EP0514181A1 - System zum Drucken von gemeinsamen und individuellen Daten auf einem Aufzeichnungsmaterial - Google Patents

System zum Drucken von gemeinsamen und individuellen Daten auf einem Aufzeichnungsmaterial Download PDF

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EP0514181A1
EP0514181A1 EP92304382A EP92304382A EP0514181A1 EP 0514181 A1 EP0514181 A1 EP 0514181A1 EP 92304382 A EP92304382 A EP 92304382A EP 92304382 A EP92304382 A EP 92304382A EP 0514181 A1 EP0514181 A1 EP 0514181A1
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Toshiyuki Nishijima
Hidehiko Inaba
Hajime Nishimura
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Dynic Corp
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D15/00—Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
    • B42D15/02—Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets

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  • the present invention relates to a printing system for printing data including common and individual items on a printing medium.
  • Character items printed on the visiting card may include the owner's personal name, name, address, telephone and facsimile numbers of a company or firm, the owner's position or post in the company or firm.
  • the printing system according to the present invention is particularly applicable to produce many kinds of visiting cards on which individual character items should be differently printed but which also contain items common to many possessors.
  • the most suitable application of the printing system of the present invention will be to produce at the same time visiting cards of substantially all of workers in the same company.
  • a printing system comprising printing common items on a printing medium by any printing method; inputting individual items to be printed on the printing medium with input means; and setting the individual items at predetermined blank areas on the printing medium with a printer of thermal transfer recording type in response to a print command signal from the input means.
  • the inputted individual items are preferably stored in the lump in a memory, which may be selectively or sequentially read out at any time to output the print command signal to the printer.
  • a print system embodying the invention employs a word processor or computer which includes a keyboard 2 for inputting data regarding individual character items which should be printed on a printing card of a given size and thickness.
  • Data inputted by operation of the keyboard 2 are transmitted to a control unit (CPU) 1 and may be stored therethrough in a random access memory (RAM) 3.
  • a display 4 is connected to CPU 1 to represent inputted and stored data.
  • ROM 5 which stores a layout program for suitable placement of the individual character items when printed in predetermined areas on the printing card by a printer of thermal transfer recording type 6 in response to a print command signal outputted from CPU 1.
  • the printer 6 is, by way of example, constructed as shown in Fig. 2.
  • a continuous ribbon 10 of thermal transfer ink having width corresponding to a shorter side of a printing card 24 is unwound from an ribbon supply roller 12 and travels at a predetermined speed toward a rewind roller 14 when the rollers 12 and 14 are rotated in the same direction shown.
  • Guide rollers 16, 18 and 20 are provided to assure proper plane of travel near a thermal head 22 which is movable in a direction normal to the plane of travel of the ribbon 10.
  • a stack of the printing cards 24 are stored in a stocker 28 detachably mounted within a box 26 fixed to the printer 6.
  • One of the printing cards 24 positioned in the lowermost of the stack is in a frictional contact with a supply roller 30 of the printer 6 which is intermittently rotated in a direction shown in synchronism with transmission of the print command signal.
  • the supply roller 30 is rotated, the lowermost positioned printing card 24 is supplied by a platen 35 from the stocker 28 on a plane of travel 34 which is slightly spaced apart from, and substantially in parallel with, the plane of travel of the ribbon 10 between the guide rollers 16 and 18.
  • the plane of travel of the printing card 24 is defined by guide roller pairs 36 and 38.
  • the thermal head 22 When the printing card 24 arrives at a position just below the thermal head 22, the thermal head 22 is moved down so that a solid thermal transfer ink previously applied to the ribbon 10 is melted by contact with the thermal head 22, which is substantially at the same time transferred to a surface of the printing card 24. Since the print command signal supplied to the printer 6 is regulated by the layout program stored in ROM 5, the individual character items are set on the card 24 in respectively predetermined areas. The card 24 on which the individual character items have been set is collected in a stocker 32.
  • the individual character items may be beautifully set on any kind of printing medium at a relatively low cost.
  • the individual character items may be set in a highly qualified form which is really equivalent to typographically or photographically printed characters.
  • Fig. 3 shows an example of layout of character items to be printed on a visiting card in accordance with the printing system of the invention.
  • a first area 40 for representing a logo or symbol mark identifying a company
  • a second area 42 for a name of the company
  • a third area 44 for address, telephone number and facsimile number of the company
  • a fourth area 46 for a personal name of an businessman or business woman in the company
  • a fifth area 48 for his or her position, post and title in the company.
  • the first to third areas are used to display the common character items and the fourth and fifth areas are allocated to set the individual character items.
  • the common character items are printed in the predetermined areas 40, 42 and 44 on the printing card 24 by any type of printer, particularly by an offset press, for example. It is possible that volumes of printing cards 24 for all employees are printed with the common character items at the same time.
  • the individual character items are inputted by the keyboard 2 and set by the thermal transfer printer 6 in the areas 46 and 48 on the printing cards 24 which has been printed with the common character items by the offset press.
  • the individual character items are peculiar to each employee even in the same company.
  • the individual character items for many employees are stored in RAM 3, which are automatically and sequentially read out therefrom to be set on the card 24, so that the visiting cards for many employees may be produced at one time.

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EP92304382A 1991-05-14 1992-05-14 System zum Drucken von gemeinsamen und individuellen Daten auf einem Aufzeichnungsmaterial Withdrawn EP0514181A1 (de)

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Citations (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2073661A (en) * 1980-04-11 1981-10-21 Transaction Technology Inc Apparatus and method for personalizing checks
EP0195104A1 (de) * 1985-03-20 1986-09-24 Skidata Computerhandelsgesellschaft M.B.H. Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Berechtigungskarte mit einer den Karteninhaber identifizierenden Abbildung
WO1990000979A1 (en) * 1988-07-19 1990-02-08 Data B S.R.L. System whereby any bank branch office can itself produce personalized current account cheque books
EP0364730A2 (de) * 1988-10-21 1990-04-25 GAO Gesellschaft für Automation und Organisation mbH Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen eines Identifikationsdokuments in Buchform

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2073661A (en) * 1980-04-11 1981-10-21 Transaction Technology Inc Apparatus and method for personalizing checks
EP0195104A1 (de) * 1985-03-20 1986-09-24 Skidata Computerhandelsgesellschaft M.B.H. Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Berechtigungskarte mit einer den Karteninhaber identifizierenden Abbildung
WO1990000979A1 (en) * 1988-07-19 1990-02-08 Data B S.R.L. System whereby any bank branch office can itself produce personalized current account cheque books
EP0364730A2 (de) * 1988-10-21 1990-04-25 GAO Gesellschaft für Automation und Organisation mbH Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen eines Identifikationsdokuments in Buchform

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