JP2008179023A - Crimp printed material creation device, crimp printed material creation system - Google Patents

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] To reduce the time and labor required for recovery when a paper jam occurs in a press-bonding process in a press-formed printed matter production technique in which a variable information printing process and a press-bonding process are separately performed.
A printing unit including a printing management computer and a printing apparatus, and a pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus. A sheet on which variable information is printed by the printing unit is pressure-bonded by the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus. Thus, in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating system 100 that creates the Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard 8Z, the pressure-bonded printed matter creating device 2 is provided with storage means for storing the jammed paper number Mj of the paper 8 on which the paper jam has occurred. The jammed paper number Mj is transmitted to the printing unit 1 and the variable information corresponding to the paper 8 that has become the paper jam is printed on the new paper 8 and provided to the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2, thereby the paper jam. Perform recovery.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a crimped printed material creation technique, and is applied to, for example, recovery when a jam occurs in a crimping process in a crimped printed material creating technique in which variable information is printed on paper and the crimping process after printing is performed in separate processes. It relates to effective technology.

  Conventionally, in order to transmit character information only to a specific individual, generally, the character description is in a sealed form so that the individual can confirm the character information only after opening.

  In recent years, personal information protection has become a strict question, and various business establishments, for example, personal information such as various personal data, gradebooks, salary statements, etc., are printed on the printed part of the written text. It is recorded and distributed in the form of envelopes or cards by bonding or crimping the peripheral edge of the printed part or the entire surface of the written text.

  Among these, postcard-sized cards are called crimped postcards and can be used at the same charge as regular postcards. Therefore, as a printing information concealment system that is highly convenient for information providers, advertising It is also widely used for advertising direct mail.

  Conventional pressure-sensitive postcard creation devices include (1) film system (a system in which a film is sandwiched and pressed on a sheet after printing), (2) pre-glue system (applying an adhesive to the sheet before printing, and performing a pressure-bonding process after printing) System) and (3) a post-glue system (a system in which an adhesive is applied to a paper after printing and a pressure-bonding process).

  In the above-mentioned three types of crimping postcard making apparatus, although there is a difference in the type of adhesive and the order of the adhesive application process and the printing process, in any system, the printed image is printed by another printing system. Make a postcard using paper.

  In this case, if an error such as a jam occurs in the crimping postcard creation device and reprinting is necessary, the postcard paper that can no longer be used is identified manually, and the target print contents are again printed by another printing system. After searching and reprinting on a new sheet, it was necessary to feed the sheet again to the postcard making apparatus.

  For this reason, when a jam or the like occurs and the corresponding paper can no longer be used, a manual response is required, and there is a technical problem that a large amount of time and labor are required for recovery.

  In Patent Document 1, in a thermocompression bonding apparatus that performs pressure bonding of a composite sheet body in which a plastic film is superimposed on a sheet body, a jam occurs when the residence time of the composite sheet body in the apparatus exceeds a predetermined set time. There is disclosed a technique for discharging a composite sheet body in which the occurrence occurs from the side of the insertion opening.

  However, in the case of this patent document 1, the above-mentioned technical problem and solution means in the case where variable information printing and pressure bonding on a sheet are performed in separate processes are not disclosed.

JP-A-9-99486

  It is an object of the present invention to reduce the time and labor required for recovery when a paper jam occurs in the press-bonding process in the press-printed print production technology in which the variable information printing process and the press-bonding process are separately performed on the paper. Is to provide new technology.

