JPH0482762A - Financial note/other than financial note medium determination processor and medium for other than financial note - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To discriminate a medium for financial note and a medium for other than financial by a method wherein by using a detection sensor to notify that a medium is taken in a carrying passage, a drilled hole is provided at a specified position of a medium for other than financial note, and it is monitored at the time of printing carrying. CONSTITUTION:The condition of a medium taken in a carrying passage 31 is monitored by a detecting means Sa arranged in the vicinity of the carrying passage 1. The sensor Sa notifies that a medium is assuredly taken in the carrying passage 31 by detecting the leading end/rear end of the medium, and at the same time, by using the sensor Sa, a medium for financial note or medium for other than financial note is discriminated. The sensor Sa is a permeable type sensor, and when a medium passes by the sensor, output of the sensor changes from a bright condition to a dark condition. That is, it is discriminated by using timing of a transmitted light through a drilled hole which is provided on a pasting allowance of a medium for other than financial note.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention is a method for continuously forming a medium for a cash voucher such as a check or a promissory note, and a cover, inner paper, backing paper, etc. having the same shape and dimensions as the medium for the cash voucher. The present invention relates to a cash voucher printer that prints information corresponding to each medium by transporting the media, and to media for use other than cash vouchers that are provided with marks for identification in order to identify the media for use other than cash vouchers.

(Conventional technology) In financial institutions and general companies, checks, promissory notes, etc.
When issuing a special cash voucher (cheque, etc.), a special cash voucher medium such as a check is combined with non-voucher media of the cover, inner paper and backing paper, which have the same shape and dimensions as the cash voucher medium, and are arranged in a bundle. I am using the one that I made. Then, the check or the like is printed using a printing device such as that disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 61-66668.

In the conventional printing device, in order to print information such as the sender, recipient, amount, etc., predetermined characters are recorded using a paper feed section that accommodates the medium and feeds the medium one by one, and magnetic ink. A printing device, a so-called cash voucher printer, is configured in which a matrix printing section, a wire dot printer section, and a checklight printing section are sequentially arranged along one conveyance path.

In the above-mentioned cash voucher printer, for a medium that is moved along a reference line of a conveyance path with one edge regulated,
The printer is configured so that necessary information such as checks can be printed continuously based on information from a host device such as a computer.

Among the printing media used in such cash voucher printers, the cash voucher medium 5 of the check tongue, which becomes a cash voucher after issuance, is the sixth
As shown in Figure (a), there is an amount printing section 6 near the center of the medium 5, and a matrix printing section (referred to as an M I CR printing section) 7 that performs a series of printing in a predetermined form using magnetic ink. is provided at the bottom, and around the amount printing part 6, the recipient,
A section is provided for writing specific information about the drawer and his/her sender.

Usually, the MICR printing part is written by the bank, and the issuing bank, branch name, drawer, and other information are written in a special font using magnetic ink. Is displayed. In addition, other descriptions are to be written by the issuer.

As shown in FIG. 7, the printing medium is composed of a set of checkbooks in the form of a bundle in the following order: (Cover page - Inner paper for multiple voucher media - Media for multiple vouchers - Back paper). One set is treated as a group, and the ticket printer sequentially receives data from the host device and prints and conveys the data. In addition, in the above-mentioned cash voucher printer, not only the media for the cash voucher but also the cover 2
A, the inner paper 2b, and the backing paper 2c, which are the media 2 for use outside the coupon, are mixed and printed under the same conditions as the media for the coupon.

By the way, media for cash vouchers such as checks, which are large in number, and the cover, inner paper, and back paper, which are media for non-gift certificates and have only three sheets in one set, have different printing formats, so it is difficult to determine whether they are media for cash vouchers or non-gift vouchers. It is necessary to identify the

Therefore, in the past, a black mark 8 was placed on a part of the medium as shown in FIG. 6(b), and a detection sensor was installed near the paper feed section to identify the black mark 8 as shown in FIG. Was.

Next, a conventional coupon medium and its discriminating means will be explained with reference to FIG. 6(b) and FIG. 8.

FIG. 6(b) is an example of a cover which is a medium for use outside of cash vouchers.The title and bank name are printed on the front surface, and a black mark 8 is also printed at a predetermined position. This black mark is the middle paper,
It is also printed on the backing paper at the same location to correspond to the detection hole 12 provided near the feeding section of the tray.

