WO2004019153A2 - Procede et machine pour l'impression de cartes en couleurs - Google Patents

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WO2004019153A2
WO2004019153A2 PCT/US2002/024992 US0224992W WO2004019153A2 WO 2004019153 A2 WO2004019153 A2 WO 2004019153A2 US 0224992 W US0224992 W US 0224992W WO 2004019153 A2 WO2004019153 A2 WO 2004019153A2
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Alberto Mucelli
Marco Mazzanti
Franco Salcuni
Antonio Armellin
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Cim-Usa Inc.
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/315—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material
    • B41J2/32—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
    • B41J2/325—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
    • B41J13/12—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like, e.g. credit cards, cut visiting cards
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/315—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material
    • B41J2/32—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
    • B41J2/35—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads providing current or voltage to the thermal head
    • B41J2/355—Control circuits for heating-element selection
    • B41J2/36—Print density control
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2202/00—Embodiments of or processes related to ink-jet or thermal heads
    • B41J2202/30—Embodiments of or processes related to thermal heads
    • B41J2202/35—Thermal printing on id card

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  • the present invention concerns a method for colour printing and magnetic encoding of plastic cards, in particular pre-paid cards, smart cards and the like.
  • the invention comprises also a compact, reliable, efficient, low-cost machine embodying said method.
  • European Patent Application Publication n. 0 299 653 A2 concerns a Method and Apparatus for the Thermal Printing and the relevant Thermal Heat feeding.
  • Several systems and methods for the Ribbon Colour Detection have been proposed and implemented, such as those described in WO 00/34050, EP Publications N. 0189574 A2 and N. 0 624480 A2 and French Pat. Pub. N. 2783 460 Al.
  • the methods and apparatus described in the Published Patent Literature show, together with several merits, also many decisive and conditioning inconveniences.
  • the conventional apparatus must have a longitudinal length of at least four times the major dimension of a card.
  • First object of the present invention is to provide a general method which eliminates the drawbacks and insufficiencies of the Prior Art, in particular of the Art according to the above mentioned Patents.
  • An other object of the present invention is to provide a compact, reliable, efficient and low cost machine implementing said method.
  • the present invention concerns a method for ribbon colour thermal printing and/or encoding cards particularly pre-paid-, smart-, chip- cards and the like, by detecting the printing ribbon colour, controlling the thermal printing energy feed and driving said printing encoding and detecting.
  • a) said encoding is carried out spacially upstream to said thermal printing and b) detection takes place spacially between said encoding and printing and contemporaneously to said printing.
  • step a) is carried out by critically coordinating encoding and printing, in particular by encoding at a distance from the printing lower then card major dimension.
  • step b) the detection is positioned in a plane vertically superposed to the plane containing aligned encoding and printing, so to minimize both the length between encoding and printing and the height of the detection over printing.
  • HW hardware reprogrammable
  • FPGA field-programmable gate array
  • the invention comprises a compact, reliable, efficient and low-cost machine characterized in that along the card path from the card feeder to the card unloader, the encoder is spacially upstream the thermal printer at a distance not greater than the card major dimension; the colour sensor is positioned between said encoder and printer but in a plane superposed to the plane of said encoder and printer containing also the card path line; and the spacial distance between sensor and printer, minimizing both the length and the height of the machine, is equal to the major dimension of the ribbon colour panel.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram of the overall system; according to the invention, in which while the Card to be processed (C) undergoes the Magnetic Encoding (1) and the Thermal Printing (3) under critical coordination between said steps of Encoding and Printing, the colour ribbon (R) undergoes the Colour Detection (2) and the Thermal Printing(3) under critical coordination of Detection and Printing.
  • the general system of the invention comprises an overall lower operative block (OS) and an upper overall processing block (OP).
