JPS60231234A - Printing method in business form - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automate the formation of sales slips in a department store or the like and delivery slips in a delivery station or the like by forming a means for properly editing an image on a specified original and printing the edited result on a specified position of a business form. CONSTITUTION:Originals 2 are stacked on a hopper 11 forming an auto-feeder and sent to an image scanner 15, their images are read out, the read-out data are sent to an image processor part 100, and the read-out originals 2 are stacked in a stacker 13. The image data inputted by the scanner 15 are converted into equal magnification/contraction/expansion images by a scanning converter 101 and the converted results are stored in an image memory 102. The contents of the memory 102 are outputted to a printer 20 through an image control 103 on the basis of a format program.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method of printing on forms to save labor and automate the transcription work and copy printing work of slips and the like.

For example, at department stores, supermarkets, etc., one customer requests gifts for many people with different addresses during the mid-year period or year-end. ” to fill in the necessary information. ``For gifts, please fill in the application form j, including the client's address (1 name and phone number), and the recipient's address (9 names).

This includes the phone number, name of the item to be delivered, date of application, etc. At department stores, etc., the items listed on the ``Application Form for Gift Delivery'' are checked, and the ``Gift Notification Form'' is used to send the gift. You must write the name of the item to be delivered, the client, etc. on the ``slip''. When posting to this ``Gift Notification Slip'', there are many cases in which the information entered in the ``Gift Notification Application Form'' is entered exactly as is, and the client must ensure that all recipients receive the same destination. . For this reason, it is desired to automate and streamline the work of posting to such a "delivery is a slip".

In addition, the "delivery slip" created at department stores etc. is sent to the transportation department, transportation company, etc. in charge of delivering the gift, and the transportation company may request another transportation company or It is necessary to create a delivery slip, and this case also has the same problem as described above.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a method of printing on forms that solves the above-mentioned problems.

This invention will be explained below.

The present invention includes an image scanner consisting of a line sensor or the like that reads a document, a memory that stores document data read by the image scanner, and a controller that edits the data stored in this memory and prints it with a form printer. This relates to a method of printing on a form in a printing system having a printing system, which includes inputting the document as at least first and second image fields of different types, instructing a printing position on a form printer using an operation panel of a controller,
Continuously print the first image field for the set number of sheets, and print the image field in E-memory 1 and the image field in E-memory 2 and below (2nd, 3rd, etc.) in the same position to divide into a form. It was designed to do so.

Figure 1 shows an example of a device that implements the method of this invention, including an image processor 10 for reading and processing a written document such as a slip, and printing on a transferable multi-print form. and a dot-impact printer 20, both of which are connected by a transmission line l.

The image processor IO has a desktop-type shape, and a hopper II for placing a document is provided on the top surface.The document placed here is loaded onto the hopper +1 using a paper loading lever 12. The loaded documents are conveyed to the reading section of the image scanner, and the documents read by the image scanner are stacked on a stacker 13 provided at the rear. Further, an operation panel 14 as shown in FIG. 2 is provided on the left side of the top surface, and the printer 20 is also provided with an operation panel 21. Here, to explain the functions of each key on the operation panel 14, the start switch 141 is used to input a job start command or a restart command when the jigob stops when the hopper is empty, and the stop switch 142 is used to input a job start command or a restart command when the jigob stops when the hopper is empty. is used to interrupt the reading of the original document, and the job entry switch +43 is used to end the job when the stop switch 142 is pressed and the job is interrupted. Further, the density switch 144 adjusts the image density of the document to be read in three stages (L, N).
, Il), the printer select switch +45 specifies the print mode L when two printers are connected, the clear key 146 is used to correct various setting numbers, and the numeric keypad 147 is used to select the business number, slip This is used to indicate the number, number of copies, date and time, and test mode.
The numerical value manually entered by the key is -1 LC;D(
The information is displayed on a display 148 made of a liquid crystal display or the like. Furthermore, the business number key 148 instructs to display the already specified business number and completes the setting of the business number changed using the numeric keypad 147, etc., and the slip number key 141O commands to display the currently set slip number and instructs the numeric keypad to complete setting of the changed business number. 147 etc., commands to complete the setting of the changed slip number, the number of copies key 1411 commands the display of the number of copies in addressee work, and the numeric keypad 147 commands the completion of the setting of the changed number of copies. Command to display the number of sheets counter and complete the correction, and press the month, day, hour, and minute keys 1412 to
This command commands the display of hours, minutes, and seconds, and commands to complete setting of values changed using the numeric keypad 147 or the like.

3 and 4 show the internal structure of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, in which documents 2 are stacked and placed on a hopper 11 forming an auto feeder, and are held down by a paper loading lever 12. The document 2 is sent to the image scanner 15 to read the image, the read data is sent to the image processor section 100, and the read document 2 is stacked on the stacker 13. Here, the image processing sensor section 100 converts image data taken in by the scanning line density of the image scanner 15 into the line density of the printer.
- An image memory +02 that stores the image data scan-converted by the scan converter 101, an image controller 103 that performs image processing such as editing, and outputs to the printer 20, and a pass line. The controller 104 includes a CPU and the like that performs overall control.

In such a configuration, in this invention, FIG. 5(A),
As shown in FIG. 6(B), there is a format conversion function that changes and prints multiple image fields A1 to A3 on the document 2A to designated positions on the form 3A, and as shown in FIGS. 6(A) and (B). Image field 81 on document 2B,
Multi-copy function that changes B2 to the specified format and prints the set number of sheets continuously on form 3B, and Figure 7 (A)
, as shown in (B), has a slip creation function that divides and combines a plurality of image fields C1 to C9 on a document 2C into a specified format and sequentially prints them on a form 3C.