Next, in FIG. 8, a print medium 13 is placed on the tray 11 of the paper feed section 10, and a reflective sensor 14 is attached near this with a space gap t between the print medium 13 and the print medium 13. The reflective sensor 14 is composed of a light emitting diode 15 and a phototransistor 16.

Then, the aforementioned black mark is irradiated with light from the light emitting diode 15 to monitor the presence or absence of the mark, and the reflected light enters the phototransistor 16 and is transmitted to the waveform shaping circuit 18.
The waveform is shaped by the logic 111, and either I+ or O'' is output, and the information of the medium for coupons/not for coupons is input to the discrimination circuit of the control section.Then, based on the result determined by the control means, a predetermined printing process is performed. I do.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) In the method for reading the medium for cash vouchers/non-cash vouchers configured as described above, depending on the paper quality of the medium used and the accuracy of the parts, the reflective sensor and the black on the medium for non-voucher Management, ie, adjustment, of marks and gaps t requires precision, and the waveform shaping circuit also requires an amplifier circuit and an adjustment circuit.

In addition, there are also problems such as the need for space to attach the reflective sensor to the paper feed section of the printing device, and the number of component parts of the device is high, resulting in high cost.

Furthermore, adding a black mark to a predetermined position on the cover, regardless of the inner paper or backing paper, has the problem of impairing the aesthetic appearance and design of the assembled finished product, such as a check.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The device of the present invention receives printing data from a higher-level device, and prints a plurality of coupon media such as checks, a cover, inner paper, and backing paper having the same shape and dimensions as the coupon media. The present invention relates to a cash voucher printer in which these printing media are combined with media for cash vouchers and arranged in a bundle, and these printing media are conveyed one by one by a conveyance means and printed by a plurality of printing means.

In the apparatus of the present invention, the means for detecting the leading edge/trailing edge of the printing medium provided in the printing medium conveying section and the means for detecting the leading edge/trailing edge of the printing medium are used to A means for detecting the detected part provided in advance in the holder, and a means for determining the medium for use outside of cash vouchers based on the information of the detection means are provided, and according to the result of the determination, printing and printing of the medium for use on cash notes/non-receipts are performed. It is configured to carry out transportation.

Further, the detected portion provided in the medium for external use of cash notes used in the printing device of the present invention is configured by providing a perforation in the margin portion.

As described above, in the printing device of the present invention, since the medium length determining means is used to determine whether the medium is for use in non-gift notes, it is not possible to independently determine the medium for use in non-cash notes, unlike conventional devices. There is no need to provide a separate detection means, and the medium for coupons/not for coupons can be automatically determined during the print conveyance process.

In addition, since the perforation, which is the part to be detected, is provided in the margin of the medium for external use of cash notes, even in a finished product in which a predetermined number of checks or promissory notes are made and bound into a booklet, the appearance will be slightly different.
The design does not detract from the aesthetics.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a plan view of a coupon printer to which the present invention is applied. The voucher printer 20 is connected to a higher-level device such as a host computer, and each mechanism is operated according to print information from the higher-level device, and includes a paper feed section 21, a matrix printing section (MICR printing section) 30, A printer section 40 and a check light printing section 50 are arranged.

In the cash voucher printer 20, the paper feed unit 21 is provided with a hopper 22 that accommodates printing media for checks on which a predetermined form is printed in advance, that is, media for cash vouchers/non-gift vouchers that are aligned. A pressing member 23 that presses the medium is arranged on the paper feeding side. A paper feeding roller 25 and a paper sorting device f26 are arranged in the paper feeding portion from the hopper 22, and these means perform a paper sorting action, and the M
The media are sent out one by one to the conveyance path 31 of the ICR printing section 30. The state of the medium taken into the transport path 31 is monitored by the detection means Sa arranged near the transport path 31.

The sensor Sa notifies that the medium has been reliably taken into the conveyance path 31 by detecting the leading edge/back edge of the medium. This sensor Sa plays an important role in the present invention. That is, in the conventional device, this sensor Sa simply notifies that the medium has been taken into the conveyance path 31 by detecting the leading edge/trailing edge, but in the present invention, as will be described later, the sensor Sa 3a is used to determine whether the medium is for cash vouchers or for non-gift vouchers. Conveyance path 3
1 is further transported to the right in the figure by the transport row 532.

