JPH0220954A - Facsimile - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently execute transmission to plural kinds of different printing sheets by installing plural printing sheet trays, selecting printing sheet tray selecting information by a read mechanism of a transmission side facsimile or a key input, transmitting it to a reception side facsimile and designating a printing sheet. CONSTITUTION:When a facsimile of a sending destination is a kind of a machine which can select a printing sheet tray, printing sheet tray selecting information which a reception side facsimile has obtained in advance through a printing sheet tray selecting information read mechanism 2 is transmitted to the reception side facsimile, and the reception side facsimile advances a printing sheet to a prescribed position of a print base 12 by selecting one from among a tray A3, a tray B4 and a tray C5, and rotating rotary rollers 6, 7 and 8 of the selected tray. In parallel with this operation, at the transmission side facsimile, an original sheet is advanced to a prescribed position along an original sheet feeding guide 15 by rotating an original sheet feeding rotary roller 13 and an original sheet feeding auxiliary roller 14. In such a way, printing can be executed continuously on different kinds of printing sheets.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a plain paper facsimile machine that uses cut paper, and in particular has a function of having a plurality of trays for storing paper to be printed, and selecting a tray to print from among them. The present invention relates to a plain paper facsimile machine having a plain paper facsimile machine.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in plain paper facsimiles, only one tray for storing paper to be printed can be set, and therefore, in the conventional plain paper facsimile mentioned above, only one paper tray can be set at the same time. Therefore, when printing on multiple types of print paper, it was necessary to change the paper stored in the tray or to switch to another paper tray containing the desired paper. Therefore, especially when printing on different types of print paper continuously, there is a drawback that it takes time and effort to change the paper or replace the tray each time.

[Means to solve the problem]

The plain paper facsimile of the present invention has at least a plurality of print paper trays, information input means for selecting a print paper tray, and means for selecting based on print paper tray selection information. It has means for transmitting and receiving.

The information input means for selecting a print paper tray is a group of keys or a mechanism that reads print paper tray selection information written at a specific position on the transmitted document.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of the mechanism of Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

In this embodiment, a facsimile machine having a mechanism for reading print paper selection information written at a specific position on a transmission document will be described.

Place the original paper on the sending facsimile's original paper tray 1.
At the same time, it connects the line to the destination, and communicates the specified information such as communication mode through the line, and also determines the model of the destination facsimile, and if the destination facsimile is a model that can select the print paper tray, the receiving side The facsimile transmits the print paper tray selection information obtained in advance through the print paper tray selection information reading mechanism 2 to the receiving facsimile, and the receiving facsimile receives the print paper tray selection information from tray A3. Tray B4.
By selecting one of the trays C5 and rotating the rotating roller of the selected tray (one of the tray A rotating roller 6, tray B rotating roller 7, and tray C rotating roller 8), the print paper is fed. The print paper is moved along the guide 9 into contact with the print paper feed rotation roller 10 and the print paper feed rotation roller 10, rotates in the opposite direction by the rotation of the rotation roller 10, and is sent between the print paper feed auxiliary rollers 11 that feed the paper. , the print paper feed rotation roller 10 is rotated to transfer the print paper to the print table 12.
advance to the specified position. In addition, in parallel with the above operation, in the sending facsimile machine, the document sheet is advanced to a predetermined position along the document sheet feed guide 15 by the rotation of the document sheet feed rotary roller 13 DEG and the document sheet feed auxiliary roller 14 .

The rest of the process is the same as in conventional facsimile machines, and in the sending facsimile, the document information reading mechanism 17 reads the information on the document paper while feeding the document paper by rotating the document paper feed rotary roller 13 and the document paper discharge rotary roller 16. , transmits the information over the line to the receiving facsimile. The original paper ejection auxiliary roller 18 is
The original paper is inserted between the original paper ejection rotary roller 16 and the original paper is sent out. In the receiving facsimile machine, the print paper is advanced by rotating the print paper feed rotary roller 10 degrees and the print paper ejection rotary roller 19, and the received information is printed by the printing mechanism 20. The print paper discharge auxiliary roller 21 is in contact with the print paper discharge rotation roller 19, rotates in the opposite direction to the rotation of the print paper rotation roller 19, and advances the print paper.

The print paper guide fixed shafts 22 and 23 are fixed shafts for smoothly feeding the print paper.

The original whose information has been read is placed on the ejected original tray 24.
The printed paper is discharged to the printed paper tray 25.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a tenth embodiment of the present invention. The overall configuration consists of a control circuit 26 that controls the operation of each block.
．． Key group 272 for entering telephone numbers and selecting functions necessary for sending and receiving Display circuit 28 Communication circuit 29 for sending and receiving
In addition to the common parts of , transmission and
It is roughly divided into a reading function section and a receiving/printing function section that performs the processing necessary for reception.

