JPH10315585A - System for controlling printing of sort mark - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily distinguish sort marks printed to printing papers output through a plurality of printing processes, by printing different sort marks to printing papers subjected to printing processes when a sort mark shape information or sort mark color information different for every printing process is received. SOLUTION: A printing control device 111 has a sort mark information- processing means 112 which generates a sort mark-print data 113 in accordance with a sort mark print command 103 indicated by a host apparatus 101 with a sort mark print specifying means 102, and sort mark shape information 107, 108 and sort mark color information 109, 110 specified by the host apparatus 101 with a sort mark information specifying means 104 or an operation switch 106 with a sort mark information specifying means 105, etc. The sort mark- printing means 115 of a printing apparatus 114 prints to a predetermined position of a paper on the basis of the sort mark print data 113.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sorting mark printing control system for printing sorting marks for sorting printed materials and the like, and more particularly, to sorting printed materials by a plurality of printing processes performed continuously in a plurality of jobs. The present invention relates to a technique which is effective when applied to a sorting mark printing control system for printing a sorting mark for performing the following.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional computer system,
When printing a plurality of jobs continuously by a printing apparatus, a sorting mark is printed between jobs to facilitate recognition of a break between jobs.

For example, when printing is performed by two jobs, a sorting mark of a specific size is provided at the fold portion of the first or last several pages of printing paper output when performing printing in each job. Print.

When the printed paper is folded at the fold, the sorting mark printed on the fold appears as a pattern on the surface where the folds are gathered, so that the part with this pattern is the first or last part of the printing process. I understand that there is
Thus, printed materials of different jobs are sorted.

Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-54880 and the like propose a printing apparatus in which the printing position of the sorting mark is moved so that the sorting mark can be more easily recognized.

[0006]

In the sorting mark used in the conventional computer system, the sorting mark is printed only on the first or last few pages of the printing process so as to indicate the head of each printed material. There is a problem in that the pattern of the sorting mark that appears on the surface of the folds of the printing paper that is gathered is extremely small, making it difficult to recognize it.

Further, even if the printing position of the sorting mark is shifted for each job and printed, the pattern of the sorting mark appearing on the surface where the folds are gathered remains small, so that the recognition is not always easy and the usability is high. It wasn't good enough.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide a technique capable of easily identifying a sorting mark printed on printing paper output in a plurality of printing processes.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a sorting mark printing control system for controlling printing of sorting marks for sorting printed paper, wherein different sorting mark shape information or different sorting mark color information is used for each printing process. Then, different sort marks are printed on the printing paper of each printing process.

In the sorting mark printing control system according to the present invention, when printing processing is performed, the sorting mark printing instruction means and the sorting mark information instructing means transmit the sorting mark printing instruction and information indicating the shape or color of the sorting mark to the printing control apparatus. Send to

The sorting mark information processing means of the printing control device receives the sorting mark printing instruction given by the sorting mark printing instruction means and the sorting mark shape information or sorting mark color information given by the sorting mark information instruction means. To generate sorting mark print data and send it to the printing device.

The sorting mark printing means of the printing apparatus prints the sorting mark on a predetermined position on the printing paper based on the sorting mark print data sent from the sorting mark information processing means.

As described above, in the sorting mark printing control system of the present invention, if the information on the shape or color of the sorting mark designated by the sorting mark information designating means is changed for each job to be subjected to the printing process, Is printed on the printing paper.

As described above, according to the sorting mark printing control system of the present invention, a sorting mark having a specified shape or color is printed for each printing process. It is possible to easily identify the printed sorting mark.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A sorting mark printing control system according to an embodiment for printing a sorting mark having a specified shape or color will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a sorting mark printing control system according to this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, in the sorting mark printing control system of the present embodiment, the host device 101 instructs the printing control device 111 to perform printing, the operation switch 106 that operates the printing control device 111, and the printing process performed by the printing device 114. Control device 11 for controlling
1 and a printing device 114 for printing on printing paper.

The host apparatus 101 has a sorting mark print instructing means 102 and a sorting mark information instructing means 104, and the sorting mark printing instructing means 102 wants to print a sorting mark for sorting each job. This is a circuit that sends a sorting mark print instruction 103 to the print control device 111 for each job.

The sorting mark information instructing means 104 of the host apparatus 101 sorts the sorting mark shape arbitrarily selected for each job as sorting mark shape information 107 and sorts the arbitrarily selected sorting mark color for each job. A circuit for instructing the print control device 111 as the mark color information 109.

The sorting mark information indicating means 104 of the host device 101 can be provided, for example, on the operation switch 106 or the like. At this time, the sorting mark information indicating means 105 of the operation switch 106 outputs the sorting mark shape arbitrarily selected by the operator to the sorting mark shape information 10.
8 and a sorting mark color arbitrarily selected by the operator as sorting mark color information 110.
11 is a circuit for instructing.

The printing control device 111 has a sorting mark information processing means 112. The sorting mark information processing means 112 has a sorting mark printing instruction 10 designated by the host apparatus 101 having the sorting mark printing instruction means 102.
3 and the sorting mark shape information 107 and 108 and the sorting mark color information 109 and 110 specified by the host device 101 having the sorting mark information indicating means 104 or the operation switch 106 having the sorting mark information indicating means 105, and the sorting mark This is a circuit for generating print data 113.

The printing device 114 has a sorting mark printing means 115, and the sorting mark printing means 115
Sorting mark information processing means 112 of print control device 111
Is a circuit for printing at a predetermined position on a sheet based on the sorting mark print data 113 sent from the printer.

