JP2006321073A - Printer, information writing device, label paper, program of processing for assigning data - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer or the like capable of performing printing on a paper sheet and writing to a radio frequency chip and also automatically avoiding the performing of printing on a paper sheet with a defective radio frequency chip or writing to the defective radio frequency chip without a manual operation even when judgment of good or bad of each radio frequency chip is not made before printing in the case where a plurality of pieces of image data are sequentially printed on a plurality of paper sheets with radio frequency chips continuously supplied and radio frequency chip data corresponding to the image data is written to the radio frequency chips. <P>SOLUTION: This printer reads information of a position of a paper sheet with a defective radio frequency chip incapable of reading and writing in a plurality of paper sheets 102 with radio frequency chips sequentially supplied by a supply means 301 from recorded contents of radio frequency chips 103 of the paper sheets with normal radio frequency chips capable of reading and writing. Image data and radio frequency chip data to be assigned to the paper sheet with the defective radio frequency chip in the image data to be printed on the paper sheets and the radio frequency chip data to be written to the radio frequency chips, are assigned to the next paper sheet with the normal radio frequency chip by a control means 315 on the basis of the information of the position of the read paper sheet with the defective radio frequency chip. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention provides a printing apparatus capable of printing image data on a paper with a wireless chip, an information writing apparatus for writing position information of a defective paper among papers having a wireless chip, and image data printed by the printing apparatus. The present invention relates to a label sheet with a wireless chip and a data allocation processing program.

  Information written on a wireless chip, also referred to as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), is electronic information and is invisible. Therefore, the wireless chip can be identified so that it can be identified by a person or an OCR (optical character reader). There is a widespread form in which information attached to a medium (paper) such as a card, a tag, or a label and linked to the recorded contents is printed and used as visible information on the medium.

  Then, in order to create such a medium, the wireless chip data corresponding to the image data is printed on the wireless chip with the wireless chip sequentially printed on the paper with wireless chips continuously fed. 2. Description of the Related Art A printing apparatus that writes data on a printer is known (for example, Patent Document 1).

  By the way, wireless chips are vulnerable to stresses such as static electricity, heat, and pressure, and there are a number of wireless chips that cannot be read and written at the paper manufacturing stage due to the initial failure of the wireless chip. When an image is printed on such a paper with a defective wireless chip that cannot be read and written, the following problems occur.

  That is, the printing on the paper with the defective wireless chip is not only a waste of the developer, but also a missing number when adding variable information such as a serial number to the image to be printed. After printing, reprinting on the paper with normal wireless chip is required again, and complicated work such as removal of unnecessary paper is generated in the subsequent process.

Therefore, conventionally, in order to solve these problems, a defective wireless chip that cannot be read and written is detected immediately before printing, and printing on a sheet to which the defective wireless chip is attached is skipped (Patent Document 2) or wirelessly. When writing to the chip fails, "NG", "X", etc. are printed on the paper (Patent Document 3), or the paper with the defective wireless chip is marked, and at the time of printing, the operator creates a blank page with application software according to the marking Processing such as insertion was performed.
JP 2003-132330 A JP 2003-159838 A JP 2003-11939 A

  However, in the method of detecting a defective wireless chip immediately before printing and skipping printing on a sheet, it is necessary to determine whether each wireless chip is good before printing. Writing to the chip could not be performed and efficiency was not good.

  In addition, in the method of printing “NG”, “X”, etc. on the paper when writing to the wireless chip fails, the developer is wasted, and the method of inserting a blank page by the operator places a heavy burden on the operator. It was difficult to prevent work mistakes.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a technical background, and prints image data sequentially on wireless chip-attached paper that is continuously fed, and wireless chip data corresponding to the image data. Can be printed on the paper and written on the wireless chip without performing pass / fail judgment of each wireless chip before printing, and printing on paper with a defective wireless chip. Printing device capable of automatically avoiding writing to wireless chip without manual operation, information writing device for writing defective position information of wireless chip-attached paper used in this printing device, wireless for printing image data by said printing device It is an object to provide a label sheet with a chip and a data allocation processing program.