A first aspect of the present invention is a pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus for creating a pressure-bonded printed material from a sheet on which variable information is printed,
Monitoring means for monitoring whether the crimped printed material has been successfully created from each of the sheets;
Storage means for storing identification information of the paper determined by the monitoring means to have failed to create the press-bonded printed matter;
An apparatus for producing a pressure-bonded printed material is provided.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus according to the first aspect,
The identification information provides a pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus that is a paper number assigned in the processing order of the paper.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus according to the first aspect,
The storage means provides a crimped printed material creating apparatus that is a built-in memory mounted on the crimped printed material apparatus.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus according to the first aspect,
The storage means provides a pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus that is a portable storage medium that can be attached to and detached from a general-purpose memory slot provided in the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus that creates or stores variable information;
A printing device that prints the variable information output from the information processing device on paper;
A pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus that creates a pressure-bonded printed material from the paper on which the variable information is printed in the printing device;
A crimped printed material creation system including:
The pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus includes:
Monitoring means for monitoring whether the crimped printed material has been successfully created from each of the sheets;
Storage means for storing identification information of the paper determined to have failed to produce the crimped printed matter by the monitoring means,
A pressure-bonded printed material creating system is provided that transmits the identification information to the information processing apparatus and prints the variable information printed on the sheet of the identification information on a new sheet.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the press-bonded printed material creation system according to the fifth aspect,
The identification information provides a pressure-bonded printed material creation system that is a paper number assigned in the processing order of the paper.
According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the press-bonded printed material creation system according to the fifth aspect,
The storage means is a built-in memory of the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus,
There is provided a pressure-bonded printed material creating system in which the identification information stored in the built-in memory is transmitted to the information processing device via a communication unit that connects the pressure-bonded printed material device and the information processing device.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the crimped printed material creation system according to the fifth aspect,
The storage means is a portable storage medium that is attached to and detached from a general-purpose memory slot provided in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus, and the identification information is transmitted to the information processing apparatus via the portable storage medium. Provide a print creation system.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the time and labor required for recovery when a paper jam occurs in the pressure-bonding process in the pressure-sensitive printed matter creation technique in which the variable information printing process and the pressure-bonding process are separately performed on the paper. Technology can be provided.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  First, an example of a material prescription and a specific production method of the toner-like powder adhesive used for the pressure bonding of the paper in the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2 of the present embodiment described later will be described. This powder adhesive was developed as a powder adhesive that does not cause character transfer to the opposite surface when the secret information printing surface is peeled and opened after pressure bonding.

  First, 90% by mass or more of a hydrocarbon-based resin (copolymer of cycloolefin and ethylene) having a softening temperature of 110 ± 4 ° C. as a binder resin, 0.3 to 3% by mass of a charge control agent, and 1 to 9% by mass of wax. prepare.

  These are mixed with a mixer, the mixture is kneaded while applying temperature with a twin screw kneader, the kneaded product is cooled, and pulverized to about 2 mm with a mechanical pulverizer. Further pulverize to fine particles and classify to an appropriate particle size.

  Thereafter, the kneaded pulverized product was externally added with 0.1 to 5% by mass of silica fine particles surface-treated with silicon oil or alkyldisilazane (with respect to the kneaded pulverized product) and an average particle size at a softening temperature of 106 ° C. A toner-like transparent powder adhesive 41 having a diameter (volume D50) of 9.0 μm is obtained.

  FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram schematically showing a configuration example of a pressure-bonded printed material creating system including a pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a configuration example of the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus according to the present embodiment. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a part of the configuration of the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus according to the present embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 of the present embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the pressure-bonded printed material creating system 100 includes a printing unit 1 and a pressure-bonded printed material creating device 2. The printing unit 1 includes a print management computer 3 (information processing device) and a printing device 4. The internal configuration of the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2 will be described later in detail.

  The print management computer 3 includes a main body 5, a liquid crystal display device 6 connected to the main body 5, and a keyboard 7. The main body 5 includes a central processing unit (CPU), a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a hard disk (HD), and the like, although not particularly illustrated.

  An operator creates or processes print data (variable postal code, address, contents of notification to the other party, etc.) as variable information by the print management computer 3, and performs printing by the printing apparatus 4 using the print data. Execution is instructed to the print management computer 3.