An overview of the operation is shown below.

In the case of transmission, the number of the destination facsimile is input using the key group 27, and the control circuit 26 connects the line to the destination facsimile through the communication circuit 29.

Information such as the model of the receiving facsimile is sent from the other party to the communication circuit 29. It is stored in the reception buffer memory 30 through the reception controller 28, and the control circuit 26 makes a determination. If the receiving facsimile is a model that can select a print paper tray, the print paper tray selection information reading mechanism 31 transmits the print paper tray selection information to the transmission controller 33. through the communication circuit 29 to the receiving facsimile. The receiving facsimile transmits the print paper tray selection information to the communication circuit 29. accessing the tray rotating roller drive unit 34 by the control circuit 26 via the receiving controller 28;
Rotate the rotating roller (6, 7 or 8 in FIG. 1) of the selected tray and set the print paper. At the same time, in the sending facsimile, the control circuit 26
accesses the original paper feed rotary roller/original paper discharge rotary roller driving section 35, and sets the original by rotating the rotary roller.

Thereafter, in the sending facsimile, the control circuit 26 accesses the original paper feed rotation roller and the original paper ejection rotation roller driving section 35, and while feeding the original paper, the information read by the original information reading mechanism 36 is temporarily stored in the transmission buffer memory 32. The data is stored and transmitted to the receiving facsimile by the communication circuit 29 through the transmission controller 33. In the receiving facsimile machine, the control circuit 26 stores the information sent via the communication circuit 29 in the receiving buffer memory 30 through the receiving controller 28, and accesses the print paper feed rotation roller print paper ejection rotation roller drive unit 37. , the received information is printed by the printing mechanism 38 while feeding the print paper.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a mechanism according to a second embodiment of the present invention, in which print paper tray selection information is specified manually using keys, and a functional block diagram thereof is shown in FIG. In this example, the printer does not have a print paper tray selection information reading mechanism, and the print paper tray is selected using the print paper tray information designation key group 39 and transmitted through the transmission controller 331 communication circuit 29 under the control of the control circuit 26. Sends print paper tray selection information to the receiving facsimile machine.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention installs a plurality of print paper trays in a facsimile machine, selects print paper tray selection information using the reading mechanism of the sending facsimile machine or manually selects the print paper trays, and sends the information to the receiving facsimile machine to specify the print paper. This has the effect of efficiently transmitting information to a plurality of types of print paper having different sizes, patterns, etc.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the mechanism of the first embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a functional block diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the mechanism of the second embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the mechanism of the second embodiment. It is a functional block diagram. 1... Original paper tray, 2... Print paper tray selection information reading mechanism, 3... Tray A
, 4...Tray B, 5...Tray C,
6...Tray A rotating roller, 7...Tray 48 rotating roller, 8...Tray C rotating roller, 9...Print paper feed guide, 10...・
...Print paper feed rotating roller, 11...
Print paper feed auxiliary roller, 12...Print stand, 13...Document paper feed rotation roller, 14
...Manuscript paper feed auxiliary roller, 15...
・Document paper feed guide, 16...Document paper discharge rotation roller, 17...Document information reading mechanism, 18
...Manuscript paper ejection auxiliary roller, 19...
・Print paper ejection rotating roller, 20...printing mechanism, 21...print paper ejection auxiliary roller,
22.23...Print paper guide fixed shaft, 2
4... Ejected document tray, 25... Printed paper tray, 26... Control circuit, 27...
...Key group, 28...Display circuit, 29...
... Communication circuit, 30 ... Reception buffer memory, 31 ... Print paper tray selection information reading mechanism, 32 ... Transmission buffer memory, 33 ...
...Transmission controller, 34...Tray rotation roller drive unit, 35...Document paper feed rotation roller/document paper discharge rotation roller drive unit, 36...
Document information reading mechanism, 37...Print paper feed rotation roller/print paper discharge rotation roller drive unit, 38
. . . Printing mechanism, 39 . . . Print paper tray information designation key group.

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) A facsimile machine that has multiple print paper trays and a mechanism for selecting the paper tray for printing. (2) Print paper tray selection information of the receiving facsimile is transmitted from the sending facsimile to the receiving facsimile, and the receiving side automatically selects the print paper tray based on the signal. facsimile as described in section. (3) The plain paper facsimile machine according to claim 1, further comprising a key group for inputting print paper tray selection information. (4) The plain paper facsimile according to claim 1, further comprising a mechanism for reading print paper tray selection information written on a transmission document.