JPS59202882A - Electronic printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficency of the assorting work by an operator by a method wherein a guide is controlled in such a manner that sheets of printed- out paper are guided together into an arbitrary one of a plurality of trays and then guided into appropriate trays in accordance with the printed contents. CONSTITUTION:In order to operate a stacking function, a switch 41 is closed. A controller 50 drives a guide driver 30 to drive a movable guide 5 to the position between rollers 3 and 4 and sheets of paper, transferred from a printer itself 20, are accumulated in a tray 21. In order to operate a sorting function, a switch 42 and a turn-key 43 are operated and the pages and the number of output copies are instructed. The controller 50 drives the guide driver 30 in accordance with a recording information K and the vertically movable guide 5 is positioned between the rollers 3 and 4 and the printer output sheets of the 1st job are accumulated in the tray 21. When the printer output sheets of the 2nd job are transferred, the guide 5 is positioned between the rollers 4 and 4' and the sheets are accumulated in a tray 22. With this constitution, the appropriate distribution and accumulation of the sheets of paper can be performed in accordance with the printer output.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an electronic printer, and more particularly to an electronic printer having a sorting function in addition to a stacking function.

[Prior art]

In electronic printers, when an operator prints out multiple copies of a multi-page original that has been edited on the screen, the order in which the sheets are recorded and output is usually set in order to reduce the amount of work required for later sorting by the operator.
As shown in FIG. 1 (al), jobs are classified in advance.

Figure 1 tal is an example of outputting three copies of print paper consisting of three pages, and the order of the output sheets is as follows: first print paper A-1, second print paper B-1, The job in which the thread picks are output in page order (equivalent to one copy, such as the third print paper C-1) is repeated a number of times (three times in FIG. 1) corresponding to the designated number of copies. Then, store the paper output in this way in the tray.
Then, it becomes as shown in FIG. 1 tbl. This is what is called a stack machine WQ in electronic printers.

By the way, by accumulating paper as described above, it is certainly easier for the operator to sort later than the method in which multiple copies of the same page are accumulated together, but this method However, the operator is still left with the tedious task of searching for the divisions between each section in order to sort them.

[Purpose of the invention]

This invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and in addition to the above-mentioned stacking function, it has a sorting function that sequentially distributes and accumulates printer output for each copy in separate trays.
The purpose of operator sorting is to provide an electronic printer that increases the efficiency of work.

[Structure of the invention]

That is, the present invention provides an electronic printer with a sorter including a plurality of trays and a guide for guiding ejected paper to at least one of the plurality of trays, and performs the stacking function. The guide is controlled so that the printed sheets are guided to any one of the plurality of trays all at once, and when the sorting function is executed, the printed sheets are guided individually according to the print content. Another tray [to guide 1] 61 is intended to be used as a 11 guide.

〔Example〕

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The electronic printer according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 conceptually shows one embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, a sorter 10 is installed in the paper output section of this printer.
is installed, and the printed paper recorded inside the printer body is moved along an imaginary line (dotted line in the figure) by the rotation of roller 3.
Each tray 2'' to 2 in the sorter 10 is carried out according to the
leading to n. Paper is distributed to each tray by vertical movement of a vertically movable guide (arrow A in the figure). For example, when guide 5 is in the position shown in FIG. 2, paper is accumulated in tray 21. Further, when the guide 5 is located between the rollers 4 and 4', the paper is placed in the tray 22.
Similarly, if it is between rollers 4' and 4'', it is accumulated in Louis δ. The vertical movement of the vertically movable guide 5 is controlled by a guide drive device J. The guide The drive force is composed of, for example, a motor, a screw rod rotated by the rotation of the motor, and a support that is screwed onto the screw rod and holds the guide 5. The rotation of the screw rod causes the rotation of the guide 5. Move the guide 5 up and down.

Next, the printer body Δ) 1011 vc is provided with a control nozzle 40 for operator operation.
The control panel 40 includes a switch 41 for operating the stack@function, a switch 42 for operating the sorting function, and a numeric keypad 43 for specifying the page number, number of output copies, and the like.

The contents specified in the control channel 40 are input between the control devices. Lessons@device criminal is control panel 40
In order to operate the sorter 10 in the operation mode specified in the above, an appropriate signal for driving the guide drive device blade is formed based on recorded information manually inputted from a recording device (not shown), and this signal is generated. The information is transmitted to the guide drive device 30.