The above problem is solved by the following means.
(1) A feeding unit that feeds a plurality of wireless chip-attached papers in order, and a position of a non-writable defective wireless chip paper among the fed papers, and a normal wireless chip-attachable paper that can be read and written Reading means for reading from the recorded contents of the wireless chip, printing means for sequentially printing image data on the wireless chip-attached paper fed in order, and the image data on the wireless chip of the paper to be printed And writing means for sequentially writing wireless chip data corresponding to the image data printed on each paper and wireless chip data written on each wireless chip based on the read positional information of the paper with the defective wireless chip. Control means for allocating the image data and wireless chip data to be assigned to the defective wireless chip paper to the next normal wireless chip paper. Printing apparatus characterized by the.
(2) The writing unit writes the position information of the unprocessed defective wireless chip-attached paper that has not been subjected to the printing process and the writing process to the normal wireless chip of the unprocessed paper after the printing process and the writing process are completed. The printing apparatus according to 1.
(3) The printing apparatus according to (1) or (2), wherein the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper is divided and written on each normal wireless chip of a plurality of papers.
(4) The printing apparatus according to item 1 or 2, wherein the position information of the paper with the defective wireless chip is written on the normal wireless chip of the leading paper.
(5) Detection means for detecting a non-readable / writable paper with a defective wireless chip among a plurality of wireless chip-attached papers arranged in order, and position information generating means for generating position information of the detected paper with a defective wireless chip And writing means for writing position information of the produced paper with a defective wireless chip on the normal wireless chip of at least one of the plurality of papers with a normal wireless chip that can be read and written. An information writing device.
(6) The information writing apparatus according to item 5 above, wherein the position information of the paper with the defective wireless chip is divided and written on each normal wireless chip of the plurality of papers.
(7) The information writing apparatus according to item 5 above, wherein the position information of the paper with the defective wireless chip is written to a normal wireless chip of the leading paper in the next step.
(8) Label paper in which a plurality of labels with wireless chips are arranged, and the position information of the defective wireless chip label is at least one of the plurality of labels, the readable / writable normal wireless chip-attached label. Label paper that is written on a normal wireless chip.
(9) The label paper according to item 8 above, wherein the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached label is divided and written on each normal wireless chip of the plurality of labels.
(10) The label paper according to item 8 above, wherein the position information of the label with the defective wireless chip is written on the normal wireless chip of the leading label.
(11) The label paper according to item 8 above, wherein the labels are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns of vertical and horizontal grids, and the position information of the label with a defective wireless chip is written for each row or each column.
(12) The label paper according to item 8 above, wherein the labels are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns of vertical and horizontal grids, and the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached label is written in a format consisting of row numbers and column numbers.
(13) The label paper according to item 8 above, wherein the position information of the label with the defective wireless chip is written in a format based on the serial number of the label.
(14) The label paper according to item 8 above, wherein the form is cut paper.
(15) The label paper according to item 8 above, wherein the form is continuous paper.
(16) Of the plurality of wireless chip-attached papers, based on the position information of the unreadable / writable defective wireless chip-attached papers, the image data printed on each paper and the wireless chip data written on each wireless chip are defective. A data allocation processing program for causing a computer to execute processing for allocating image data and wireless chip data scheduled to be allocated to a wireless chip-attached sheet to a next normal wireless chip-attached sheet.

  According to the invention described in (1) above, of the image data printed on each paper and the wireless chip data written on each wireless chip based on the positional information of the paper with the defective wireless chip, the defective wireless chip attached Since the image data and wireless chip data to be assigned to the paper are assigned to the next normal wireless chip-attached paper, the image data is printed on the unnecessary paper and the data is written on the unnecessary wireless chip without human intervention. It can be avoided automatically.

  In addition, since the above allocation process is performed based on the position information of the defective label recorded on the normal label, it is not necessary to determine the quality of the wireless chip for each sheet before printing, and printing can be started quickly. Efficient.

  According to the invention described in (2) above, after the printing process and the writing process are completed, the positional information of the unprocessed defective wireless chip-attached sheet that has not been subjected to the printing process and the writing process is the normal wireless of the unprocessed sheet. Since it is written on the chip, when printing is performed using this unprocessed paper with a defective wireless chip, unnecessary printing or the like on the paper with a defective wireless chip is performed based on the positional information of the paper with the defective wireless chip. It can be avoided.