In the MICR printing unit 30, a middle ring 35 and a hammer 36 are arranged in opposing positions with the conveyance path 31 in between, and a ribbon tape 37 coated with magnetic ink is placed on the printing surface of the middle ring 35. It is located. This ribbon tape 37 uses an ink ribbon called a one-time ribbon, and is fed out from a feeding section 38 toward a winding section 39, and during its movement, printing is performed on the medium using the inner ring 35 and magnetic ink. be exposed.

The printer unit 40 connected to the MICR printing unit 30 is configured as a mechanism for performing normal printing, and when the printing on the medium is completed, the medium is taken into the conveyance path 41 by the transverse feeding roller 42, and the medium is transferred to the wire dot. The print head 46 prints predetermined information on the surface of the medium via the ink ribbon in the ink ribbon cassette 45 .

Thereafter, the medium is further conveyed to a checklight printing section 50 connected to the printer section 40, where an inscription printing device 55 prints inscriptions to complete the check. The check light printing section 50 is connected to a conveyance path 5 linearly connected to the conveyance path 41 of the printer section 40.
1, a conveying row 552, a middle wheel 57 for printing inscribed characters, a hammer 56, and the like.

Then, the completed check medium is stored in the stacker section 60.
The paper is transported by the transport device 61 toward the discharge tray 62 of. This conveyance device 61 is composed of a belt device disposed on the outside of the curved path and a roller device disposed on the inside, and conveys the medium with the conveyance direction changed at right angles, and discharges the medium onto the discharge tray 62. I try to let them do it. In addition,
A sensor S1 is installed on the transport path of each device arranged linearly.
-S5 are arranged, and each sensor monitors the conveyance state of the medium in the conveyance path, and operates each printing means and the like.

FIG. 2 is a control block diagram of the coupon printer 20 in FIG. 1. The control device 70 of the cash voucher printer 20 can be roughly divided into a main control section 71 that controls and controls the entire printer, a MICR printing section printing semi-control means 80, and a printer section control section that performs ear dot printing and check light printing. It consists of 90.

In FIG. 2, the main control unit 71 receives a data signal from a higher-level device that is a host, determines the content of the data, analyzes it, and transfers it to the MICRIC side control unit 81 and printer control unit 91.

The MICRIC side control unit 81 controls the MICR according to the transferred data.
Section printing medium conveyance mechanism 83, MICR section type selection machine 1#1
84, controls the operation of the hammer drive mechanism 85 and the one-time ribbon feed mechanism 86;

The detection sensor 87 is the Sa or S1 sensor in FIG. 1, and monitors the medium passing through the MICR printing section.
Notification is made to the CRIC side control section 81.

The MICRIC side controller 81 notifies the main controller 71 as well as the printer controller 18Ii91. The printer control unit 91 also determines whether wire dot printing or carved character printing is to be performed based on data transferred from other control units, and controls the printer unit print medium conveyance mechanism 93, wire dot head printing mechanism 94, ribbon feed mechanism 95, and the like, respectively. The operations of the cutting character middle ring selection mechanism 96 and the carved character printing hammer mechanism 97 are performed 1i11111.

The detection sensor 98 uses the sensors S2 and S3 shown in FIG. 1, and monitors the conveyance state of the medium passing through the printer section.
main control unit 71 via printer control I control unit 91.
to be notified. The memory 73 consists of a program ROM and a data storage RAM.

Further, the operation display section 74 is composed of operation keys, display lamps, and the like.

The main control unit 71, the MICRIC side control unit 81, and the printer control unit 91 each have a determination unit CPtJ72.
82.92, and similarly to the CPU, it is composed of peripheral circuits such as ROM and RAM (not shown).

FIG. 3 shows a medium for external use of cash notes used in the present invention. The above figure 3 represents the cover 2 of the checkbook.
A perforation 9 having a predetermined hole diameter is provided near the left end which becomes the margin 3 when cash notes such as checks are bound together and bound into a booklet. In addition, in the case shown in FIG. 7, the inner paper and the back paper, which are media for use outside of the coupon, similar to the cover 2a, can also be provided with perforations 9 at the same positions, thereby making it possible to identify the media for the coupon. It is possible to

Next, the medium for external use of cash vouchers as shown in Fig. 3 and the medium for external use of coupons as shown in Fig. 6 (
How the coupon medium in a) is determined will be explained using the flowcharts of FIGS. 4 and 5 (hereinafter referred to as "flow").