  • OS overall lower operative block
  • OP overall processing block
  • the card (C) is characteristically submitted firstly to the Magnetic Encoding (1) and secondly to the Thermal Printing
  • Figure 2 is a flow chart of operative block OS ;
  • Figure 3 is a schematic partial front view of an apparatus according to the invention.
  • Figure 3 A is a top view of a card C having A as maximal dimension
  • Figure 3B is a prospective view of a colour ribbon R with three panels P having B as maximum dimension;
  • Figure 3C shows the distance B between the center X2 of the sensor 2, in which ideally happens the ribbon colour detection and the point X3, corresponding to the Dot line of the Printing Head, B being the maximum dimension of the panels P;
  • Figure 4 shows a traditional architecture of an electronic board controlling a system like a card Printer and Encoder
  • Figure 5 shows the innovative architecture implemented in this invention, where the
  • I/O (Input/Output) peripherals are mostly controlled by reprogrammable HW;
  • Figure 6 is a schematic representation of the Colour Sensor according to a preferred embodiment o the invention.
  • Figure 7 is a block diagram of the control HW of the Colour Detector of fig. 6
  • Figure 8 is a block diagram of the HW implemented into the Receiver Interface for elaborating the output signal of the Receiver Unit, being such unit presented in fig. 7
  • Figure 9 is the flow-chart describing the Colour Detector behaviour described in fig. 6
  • Figure 9a is the explosion of the Transmission Sequence represented in the Flow
  • Figure 9b is the decisional table used by the colour detector driver for interpreting the information obtained during the transmission sequence .
  • Figure 10 is a block diagram of the Thermal Printing Head (TPH) •
  • Figure 11 is a representation of the control signals to the Printing Head.
  • Figure 12 is the block diagram of the HW Driver that pilot the Printing Head for the Energy feeding control
  • Figure 13 is the Arithmetic Logic Unit computing the data-stream that must be transmitted to the Printing Head for performing the four Printing phases
  • the first feature of the invention is that the encoding (1) is upstream the printing (3) with which is spacially aligned while the colour detection (2) is in the space between said encoding and printing but in a plane vertically different from the plane containing printer and encoder.
  • the total machine longitudinal dimension is at least four times the length of a card.
  • one card length is reserved to the card feeder (CF)
  • two card lengths are reserved to the thermal printing
  • one card length is reserved to the magnetic encoding.
  • the total length of the machine is not over 3 times the card length, which represents a space saving of 25%
  • the colour detector (2) is located in the space between the encoder (1) and thermal printer (3).
  • the distance between the colour detector (2) and the thermal printer (3) must be critically equal to the maximum dimension (length) B (figure 3C) of the ribbon Panel, allowing (surprisingly) a precise ribbon synchronization under the printing head (TPH), without a further movement of the ribbon from the sensor alignment position to the printing position, controlled through a position sensor, like for instance an incremental encoder.
  • the positioning of the colour detector (2) with respect to the thermal printer (3) is shown in Figures 3 and 3C.
  • the distance from X2 to X3 is characteristically just B i.e. the major dimension of the panel P of the colour ribbon R (figure 3B).
  • ROl and RO2 indicate the rollers of the ribbon bobbins.
  • the system of the invention comprises an Overall Processing block OP including a Central Processing Unit CPU controlling Driver Dl associated to the Magnetic Encoder (1), Driver D2 associated to the Color Sensor (2) and Driver D3 associated to the Thermal Printing Head (3).
  • Said processing block OP controls the lower operating block OS.
  • the Card C corning from the Card Feeder CF can follow two different paths, depending on the fact that it has to undergo the Magnetic Encoding (1) or not.
  • the Card undergoes the phase corresponding to the Magnetic Data Encoding (1A) (Data are written on the tracks selected by the User), and immediately thereafter undergoes the Magnetic Data Decoding (IB) (The written data are Read and Verified); thereafter if the read data are correct in 1C, the card is ready for the possible Thermal Printing (3).ln case the verifying phase (IB) of the written data doesn't succeed, further attempts of Encoding (1A) and Decoding (IB) are attempted up to a predefined maximum number, after which it is decided that the card is defective and has to be ejected.