  The printing apparatus 4 is a normal electronic image forming apparatus that uses, for example, four color toners. The printing apparatus 4 is connected to the print management computer 3 and is used for bi-folding described later based on instructions from the print management computer 3. Printing on the V-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 11 and the Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 8 for tri-fold (hereinafter simply referred to as the paper 11 and the paper 8) is executed based on the above-described print data. .

  When a paper jam occurs, the above-described pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 uses a wired or wireless transmission of a jammed paper number Mj (identification information) described later of the V-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 11 or Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 8 related to the paper jam. Is transmitted to the print management computer 3 of the printing unit 1 through the communication path 9 comprising:

  Note that the wireless communication between the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2 and the printing unit 1 is not limited to radio waves, and any method can be used as long as it can communicate a recognition code, which will be described later, such as infrared rays and ultrasonic waves.

  The pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2 shown in FIG. 2 includes a paper feeding unit 22, a temporary folding unit 24, an adhesive application unit 25, a temporary and a book from the upstream side (right side in the drawing) to the downstream side (left side in the drawing). The fixing unit 26, the main folding unit 27, the shape adjusting unit 28, the cutting / separating unit 29, the paper discharge storage unit 31, and the apparatus control unit 50 are configured.

  As illustrated in FIG. 3, the apparatus control unit 50 includes a crimping process controller 51, a sheet detection unit 52, a jam sensor unit 53 (monitoring unit), a number counter 54, and a sheet number storage unit 55 (storage unit). Yes.

  The paper detection unit 52 has a function of detecting the presence or absence of the remaining paper 8 or paper 11 that is set in the paper supply unit 22 and selected for paper supply, and transmits it to the crimping process controller 51.

  The jam sensor unit 53 includes abnormal conveyance of the paper 8 and the paper 11 inside the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2, and further, the temporary folding unit 24, the adhesive application unit 25, the temporary / main fixing unit 26, the main folding unit 27, and the shape adjustment. Whether or not the process of creating a pressure-bonded printed material such as a Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard 8Z or a V-fold pressure-bonded postcard 11V from the paper 8 or the paper 11 has failed due to a paper jam that is a failure such as an operation abnormality in the section 28 or the cutting and separating section 29 It has a function of detecting this and transmitting it to the crimping process controller 51.

The number counter 54 has a function of counting the number of sheets (that is, the number number M) created for the Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard 8Z and the V-fold pressure-bonded postcard 11V that are normally created from the paper 8 and the paper 11.
The paper number storage unit 55 is configured using, for example, a part of a built-in memory that is mounted to store the control program of the device control unit 50 of the press-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2, and a jammed paper number Mj described later is stored. Remembered.
In this case, by using a part of the built-in memory, there is an advantage that it is not necessary to separately provide a special memory for storing the jammed paper number Mj.

  The crimping process controller 51 has a function of communicating with the above-described external print management computer 3 and can transmit information such as the jammed paper number Mj to the print management computer 3 via the communication path 9. ing.

  With reference to the flowchart illustrated in FIG. 4, an example of the operation of storing the jammed paper number Mj in which a paper jam has occurred and the transmission operation to the outside by the device control unit 50 provided in the press-bonded printed material creation device 2 of the present embodiment. explain.

  In the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2, the number counter M of the number counter 54 is set to 1 prior to the start of pressure-bonded printed material creation using the paper 8 or the paper 11 on which the variable information has been printed by the printing device 4 (step 102). (Step 101), 1 is added to the sheet number M each time one sheet of the Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard 8Z and V-fold pressure-bonded postcard 11V is normally completed (step 104).

  When a paper jam is detected by the jam sensor unit 53 during the creation of a press-bonded printed product (step 105), the operation stops until the paper jam is cleared (step 106). Then, the sheet number M of the sheet 8 or the sheet 11 damaged by the sheet jam after the sheet jam is eliminated is stored in the sheet number storage unit 55 as the jammed sheet number Mj (step 107). This operation is repeated until the paper detection unit 52 detects that the paper 8 or the paper 11 loaded in the paper supply unit 22 of the press-bonded printed matter production apparatus 2 is lost (step 108).