The main control unit 71 in FIG. 2 receives data D from a higher-level device such as a host computer, and upon determining that this is print data, transfers the signal to the MICR print control unit 81. This starts the flow of FIG. 4.

Therefore, the control shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 is performed by the MICR printing control section 81.
This is carried out according to a program set in the CPU 82 of.

In FIG. 4, the CPU 82 analyzes the print data based on the transferred data (A-1), and determines whether the printing process is to be performed on a medium for coupons or a medium for other than coupons. The transfer data is as added to step A1, and a code 9 is added to the margin 3 at the end of the print data to indicate the distinction between the processing of the medium for coupons and for other than coupons. This code is a hexadecimal number, and for example, if it is a 3E code, it is a media process for coupons, and if it is a 3F code, it is a media process for other than coupons. Knowing this in advance, the CPLI 82 performs conveyance and printing processing (A-2). During the conveyance in step A-2, a determination is made as to whether the medium is for gift certificates or for non-gift certificates, and this will be explained in detail in the flowchart of FIG. 5. The reason why not only the conveyance process but also the printing process is performed is to shorten the processing FR interval and shorten the conveyance distance. If the conveyance distance is long, it is only necessary to perform only conveyance, determine the type of medium, and perform printing after determining the type of medium and matching the process. However, doing so takes longer processing time, increases the length of the device, and increases costs, so it is determined whether the media match after conveyance and printing processing are performed. For the above reasons, it is necessary to determine the type of medium (A3). Next, a judgment process is entered, and it is judged whether or not it is a coupon medium process (A-4). Step A-
In step 2, since the presence or absence of perforations in the medium is stored, if the medium is to be processed for coupons, it is determined whether or not the medium has perforations (A-5). In step A-5, if it is determined that there is no perforation, the process ends normally, and if there is perforation, an error occurs. Returning to step A-4, if the original processing is a medium for use other than a cash voucher, the process proceeds to step A-6, where it is determined whether or not the medium has perforations. In this step A-6, if it is determined that there is a perforation in the medium, the process ends normally, and if there is no perforation, an error occurs. This data for determining whether it is normal or an error is reported to the main control unit 71 one by one. If there is an error, the main control section 71 displays it on the display lamp of the operation display section 74 to notify the operator.

Next, based on the flowchart shown in FIG. 5, the control for determining whether the medium is a gift certificate medium or a non-value certificate medium will be explained. When the coupon medium/non-ticket medium including the medium shown in FIG. 3 described above is conveyed from the paper feed section 21, the sensor Sa starts detecting the medium. This sensor Sa uses a transmissive sensor instead of a reflective sensor, and when the medium is applied to the sensor, the output of the sensor changes from a bright state to a dark state.

Due to this change from bright to dark, the amount of conveyance of the medium is counted, with the amount of melt water being conveyed as one pitch.

This is counted by the feed base of the motor (not shown) included in the MICR print medium transport 14883 in FIG. 2, that is, the number of feed steps.

In step B-1 of the flowchart of FIG. 5, the medium is detected and the sensor changes to a dark state, so the process advances to B-7. In step B-7, if no perforation of the medium is detected, the end detected FLAG is also turned ON (if B-8> is not set, the process returns to step B-1 (RET).

This step is repeated many times to detect perforations or the end of the media. Each time the medium is conveyed, the number of feeding steps in the sensor bright state is counted, and the number of feeding steps is incremented by 1 (B-2). Next, it is determined whether the termination has been detected (B-3). Then, as the sensor changes from dark to bright, the end detection *FLAG is turned on (B-4).
Returning to step B-1, conveyance continues, and from B-3 to 8
-Proceed to 4. When the trigger AG is turned on, that is, when the bright state of the sensor is detected even once, the medium-out counter number is checked. If the count number is 29 or more, it is determined that the medium is a coupon medium without perforations, and the medium is terminated (B-6).
and returns to normal.