For example, ψ14 controls the starting, stopping, rotating direction, etc. of the motor when the guide drive device blade has the configuration as described above.

Next, a specific example of the operation of the above-mentioned embodiment apparatus will be explained in the case of outputting a plurality of copies of a printout consisting of a plurality of pages. Let us assume that three copies of print paper consisting of three pages are to be output.Of course, in this case too, m order rS (11th
It is assumed that jobs have been classified in advance, similar to [see 1].

Now, when executing the stack function similar to the conventional one directly in the actual 711\1 apparatus shown in FIG. 2, the operator first turns on the switch 41. As a result, the control device that has recognized this fact will
The guide 5 is fixed at the position shown in FIG. 2 by driving the guide 11. Since the paper is conveyed from the printer main body adder I at 111# as shown in FIG.
1, paper is accumulated in the manner shown in Figure 1 of silk.

Next, when executing a sorting function in which printed sheets are distributed and stored in different trays according to the print contents, the operator first turns on the switch 42 and then turns on the numeric keypad 43 as appropriate. Specify the pages to print out, the number of copies, etc. As a result, the g4j device criminal who has recognized this fact drives the guide drive device 30 in synchronization with the recording operation, paper feeding operation, etc., based on the recorded information K from the recording device (not shown). . Guide drive device: (Due to the operation of 0, the vertical aJ guide 5 moves up and down.

For example, the first printed paper A-1, the second printed paper B-
1, the printer output of the first job consisting of the third print paper C-1 (see Fig.
11, the vertically movable guide 5 is moved to the second position.
Fix it in the position shown in the figure. As a result, the printer output of the first job is stored in the tray 2 in the manner shown in FIG. Next, the printer output of the second job consisting of the first print paper A-2, the second print paper B-2, and the third print paper C-2 (see Fig. 1 (phantom [111)] is When being transported, the guide 5 is moved downward from the above position and positioned between the rollers 4 and 4'.As a result, the printer output of the second job is transferred to the tray A.
It is accumulated in the manner shown in the figure. Then, the first print paper A
-3, the printer output of the third job consisting of the second print paper B-3 and the third print paper C-3 (+i in Figure 1 1al)
) is conveyed from the fourth side of the main body, the guide 5 is moved further downward, and is positioned, for example, at the protrusion 1 between the rollers 4' and 4''.Thereby, the printer output of the third job is transferred to the tray. The data are accumulated in the manner shown in FIG.

In this way, the printer output for each number of copies can be distributed and accumulated in each separate tray, and the operator can easily perform the sorting work.
Become.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, a sorter mechanism was adopted in which the grains were divided into valley trays by means of a vertically movable guide, but this distributing operation could also be performed by another machine t14VC. For example, separate guides may be provided for each of a plurality of trays, and sheets may be distributed to desired trays by selectively driving the plurality of guides.

Additionally, electronic printers are generally equipped with convenient editing functions, such as a page number identification function.

Therefore, by operating the editing function in combination with the configuration of the present invention, the operator can appropriately distribute and store paper according to various print outputs.

[Takuma effect]

As explained above, the Vσ electronic printer according to the present invention is equipped with a saw Fb'A7 in addition to the stack function1, which makes it easier for the operator to dispense acid. In addition, by selectively using both the 1gNc functions, it is possible to appropriately distribute and accumulate paper according to the printer output.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 (al is an explanatory diagram showing the general output of an intermittent printer, Figure 1 al is an illustration of a UL electronic printer and &j
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the main parts of the electronic printer according to the second invention. 3.4...Roller, butt...Vertical OT movement guide, 10.
...Sorter, addition...Electronic printer body, 21...2
n...tray, processing...guide drive device direct, 40.
・・Control nominal panel, 41 ・・Switch for stack mode, 42 ・・Switch for int mode, 43
...Numeric keypad, 50...il+ll Decoration+lK
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Claims (1)

[Claims] An electronic printer capable of printing out multiple sheets in succession includes a plurality of trays, a guide for guiding the printed paper to at least one of the plurality of trays, and a guide for guiding the printed paper to at least one of the plurality of trays, and a guide for guiding the printed paper to the print contents. a first control means for controlling the guide so as to guide the printed sheets to different trays in accordance with each tray; and a first control means for controlling the guide so as to guide the printed sheets to any one of the plurality of trays at once. An electronic printer comprising: second control means for IT control.