  According to the invention described in the item (3), the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper is divided and written on the normal wireless chips of each of the plurality of papers, and thus the number of defective wireless chip-attached papers is large. Cases can be easily handled.

  According to the invention described in (4) above, since the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper is written in the normal wireless chip of the leading paper, the position information reading process and printing process can be smoothly performed. it can.

  According to the invention described in (5) above, the paper used for the printing apparatus of (1) is manufactured, in which the position information of the paper with the defective wireless chip is written on the normal wireless chip of the paper with the normal wireless chip. Can do.

  According to the invention described in item (6), it is possible to easily cope with a case where the number of sheets with defective wireless chips is large.

  According to the invention described in item (7) above, the position information reading process and the printing process by the printing apparatus can be performed smoothly.

  According to the invention described in (8) above, the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached label is written in the normal wireless chip of at least one of the readable / writable normal wireless chip-attached labels. Label paper that can be.

  According to the invention described in item (9), it is possible to easily cope with a case where the number of labels with defective wireless chips is large.

  According to the invention described in the above item (10), the label sheet can be smoothly subjected to the position information reading process and the printing process by the printing apparatus.

  According to the invention described in item (11) above, the position of the label with a defective wireless chip can be easily specified even if the labels are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns of vertical and horizontal grids.

  According to the invention described in item (12), the position of the label with the defective wireless chip can be easily specified even if the labels are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns of vertical and horizontal grids.

  According to the invention described in item (13), the position of the label with the defective wireless chip can be easily specified.

  According to the invention described in (14) above, the cut sheet-like label paper in which the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached label is written on the normal wireless chip of the readable / writable normal wireless chip-attached label is provided. Can be provided.

  According to the invention described in (15) above, the continuous paper-like label paper in which the position information of the label with a defective wireless chip is written on the normal wireless chip of at least one of the readable / writable normal wireless chip labels is provided. Can be provided.

  According to the invention described in the above item (16), it is possible to cause the computer to execute processing for allocating the image data and wireless chip data scheduled to be allocated to the defective wireless chip-attached paper to the next normal wireless chip-attached paper.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

  First, the paper will be described.

  FIG. 1A shows a label paper 100 wound into a roll used in a printing apparatus described later. In this label paper 100, a plurality of wireless chip-attached labels 102, which are a plurality of wireless chip-attached papers, are temporarily attached to a strip-like release paper 101 in one row at a predetermined interval L in the length direction of the release paper 101. Note that the arrangement of the labels 102 is not limited to that shown in FIG. 1, and there may be a plurality of rows in the width direction of the release paper 101 as shown in FIG. In addition to the roll-shaped continuous paper, the label paper may be a folding continuous paper or a cut paper cut into a square shape as shown in FIG.

  The wireless chip 103 attached to the label is configured by an IC unit indicated by a broken line in the detailed view of FIG. 1C. This IC unit stores information in the communication antenna 104, the nonvolatile memory 105, and the memory 105. It consists of various electronic parts for reading and writing. As shown in the AA sectional view of FIG. 1B, the label 102 is covered with a base 106 made of a paper or resin film coated with an adhesive on the release paper side, and the label surface is The wireless chip is covered with a protective material 107 made of paper or a resin film in order to improve the protection and printability of the components of the wireless chip. Note that the communication distance of the wireless chip 103 in this embodiment is set so that communication is possible when label paper is set in the paper feeding unit of the printing apparatus.

  The label paper 100 has a label (hereinafter referred to as a wireless chip) that cannot communicate with the read / write device due to poor connection between the antenna 104 and the memory 105 in the wireless chip (IC unit) 103 or damage to the memory 105 itself. In this embodiment, the position information of the defective label is written in advance by a label paper manufacturing apparatus, which will be described later, on a label with a readable / writable wireless chip (hereinafter referred to as a normal label). ing.