  When the paper detection unit 52 detects that the paper 8 or the paper 11 loaded in the paper supply unit 22 is lost, the print management computer 3 stores the data of the jammed paper number Mj in the paper number storage unit 55 described above. It is transmitted (step 109).

  The print management computer 3 that has received the data of the jammed paper number Mj from the device control unit 50 of the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2 displays the variable information that should have been printed on the paper 8 or the paper 11 corresponding to the jammed paper number Mj. In the printing device 4, the new paper 8 or the paper 11 is printed again, and the reprinted paper 8 or the paper 11 is put into the paper feeding unit 22 of the pressure-sensitive printed material creating device 2, and again a pressure-bonded postcard or the like. Create a printed material.

  As described above, according to the press-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 of the present embodiment, the jammed sheet number Mj of the sheet 8 or the sheet 11 in which the sheet jam has occurred can be stored and output to the outside. A complicated recovery operation such as discriminating or storing the paper 8 or the paper 11 in which the paper jam has occurred becomes unnecessary.

As a result, the recovery including the process of reprinting the variable information for the paper 8 or the paper 11 on which the paper jam has occurred on the new paper 8 or the paper 11 can be efficiently performed in a short time with less labor without bothering the operator. Can be done.
Further, when the sheet number M is used as the identification information of the paper 8 or the paper 11 where the paper jam has occurred, there is an advantage that it is not necessary to print special information as the identification information on the paper 8 or the paper 11.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a modified example of the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 according to the present embodiment.

That is, as illustrated in FIG. 5, a general-purpose memory slot 56 is provided in the device controller 50, and a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory, an SD (Secure Digital) memory card, etc. The jammed paper number Mj can also be stored in a non-volatile portable storage medium 57 (storage means) composed of a general-purpose memory medium such as a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) card or a CF (CompactFlash) card.
In this case, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the jammed paper number Mj can be directly recorded on the portable storage medium 57 without providing the paper number storage unit 55. Alternatively, the jammed paper number Mj temporarily stored in the paper number storage unit 55 may be transferred to and stored in the portable storage medium 57.

  Then, the portable storage medium 57 is loaded into the print management computer 3 so that the variable information is reprinted in the printing apparatus 4 for the paper 8 or the paper 11 where the paper jam has occurred.

  When this portable storage medium 57 is used for storing the jammed paper number Mj and transmitting it to the print management computer 3, the communication path 9 connecting the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2 and the print management computer 3 of the printing unit 1 is unnecessary. It is.

  For this reason, according to the press-bonded printed material creation apparatus 2 of this Embodiment, the freedom degree of the arrangement layout in the press-bonded printed material preparation system including the said press-bonded printed material preparation apparatus 2 improves.

  Further, according to the press-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 of the present embodiment, the paper 8 or the paper 11 in which the paper jam has occurred can be reprinted in an arbitrary printing system different from the printing unit 1, and the paper jam can be performed. Convenience in recovery processing and the like is improved.

  FIG. 6A is a diagram showing a printing example of a two-fold (hereinafter also referred to as “V-fold”) pressure-bonded postcard printed by the printing apparatus 4, and FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of printing of the pressure-bonding postcard paper (it is called Z folding).

  As shown in FIG. 5A, the first folded surface of the V-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 11 is divided into two single surfaces, and the non-confidential information 12 and the sender name 13 are printed on the surface a. , The postal code 14, the address and the address 15 are printed on the surface b.

  Further, the second surface (back surface) is also divided into two single surfaces, which are not visible in the figure, but secret information is printed on the surfaces c and d. The V-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 11 is finally folded in a fold line 17.

  FIG. 2B shows the Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 8 shown in FIG. 1, and the first surface and the second surface are divided into three single surfaces. As shown in FIG. 6B, on the first surface, confidential information such as a billing statement is continuously printed on two single surfaces on the surface A and the surface B (of course, separately for each single surface). However, the postal code 14, the address and the address 15 are printed on the surface C in the same manner as the surface b in FIG.

