JP2005280046A - RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To print necessary information simply by inserting an image recording sheet into a printer.
In a magnetic stripe, recording target specifying information for specifying recording target information such as a URL and a file path is stored, and a CPU is provided via a magnetic head and a storage medium read / write control unit. Thus, the recording target specifying information is read from the magnetic stripe. Thereby, the CPU 50 controls the recording unit including the recording head 12, the print control unit 55, the motor unit 56, and the motor control unit 57 to record the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information on the image recording paper.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a recording apparatus, a control method for the recording apparatus, a control program, and a recording medium, and more particularly to a recording apparatus provided with a reading device that reads stored information from a storage medium, a control method for the recording apparatus, a control program, and a recording medium.

Conventionally, a so-called passbook type dot impact printer is known (for example, see Patent Document 1).
This passbook type dot impact printer records magnetic information on a magnetic recording medium (for example, magnetic stripe) provided on an image recording medium (for example, image recording paper such as a passbook) by a magnetic head, or reproduces magnetic information. It has a magnetic recording / reproducing device.
The recording head projects the recording wire to strike the ink ribbon on the image recording medium to transfer the ink, thereby recording an image including characters and the like.

More specifically, the recording head is provided at a position facing the platen located between the front roller and the rear roller.
At this time, the rear roller side of the recording head is provided with a side-by-side paper detection sensor, and on the rear roller side, the front end portion extends to the recording head side, and the front end of the image recording paper that has passed through the recording head is guided to the rear roller. It is comprised with the guide member to do.
Such passbook type dot impact printers are mainly used in financial institutions and the like, and can record images not only on passbooks but also on single sheets and copy sheets.
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By the way, in the conventional dot impact printer, the magnetic information recorded on the magnetic recording medium is only used for recording customer information, and the object to be recorded on the image recording paper is the dot impact printer. It has been instructed by an external control device (for example, a personal computer or a server) to be controlled.
Therefore, it has been impossible to instruct a dot impact printer to record using a magnetic recording medium.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a recording apparatus, a recording apparatus control method, a control program, and a recording medium that can print necessary information by simply inserting an image recording sheet into a printer.

In order to solve the above-described problem, in a recording apparatus that records on a recording sheet having a storage medium, the storage medium stores recording target specifying information for specifying recording target information, and the storage medium stores the recording target specifying information. A reading unit for reading recording target specifying information; a recording unit for recording on the recording paper; a control unit for controlling the recording unit to record the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information on the recording paper; It is characterized by having.
According to the above configuration, the reading unit reads the recording target specifying information from the storage medium.
Accordingly, the control unit controls the recording unit to record the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information on the recording sheet.

In this case, the control unit is configured to request, based on the read recording target specifying information, the corresponding recording target information to an external device via a communication network, and the external request via the communication network. An information receiving unit that receives the recording target information from an apparatus.
The recording target specifying information may include a URL or a file path.
Furthermore, the storage medium may be a magnetic stripe, and the reading unit may be configured as a magnetic reader having a magnetic head.
Furthermore, the storage medium may be a two-dimensional bar code or an IC chip, and the reading unit may be configured as a bar code reader or an IC chip reader.

Further, in a control method of a recording apparatus that includes a recording unit and performs recording on a recording sheet having a storage medium, the storage medium stores recording target specifying information for specifying recording target information, and the storage A reading process of reading the recording target specifying information from a medium; and a recording process of controlling the recording unit to record the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information on the recording sheet. Yes.
Further, a control program for controlling a recording device that performs recording on a recording sheet having a storage medium by a computer stores recording target specifying information for specifying recording target information, and The recording target specifying information is read from a storage medium, and the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information is recorded on the recording paper.

In this case, based on the read recording target specifying information, the corresponding recording target information is requested to an external device via a communication network, and the recording target information is received from the external device via the communication network. You may make it receive.
It is also possible to record each control program on a computer-readable recording medium.

  According to the present invention, necessary information can be printed simply by inserting an image recording sheet into a printer.

Next, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a print system according to an embodiment.
The printing system 1 is connected to the personal computer 2, the printer 10 connected to the personal computer 2 via the LAN 3, the communication network 4 such as the Internet connected to the personal computer 2 via the LAN 3, and the communication network 4. Web server 5.
Connected to the personal computer 2 is a database 6 in which files containing various data are stored.

FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view showing a dot impact printer having a magnetic recording / reproducing apparatus. FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing the printer of FIG.
The printer 10 records dots by hitting a large number of recording wires of the recording head 12 (see FIG. 2) onto an image recording sheet via an ink ribbon (not shown), thereby recording an image including characters. This is a book-type dot impact printer.
Further, the printer 10 is integrally equipped with a magnetic recording / reproducing device 11. The image recording paper is usually a passbook, copy paper, single sheet, etc., used in financial institutions, etc., and magnetic recording / reproduction on a magnetic stripe as a recording medium attached or printed on these image recording papers The device 11 records magnetic information or reads and reproduces the recorded magnetic information.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the printer 10 includes a main body frame including a left side frame 13, a right side frame 14, and a base frame, a carriage 15, a recording head 12, a conveying device (front roller and rear roller), a magnetic device. The recording / reproducing apparatus 11 and a control board unit as a control apparatus are configured.
As shown in FIG. 3, the transport device includes a front roller FR and a rear roller RR. The front roller FR is composed of a pair of upper and lower drive rollers 17A and a driven roller 18A. The rear roller RR is similarly composed of a pair of upper and lower drive rollers 17B and a driven roller 18B.
The front roller FR and the rear roller RR are arranged as a set on the upstream side and the downstream side of the recording head 12, and these two sets of driving roller 17 and driven roller 18 sandwich the recording sheet placed on the conveyance guide 19. Then, the recording paper or the like is conveyed in the sub-scanning direction (arrow A direction). Note that the driven roller 18 may be a driving roller in the same manner as the driving roller 17.

On the driven roller 18B side of the rear roller RR, a leading end portion 29A extends to the recording head 12 side and guides the leading end of the recording paper including the passbook and copy paper that has passed through the recording head 12 to the rear roller RR. Is provided.
The carriage 15 has the recording head 12 mounted thereon, and travels the recording head 12 rightward or leftward in the main scanning direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the arrow A, along the platen 49. This main scanning direction is a direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction (sub-scanning direction) of image recording paper or the like by the conveyance device.
The platen 49 is elastically supported by an urging spring (not shown) so as to be movable in a direction in which the platen 49 is in contact with and away from the recording head 12. As a result, even when image recording papers having different thicknesses are conveyed between the recording head 12 and the platen 49, the platen 49 moves in a direction away from the recording head 12 in the thickness direction of a passbook or the like. A constant platen gap is ensured between the head 12 and the surface (printing surface) of the recording paper or the like.

  The recording head 12 includes a large number of recording wires (not shown), and an ink ribbon (not shown) is positioned between the recording head 12 and the platen 49 in front of the recording wires in the protruding direction. While the recording head 12 travels with the carriage in the main scanning direction, a recording wire is projected to strike the ink ribbon, and the ink on the ink ribbon is attached to a recording sheet or the like located below the recording head 12. Then, an image including characters is recorded on the recording paper or the like.

FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration block diagram of the printer.
The printer 10 reads the information recorded on the magnetic stripe of the image recording paper, the CPU 50 that controls the entire printer 10, the ROM 51 that stores the control program and control data in advance, the RAM 52 that temporarily stores various data. Alternatively, the magnetic recording / reproducing apparatus 11 for recording, the recording head 12, the print control unit 55 for controlling the recording head 12, the motor unit 56 having a plurality of motors for driving the corresponding units, and the motor A motor control unit 57 for controlling each motor constituting the unit, an interface (I / F) unit 58 having various interfaces including a communication interface such as Ethernet (registered trademark), and the interface unit 58 Interface (I / F) control unit 59.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.
FIG. 5 is a processing flowchart of the printer. FIG. 6 is a process flowchart of the personal computer 2.
On the image recording paper of this embodiment, recording target specifying information for specifying a recording target is recorded on a magnetic stripe.
Specifically, when a web page such as a homepage on the Internet is to be printed, a URL, for example,
http://www.xxx.com
It is recorded as follows. If the file contents on the personal computer 2 or database are to be printed, the path to the file as the recording target specifying information, for example, if the target is a document file,
\\ hfxxx \ abc \ zzz.doc
It is recorded as follows. Furthermore, the information etc. which specify the map information etc. of car navigation may be used.

When printing is actually performed using the printer 10, the user first inserts an image recording sheet having a magnetic stripe on which recording control information is recorded into the printer 10 in the direction of arrow A (FIG. 2) ( Step S11). When this image recording sheet is inserted to a predetermined position, the image recording sheet is further conveyed in the direction of arrow A by the front roller FR.
Accordingly, the CPU 50 reads the recording control information from the magnetic stripe of the image recording paper via the magnetic head 53 and the recording medium read / write control unit 54 (step S12).
Subsequently, the CPU 50 controls the communication interface constituting the interface unit 58 via the interface control unit 59 and is included in the recording control information read from the image recording paper to the personal computer 2 which is an external device via the LAN 3. The recording target specifying information for specifying the recording target information is transmitted to request the recording target information (step S13).

Thus, when the personal computer 2 receives the recording target specifying information (step S21), the personal computer 2 performs data analysis of the received recording target specifying information (step S22).
Subsequently, the personal computer 2 determines whether the recording target specifying information corresponds to the URL or the file path based on the result of the data analysis (step S23).
If it is determined in step S23 that the recording target specifying information corresponds to the URL, the personal computer 2 activates the Web browser, and the screen data of the URL specified by the recording specifying target specifying information is stored in the Web server 5. The acquired screen data is transmitted from the Web browser to the printer driver (step S24).
Accordingly, the printer driver of the personal computer 2 transmits print data corresponding to the acquired screen to the printer 10 via the LAN 3 (step S25).