  An example of an apparatus for manufacturing the label paper 100 will be described with reference to FIG. A strip-shaped release paper 101 wound in a roll is loaded into a loading device 201 for loading the release paper 101. After the loaded release paper 101 is conveyed by the roller-type conveyance device 202, the paper sensor 209 is turned on, whereby the leading edge position of the release paper 101 is detected. Further, the label 102 is fed to an attaching roller 205 for attaching to the release paper 101, and the label 102 is temporarily attached to the release paper 101. The wireless chip 103 is attached to the label in advance. Note that the pasting device 203 includes the pasting roller 205, the label stacker 206, and a feeding device 207 for taking out the labels 102 from the stacker 206 one by one based on the control signal and transporting them to the pasting roller 205.

  Next, the label paper to which the label 102 is temporarily attached is conveyed to the read / write device 208 for checking the operation of the wireless chip 103 of each label 102.

  Here, the position of the label 102 from the leading edge of the label paper that is currently passing through the communication range of the read / write device 208 can be calculated from the detection time of the leading edge of the peeling paper 101 by the sensor 209 and the conveyance speed of the peeling paper 101. As the read / write device 208, a known device including an antenna for performing wireless communication with the wireless chip 103 can be used. When the wireless chip 103 is inspected for electrical performance such as reading / writing and sensitivity by this reading / writing device 208 and is determined to be defective, the failure information is transferred from the reading / writing device 208 to the host computer 210 at least the distance from the leading edge of the label paper. Sent with information. The host computer 210 sequentially adds the transmitted information to the temporary storage area.

  Next, the label paper 100 is sent to the winding device 211 via the roller type conveying device 212, and is taken up by the winding device 211.

  When the above operation is continued and the end of the release paper 101 is detected by the paper detection sensor 209 or a predetermined length is conveyed, the final label 102 is attached to the release paper 101 and the read / write device 208 is attached. After the release sheet 101 is transported to a range where communication with the device is possible, the inspection by the read / write device 208 is completed. Thereafter, the operation of each of the conveying devices 202, 207, and 212 is stopped to stop the label paper conveyance.

  On the other hand, the defective label distance information added to the temporary storage area of the host computer 210 is converted into position information (number) from the end of the release paper 101 in the host computer 210 as shown in FIG. It is transmitted to the device 208 and written to the wireless chip 103 of the final label 102.

  For example, when the labels T3 and T5 located at the distances a and b from the leading edge of the release paper 101 are defective, the host computer 210 sequentially adds the distances a and b to the temporary storage area. Next, when the host computer 210 sets the total length of the label paper 100 (release paper 101) to LT and the label 102 affixing interval to L, the position of the defective label is Na, The data is converted to Nb-th and written to the wireless chip 103 of the final label 102 by the read / write device 208.

Na = (LT−a) / L Expression 1
Nb = (LT−b) / L Expression 2
In the example of FIG. 5, the positions of the defective labels T5 and T3 are the fourth and sixth positions from the last label. In FIG. 5, L ′ is the distance from the leading edge of the release paper 101 to the first label 102.

  Then, upon completion of the writing of the position information of the defective label, each transport device resumes transport, and the take-up device 211 winds up to the rear end of the last label paper in which the position information is written on the wireless chip. 100 is completed.

  By the way, when the final wireless chip 103 is defective, control is performed such that the label paper is back-fed and written to the wireless chip 103 of the normal label closest to the final.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, when a plurality of labels 102 are arranged in a grid pattern in the width direction and length direction of the label paper 100, a read / write device 208 is provided for each column in the width direction. The position information of the defective label can also be written to the final wireless chip for each column. In this way, after the label paper is created, the position information of the defective label can be used even when the label paper 100 is slit for each column at the position indicated by the broken line in FIG.

  For example, the position of each label 102 is represented by (R, C) using the column position R in the width direction of the label paper 100 and the row position C in the feed direction, and the label that is the right end of the top of the label paper at the time of printing is displayed. If (1, 1), since each column includes the read / write device 208, (1, 1) (2, 1) (3, 1) (4) in the same manner as described in FIG. , 1), the wireless chip 103 of each label 102 has the R = 1 column as the fifth, the R = 2 column as the third, the R = 3 column as the second, and the R = 4 column as the fourth. Since the fifth label is written as defective, even if slit processing is performed for each column in the post-processing, the defective position information is held in the label 102 which is the head during printing.