  In addition, the second surface (back surface) is also divided into three single surfaces and is not visible in the figure, but on the surface D, similarly to the surface a in FIG. 13 and the like are printed, and confidential information different from the surfaces A and B is printed on the surfaces E and F. This Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 8 is finally folded at a fold line 19 and then folded at a fold line 21.

  FIGS. 7A and 7B are diagrams illustrating an example of the size of a sheet used for printing variable information as a pressure-bonded postcard sheet in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2, respectively.

  FIG. 4A shows an A4 size paper P-4. When the sheet is folded in two along the fold line 32 and cut along the cutting line 33, the length of one side is 14.85 cm and the width is 10 .5 cm 2 V-fold crimped postcards can be made.

  FIG. 2B shows a sheet P-3 in which one end P ′ in the longitudinal direction of the A3 size sheet is cut off by 10.5 cm in advance, and 3 along the two folding lines 34. When folded into two and cut along the cutting line 35, two Z-fold crimped postcards each having a length of 14.85 cm and a width of 10.5 cm can be produced.

  By the way, crimped postcards are usually handled as equivalent to postcards, but according to the postal code, the size of one side of a private postcard is 14 to 15.4 cm for the long side and 9 to 10.7 cm for the short side. It has become.

  Therefore, the vertical and horizontal dimensions of one surface of the pressure-bonded postcard shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B are all within the allowable range of the postcard approved by the Postal Service.

  These papers P-4 and P-3 shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B are fully folded when the powder adhesive 41 is applied, temporarily folded, when the powder adhesive 41 is assumed to be worn. In both cases, and during main fixing (crimping), the sheet is conveyed in the direction of the cutting line 33 or 35 indicated by the arrow Yb.

  8 (a) to 8 (f) show the V-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 11 (hereinafter simply referred to as paper) shown in FIG. 6 (a) in the order of the steps for forming the pressure-bonded postcards in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 shown in FIGS. 11) is a diagram showing a plan view, a perspective view, a side sectional view, and the like.

  In FIGS. 8A to 8F, the conveyance direction of the paper 11 in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 is indicated by an arrow Yd. That is, the paper 11 is completed as a V-fold pressure-bonded postcard through the processes of temporary folding, adhesive application, hypothetical wearing, unfolding, folding in two, pressure bonding, and cutting and separation while being conveyed in the direction of the arrow Yd.

  Further, in FIGS. 8A to 8F, two sheets of paper 11 are originally continuous until cutting and separation as shown in FIG. 7A. Only one copy is shown. 8A to 8F, the single surfaces of the first surface and the second surface are indicated by the same surface symbols a to d as in FIG. 6A.

  FIGS. 9A to 9F show the Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard paper 8 (hereinafter simply referred to as paper) shown in FIG. 6B in the order of the steps for forming the pressure-bonded postcard in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 shown in FIGS. 8) is a diagram showing the state of FIG. 8 in a plan view, a perspective view, a side sectional view, and the like.

  In FIGS. 9A to 9F, the conveyance direction of the paper 8 in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 is indicated by an arrow Yd. That is, the paper 8 is also completed as a Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard through the processes of temporary folding, adhesive application, hypothetical wearing, unfolding, tri-folding, pressure bonding, and cutting and separation while being conveyed in the direction of the arrow Yd.

  9 (a) to 9 (f) are originally continuous for two sheets of paper 8 as shown in FIG. 7 (b) until cutting and separating, but for easy understanding and simple illustration. Only one mail is shown. 9A to 9F, the single surfaces of the first surface and the second surface are indicated by the same surface symbols A to F as in FIG. 6B.