  • 1A Magnetic Data Encoding
  • IB Magnetic Data Decoding
  • the card can directly and rapidly proceed to the Thermal Printing phase, bypassing thus the not compulsory encoding and enhancing the efficiency.
  • the system is advantageously flexible: indeed it allows to avoid printing not only of cards not to be printed but also of cards badly encoded, with not-negligible savings of ribbon, time and thermal energy. Similarly for the cards not to be encoded.
  • Figure 4 represents the general structure of a traditional non reprogrammable HW in which the I/O (Input/Output) peripherals (interfacing to Actuators and Sensors) are defined by an appropriate configuration of standard non reconfigurable components (substantially known perse). Generally it comprises the classic Central Processing Unit CPU, a System Bus (37), Data Memory (35), Code Memory (34), I/O peripherals (30), acting on the Actuator Drivers (39) and receiving signals from Sensor (32) on the Sensor Interface (40).
  • I/O peripherals interface to Actuators and Sensors
  • Such a kind of architecture doesn't allow the possibility of adding, improving, correcting along the time the HW functionalities.
  • An aspect of the present invention is that the structures of the overall system (OS) and of the Overall Processing (OP) allow the implementation of the HW technology based on the use of components called Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), whose HW configuration can be defined in the so called “In System Progr-unming" (ISP).
  • OS overall system
  • OP Overall Processing
  • FPGA Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Such ISP configuration of the HW allows to configure the FPGA components under control of the Central Processing Unit, downloading via SW a bit-stream that can be previously stored into the system non volatile memory (41 ' in figure 5).
  • Figure 5 represents the general structure of a reconfigurable HW, according to the invention, in which the I/O peripherals (30') (interfacing Actuators (31') through the appropriate Driver (39') and Sensors (32') trough the Sensor Interface (40')) consist now of components whose configuration can be downloaded by the Central Processing Unit (CPU) through an HW Configuration Interface (42'), reading the configuration file from a dedicated memory (Hardware Configuration Memory , 41').
  • the I/O peripherals (30') interfacing Actuators (31') through the appropriate Driver (39') and Sensors (32') trough the Sensor Interface (40')
  • the Central Processing Unit (CPU) through an HW Configuration Interface (42'), reading the configuration file from a dedicated memory (Hardware Configuration Memory , 41').
  • the reprogrammable HW of the invention is obtained simply by replacing the standard I/O peripherals with In System Programmable and reconfigurable devices (Static RAM based FPGA), and introducing in the prior block diagram a configuration memory (41') and an appropriate interface between the FPGAs and the CPU.
  • Static RAM based FPGA In System Programmable and reconfigurable devices
  • the procedure to update the HW is composed of the following steps:
  • the CPU configures the reprogrammable HW (30') with the updated release present into the HW Configuration Memory (41'), through an appropriate interface (42').
  • the major advantages of the HW reconfigurability are : a) shorter Time to Market of the new product; b) capability of updating, improving and debugging the HW functionality also for the electronic boards already present into the market; c) capability of implementing at an HW level, instead of a SW level, new functionalities with the purpose of freeing the CPU work of a certain number of tasks, so that it's possible to obtain an overall improvement of the system performances and Real-Time Process control of complex devices;
  • a fttrther advantage of the present invention is the fact that the Overall Processing block (OP) has been based on the previously described technology, so that each critical operation is controlled by an HW Driver, implemented into SW reconfigurable FPGA.
  • the colour detector (2) structure is advantageously implemented as shown in figure 6.
  • the Colour Detector (2) is composed by a transmitter unit (Tx), a receiver unit (Rx), an HW interface towards the transmitter unit (Txl), an HW interface towards the receiver unit (Rxl) and a driver (D2) that is internally divided in at least two sub-units, the one controlling the Transmitter function (TxD) and the other controlling the Receiving function (RxD).
