JPS59104973A - Recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a recorder capable of preventing dusts or the like from penetrating between a recording member and a laminating member and performing appropriate lamination coating, by a method wherein at least either one of a recording member and a laminating member is cleaned, and thereafter lamination coating is conducted. CONSTITUTION:At least either one of a rolled recording paper 1 and a rolled laminating member 11 is cleaned by a cleaning means 14 such as a blower. The recording paper 1 and the laminating member 11 are gripped in a laminated condition by a feeding roller pair 13. The blower is provided at a position opposite to the gripping-in side of the roller pair 13, and an air flow is directed to respective laminating surfaces of the paper 1 and the laminating member 11 to blow away the dusts or the like adhered to the laminating surfaces, thereby cleaning the laminating surfaces.

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 laminate coating device) provided separately from the recording device. Therefore, it is necessary to carry the recording paper sheets that have been recorded in the recording apparatus one by one to a laminator to perform the lamination process.

Therefore, it is conceivable to configure the recording apparatus so that it is equipped with a laminate coating function and can easily and quickly laminate a recorded member.

In such a recording apparatus, if dust or the like gets mixed in between the recording member and the laminate member, it is not preferable because it may impair the integration of the art materials and cause the art materials to peel off.

Purpose of the Invention In view of these points, an object of the present invention is to provide a recording apparatus having a function of laminating a recorded member to be coated with a laminate, and to provide a cleaning means for cleaning at least one of the recorded member and the laminated member. Another object of the present invention is to provide a recording device that prevents dust and the like from entering between the two materials, thereby allowing proper laminate coating.

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 the figure, l is a long recording paper wound into a roll, 2 is a guide roller that guides the recording paper 1, 3 and 4 are a pair of transport rollers that transport the recording paper l, and 5, 6, and 7 are recording paper A conveyance guide that makes the conveyance of paper smooth,
8 is an inkjet recording head. The recording head 8 reproduces and records an image on the recording paper 1 based on an image signal from an image reading means (not shown). 11 is a long laminate member wound into a roll. 12 is a guide roller that guides the laminate member 11. Reference numeral 13 denotes a pair of transport rollers, which sandwich the recording paper 1 and the laminate member 11 in a stacked state.

Here, reference numeral 14 denotes a blower, which is disposed at a position opposite to the gripping side of the pair of transport rollers 13, and
The laminated surfaces of the laminated members 11 and 11 are cleaned by applying air to the laminated surfaces and blowing away dust and the like adhering to the laminated surfaces.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a pair of pressure rollers having a built-in heating device 16, which heats and presses the recording paper 1 and the laminate member 11, which have been conveyed in a stacked state via the pair of conveying rollers 13, by 6 degrees.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a cutter, which cuts at a predetermined timing the recording paper l that has been laminated with coach ink via the pressure roller pair 15 and then conveyed as described above.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a pair of paper ejection rollers, and numeral 19 indicates a paper ejection tray. The recording paper l cut into a predetermined length by the cutter 17 is ejected to the paper ejection tray 18 by the paper ejection roller pair 18.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a control system in the apparatus of the present invention. In the figure, +00 is a control circuit that controls the drive of each part, and 10
1 is a read-only memory (R
OM), 102 is a random access memory (RAM) that can be read and written freely. Reference numeral 103 denotes an operation unit having an operation unit switch S 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. 1
An input signal from 03 is supplied to the control circuit 100 via the data input circuit 104.

The control circuit 100 energizes the operating unit drive circuit 106 via the data output circuit 105 based on the input signal,
Recording conditions and the like are displayed on the display section of the operation section 103. Furthermore, the control circuit 100 energizes the drive circuit 107 and the like via the data output circuit +05, and a motor clutch 108 that transmits motor rotational force to each roller. On/off control of K. Further, the drive circuit 108 is turned on and the blower 14 is turned on and off.

12 is the recording head mentioned above; 110 is the recording head 12;
This is the drive circuit that drives the. An image signal corresponding to image information read by an image reading means (not shown) is supplied to the drive circuit 110 via an image input interface Ill and an image memory 112. Further, a drive signal is supplied from the control circuit +00 via the image control circuit 113. Based on these signals, drive circuit 1
Reference numeral 10 urges the head 12 to form an image on the recording paper 2 conveyed from the cassette l, as shown in the first diagram.

Next, FIG. 3 shows a time chart of the operation of each part of the apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG.

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

First, when the operation is stopped, the recording paper 1 and the laminate member 11 are normally in the shape shown in FIG. When the operation starts under these conditions, first, the conveyance roller pair 3.4, the registration I roller pair 13, the pressure roller pair 15, and the paper ejection roller pair 18 times (time T1), and then the recording starts. The paper l and the laminate member 11 are conveyed toward the pair of paper discharge rollers 18, and further, the leading end 20 is gripped by the pair of rollers 18 and conveyed to the side of the paper discharge tray 19.

After the conveyance of the recording paper l and the laminate member 11 is started in this way, the recording head 8 is driven from time T2, and is moved along the guide 7 based on an image signal from an image reading means (not shown). The operation of forming an image on the recording paper l that is being conveyed starts. The recording paper 1 on which the image has been formed is conveyed by the pair of conveying rollers 134 (l/) to the pair of pressure rollers 15 while being held between the stacked laminate members 11 as described above.