Hereinafter, an example of the pressure-bonded printed material production process in the pressure-bonded printed material production system of this example will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 9.
First, the sheet 8 or the sheet 11 on which the variable information necessary for the printing device 4 of the printing unit 1 has been printed is loaded so as to be processed in the order in which it is printed on the sheet feeding unit 22 of the press-bonded printed matter creation device 2.
The print management computer 3 of the printing unit 1 stores a correspondence relationship between the variable information printing order for the paper 8 and the paper 11 (that is, the sheet number M) and the variable information. That is, as will be described later, it is possible to specify the corresponding variable information from a specific number of sheets number M (jamming sheet number Mj).

Then, the apparatus control unit 50 of the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus 2 initializes the sheet number M of the sheet counter 54 to 1 (step 101).
When the paper 8 or the paper 11 is fed from the paper feeding unit 22 in FIG. 2 to the temporary folding unit 24, the pressure-bonded printed material creation process is started (step 102).

  In this paper feeding, FIG. 2 shows only one sheet of the pressure-sensitive postcard for the paper 8 or the paper 11 transported in the direction of the arrow in order to avoid the complexity of the illustration. As shown in (a) and (b), the paper 8 or the paper 11 for two postcards that are still connected by the cutting line 33 or 35 are in the direction of the arrow Yb in FIGS. 7 (a) and 7 (b). It is conveyed to.

  In the case of the paper 11, in the temporary folding part 24, as shown to FIG.8 (b), (c), the part of the surface b and the surface c on the front and back is folded as shown by the arrow i. The sheet 11 folded in this way is conveyed to the adhesive application unit 25.

  In the case of the paper 8, as shown in FIGS. 9B and 9C, a part of the paper (surface C and surface F on the front and back sides) is folded as indicated by an arrow j. The paper 8 in which a part of the paper is folded is conveyed to the adhesive application unit 25.

  The adhesive application unit 25 includes a powder adhesive storage unit 36, an adhesive application roller 37 provided at the lower end opening of the powder adhesive storage unit 36, and a transfer roller that is in pressure contact with the adhesive application roller 37. 38, a cleaner 39 for cleaning the peripheral surface of the adhesive application roller 37, and the like.

  The paper 8 or the paper 11 carried into the adhesive application unit 25 is applied with the powder adhesive 41 on the upper surface while being sandwiched and conveyed by the adhesive application roller 37 and the transfer roller 38.

  In the case of the paper 8, the upper surface to which the powder adhesive 41 is applied is the front and back of the unfolded surface A that is exposed side by side with the surface F in FIG. In addition, as shown in FIG. 9D, the powder adhesive 41 is applied to the predetermined surfaces (surface F and surface A) on both the front and back surfaces at once.

  In the case of the paper 11, the upper surface to which the powder adhesive 41 is applied is a second surface c shown in FIG. 8C, and the second surface c is shown in FIG. As shown in d), a powder adhesive 41 is applied.

  The paper 8 or the paper 11 coated with the powder adhesive 41 is conveyed to the temporary / main fixing unit 26. A lower endless heat belt 42 and pressure rollers 43 and 36 are arranged in the paper carry-in portion of the temporary / main fixing portion 26 so as to sandwich the lower endless heat belt 42 from above and below, thereby forming an assumed attachment portion.

  The pressure roller 44 located on the lower surface (outer side) of the lower endless heat belt 42 is always in contact with the lower surface of the lower endless heat belt 42, and the pressure roller 43 disposed opposite the pressure roller 44 is assumed to be attached. In this case, it moves downward and presses the lower endless heat belt 42 toward the pressure roller 43.

  As a result, the paper 8 or the paper 11 is sandwiched between the lower endless heat belt 42 and the pressure roller 44 and conveyed, and heat and pressure are applied, so that the powder adhesive 41 is assumed on the paper surface.

  The paper 8 or the paper 11 on which the powder adhesive 41 is presupposed on the paper surface is then conveyed to the main folding unit 27. The sheet 8 or sheet 11 carried into the main folding unit 27 is first widened once.

  FIG. 8 (e) shows the first surface (surface a, surface b) of the paper 11 spread as shown by the arrow k, and in FIG. The powder adhesive 41 is assumed on the surface c of the second surface (back surface).