  • the Transmitter Unit (Tx) is composed of three LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), respectively of colour Red (Tx#l), Green (Tx#2) and Blue (Tx#-S).
  • Those Leds are driven by power switches present into the Transmitter Interface, according to the control signals supplied by the transmitter driver (TxD).
  • each LED is controlled through series trimmers, not represented, that are regulated through a calibration procedure using a particular calibration equipment, that are not described in the present document, as they can be considered perse known and requires no further details.
  • the Transmitter Driver (TxD) is composed by a Finite State Machine that is triggered by a periodic event to drive in sequence leds T ⁇ #l, Tx#2, Tx#3, with an activation pulse of the duration, Tied, of 20 microseconds.
  • Such activation time, Tied has been determined as the characteristic response time of the photo-detectors.
  • the receiver unit (Rx) is composed by three equivalent large-band photo-detectors Rx#l, Rx#2, Rx#3, one for each transmitter, and mechanically faced to each relevant transmitter.
  • the receiver interface (Rxl) acts as signal conditioning HW shown in the Block Diagram represented in figure 8
  • RX_F1 that is a Gain Amplifier (G)
  • SI then enters the block RX_F2, an AC Decoupler, that filters the signal over the frequency of 10 KHz, obtaining a signal S2.
  • S2 enters block RX_F3, which is a Peak detector, to obtain a signal S3 that store the maximum value reached by S2.
  • S3 enters block RX_F4 (a Sample-and-Hold Stage,) that samples S3 in the period corresponding to the transmitter activation, obtaining signal S4. Thereafter S4 is compared with a threshold voltage (in RX_F5) positioned in the middle of the power supply voltage range and the result is stored into a detection result register (in RX_F6) at the end of the transmitter activation pulse.
  • RX_F4 Sample and Hold
  • RX_F6 Detection result Register
  • a further aspect of the present invention is the critical control and coordination of the activities implemented by the Transmitter and the Receiver Units, to constantly keep the Central Processing Unit informed about the colour status during ribbon movement.
  • This activity of control and coordination of the overall Colour Detector (2) is assigned to the HW reprogrammable Driver (D2), that is preferably implemented as a Finite State Machine (FSM)(perse known).
  • D2 HW reprogrammable Driver
  • FSM Finite State Machine
  • Figure 9 represents the behaviour of the Colour Detector Driver (D2) implemented to control the Colour Detector shown in figure 7.
  • the colour detection is periodically activated by a Trigger Generator (TG) that starts the Transmitter Activation Sequence (Tx_SEQ), described in detail by the flow chart represented in figure 9A.
  • TG Trigger Generator
  • Tx_SEQ Transmitter Activation Sequence
  • Tx_SEQ Transmitter Activation Sequence
  • COL_DEC decoding phase
  • the thermal printing of plastic cards uses as physic principle the transfer of coloured pigments from a Ribbon (R) to the plastic card (C).
  • This ink transfer requires a flow of heating energy to the printing elements (DOTs), usually implemented as ceramic resistors, to carry the ink molecules to the separation temperature.
  • DOTs printing elements
  • the transfer temperature Once the transfer temperature is reached, it is needed to transfer to the DOT a firrther quantity of energy for modulating the quantity of pigment that it's needed to move from the ribbon to the card.
  • the device that allows the thermal transfer control is a printing head (TPH in figure 3) in which the printing elements (DOTs) are realized through ceramic micro-resistors, ideally positioned on the straight line of contact, mediated by the ribbon, between the head and the card.
  • TPH printing head
  • DOTs printing elements
  • Said TPH is composed of a shift-register (SR) on which comes serially inserted the data that defines the DOTs activation enable to the heating for the next printing. This insertion can happen while a previously inserted DOT line is running the heating cycle.
