EP0373732A2 - Imprimante à multiples fonctions avec dispositif d'impression de feuille de journal - Google Patents

Imprimante à multiples fonctions avec dispositif d'impression de feuille de journal Download PDF

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EP0373732A2
EP0373732A2 EP89250101A EP89250101A EP0373732A2 EP 0373732 A2 EP0373732 A2 EP 0373732A2 EP 89250101 A EP89250101 A EP 89250101A EP 89250101 A EP89250101 A EP 89250101A EP 0373732 A2 EP0373732 A2 EP 0373732A2
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Rupert Dipl.-Ing. Baur
Lothar Dipl.-Inform. Bauer
Jürgen Ing. Krause (grad.)
Wilfried Rohde
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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
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/28—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes, envelopes, e.g. flat-bed ink-jet printers

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  • the invention relates to a multifunction printer with a journal device for recording the data processed in the printer for the purpose of data backup or documentation, with at least one printing unit for printing out the entered data and with further printer modules assigned to the respective printer function.
  • Such printers are used for a large number of different printing objects.
  • These printed objects consist of documents, checks, savings books, protocols and forms of all kinds, e.g. Invoices, receipts, driving licenses, passports, ID cards, motor vehicle documents as well as from BTX texts and TTX texts.
  • a receipt torn off a journal strip and the like is also Roger that.
  • Multifunction printers are used in financial institutions, at post offices, at local and state authorities of all kinds, in companies in the economy, in cooperatives and in general in trade.
  • Such multifunction printers are used, among other things, at counter workstations where, depending on the industry, there are regulations for keeping the recorded data on a paper journal.
  • a journal device takes up a considerable amount of space in a multifunction printer. Since this type of printer has recently been built up in module assemblies in order to achieve economical production and variable component composition, the individual module assemblies take up a specific space.
  • a printing unit a printing object transport device, a control panel, an electronic control device and a power supply unit, which together form the basic model, requires further module assemblies, for example for optical character recognition, for magnetic stripe processing and for optical line finding, and just for journaling.
  • Multifunction printers with a paper journal device are therefore not only technically complex, but also take up a relatively large amount of space and are disadvantageous in this regard.
  • the present invention is based on the object of solving the space problem of the journal device in a multifunction printer. safety, reproducibility and documentation requirements must be met and the smallest possible dimensions and manufacturing costs must be observed.
  • a form printing unit or an additional receipt printing unit is assigned a journal device which consists of a secondary controller which can be selected by a feed controller of a main circuit board, with an interface and with a data memory in which the entered Data are stored permanently and can be called up again and can be printed out using the form printing unit or the receipt printing unit.
  • This solution generally dispenses with the previous paper journal facilities and still enables the data to be printed out on paper. There are even two alternatives for printing out the data.
  • the data can be printed out on standard sheets (A4, A5) and on the other on receipts.
  • the components mentioned can also be accommodated on the main board of the printer or on a space-saving secondary board in the form of a control card.
  • the data memory consists of a memory array or a plug-in, non-volatile write-read memory card.
  • the data can be stored in segments and blocks on both data memories. They can be called up independently of a computer.
  • the journal device using the feed controller, which can be used as a master device, and the serial communication to communicate data between the secondary controller, the interface and the Controls data storage, the interface having a write protection module that is voltage controlled.
  • the data stored in the printer can also be protected and secured by the interface containing a voltage source that is independent of the power supply network and can be switched on depending on the voltage.
  • the protection and backup of the data stored in the printer is completed by the fact that the voltage source, which is independent of the network, also supplies the write protection module and the memory array when the network is switched off.
  • Data processing or other backup of the data is also achieved in that the CPU of the feed controller can be connected to a host computer.
