JPS5858239B2 - Printing and recording device in ticket issuing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a printing recording in ticket issuing machine, in which there is used a roll paper having magnetic recording layer on one surface of a resinous film to simplify the function of ticket issuing machine which can provide a ticket with the same function as that of conventional seal ticket.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention can be used to produce tickets, such as commuter pass issuing machines, etc.
The present invention relates to a printing and recording device that prints information on a recording medium such as a card.

It is well known that in recent years, various labor-saving devices such as automatic ticket collection devices, regular ticket issuing machines, commuter ticket issuing machines, etc. have been developed and put into practical use in order to save labor in station operations.

These are usually related to each other and are often used as a system.

For example, the paper tickets used in automatic ticket collection devices are issued by regular ticket issuing machines and commuter pass issuing machines.

Of course, the tickets issued by these issuing machines are not only used in automatic ticket collection machines, but also so that they can be used at ticket gates inspected by station staff, and so that passengers can visually check them. For purposes such as in-vehicle ticket inspection, it is common for a machine-readable magnetic record to be formed on one side and visually visible information written on the other side.

For example, a commuter ticket issuing machine records the necessary information such as departure station, destination station, validity period, name, gender, age, etc. on electrostatic recording paper or zinc oxide paper, and then records the necessary information such as departure station, destination station, validity period, name, gender, age, etc. on electrostatic recording paper or zinc oxide paper. The cover film has a magnetic film applied to the non-recording side and the ticket is sandwiched between the covers and heat-pressed to form a ticket with a so-called multi-layer structure, making it durable for long-term use. .

However, this type of issuing machine has drawbacks such as a complicated mechanism, high price, and difficult maintenance.

The present invention was made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to simplify the functions of a printing press by using a recording medium made of synthetic resin (for example, polyethylene terephthalate film), and to reduce the number of consumables than before. It is an object of the present invention to provide a printing/recording device which has a simple device structure and whose recorded information is difficult to be erased or altered.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

Figure 1 shows the principle of the present invention, in which 1 is resin;
For example, it is a plastic card (recording medium), and this card 1 has a base layer 1b on which a background pattern is printed, a transparent plastic layer 1as on the printing side, and a magnetic recording layer 1as on the non-printing side.
c, the base layer 1b and the transparent plastic layer 1 are laminated.
A white ink layer 1d is formed between the ink layer and the ink layer a.

On the other hand, 2 is a sublimation transfer printing paper, which is formed by supporting a printing member 2b on a transfer paper base 2a.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a thermal recording head in which information to be printed is formed, for example, in the shape of a dot, and after superimposing the printing member layer 2b of the sublimation transfer printing paper 2 on the transparent plastic layer 1a of the plastic card 1, The heat-sensitive recording head 3 is brought into close contact with the card 1 from the second side, and by selectively heating it in accordance with a desired pattern, the information in the closely contacted portion is sublimated and adsorbed onto the plastic layer 1a on the card 1 and transferred. .

Next, FIG. 2 shows a printing/recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention utilizing the above-mentioned principle.

In the figure, reference numeral 10 denotes a hopper for storing a large number of plastic cards 1, and the lower rear end of this hopper 10 is hooked to the rear edge of the lowest card 1 in the card removal direction (left side of the figure). ) is provided with a picker 11 that can reciprocate, and a throat knife 13 is attached to the card outlet 12 of the hopper 10 to pick up a plurality of cards.
・It is designed to prevent it from being taken out.

A printing section 14 is installed on the card outlet 12 side of the hopper 10 to print the card face information.

That is, 15... and 15'... are endless annular conveyor belts consisting of a plurality of strips that pinch and convey both ends of the card 1 taken out from the hopper 10;
6 and 16', 16' are feed rollers that wind the conveyor belts 15, 151, and so on.

Furthermore, 2' is a sublimation transfer printing roll paper wound around a spool 17.17, and the roll paper 2' fed out from the spool 17. It is configured to be stretched over 19.

20 is a thermal recording head located between the guide rollers 18 and 18, on which printed information is formed in the form of dots;
For example, in the thermal head, 21 is the thermal head 2 mentioned above.
This is a pressure roller provided opposite to the card 1 and for bringing the card 1 into close contact with the thermal head 20.

Furthermore, 22 is a magnetic recording section installed after the printing section 14.

That is, 23... and 23'... are the printing section 14
It is an endless howling conveyor belt that receives the printed card 1 and conveys it by pinching it.On the conveyance path 19 there is a write head 24 for recording magnetic information on the magnetic recording layer 1c of the card and a writing head 24 for recording the written information. Reading head 2 for reading and processing
5 is installed.

Note that 26 is a receiving tray for receiving the ticket paper on which the ticket face information is printed and the magnetic information is written, that is, the commuter pass T.

Finally, the operation of the present invention based on the above configuration will be explained.

In FIG. 2, when the cards 1 stored in the hopper 10 are taken out one by one by the operation of the picker 11, the transport belts 15... and 15' on the transport path 19
. . are held and conveyed to the printing section 14.

That is, the card 1 is passed through the thermal head through the sublimation transfer printing roll paper while the other side is held by the rotatable pressure roller 21.

Therefore, the printed information formed on the thermal head 20 is sublimated and adsorbed onto the card 1 via the roll paper 2' by the heating of the thermal head 20 and the pressure of the pressure roller 21.

That is, information to be printed on the transparent plastic layer 1a of the card 1 can be transferred.

Thus, the card 1 with the printed information transferred to the transparent plastic layer 1a is transferred to the magnetic recording section 42, so that the magnetic recording layer 1c of the card 1 is covered with the write head 24.
Magnetic information is written by the read head 25, and the written information is read and processed by the read head 25.

The card 1 that has been printed and recorded in this manner is sent to the receiving tray 26 as a so-called commuter pass T.

As explained above, the present invention provides a printing recording device for printing on a recording medium made of synthetic resin, in which a sublimation transfer printing paper is brought into close contact with the printing recording surface of the recording medium, and a heat-sensitive thermosensitive paper is formed in a toad shape from the transfer paper side. The present invention is characterized in that information can be sublimated and adsorbed onto the recording medium by abutting the recording head and performing sublimation transfer printing using a thermal transfer method.

Compared to conventional electrostatic recording methods, printing and recording processes are simpler, the manufacturing cost is lower, and the size can be reduced.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, the sublimation transfer printing paper is wound into a roll and is moved as the thermal transfer is performed, so that the new transfer paper surface is always in close contact with the printed recording surface of the recording medium, so that the thermal transfer printing paper can always have a stable density. can be done.

Furthermore, since the direction of movement of the transfer paper is the same as the direction of movement of the recording medium, there is also a feature that there is less concern that the transfer paper will sag or break due to the influence of conveyance of the recording medium.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figures 1a and 1c are schematic explanatory diagrams of the printing and recording process used in an embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 2 is a schematic illustration of the normal orientation of the printing and recording apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.1・・・・・・Card (synthetic resin recording medium), 1a
...Print recording surface (transparent plastic layer), 2.
...Sublimation transfer printing paper, 3,2o...Song thermal recording head (thermal head).

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a printing recording device that feeds synthetic resin recording media one by one onto a conveyance path from a feeding mechanism and prints and records information on the recording media, sublimation transfer printing paper is used to bring the printing surface of the recording medium into close contact with the printing surface of the recording medium. a sublimation transfer textile paper holding mechanism that winds the paper into a roll and stretches it on the conveyance path of the recording medium and sends it out in the feeding direction of the recording medium; A thermal recording head that contacts the medium through the sublimation transfer printed paper, and a pressure roller that faces the thermal recording head and presses the recording medium and the sublimation transfer printed paper against the thermal recording head, The information printed by heat transfer from the sublimation transfer printing paper to the recording medium is printed by sublimation adsorption to the recording medium, and the sublimation transfer printing paper and the pressure roller are used in correspondence with the printing of the thermal recording head. A printing and recording device characterized in that it is driven in the same direction as the conveyance direction of a recording medium.