  • SR shift-register
  • Ed ⁇ [(24V) ⁇ 2/ Rheadf Tstrobe ⁇ .
  • a simplified, but effective, model considers the contributions of the first adjoining heating element, and the DOT history departing from the medium head temperature and taking into account the activity of each element just on the row before the present.
  • the heating control system implemented in the present invention considers the non- ideality of the Printing Head, that are the DOT thermal memory and the thermal contribution that influences one dot printing area coming from the neighboring heating elements.
  • the system will be here described as limited to the monochromatic printing and be named "Spacial and Temporal Convolution for the Dot energy feeding computation".
  • the Energy feeding for each printing line, corresponding to one image vertical row, is decomposed in four fundamental components, that are:
  • Local Preheating it is an heating phase that is applied to all such Dots that in the present printing line must be lighted (in correspondence of a Black Pixel) and in the preceding line were out (White Pixel ). This preheating is necessary for carrying the coolest Dots to the medium head temperature.
  • Global Preheating it is an heating phase that is applied to all the Dots for carrying them to the thermal transfer
  • Printing Heating it is an heating phase that is applied to all the Dots that must sustain the thermal transfer temperature, for the time necessary to transfer in all the printing area (whose dimension is, for a 300 DPI resolution, of 84um* 84um) the ribbon ink, supposing that also the neighbour Dots are lighted, contributing to the thermal transfer.
  • Convolution Heating it is an heating phase that is applied to those lighted Dot, for which at least one of the neighbours is off. This heating applies a further energy contribution equivalent to the energy that a lighted Dot transfers onto the area of interest of the adjoining Dot.
  • Figure 11 shows the control signals to the Printing Head (TPH), under such a control system.
  • the four heating phases are shown :
  • Phase 2 corresponds to the Global Preheating
  • phase 1 corresponds to the Local Preheating- Phase 4 (P4) is the Convolution Heating
  • Phase 3 is the Printing Heating.
  • Figure 12 shows the block diagram of the HW Driver (D3) that pilots the Printing Head for the Energy feeding control.
  • the previous line data stored into the Current Row Register set (60), are shifted into the Previous Row Register set (61), during the phase PA, and the CPU (figure 1 ecc. ) feeds the Current Row Register set (61) with the data corresponding to the current Image Line to Print during the phase PB.
  • the Arithmetic Logic Unit computes the four data sequences to feed into the Thermal Printing Head, corresponding to the four Heating contributions previously described.
  • Each data sequence is fed into the TPH through a Serialize Unit (SU) that controls the TPH control signals, i.e. the Data, Clock and Latch.
  • SU Serialize Unit
  • the ALU unit feeds the Output Shift Register of the Driver (D3) performing the computations described in figure 13.
  • STEP 1 corresponds to the Global PreHeating phase, in which all Dots have to be energized.
  • the Thermal Print Head is fed with a constant row RC, composed by all ones.
  • STEP 3 corresponds to the Printing Heating phase, in which the current Row
  • the Thermal Print Head is fed with a row RD, obtained with the following formula :
  • RD ( RB[k] xor RB[k] «1) or ( RB[k] xor RB[k] »1)
  • the Driver informs the CPU that the Head is ready for printing through an interrupt service routine, than the CPU pilots the STROBE signal to energize the selected
  • This system for being efficiently implemented requires to demand a relevant part of the head control to an HW Driver.

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La présente invention a trait à un procédé pour l'impression thermique en couleurs et/ou le codage de carte à ruban, notamment des cartes à puce, des cartes à mémoire prépayées et analogues, par la détection de la couleur du ruban d'impression, le contrôle de l'alimentation en énergie de l'impression thermique et la commande d'impression, de codage et de détection, dans lequel le codage est effectué à un emplacement en amont de l'impression thermique, et la détection de couleur est effectuée à un emplacement entre le codage et/ou l'impression thermique, et simultanément à l'impression.
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