  Further, as the format of the description of the position information, if the label paper has a plurality of labels 102 arranged in the width direction and slit processing is not scheduled in the subsequent process, description by arrangement (designation consisting of two dimensions, vertical and horizontal) ). For example, in the example of FIG. 6, (1, 5) (2, 3) (3, 2) (4, 4) (4, 5) is defective in the wireless chip labeled (1, 1). It is a writing method.

  Further, the position information of the defective label may be obtained by sequentially adding the number of labels existing between the final label and the defective label starting from the final label.

  In addition, when the number of defective labels included is large and writing to the wireless chip 103 of one label 102 is not possible, defective position information may be divided and written to each wireless chip of a plurality of labels.

  Next, a printing apparatus (label printer) that performs printing on the label paper on which the position information of the defective label is written will be described with reference to FIG.

  The printing apparatus includes a control unit 315, a label paper supply unit 301, a reading device 305 that reads defective label position information written on the wireless chip 103 of the label paper 100, a timing roller 314, and each label 102 of the label paper 100. An image forming apparatus 307 for printing image data by an electrophotographic method, a fixing apparatus 308, a writing apparatus 311 for writing data to the wireless chip 103, a cutting apparatus 312 for cutting the label paper 100, and before and after the cutting apparatus 312. A paper discharge roller 309 and a label paper take-up device 310.

  The label supply unit 301 includes a set shaft 302 on which a roll-shaped label paper 100 is set, a paper feed guide 313, a label paper detection sensor 303, and a paper feed conveyance roller 304.

  Then, the roll-shaped label paper 100 is set on the set shaft 302 for feeding the label paper at a printing speed. A non-slip (not shown) in the rotational direction with respect to the label paper 100 is added to the shaft. When the operator inserts the leading edge of the label paper 100 along the paper feed guide 313, the label paper detection sensor 303 is turned on, the paper feeding conveyance roller 304 starts to rotate in the conveyance direction, and the control unit 315 causes the leading edge of the label paper 100 to be turned on. Rotates the guide shaft 302 until it reaches the timing roller 314.

  During this time, the leading label 102 temporarily attached to the label paper 100 passes through the communication range of the reading device 305, and during this period, the reading device 305 reads the position information of the defective label recorded on the wireless chip 103 of the label, The data is transmitted to the control unit 315 and stored in the temporary storage device.

  Next, image data and wireless chip data to be printed on each label 102 and written to the wireless chip 103 are transmitted to the control unit 315 of the printing apparatus by operation of a client computer (hereinafter also referred to as client PC) 300 by the operator. Then, the control unit 315 performs RIP (Raster Image Processor) expansion processing on the transmitted image data and executes allocation to each label 102 with a wireless chip.

  At this time, the control unit 315 refers to the position information of the defective label stored in the temporary storage device, and if it is determined that the allocated range includes a defective label, the control unit 315 is scheduled to allocate the label. The image data is obtained by inserting a blank page (blank page data) at the position of the defective label (T5 and T3 in the example of FIG. 5) so that the next normal label is allocated. Shift.

  Further, blank data is inserted into the wireless chip 103 of the defective label 102 as wireless chip data corresponding to the blank page in order to maintain the alignment between the image data and the wireless chip data. Note that even if some data is inserted, it is meaningless because it cannot be written into a defective chip. Therefore, it is not necessary to dare to make blank data. However, in this embodiment, blank data is inserted.

  In this way, blank page insertion is performed based on the position information of the defective label. When RIP development, image data allocation, and wireless chip data allocation are completed, the data is spooled to the hard disk device (HDD) of the control unit 315 and waits. Keep state.

  Next, the printing apparatus performs an initial operation necessary for outputting a normal image. When the printing apparatus completes, the image forming apparatus 307 of the electrophotographic system is conveyed while the label sheet 100 is being conveyed by the sheet feeding conveyance roller 304. The necessary toner image is transferred to the label 102, and the toner image is fixed to the label 102 by the fixing device 308. After fixing, the wireless chip data related to the printing content is written as electronic data by the writing device 311 to the wireless chip 103 of the corresponding label 102, conveyed by the paper discharge roller 309, and taken up by the winding device 310.