Here, the blower 14 is turned on at time T34/X before the formed image on the recording paper l is gripped by the leading car conveying roller pair 13, and the stacked recording paper 10-i (house forming side, and gtx t in laminate member no. 11,
Blow air toward the side that will be laminated with lt paper 1. As a result, the wind blows away dirt and debris on top of the surface, and these surfaces are cleared.

Further, the image formed on the recording paper 1 is dried by being blown with wind and fixed on the perfect recording paper 11.

Next, the top of the stacked recording paper l and the laminate member 11 are
Heat from the heating device 1 [(f) and pressure from the pressure roller pair 15 are applied via the pressure roller pair 15, and the laminate member 11 is heated and pressed onto the image forming side number of the recording paper l. Then, the recording paper II, which has been laminated and coated with an image forming surface, is conveyed toward the printer 17.

Next, at time T4, the leading edge of the formed image on the recording paper l coated with a double layer of laminate coating reaches the cutting position of the cutter 17.

The cutter 17 is driven to cut the recording paper l being conveyed. - The recording operation on the recording paper l by the head 8 and the conveyance of the recording paper l are continued, and the leading edge of the recording paper l after being cut is again held in the pair of paper ejection rollers 18 and placed on the paper ejection tray 18. transported towards the The transport operation is performed at time T.
The recording operation continues even after the recording operation by the head 8 ends in step 5. When the conveying operation continues for a predetermined period of time and the trailing edge of the formed image on the recording paper l is gripped by the pair of conveying rollers 13,
The blower 14 is turned off (time T6). Further, when the trailing edge of the formed image on the recording paper l comes to the cutting position by the cutter 17, the cutter 17 is driven and the recording paper 1 is cut (at a certain time??). Thereafter, driving of the rollers other than the pair of paper discharge rollers 18 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 1 that has been laminated and cut at the front and rear ends of the formed image is discharged to the paper discharge tray 19 by the paper discharge roller pair 18 . Thereafter, when the cut recording paper l is completely discharged to the paper discharge tray, the rotation of the paper discharge roller pair 18 is stopped (time T8).

Next, FIG. 4 shows another embodiment of the present invention. In the illustrated example, 41 is a cleaning device for cleaning the surface of the laminate member, and a carbon brush roller 42 is placed in contact with the surface of the laminate member, and this roller 42 is rotated in a direction opposite to the conveying direction of the laminate member. This removes dust and the like adhering to the surface of the laminate member, and also removes static electricity on the surface. Furthermore, the dust and the like removed by the roller 42 is sucked up by the suction device 43. The rest of the configuration is the same as the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

Effects As explained above, according to the present invention, the laminate coating operation can be performed after cleaning the surface of the recording member to which the laminate coating is applied or the laminated surface of the laminate member with the recording member. Laminate coating is not performed with dust or the like stuck between these art materials, and laminate coating can be performed properly.

In addition, if a blower is used as a cleaning means for these art materials as in the above-mentioned embodiment, especially when an inkjet head is used as a recording means, the formed image will be completely fixed on the recording paper 1, and the formed image will be completely fixed on the recording paper 1. This is preferable because it prevents the formed image from becoming smeared, which would otherwise occur if the laminate coating is applied with the image unfixed.

In this embodiment, only single-sided recording is performed on the recording member and single-sided lamination processing is performed on the recorded surface, but double-sided recording is performed.

Applying the present invention to lamination on both sides can be easily realized.

Furthermore, in this example, an inkjet head was used as the recording means. The inkjet head is advantageous in miniaturizing the device, but is not particularly limited thereto, and thermal recording, electrostatic recording, etc. can also be used.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an example of the device of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a time chart of each part of the device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing another example of the device of the present invention. 1... Recording paper, 2... Guide roller, 3.4... Conveyance roller pair, 5, e,? ... Conveyance guide, 8 ... Recording head, 11 ... Laminating member, 12 ... Guide roller, 13 ... Registration roller pair, 14 ... Blower (cleaning means), 15 ... Pressure Roller pair, 16... Heating device, 17... Cutter, 1st... 1-thread paper roller pair, 19... Paper discharge tray, 20... Tip, 41... Cleaner, 42... ...Carbon brush roller, 43...Intake device, 100...Control circuit, TO+...Read only memory, 102...Random access memory, +03...Operation unit, 104...Cheek input circuit . +05...Data output circuit, 106.107,109...Drive circuit, 10B.
...Motor clutch, 110...Drive circuit, Ill...Interface, 112...Image memory, 113...Image control circuit. Figure 1 Kumi

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] An image forming means for forming an image on a recording member; a laminate coating means for applying a laminate coating to the recording member on which one image has been formed; A recording apparatus comprising: a cleaning means for cleaning the laminate coating surface of the recording member. 2) an image forming means for forming an image on the recording member, a laminate coating means for laminating and pasting a laminate member on the recording member on which the image has been formed, and prior to laminating and pasting the laminate member on the recording member; and a cleaning means for cleaning at least one of the surface of the recording member to which the laminate member is adhered, and the surface of the laminate member to which the recording member is laminated. recording device.