  FIG. 9E shows the first surface (surface A, surface B, surface C) of the paper 8 spread as shown by the arrow m, and the above-mentioned powder adhesion is applied to the surface A. The agent 41 is assumed. In addition, in FIG. 9E, the powder adhesive 41 is assumed on the surface F of the second surface (back surface) although it is not visible in the shade.

  Thereafter, in the main folding portion 27, in the case of the paper 11, the surface c is folded toward the surface d as shown by the arrow n as shown in FIG. As a result, the sheet 11 is V-folded.

  In the case of the paper 8, as shown in FIG. 9 (f), the surface F is folded to the surface E side, and the surface B that is continuously folded and doubled with the surface F is folded to the surface A side. It is. As a result, the paper 8 is Z-folded.

  The sheet 11 or the sheet 8 that has been V-folded or Z-folded is conveyed again to the temporary / main fixing unit 26. However, this time, the sheet 11 or the sheet 8 is carried into the main fixing unit in which the lower endless heat belt 42 and the upper endless heat belt 45 are arranged to face each other.

  Three pressure rollers including the above-described pressure roller 43 are disposed inside the lower endless heat belt 42, and the three endless heat belts 42 include the above three pressure rollers. Three pressure rollers are arranged at a position facing the pressure roller in a pair.

  Each of these pressure rollers presses the endless heat belt toward the facing portion. As a result, the sheet 11 or the sheet 8 folded into the V-fold or the Z-fold is sandwiched between the lower endless heat belt 42 and the upper endless heat belt 45 and conveyed, while being coated with the powder adhesive 41 (on the sheet 11). The surface c, the surface A and the surface F in the paper 8, and the opposing surfaces (the surface d in the paper 11, the surface B and the surface E in the paper 8) are respectively pressed.

  Subsequently, the paper 11 or the paper 8 is conveyed to the shape sorting unit 28. In the shape sorting unit 28, the sheet 11 or the sheet 8 is corrected in skew, aligned in the conveyance width direction, and further conveyed to the cutting / separating unit 29.

The cutting / separating section 29 is cut by a splitter along the cutting line 33 or 35 shown in FIG. 7A or FIG. 7B, and is used as two independent V-folding postcard 11V or Z-folding postcard 8Z. Complete.
The completed two V-fold pressure-bonded postcards 11V or Z-fold pressure-bonded postcards 8Z are stored in the paper discharge storage section 31.

  Thus, when the Z-fold pressure-bonded postcard 8Z or V-fold pressure-bonded postcard 11V is normally created from one sheet 8 or sheet 11 (step 103), 1 is added to the sheet number M (step 104). The presence or absence of unprocessed paper 8 or paper 11 in the paper supply unit 22 is confirmed by the paper detection unit 52 (step 108). If there is any unprocessed paper 8 or paper 11, the process returns to step 102 described above. Thus, a new sheet 8 or sheet 11 is fed from the sheet feeding unit 22 to the temporary folding unit 24 and the creation process is performed again.

  Here, when the jam sensor unit 53 detects that a paper jam has occurred in any one of the processes for creating the press-bonded printed material in step 102 (step 105), it is confirmed that the paper jam has been resolved (step 105). 106) The crimping process controller 51 stores the sheet number M at that time in the sheet number storage unit 55 as the jammed sheet number Mj (step 107).

  The detection of the paper jam by the jam sensor unit 53 is, for example, a predetermined information that is known in advance from the feeding of the paper 11 or the paper 8 from the paper feeding unit 22 to the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2 to the discharge to the paper discharge storage unit 31. Even if time elapses, it is detected that the paper 11 or the paper 8 is not discharged to the paper discharge storage unit 31.

  Alternatively, when there is a sheet that does not pass through the next process within a certain time from the previous process by disposing an identification code reading device immediately after each processing process unit inside the crimped printed material creating apparatus 2, It may be determined that a paper jam has occurred.