  Since the data to be assigned to the defective label is assigned to the next normal label, it is automatically printed and written on the next normal label. For this reason, it is not necessary to manually perform an operation of skipping the defective label.

  In addition, since the above allocation processing is performed based on the position information of the defective label recorded on the wireless chip of the normal label, it is not necessary to determine the quality of the wireless chip 103 of each label 102 before printing. Printing can be performed and efficiency is high.

  It is also possible to write electronic information by combining the reading device 305 for acquiring the position information of the defective label with the function of the writing device.

  Here, an operation when the number of labels 102 included in the label paper 100 is larger than the number instructed to be printed will be described.

  After the final label 102 instructed to be printed is processed by the image forming device 307 and the writing device 311, the label paper 100 is temporarily stopped at a position where it passes through the known label paper cutting device 312, and is written and written by the cutting device 312. The processed part and the unprocessed part of printing are divided. The processed portion is taken up by the winding device 310, and the unprocessed portion is reversely rotated by a necessary conveying device such as the fixing device 308, the timing roller 314, the paper feeding / conveying roller 304, the set shaft 302 of the label paper 100, and the supply unit 301. Backfeed to the side.

  Next, the wireless chip 103 of the label 102 that is the head after the disconnection stops at a position that falls within the communication range of the writing device 311. Then, the position information of the defective label is read from the temporary storage device of the control unit 315, data is generated by deleting the processed portion that has already been discharged, and this is written into the wireless chip 103 of the top label 102 by the writing device 311. . Thereafter, the operation is completed by rewinding to the supply unit 301 by the back feed operation.

  Thus, when the next printing process is performed using the label paper 100 rewound to the supply unit 301, the process can be executed in the same procedure as described above.

  When the labels are arranged in a plurality of rows in the width direction on the label paper 100, the label paper 100 in which the position information of the defective label is recorded for each row is used, and an antenna for reading and writing data is provided for each row. The same operation as described above can be achieved by providing them individually. In addition, if the position information of the defective label is the label paper 100 described and recorded in a vertical and horizontal two-dimensional matrix format, the same operation as described above can be achieved by setting the length of the antenna to be equal to or greater than the full width of the label paper. .

  Furthermore, since the number of defective labels included in the label paper 100 is large, information cannot be stored in one normal wireless chip, and the position information of defective labels is divided and recorded in a plurality of wireless chips at the manufacturing stage of the label paper. In the case of the label paper 100, the information may be combined by the control unit 315 after acquiring the information from all the wireless chips in which the position information of the defective label is written.

  In this case, it is necessary to notify the printing apparatus that the position information is divided into the plurality of wireless chips 103. For example, in addition to the position information of the defective label, the number of the divided series of wireless chips 103 is first written in the wireless chip 103 of the label 102 to be read and read or divided and recorded. It is possible to use a method in which information indicating that the label is the last is written in the wireless chip 103 of the label 102 to be read last, and the processing is continued until the information is read.

  In addition, even if the printing apparatus includes a reading device and a writing device for information recorded on the wireless chip 103 and can acquire the position information of the defective label, the allocation of image data or the like is changed based on this information. If the control means is not provided, the above allocation process cannot be performed.

  Therefore, in this case, the allocation process can be performed by the application program of the client PC 300. This process is executed by the CPU of the client PC 300 operating based on an application program stored in a storage medium such as a ROM.

  This allocation process is shown in the flowchart of FIG.

  When the position information of the defective label is transferred from the host computer 210 to the client PC 300, in step S101, the client PC 300 inputs the position information and sequentially checks whether there is a defective label. That is, in step S102, it is checked whether there is a first defective label. If there is a defective label (YES in step S102), the position of the defective label is stored in step S103. In step S104, blank data is inserted at the position of the image data and wireless chip data corresponding to the defective label, and the process returns to step S102 to check whether there is a next defective label.

  Thus, by inserting blank data, the image data and wireless chip data scheduled to be assigned to the defective label are reassigned to the next normal label. If there is no defective label (NO in step S102), the image data is determined in step S105. Then, the wireless chip data is transmitted to the printing apparatus, and the allocation process ends.

