. I do.

As described above, in the first embodiment of the passbook slip printer according to the present invention, the sensor for measuring the thickness of the medium is provided in the passbook transport path, and the medium transported in the passbook transport path is the passbook. Or other than a passbook, and based on the result of the determination, the validity or invalidity of the center hold specification of the definition data is determined. Therefore, only when the medium is a passbook, the center hold specification is valid, and the same definition data is used. Thus, it becomes possible to handle a passbook and a slip or a certificate with a magnetic stripe of a passbook size.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the passbook slip printer according to the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of the passbook slip printer according to the second embodiment. First, the configuration of the passbook slip printer will be described with reference to FIG.
Denotes a passbook transport path, 2 denotes a slip transport path, and the passbook transport path 1 and the slip transport path 2 are independent in the vicinity of the respective insertion openings 1a and 2a.

The passbook transport path 1 and the slip transport path 2 merge on the way to form a print transport path 3. 4a is the passbook transport path 1
Medium insertion detection sensor provided in the side insertion opening 1a, 4b
Is a medium insertion detection sensor provided at the insertion port 2a of the slip transport path 2. Reference numeral 5 denotes a transport roller provided in the passbook transport path 1, the slip transport path 2, and the print transport path 3, and is driven by a motor (not shown).

Reference numeral 6a denotes a magnetic head provided in the passbook transport path 1, which reads and writes data of a magnetic stripe. Reference numeral 6b denotes a print head provided in the print transport path 3. Reference numeral 7 denotes a print position detection sensor provided in the print conveyance path 3 for detecting the position and length of the taken-in medium. A page mark sensor 9 is provided in the passbook transport path 1 and reads a page mark of the passbook.

The passbook slip printer having the above configuration is controlled by the control unit 25 shown in FIG. The control unit 25
Receives from the higher-level device 22 the definition data that defines in advance which position of the medium is to be printed according to the type of the medium, and a printing slip for forming characters and numerals to be printed, Printing is performed by controlling the above-described units.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing executed by the function provided in the control unit 25. The operation of the passbook slip printer according to the second embodiment will be described below. First, when the medium is inserted into the insertion slot 1a on the passbook transport path 1 side and the medium insertion detection sensor 4a is turned on, the control unit 2
5 controls the pulse motor 23 and controls the pulse motor 2
By rotating the group of transport rollers 5 driven by 3, the suction of the medium is started (SB 1).

When the medium is further conveyed by the conveying roller group 5 and the leading end of the conveyed medium reaches the print position locating sensor 7 and the print position locating sensor 7 is turned on, the control unit 25 executes the first embodiment. The process described with reference to FIG. 5 is performed to detect the length of the medium and determine whether the medium is the passbook size (SB2). If it is determined in step SB2 that the medium is not the passbook size, the center hold designation 33 of the definition data described with reference to FIG. 4 is unconditionally invalidated (SB3), and the medium suction operation ends.

If it is determined in step SB2 that the medium has the passbook size, the control unit 25 controls the pulse motor 23 to rotate the group of conveying rollers 5 in the direction opposite to the suction direction.
When the medium is a passbook, the medium is stopped at a position where the page mark on the passbook can be read by the page mark sensor 9, and the output of the page mark sensor 9 is detected by a detection circuit (not shown) (SB4).

If the page mark is not detected in the process of SB4, it is determined that the medium is a single form other than a passbook, the center hold designation 33 of the definition data is invalidated (SB3), and the medium suction operation is performed. finish. If a page mark is detected in the process of SB4, it is determined that the medium is a passbook, and the center hold designation 33
Is enabled (SB5), and the medium suction operation ends.

As described above, in the passbook slip printer according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the sensor for reading the page mark indicating the page of the passbook is provided on the passbook transport path, and the medium transported on the passbook transport path is provided. It is determined whether the passbook is a passbook or a non-passbook, and the result of this determination is used to determine whether the center hold specification of the definition data is valid or invalid. With this definition data, it becomes possible to handle passbooks and passbook-sized slips and certificates with magnetic stripes. Further, since it is determined whether or not the medium is a passbook or not based on the presence or absence of a page mark, a page mark sensor can be used, and there is no need to provide a special sensor.

In both the first and second embodiments of the present invention, a passbook slip printer has been described as a configuration example. However, the present invention is applicable to all financial institutions that handle passbooks, slips, certificates, and the like. Applicable.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, the type of a fetched medium is determined, and when it is determined that the medium is a passbook, the non-printable area set in accordance with the binding of the passbook is validated. If it is determined that the loaded medium is other than a passbook, the non-printable area setting is invalidated, so that the same definition data can be used to handle a passbook and a passbook with a magnetic stripe of a passbook size or a certificate. Has the effect of becoming

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of a passbook slip printer according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of a passbook slip printer according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a medium thickness detection sensor.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of definition data corresponding to a passbook.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a passbook slip printer according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of a passbook slip printer according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a passbook.

[Explanation of symbols]

 8 Medium thickness detection sensor 21 Control unit

Claims (4)

[Claims] When the type of a fetched medium is judged to be a passbook, a non-printable area set according to the binding of the passbook is validated, and when the fetched medium is other than a passbook. A passbook slip printer, further comprising control means for invalidating the non-printable area setting when it is determined. 2. The passbook slip printer according to claim 1, wherein said control means determines a medium type based on a thickness of the medium. 3. The passbook slip printer according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines the medium type based on the presence or absence of a special mark on the medium. 4. A passbook slip printer according to claim 1, wherein a passbook transport path and a slip transport path are provided independently, and said control means determines a medium type in said passbook transport path. A passbook voucher printer characterized by comprising: