JPS59103784A - Recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable to prevent a laminate member from being delaminated, by a method wherein a laminate member larger in size than a recording member is used to laminate-coat an objective side of the recording member, and a part of the other side is also laminate-coated, in a recorder having a laminate coating function. CONSTITUTION:A rolled form recording paper 1 and a rolled form laminate member 11 are fed, an image is produced on the recording paper 1 by a recording head 5, the laminate member 11 having a width larger than that of the paper 1 is laminated on the paper 1 by feeding rollers 13, both edges of the member 11 are folded onto the back side of the paper 1 by a folding guide 14, the resultant laminate is passed through a resist roller pair 15, the paper 1 and the member 11 are pressure-bonded to each other by heating by a heater 17 and pressing by a pressure roller pair 16 to achieve laminate coating, the resultant material is cut by a cutter 18, and the cut material is fed into a paper-discharging tray 20. Accordingly, laminate coating is conducted on the entire part of one side of the paper 1 and a part of the other side of the paper 1, whereby end parts of the recording member are prevented from being curled, a residual ink solvent is prevented from being left, and the laminate member can be securely prevented from being delaminated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field The present invention relates to a recording apparatus that can perform laminate coating on a recorded member.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In recent years, a laminate coating is often applied to the surface of recording paper after recording. In particular, in the case of color images, such lamination processing increases the degree of vividness of the colors, and also allows the initial image quality to be maintained even during long-term storage. Furthermore, depending on the method of lamination coating, there is an advantage that the water resistance and strength of the recording paper can be increased.

Conventionally, such lamination processing on recording paper and the like has been performed by a laminate coating device (hereinafter referred to as a laminator) provided separately from the recording device. Therefore, it is necessary to carry the recording sheets one by one to the laminator after the recording has been completed in the recording apparatus and perform the lamination process.

Therefore, it is conceivable to configure the recording apparatus to include a laminate coating function and to easily and quickly laminate a recorded member to be recorded.

In such a recording apparatus, it is preferable to configure the recording paper so that laminate coating can be performed to prevent the laminate member from peeling off from the recording paper.

Purpose In view of these points, an object of the present invention is to apply laminate coating to a recording member using a laminate member having a size larger than that of the recording member, and coat the entire surface of one side of the recording member and the other side of the recording member. It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording device in which the recording can be performed over a part of the surface, thereby preventing the laminate member from peeling off from the recording member.

Example The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an example of an inkjet printer to which the present invention is applied, in which l is a long recording paper wound into a roll, 2 and 3 are guide rollers that guide the recording paper 1, and 4 is a recording paper. A transport guide 5 is used to smoothly transport the paper 1, and numeral 5 is an inkjet recording head. The recording head 5 reproduces and records an image on the recording paper l based on images A and '4 from an image reading means (not shown). Reference numeral 11 denotes a long laminate member wound into a roll, and its width is wider than the width of the recording paper 1. 12 is a guide roller that guides the laminate member 11. Reference numeral I3 denotes a pair of conveying rollers, which stack and sandwich the recording paper 1 and the laminate member 11 in such a state that both ends of the laminate member extend from both ends of the recording paper 1. Reference numeral 14 is a folding kite, and in this state, the recording paper l is laminated and the roller pair 13
Both ends of the laminate member 11 that has been conveyed through the laminate member 11 are bent toward the recording paper l side.

FIGS. 2A to 2D show the cross-sectional shape of the folding guide 14 that changes along the conveyance direction.

As illustrated, each cross section of the folding guide 14 is AA and B.
-B, CC and DD are respectively in FIG. 2(A).

(B), CG) and (D). As a result, the laminate member 1 extending from both ends of the recording paper 1
As shown in FIG. 2(D), both ends 11A and IIB of the recording paper 1 are bent toward the recording paper 1 side to form both end portions IA of the recording paper 1 on the opposite side to the laminate member 11.
, will cover the IB.

Next, referring again to FIG. 1, numeral 15 is a pair of registration rollers, and numeral 16 is a pair of pressure rollers incorporating a heating device 17. As described above, the recording paper 1 on which the laminate member 11 is laminated with both ends bent is placed between the pressure roller pair 16
The laminate member II is heat-pressed onto the surface of the laminate member II.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a cutter, which cuts, at a predetermined timing, the recording paper l that has been laminate-coated and conveyed via the pressure roller pair 16 as described above. 1
Reference numeral 8 denotes a pair of paper ejection rollers, and 2o a paper ejection tray. The recording paper l cut into a predetermined length by a cutter 18 is ejected to the paper ejection tray 20 by the paper ejection roller pair 18.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a control system in the apparatus of the present invention. In the figure, 100 is a control circuit that controls the drive of each part;
1 is a read-only memory (R
OM), 102 is a read/write random access memory (RAM). Reference numeral 103 denotes an operation unit having an operation unit switch SW for displaying recording conditions such as the number of copies to be recorded and recorded image density, and a display unit DIS for displaying recording conditions specified by the switch SW. An input ID number from is supplied to the control circuit 100 via the data input circuit 104.

In the control circuit 100, based on the input signal, the operation unit drive circuit 10B is activated via the data output circuit 105,
Recording conditions and the like are displayed on the display section of the operation section 103. Further, the control circuit 100 listens to the drive circuit 107 etc. via the data output circuit 11]5, and controls on/off the motor crank 108 etc. which transmits the motor rotational force to each roller. 12 is the recording head mentioned above, and 110 is a drive circuit for driving the recording/\rad 2. Drive circuit 11
0, an image signal corresponding to image information read by an image reading means (not shown) is sent to the image human power interface 11.
1 and image memory 112. Further, a drive signal is supplied from the control circuit 100 via the image/image control circuit 113. To these signals! 1 (Next, the drive circuit 110 energizes the blade 12 to form an image on the recording paper 2 conveyed from the cassette 1, as shown in the first diagram.

Next, FIG. 4 shows a time chart of the operation of each part of the apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG.
) indicates the operating state of each part.

The laminating operation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described below with reference to FIG.

First, when the operation is stopped, the recording paper 1 and the laminate member 11 are normally in the state shown in FIG. 1, and their tips 21 are located near the cutter 18. When the operation starts at the bottom, first, the conveyance roller pair 13, the registration roller pair 15, the pressure roller pair 1B, and the paper ejection roller pair 19 start rotating (time T1), and the recording paper 18 and the laminating member 11 are stacked one by one. The tip 21 is conveyed toward the roller pair 8 side, and the tip 21 is further conveyed toward the roller pair 18 side.
The sheet is held in its mouth and conveyed to the paper discharge tray 20 side.

In this way, recording paper 1 and laminating operation 1
1, the recording head 5 is driven from time T2, and an image forming operation is performed on the recording paper 1 conveyed along the guide 4 based on an image signal from an image reading means (not shown). starts. The recording paper 1 on which the image has been formed is held between the pair of transport rollers 13 and the laminate member 11 in a stacked state, as described above. Thereafter, the sheet and laminate member 11 with both ends folded are laminated on the recording paper 1 via the folding guide 14 as shown in FIG. 2, and the pressure roller pair IB &
It will be transported towards this direction. Heat from the heating device 17 and pressure from the pressure roller pair 16 are applied via the pressure roller pair 18, and the laminate member 11 is bonded to the image forming side of the recording paper 1 under heat and pressure. In this way, the image forming surface number is removed from the recording paper jf on which the laminated coating is applied.
18.

Next, at time T3, the leading edge of the formed image on the recording paper coated with the laminate coating as described above reaches the cutting position of the cutter 18, and the cutter 18 is driven to cut the recording paper l being conveyed.

disconnect. On the other hand, the recording operation on the recording paper 1 by the head 5 and the conveyance of the recording paper 1 continue, and the leading edge of the recording paper 1 after cutting is again held in the pair of paper ejection rollers 19 and directed toward the paper ejection tray 20. transported.

The conveyance operation continues even after the recording operation by the head 5 ends at time T4. The conveyance operation continues for a certain period of time, and when the trailing edge of the formed image on the recording paper 1 comes to the cutting position by the cutter 18, the cutter 18 is driven and the recording paper 1 is cut (time T5). Thereafter, driving of the rollers other than the pair of paper discharge rollers 19 is stopped, and the conveyance operation of the recording paper 1 and the laminating member 11 is stopped. On the other hand,”−
As described above, the recording paper l that has been laminated and cut at the front and rear edges of the formed image is discharged to the paper discharge tray 20 by the paper discharge roller pair 19. After the cut recording paper 1 is completely delivered to the paper ejection tray 20, the rotation of the paper ejection roller pair 19 stops (time T8).

Effects As explained above, according to the present invention, the laminate coating on the recording member is coated on the entire one side of the recording member using the laminate material t'8 which is larger in size than the recording member. Since this is applied over a portion of the other surface, it is possible to prevent the edges of the recording member from curling, and it is also possible to prevent the ink solvent remaining in the recording member during image formation from becoming smudged. It is possible to reliably prevent the laminate member from peeling off from the recording member.

Furthermore, by preventing peeling of a laminate member as in the present invention, compared to applying a laminate coating on one side, it is possible to save on the number of laminate members, and it is possible to reduce the amount of laminate parts that are not coated with the laminate coating. It can also be conveniently used as a blank space for writing.

Note that in this example, an inkjet head was used as the recording means. Although inkjet printing is advantageous for downsizing the device, the present invention is not limited to this, and thermal recording or electrostatic recording can also be used.
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[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a configuration diagram showing an example of the device of the present invention, Figure 2 (A)
~(D) is the A-A line of the folding guide in Fig. 1~
3 is a block diagram showing an example of a control system of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a time chart of each part of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1. ■... Recording paper, 2.3... Guide roller, 4... Conveyance guide, 5... Recording head, 11... Laminating member, 12... Guide roller 1 13... Conveyance roller Pair, 14... Folding kite, 15... Registration roller pair. 16... Pressure roller pair, 17... Heating device, 18... Cutter, 19... Paper discharge roller pair, 20... Paper discharge tray, 21... Tip, 100... Control circuit , 101... Read only memory, 102... Random access memory, 103... Operation unit, 104... Data input circuit, +05... Data output circuit, 1013, 107... Drive circuit, 108 ...
Motor clutch, 111)... Drive circuit, 111... Interface, 112... Image memory. +13... Image control circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] An image forming means for forming an image on the recording member, and a laminate coating means for coating the recording member on which the image has been formed with a laminate member, and the laminate coating means forms an image on the recording member. A recording apparatus characterized in that the laminate member covers the entire area of the forming surface and a part of the back surface of the image forming surface from the image forming surface.