  As described above, by using the application program of the client PC 300, unnecessary printing on the defective label and unnecessary writing of the wireless chip data can be avoided without adding special allocation means to the printing apparatus side. it can.

  In the above embodiment, the case where the wireless chip-attached paper is a label and the printing apparatus is a label printer has been described. However, the wireless chip-attached paper is not limited to a label, and is usually a cut paper or a continuous paper. A wireless chip may be built in the printing paper, and printing may be performed on these papers in order.

(A) is a perspective view of the label paper concerning one embodiment of this invention, (b) is an AA line sectional view of (a), and (c) is a detailed figure of a wireless chip. It is a top view of the label paper which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram of the position information writing device of a defective label. It is a block diagram of a printing apparatus. It is explanatory drawing of the positional information on the defective label in label paper. It is explanatory drawing of the positional information on the defective label in another label paper. It is a flowchart which shows the data allocation process by an application program.

Explanation of symbols

100 Label paper 101 Release paper 102 Label (paper with wireless chip)
103 wireless chip 208 read / write device 210 host computer (detection means, position information creation means)
301 Label paper supply unit (feeding means)
305 Reading device 307 Image forming device (printing means)
311 Writing device 315 Control unit

Claims (16)

A feeding means for feeding a plurality of wireless chip-attached sheets in order;
Reading means for reading position information of a paper with a defective wireless chip that cannot be read and written out of the fed paper from a recorded content of the wireless chip of a paper with a normal wireless chip that can be read and written;
Printing means for printing image data in order on the wireless chip-attached paper fed in order;
Writing means for sequentially writing wireless chip data corresponding to the image data on the wireless chip of the paper to be printed;
Based on the read position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper, among the image data printed on each of the paper and the wireless chip data written on each wireless chip, the image data and wireless to be assigned to the defective wireless chip-attached paper Control means for allocating chip data to the next paper with normal wireless chip;
A printing apparatus comprising:   The writing unit writes position information of an unprocessed paper with a defective wireless chip that has not been subjected to the printing process and the writing process on the normal wireless chip of the unprocessed paper after the printing process and the writing process are completed. The printing apparatus as described.   The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper is divided and written on each normal wireless chip of a plurality of papers.   The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper is written on a normal wireless chip of a leading paper. Detecting means for detecting a non-readable / writable paper with a defective wireless chip among a plurality of paper with wireless chips arranged in order;
Position information creating means for creating position information of the detected paper with a defective wireless chip;
Write means for writing the created position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper to the normal wireless chip of the readable / writable normal wireless chip paper among the plurality of papers;
An information writing apparatus comprising:   6. The information writing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper is divided and written on each normal wireless chip of a plurality of papers.   6. The information writing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached paper is written on a normal wireless chip of a leading paper in a next process.   The normal wireless chip of a label paper in which a plurality of labels with wireless chips are arranged, and the position information of the label with a defective wireless chip is a readable / writable label with a normal wireless chip among the plurality of labels Label paper characterized by being written on.   9. The label paper according to claim 8, wherein the position information of the defective wireless chip-attached label is divided and written on each normal wireless chip of the plurality of labels.   The label paper according to claim 8, wherein the position information of the label with the defective wireless chip is written on the normal wireless chip of the leading label.   The label paper according to claim 8, wherein the labels are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns of vertical and horizontal grids, and position information of the label with a defective wireless chip is written for each row or each column.   The label paper according to claim 8, wherein the labels are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns of vertical and horizontal grids, and position information of the label with a defective wireless chip is written in a format composed of a row number and a column number.   The label paper according to claim 8, wherein the position information of the label with the defective wireless chip is written in a format according to a serial number of the label.   The label paper according to claim 8, wherein the form is cut paper.   The label paper according to claim 8, wherein the form is continuous paper. Based on the positional information of the non-readable / writable defective wireless chip paper among the plurality of wireless chip-attached papers, the image data printed on each paper and the wireless chip data written on each wireless chip have a defective wireless chip attached. A data allocation processing program for causing a computer to execute processing for allocating image data and wireless chip data scheduled to be allocated to paper to the next paper with normal wireless chips.

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