As a result, the CPU 50 that has received the print data corresponding to the screen data of the URL included in the recording target specifying information that is the recording target information from the personal computer 2 that is the external device controls the print control unit 55 and the motor control unit 57. The driving unit 17 is driven by the motor unit 56 to convey the image recording sheet in the sub-operation direction, and the recording head 12 is scanned in the main scanning direction to correspond to the print data (screen image corresponding to the URL). Is printed as a recording target and the process is terminated (step S15).
If it is determined in step S23 that the recording target specifying information corresponds to the file path, the personal computer 2 activates the corresponding application program according to the type of the file specified by the file path, and the recording specifying target Print target data included in the file of the file path specified by the specific information is acquired as print data from the database 6, and the acquired print data is transmitted from the corresponding application program to the printer driver (step S26).

As a result, the printer driver of the personal computer 2 transmits the print data acquired from the database 6 to the printer 10 via the LAN 3 (step S25).
As a result, the CPU 50 that has received the print data from the personal computer 2 that is an external device controls the print control unit 55 and the motor control unit 57 and drives the drive roller 17 by the motor unit 56 to convey the image recording paper. Then, the recording head 12 is scanned in the main scanning direction to print an image corresponding to the print data (a file on the file path is a screen image corresponding to the URL) as a recording target, and the process is terminated (step S15).
As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to easily perform printing simply by providing a storage medium that stores recording target information specified by recording target specifying information on an image recording sheet.
In the above description, the case where the magnetic stripe is used as the storage medium has been described. However, a two-dimensional bar code or an IC chip can be provided. In this case, the same application is possible if a bar code reader or an IC chip reader is provided instead of the magnetic head.

  In the above description, the case where printing is performed by using a URL or a file path as the recording target specifying information stored in the storage medium has been described. abc@xxx.co.jp) and merge information (for example, recipient name, date information, sender name, etc.), and insert the merge information into the basic email information corresponding to the specific information to be recorded. It is also possible to generate e-mail and perform e-mail transmission based on the e-mail information. In this case, the contents of the mail information in a state where the insertion information is inserted can be further printed.

  In the above description, the case where the control program for controlling the printer is stored in advance in the ROM 51 has been described. However, the control program is recorded in advance on recording media such as various magnetic disks, optical disks, and memory cards. It is also possible to read from the recording medium and install. It is also possible to provide a communication interface and download the control program via a network such as the Internet or LAN, and install and execute the program. With this configuration, it is possible to configure a higher-function software or a more reliable printer (recording apparatus).

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a print system according to an embodiment. 1 is an overall perspective view showing a dot impact printer including a magnetic recording / reproducing apparatus. FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing the printer of FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration block diagram of a printer. 6 is a process flowchart of a printer. It is a processing flowchart of a personal computer.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Print system, 2 ... Personal computer, 3 ... LAN, 4 ... Communication network, 5 ... Web server, 11 ... Magnetic recording / reproducing apparatus, 12 ... Recording head,
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Printer, 50 ... CPU, 51 ... ROM, 52 ... RAM52, 55 ... Print control part, 56 ... Motor part, 57 ... Motor control part, 58 ... Interface (I / F) part, 59 ... Interface (I / F) ) Control unit

Claims (9)

In a recording apparatus for recording on a recording sheet having a storage medium,
The storage medium stores recording target specifying information for specifying the recording target information,
A reading unit for reading the recording target specifying information from the storage medium;
A recording unit for recording on the recording paper;
A control unit for controlling the recording unit to record the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information on the recording paper;
A recording apparatus comprising: The recording apparatus according to claim 1,
The control unit, based on the read recording target identification information, an information request unit that requests the corresponding recording target information to an external device via a communication network;
An information receiving unit that receives the recording target information from the external device via the communication network;
A recording apparatus comprising: The recording apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
The recording apparatus, wherein the recording target specifying information includes a URL or a file path. The recording apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The storage medium is a magnetic stripe;
The reading unit is configured as a magnetic reader having a magnetic head,
A recording apparatus. The recording apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The storage medium is a two-dimensional barcode or an IC chip,
The reading unit is configured as a barcode reader or an IC chip reader.
A recording apparatus. In a control method of a recording apparatus that includes a recording unit and performs recording on a recording sheet having a storage medium,
The storage medium stores recording target specifying information for specifying the recording target information,
A reading process of reading the recording target specifying information from the storage medium;
A recording process of controlling the recording unit to record the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information on the recording paper;
A control method for a recording apparatus, comprising: In a control program for controlling a recording apparatus for recording on a recording sheet having a storage medium by a computer,
The storage medium stores recording target specifying information for specifying the recording target information,
The recording target specifying information is read from the storage medium,
Recording the recording target information corresponding to the recording target specifying information on the recording paper;
A control program characterized by that. The control program according to claim 7,
Based on the read recording target specifying information, the corresponding recording target information is requested to an external device via a communication network,
Receiving the recording object information from the external device via the communication network;
A control program characterized by that. 9. A computer-readable recording medium on which the control program according to claim 7 is recorded.

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