However, if the counted number is 29 or less, the process returns from step B-5 to B-1. If it is a perforation, the sensor will go from bright to dark again eventually, so step B
The process proceeds to step B-7, but if it is not yet recognized as a perforation, the process proceeds to step B-8.

Here, in step 8-4 above, the end detected FLAG
is ON, the process advances to B-9, and the count number of the no-medium counter is checked. Here the count number is 3
.about.28, it is regarded as a puncture and the process proceeds to step B-10, where the medium-out counter is initialized and the process returns. A count of 3 to 28 means that the diameter of the hole is approximately 1 mm.
This corresponds to ~9 mm, and only when this is met is it determined to be perforation.

As described above, in the MICR printing section, the medium for coupons/not for coupons is discriminated by the detection means and the CPU, and the medium is conveyed to the printer section with an adjacent conveyance path, where printing processing is performed.

As described above, the media for cash vouchers and media for non-gift vouchers are identified, each print process is performed, they are stored in the stacker section, the cover, inner paper, and back paper are glued together, and bound into a booklet. be converted into In this state, the perforations are hidden and cannot be seen from the surface.

In the detailed description of the present invention, the detection means and the discrimination means are provided in the MICR printing section, but depending on the configuration of the voucher printer, the medium detection means may be provided in another printer section. good.

(Effects of the Invention) According to the present invention described above, a detection sensor that conventionally only notified that a medium has been taken into a conveyance path is used, and a perforation is provided at a predetermined position of the medium for use other than cash notes. This can be monitored during printing and conveyance, and it is possible to distinguish between a medium for a cash voucher and a medium for a non-cash voucher.

Further, in the printing device of the present invention, there is no need to have a detection means for independently determining the medium for use other than cash notes, so it is possible to significantly reduce costs.

Furthermore, since the perforations as detection means provided in the medium are provided in the margin of the medium for use outside of cash notes, even in a finished product in which a predetermined number of checks, promissory notes, etc. are bound into a booklet, the appearance of the perforation is This has the great effect of not compromising the aesthetics of the design.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a cash voucher printer to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a control block diagram of the cash voucher printer in FIG. FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of the process for determining whether the medium is for a gift certificate or a medium for use outside of the gift certificate; FIG. A diagram showing an example of the medium for coupons, FIG. 6(b)
) is a diagram showing an example of conventional media for use outside of coupons, especially the cover; Figure 7 is a diagram showing a set of arranged media for coupons/external use for coupons; Figure 8 is a diagram showing conventional media for use in coupons/external use for coupons. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of processing means. Reference numerals in the figure 1... Check book, 2... Medium for cash vouchers, 2 a-cover, 3... Gluing margin, 5... Medium for cash vouchers, 9...
Perforation, 20... Voucher printer, 21... Paper feed section, 3
0... MICR printing section, 40... Printer section, 50
... Check light printing section, 60... Stacker section,
70...Control device, 71...Main control section, 81...
MICR print control unit, 82...CPU (discrimination means)
, 83... MICR section print medium transport mechanism, 91...
Printer control unit, D...print data, 5a-81 to S
5...Detection sensor. Figure 6 ((L) (b) Shisou lδ

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A printing medium, which is a combination of multiple coupon media such as checks, and media for non-coupon use such as a cover, inner paper, and backing paper having the same shape and dimensions as the coupon media, is conveyed one by one by a conveying means. , in a cash voucher printer that performs printing processing using a plurality of printing means based on print data output from a control device, means for detecting the leading edge/trailing edge of the printing medium provided in the printing medium conveying section; a means for detecting a detected portion provided in advance on a medium for non-cash notes using a means for detecting a leading edge/a trailing edge of the print medium; and a discriminating means for identifying a medium for non-cash notes based on information from the detection means. What is claimed is: 1. A device for discriminating a medium for cash vouchers/for non-cash vouchers, characterized in that the medium for cash vouchers/for non-cash vouchers is printed and conveyed according to the determination result. (2) The detected part formed on the medium for external use of cash vouchers is provided as a perforation in the adhesive area of the medium, and the detected part formed by the perforation is provided at a position corresponding to the detection means of the cash voucher printer. Characteristic claim 1
Media for external use of cash notes used in the device described in Section 1.