FIG. 2 shows a print control apparatus 111 according to this embodiment.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an instruction to the user. As shown in FIG. 2, in the instruction to the print control device 111 of the present embodiment, the job control statement 200 sends the sorting mark printing instruction 103, the sorting mark shape information 107, and the sorting mark color information 109 to the printing control device 111. The job control statement 200 is a statement that has assortment mark shape information 107 and assortment mark color information 109 as parameters and instructs to print assortment marks.

The host apparatus 101 instructs the print control apparatus 111 to print a sorting mark by using the job control statement 200, so that the sorting mark shape information 10
7 and the sorting mark color information 109 can be designated.

The sorting mark shape information 1 is not set as a parameter of the job control statement 200 but by the operation switch 106 having the sorting mark information indicating means 105.
08 and the sort mark color information 110 may be directly instructed to the print control device 111.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an outline of the output of a sorting mark according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 3, in the output of the sorting mark of the present embodiment, the sorting mark information processing means 11
Reference numeral 2 denotes an operation of generating the sorting mark print data 113 from the sorting mark printing instruction 103, the sorting mark shape information 107, and the sorting mark color information 109.

The sorting mark printing instruction 103 includes bit information indicating whether or not to print a sorting mark.
If the sorting mark printing instruction 103 is “0”, the printing of the sorting mark is suppressed, and if the sorting mark printing instruction 103 is “1”, the sorting mark is printed.

The sorting mark shape information 107 is composed of a plurality of bits of information indicating whether or not to print a sorting mark for a specific printing width. For example, in a 4-bit information amount, 16 patterns from "0000" to "1111" are provided. Can be selected.

The sorting mark color information 109 is information indicating a color corresponding to each bit of the sorting mark shape information 107, and the color of each bit corresponds to a printable color of the printing device 114.

When the sorting mark printing instruction 103 is input, the sorting mark information processing means 112 multiplies the sorting mark shape information 107 and the sorting mark color information 109 corresponding to each bit of the sorting mark shape information 107,
The sorting mark print data 113 is created.

For example, the sorting mark information processing means 112
Assuming that one bit of the sorting mark shape information 107 is assigned to the sorting mark width 3 mm, the sorting mark information processing means 112
If the specific bit information is “0”, the corresponding 3 mm sorting mark print data 113 is set to “0”. If the bit information is “1”, the corresponding 3 mm sorting mark print data 113 is set to “0”. 1 ". The number of dots of the sorting mark print data 113 is calculated according to the resolution of the printing device 114.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a sorting mark according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, in the sorting mark of the present embodiment, an example of a sorting mark when one bit of the sorting mark shape information 107 is allocated to a width of 3 mm of the sorting mark is shown. Is "0", printing is not performed, and when the bit information is "1", a width of 3 m constituting the sorting mark is set.
m print data is printed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the result of printing the sorting mark of the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, the sorting mark printing result of the present embodiment shows an example of the sorting mark printed on the fold of the printing paper, and the surface where the fold portions gather when the printed paper is folded at the fold. To
Sorting mark shape information 107 and sorting mark color information 1
A pattern corresponding to 09 appears.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a print pattern on the fold line of the sorting mark according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 6, in the print pattern on the fold line of the sorting mark according to the present embodiment, when the printed sheet on which the sorting mark is printed is folded at the fold line of the printing paper, the fold portion appears on the gathered surface. It shows the pattern of the sorting mark. Further, if the information amount of the sorting mark shape information 107 is further increased, the operator can print a sorting mark of an arbitrary print pattern at an arbitrary position on the fold.

In the prior art, it was difficult to recognize the sorting marks for judging a break in a job because the same marking marks were used in a plurality of jobs. According to this, the printing pattern of the sorting mark can be arbitrarily selected for each job for performing the printing process, so that the sorting mark can be made more conspicuous. Therefore, if a sort mark pattern unique to each user is determined, it is possible to recognize at a glance which user's job print result is obtained only by the sort mark.

Further, in the sorting mark printing control system of the present embodiment, different sorting marks can be used for each job, so that the sorting marks are printed only at the first or last several folds of the printing process. In addition, it is possible to print the sorting marks on the folds of all the pages in the printing process, and when the printed paper is folded at the folds, the pattern that appears on the surface where the folds are gathered becomes larger and the Recognition becomes easy.

As described above, according to the sorting mark printing control system of the present embodiment, a sorting mark having a specified shape or color is printed for each printing process. It is possible to easily identify the sorting mark printed on the paper.

As described above, the present invention has been specifically described based on the above-described embodiment. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and may be variously modified without departing from the gist of the invention. It is.

[0038]

According to the present invention, a sorting mark having a specified shape or color is printed for each printing process, so that it is easy to identify a sorting mark printed on printing paper output in a plurality of printing processes. It is possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a sorting mark printing control system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an instruction to a print control apparatus 111 according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an outline of output of a sorting mark according to the embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a sorting mark according to the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a sorting mark printing result of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a print pattern on a fold line of a sorting mark according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

101: host device, 102: sorting mark printing instruction means, 103: sorting mark printing instruction, 104 and 105
... sorting mark information indicating means, 106 ... operation switch
107 and 108: Sorting mark shape information, 109 and 110: Sorting mark color information, 111: Print control device,
112: sorting mark information processing means, 113: sorting mark print data, 114: printing device, 115: sorting mark printing means, 200: job control statement.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A sorting mark printing control system for controlling printing of a sorting mark for sorting printed paper, comprising: a sorting mark printing instruction means for instructing the printing of the sorting mark; and a shape or color of the sorting mark to be printed. Sorting mark information instructing means for instructing, sorting mark printing information instructed by the sorting mark printing instructing means and sorting mark shape information or sorting mark color information instructed by the sorting mark information instructing means; Sorting mark information processing means for generating a sorting mark, and sorting mark printing means for printing a sorting mark at a predetermined position based on the sorting mark print data sent from the sorting mark information processing means. Control system.