In FIGS. 7(A) and 7(B), the first image field C1 is output at the same position as the set number of sheets in the slip 3C, and the second and subsequent image fields are output in relative positions to the first image field. Same as slip 3C
It is printed separately on top. Furthermore, the first image field CI may be composed of a plurality of image fields as shown in FIGS.
The following image field C2G3... is tfJb
The image may be divided into a plurality of image fields as shown in FIGS. (A) and (B). Here, the program for the reporter format is stored in the ROM in advance, and the desired format can be selected using the job number key 149. If the formant of I[43A to 3G is also pre-printed with a formant such as K-line and is to be written in the designated place, The reading field and the output field can be determined by the program L. Therefore, the operator can print on the desired form simply by specifying the job (job name).

In addition, when specifying the reading field of document 2 or the output field of form 3 using the operation panel 14, for example, for field 5 as shown in FIG. 4 fields A-D are given. The field format is arranged in output order, that is, from left to right on the output page, from second to first.

Furthermore, the image data inputted by the image scanner 15 is processed by a scan converter 101 at the same magnification/
The image is converted into a reduced/enlarged image and stored in an internal image memory 102, and the contents of this image memory 102 are outputted to the printer 20 via the image controller 103 according to a format program. Switching between equal size/reduction/enlargement is performed by specifying parameters stored in the ROM for each job. In other words, image scaling is to print the image in the same size as the input document by matching the input scanning line density to the output scanning line density, while image reduction is to adjust the scanning line density manually. For example, the image is enlarged by performing thinning processing on the image data and outputting it with the same input scanning line density.

On the other hand, image editing is performed between the image memory 102 and the image controller +03 at the time of printing, and is classified into the following two types depending on the relationship between manual pages and output pages.

) Manual page count ≦ Output page count (ii) Kugata page count > Output page count In any of the above cases, regarding the position, the input parameter is the point (IX+, IYl) length as shown in Figure 9 (A). Saku IXIIJ,
IYI, and the output parameter is a point (OX+, OY+) as shown in FIG. In the case of (i) above, when the input page and output page correspond and the input image field and output image field correspond to l to l, (IXi, IYi) → (OXj, 0Yj). Yes, and one of the input image fields corresponds to multiple output image fields (IXi, IYi) =
(OXj, 0Yj), (OXk, 0Yk), =...
-・It is. In the case of (i) above, one input page corresponds to multiple output pages and one manual image field
corresponds to one of the output image fields and
When it corresponds to one output page, (IXi, IYi) + (OX, OY) is a page break, and one input image field corresponds to multiple output image fields, and one of the output image fields When output page 1 is supported, (IX, IY) -” (OXJ, 0YJ), page break (O
Xk, 0Yk), several hundred. Furthermore, in the case of (ii) above, it is classified as ``horizontal alignment'' and ``vertical alignment.'' ``horizontal alignment'' means that the input images of different input documents are output side by side, and ``vertical alignment'' means that the input images of different input documents are outputted vertically in the order in which they were input. That's true.

An image processor IO having functions as described above,
One original 2 is transported from the printer 11, and when the original 2 comes on the line sensor of the image scanner 15 while being sent to the stacker 13, the image of the original 2 is transferred to the image memory +02 via the scan converter 101 for one line. After this data is corrupted, image processing is performed according to the selected job, and the printer 20 prints it on an @ slip. At the same time, the next original is conveyed, the image of the original is taken into the image memory 102, and the image of the original is taken into the image memory 102.
When the image processing in 2 has been performed and all necessary outputs have been completed, the process moves on to the subsequent processing in the image memory 102, and at the same time, conveyance of the next document begins, and the process is repeated. In other words,
The time for transporting the image scanner 15 and capturing the image is absorbed during image printing. The controller I/roller 104 performs the printer switching in the above operation, and there is no downtime for the printer 20.

As described above, according to the printing method of the present invention, images on a specified document can be edited appropriately and printed at a specified position on a form. Effective for creating slips, etc. For example, C1 in Figure 5 (A) is the address 1 name of the customer (client), etc.
If 02~C8 will be delivered to the destination address (9 names, 1 product name, etc.),
As shown in the same figure (Japanese), the requester and recipient are posted 1
A slip can be created for each recipient.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing an example of a device for realizing this invention;
Figure 2 is an arrangement diagram of the image scanner's operation panel;
The figure is a configuration diagram of the device in Figure 1, Figure 4 is a block diagram showing its internal configuration, Figures 5 (A), (B) to Figure 9 (^),
(B) is a diagram for explaining the relationship between image input and output according to the present invention. l...Transmission line, 2.2A~2C...Original, 3A~3
C...Form, lO...Image processor, 11.
...hopper, 13...stun force, 14...operation panel, 15...image scanner, 20...printer, 102...image memory, 103...image controller. Applicant's agent Yuzo Yasugata (A) Figure 5 (B) (A) Figure 6 (B) Figure 6

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) An image scanner that reads a document, a memory that stores document data read by the image scanner,
In a form printing system having a controller and a roller that edits the data stored in the memory and prints it on a form printer, the document is printed on at least a first
- input as a second image field, instruct the print position in the form printer using the operation panel of the controller in step 111j, continuously print the first document and the second image field for a set number of sheets, and
A method of printing on a form, characterized in that the combination of the image field and the image field below the second image field at the same position is divided into the form and printed. (2) The method of printing on a form according to claim 1, wherein the form is multi-printed so that it can be transferred, and the form printer is an impact type dot printer.