  • the secondary controller and the data memory be coupled to a common addressing and data bus.
  • the multifunction printer has a trough-shaped base frame 1 in which, among other things, a motherboard 2 with a feed controller 3 (not shown in detail) for the feed of forms 4 in a document 5 are provided.
  • the feed controller 3 also controls the printing unit 6 and the paper transport 7.
  • printer modules e.g. a character recognition device 10, a receipt printing unit 11 and a power supply unit 12.
  • a journal device 13 is formed by the interaction of a control card 14 with a form printing unit 15 or the control card 14 with the receipt printing unit 11.
  • the main board 2 contains at least the feed controller 3, is on the main board 2 or in the separate control card 14, a secondary controller 16 with an interface 17 and with a data memory 18 is provided.
  • the data memory 18 permanently records the data.
  • the data entered can be called up again and printed out via the printing unit 6 or the receipt printing unit 11.
  • the receipt printing unit 11 (as drawn) consists of a paper roll 19 which can be inserted from above, a paper guide channel 20, a pair of transport rollers 21, a paper cutting device 22 and a deflection device 23.
  • the receipts formed by the paper roll 19 can therefore also be supplied by the printing unit 6, ie printed out by the form printing unit 15 and output via the document 5.
  • a control panel 27 allows the printer functions to be triggered by pressing a key.
  • the data memory 18 can either consist of a memory array 24 or of an insertable, non-volatile write-read memory card 25 which is inserted into the base frame 1 through a slot 26 in the area of the main board 2.
  • the read / write memory card 25 can be integrated in the main board 2.
  • the data entered is then temporarily stored in a RAM 31 via the program stored in an EPROM 30. After data compression (elimination of empty columns) in RAM 31, the data is reloaded into memory array 24.
  • Memory array 24 is designed for the multifunction printer to be two MB. An address space of 16 KB is physically available. With 16 KB / block and eight blocks / segment and with 16 segments / memory array, the two MB memory capacity results.
  • a segment is accessed via the CPU 29 when the memory array 24 is accessed selected via four segment lines 32, a segment decoder 33 (a binary decimal decoder) having four inputs and 16 outputs.
  • a segment decoder 33 a binary decimal decoder
  • a block selection is also made by three block selection lines 34 via the CPU 29. Then 16 KByte / block of address space are available.
  • the CUP 29 addresses an address in the area of the address space in the memory array 24 and as a result the CS decoder 35 generates an enable signal via an enable signal line 36 to the segment decoder 33.
  • the path to the memory array 24 is enabled by the enable signal.
  • the CS decoder 35 itself is monitored by a time monitor 37.
  • a Vcc monitor 38 monitors the operating voltage in the permissible range, e.g. at 5 V operating voltage the voltage must not fall below 4.75 V. If the value falls below 4.75 V (Vcc), all control lines are blocked. The control lines are released when 4.75 V is exceeded.
  • Control lines 34 from the CPU 29 are only switched through to the memory array 24 when the operating voltage is in the permissible range.
  • the feed controller 3 which can be used as a "master device", controls the data communication between the secondary controller 16, the interface 17 and the data memory 18 via the serial channel 28, the interface 17 having a write protection module 39 which is voltage-controlled.
  • the interface 17 contains a voltage source 40 which is independent of the power supply network and which can be switched on depending on the voltage.
  • the voltage source 40 which is independent of the network, supplies also the write protection module 39 and the memory array 24.
  • the CPU 29 has an analog input and monitors the voltage of the voltage source 40 via a monitoring line 41.
  • the data are read out from the memory array 24 as follows:
  • the segment decoder 33 is addressed, then a block selection of blocks 1 to 8 is made and the data read out are temporarily stored in the RAM 31 for data decompression (insertion of empty columns).
  • the CPU 29 then sends the data via the serial channel 28 to the feed controller 3, which controls one of the printing units (printing unit 6, form printing unit 15) in order to print out the data.
  • the secondary controller 16 and the data memory 18 are coupled to a common addressing and data bus 42.
  • the CPU of the feed controller 3 can also be connected to a host computer (not shown).

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EP19890250101 1988-12-16 1989-11-30 Imprimante à multiples fonctions avec dispositif d'impression de feuille de journal Ceased EP0373732A3 (fr)

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