KR950004338B1 - Method and apparatus for preparing card printed matter - Google Patents

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Description

Card printing method and card printing device

1 is an explanatory diagram of a configuration of a card printing apparatus.

2 is a plan view of a business card.

3 is a plan view of a card stock.

4 is an explanatory diagram of the configuration of the cutting machine.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1: Card factor manufacturing device 2: DTP device

3: cutting machine 4,5: card

6: computer main body 7: image input device

8: printer 11: feeder

12: card stock 13: upper edge

14: lower side 15,23: left side

16,24: right side 17: surface

18: surface 18: printing surface

19,20: Margin 26: Feeder

27: gate 28: cutting unit

31: sensor 32: paper feed roller

33: return roller 34: discharge roller

35: cutting pieces 36: badge collection

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card printing method and card manufacturing apparatus for printing business cards, labels, name cards, and other cards which are relatively small printed matter. Business cards, nameplates, and nameplates are representative prints of small quantity batch prints. For example, a business card is a card with a certain dimension (standard: 55 x 91 mm) and thickness (standard 0.1-0.5 mm). Conventionally, there are offset printed matter, card offset offset, and the like for printing business cards, but many processes are required and operations are often required.

Therefore, in recent years, with the development of computers, the use of desktop publishing (hereinafter referred to as "DTP") devices and the like has been performed.

By the way, the business card factor method that utilizes such a DTP device is that the printing of the business card itself is quite high speed, but the cutting device used in the process of cutting the card into the shape of the business card after the factor is large and expensive, and thus the business card is produced in small quantities. The price is high.

Conventionally, it prints business cards in DTP devices and prints them as much as possible on paper, and cuts them after printing, finishing the business cards. However, do not cut the printed paper once or twice each in both directions. You must. In order to make such a cutting, conventional guillotine cutting machines and press cutting machines are used. However, as described above, the printing paper must be cut once or multiple times in two directions in the vertical and horizontal directions. A cutting machine is a very expensive machine, and requires a function and skill in operation, and is inadequate for the finishing of anyone in the office, for example, in terms of stability or vibration or noise.

In addition, in the case of printing by a printer such as a DTP device, the printing position with respect to the card stock is slightly different for each card stock, so that a cutting machine used for cutting the printed paper in the printing machine cannot be used.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is possible to produce card printing easily and quickly, and can be operated without requiring functions and skills, and can produce card prints at low cost. It is an object of the present invention to provide a production method and a card printed matter production apparatus.

For this purpose, the card printing method of the present invention is a card printing method for printing a card, the long side of which has a length for printing the printing surface of a plurality of cards in a single straight line direction. Further, the card stock whose width of the short side coincides with the width of one side of the card is supplied to a printer such as a DTP apparatus, the printer prints the multi-stage printing, and then the printing is completed. Each card stock is cut at the border of the multi-stage printed printing surface.

In addition, the card printing apparatus of the present invention is a card printing apparatus for printing a card, wherein the long side has a length capable of printing multi-stage printing surfaces of a plurality of cards in a single straight line direction, A supply device for supplying a card paper whose width is equal to the width of one side of the card, to a printer such as a DTP apparatus, the printer for printing the multi-stage printing on the supplied card paper, and Each card sheet, which has been finished, is provided with a cutting machine for cutting at the boundary of each of the multi-printed printing surfaces.

In the case of producing a printed card using the card factor manufacturing apparatus configured as described above, first, the card paper is supplied to the printer.

The printer processes the entered data and outputs it onto the card stock. The printed card paper is connected to the printer, or the printer is supplied to a separate cutting device. In the cutting device, the printed card paper is cut one by one from the cutter only in one direction for each card to obtain a finished printed card.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, a detailed description of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings showing one embodiment.

In the card printing method of the present invention, the long side has a length capable of multi-stage printing of the printing surfaces of a plurality of cards in a single straight direction, and the width of the short side corresponds to the width of one side of the card. The card stock is supplied to a printer such as a DTP apparatus, and the printer prints the multi-stage printing. Then, the printed card is cut at the border of the multi-stage printed printing surface for each printed card. Get a card.

As described above, the card printing method can be implemented using the following apparatus.

The following description describes a case where a business card 5 shown in FIG. 2 is made as an example of the card 4 to be printed by the card printing apparatus 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the business card 5 has a surface 17 in a card state in which the width of the upper side 13 and the lower side 14 is X1 and the width of the left side 15 and the right side 16 is X2. And both sides or the surface 17 of the back surface are the printing surfaces 18 which are printed.

That is, in FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a card printing apparatus. The card printing apparatus 1 is provided with the DTP apparatus 2 and the cutting machine 3. As shown in FIG. The DTP apparatus 2 has a computer main body 6, an image input apparatus 7, a printer 8, and a paper feeding apparatus 11. The paper feeding device 11 is for supplying the card stock 12 (see FIG. 3) to the printer 8. The card stock 12 supplied to the printer 8 by the feeder 11 is shown in FIG. These instruments can use a commercial item. As the DTP device 2, a commercially available DTP-only device can be used, and a commercially available general purpose computer operated by software for DTP may be used.

Card stock 12 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the card stock 12 has a short side of the upper side 21 and a lower side 22 having a width X1, which is equal to the width X1 of the upper side 13 and the lower side 14 of these business cards 5. Do. On the other hand, the width of the long side 23 and the right side 24, which are the long sides, is X3, and when the number of surfaces of the printing surface 18 which can be multi-stage printed on the card paper 12 is n, X3> nX2.

Therefore, the card paper 12 can be multi-stage printed with the printing surface 18 out in a straight line parallel to the left and right sides thereof, and the margins 19 and 20 of the upper and lower ends can be further provided. . In this case, the upper side 13 and the lower side 14 coincide with each other on the printing surface 18 adjacent to each other on the card paper 12.

One corner portion of the printing paper l2 may be provided with a corner cut 25 for identifying the top and bottom sides of the front and back surfaces of the paper.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4, the cutting machine 3 has a feed tray 26, a gate 27, a cutting unit 28, a sensor 31, a feed roller 32, a conveyance roller 33, and a discharge roller ( 34), a cut piece 35 and a discharge plate 36 is provided. When printing and creating a business card in the card printing apparatus 1 having such a configuration, the sheet of paper 12 is printed one by one in the feeder 11 after the typesetting is completed on the CRT of the DTP apparatus 2. It supplies to (8).

In the DTP apparatus 2, the printer 8 is controlled by the computer main body 6 which operates in accordance with a program, and prints the printing surface 18 by multi-step printing. Therefore, on this printed sheet 12, multi-stage printing is performed by adjoining the print surface 18 in a straight line parallel to the left and right sides, and in this case, the print surface 18 adjacent to each other on the card paper 12. ), The upper side 13 and the lower side 14 coincide.

The printed card paper 12 is supplied to the cutting machine 3 connected to the DTP apparatus 2 or separated from the DTP apparatus 2. The card paper 12 output from the DTP apparatus 2 is stacked on the paper tray 26. When the paper feed switch (not shown) on the operation panel is turned ON, the paper feed roller 32 rotates to eject one sheet of the first lower sheet of the stacked paper sheets 12 through the gate 27. The card paper 12 which has been sent out is guided into the cutting unit 28 by the conveying roller 33. The cutting piece 28 which operates the cutting unit 28 by the sensor 31 and cuts the margin 19 of the front end of the card paper 12 is dropped to the lower cutting piece receiving 35. The card paper l2 is cut at the boundary 37 of each printing surface in turn by the set number corresponding to the number of prints and the conveying roller 33 and the cutting unit 28, and the cut card 4 is discharged. It is discharged by the roller 34. Finally, the margin 20 at the rear end of the card stock 12 is cut off and falls on the cut sheet 35. Thus, one card stock 12 is completely cut so that the number of cards 4 corresponding to the number of multi-stage prints Obtained. After that, the same operation is repeated for the entire card stock, and the operation ends.

In the card printing method of the present invention, the printing surface of a plurality of cards can be printed in multiple stages in a single straight direction as the printing paper, and the width of one of the width and width is either the width of the card or the width of the card. Since the card paper that matches is used, it is not necessary to cut after printing the card to print out the business card by DTP device, etc. Since the cutting machine is very simple, the cutting machine is very simple, the machine is inexpensive, and since it does not require operation and skill, it is possible to finish the cutting of anyone in the office.

Claims (6)

In the method of manufacturing a card factor by printing the card 4, the long side has a length capable of multi-stage printing of the printing surface 18 for a plurality of cards in a single straight direction, and the width of the short side is the card ( Any of 4) is supplied with the card paper 12 corresponding to the width of one side to the printer 8 such as the DTP apparatus 2, and the printer 8 prints the multi-stage printing, And then cutting each card sheet (14) that has been printed at the border of the multi-stage printed printing surface. The card printing material according to claim 1, wherein the card stock has a margin portion (19) (20) at at least one end of both ends in a direction parallel to the long side. How to make. The method of claim 2, wherein a corner cut portion is formed at an even portion of one of the margin portions (19) and (20). In the card printing apparatus for printing a card, a long side has a length capable of printing a plurality of print faces 18 for a plurality of cards in a single straight direction, and a short side width of the card (4). A supply device for supplying the card paper 12, which corresponds to the width of one side, to the printer 8 such as the DTP apparatus 2, and the above-described printing of the multi-stage printing on the supplied card paper. A card 8, characterized in that it comprises a printer 8 and a cutting machine 3 for cutting each printed card sheet 12 at the boundary of each of the multi-printed printing surfaces 18. Device. 5. The card printing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the card paper (12) has margin portions (19) and (20) at at least one end portion of both ends in a direction parallel to the long side. The card printing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein a corner cut portion is formed at an even portion of one of the margin portions (19) and (20).