Further, instead of judging the paper jam from the conveyance time, a general mechanical jam detection device may be used, and any method or device capable of detecting the paper jam may be used.
In any case, the paper jam is automatically recognized by the jam sensor unit 53.

  When it is confirmed in step 108 that there is no unprocessed sheet 8 or sheet 11 in the sheet feeding unit 22, the crimping process controller 51 prints the data of the jammed sheet number Mj stored in the sheet number storage unit 55. It transmits to the management computer 3.

  When the print management computer 3 instructs the printing apparatus 4 to print on the paper 8 or 11, the printing order (number of sheets) of each of the paper 8 and the paper 11 is as described above until an erasure instruction is given from the operator. M) and print data that is the correspondence between the variable information are stored in a database on the HD.

  When the print management computer 3 receives the data of the jammed paper number Mj transmitted from the crimping process controller 51 of the crimped printed material creating apparatus 2, the print management computer 3 searches the database and prints variable information corresponding to the jammed paper number Mj. The data is read and the printing apparatus 4 is instructed to perform reprinting with the print data.

  As a result, reprinting is performed on the new sheet of variable information corresponding to the jammed sheet number Mj of the sheet 8 or 11 that caused the sheet jam.

  In this way, when a paper jam occurs and the corresponding paper is no longer useful, reprinting is automatically performed by the amount corresponding to the paper, so that the operator can use the paper that caused the paper jam. It is only necessary to set the sheet reprinted by the printing apparatus 4 after the removal of the sheet to the paper feeding unit 22 of the press-bonded printed matter creating apparatus 2.

  Therefore, the manual recovery process at the time of occurrence of paper jam, such as confirming the print content of the paper that caused the paper jam, searching for the print data of the confirmed print content, and issuing a print instruction to the printing apparatus 4 is required. This greatly reduces the time and effort required for recovery when a jam occurs.

Needless to say, the present invention is not limited to the configuration exemplified in the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
For example, the jammed paper identification number is not limited to the jammed paper number Mj, but the unique information for each individual paper among the variable information printed on the paper 8 and the paper 11 is used as the jammed paper identification information. 2 may be read and used as identification information.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows typically the structure of the press-bonded printed matter production system which is one embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows an example of an internal structure of the crimped printed material creation apparatus which is one embodiment of this invention. It is the block diagram which took out and illustrated the one part structure of the crimped printed matter production apparatus which is one embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of an effect | action of the crimped printed material creation apparatus which is one embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the modification of the crimped printed material creation apparatus which is one embodiment of this invention. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a printing of 2 fold (V-fold) pressure-bonded postcard paper, (b) is a figure which shows the example of printing of 3 fold (Z-fold) pressure-bonded postcard paper. (A), (b) is a figure which shows the size of the paper used for printing as a pressure-bonded postcard paper in the pressure-bonded printed matter production apparatus of Embodiment 2, respectively. (A)-(f) is a figure which shows the state of V-folding pressure-bonded postcard paper in the order of the production | generation process of the pressure-bonded postcard in the pressure-bonded printed matter preparation apparatus of Embodiment 2 with a top view, a perspective view, a side sectional view, etc. (A)-(f) is a figure which shows the state of Z-folding pressure-bonded postcard paper in the order of the production | generation process of the pressure-bonded postcard in the pressure-bonded printed matter production apparatus of Embodiment 2 with a top view, a perspective view, a side sectional view, etc.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Printing part 2 Crimp printed material preparation apparatus 3 Print management computer 4 Printing apparatus 5 Main body 6 Liquid crystal display device 7 Keyboard 8 Paper 8Z Z fold crimping postcard 9 Communication path 11 Paper 11V V fold crimping postcard 12 Non-confidential information 13 Sender name 14 Zip code 15 Address 17 Folding line 19 Folding line 21 Folding line 22 Paper feeding unit 24 Temporary folding unit 25 Adhesive application unit 26 Temporary / main fixing unit 27 Main folding unit 28 Shape trimming unit 29 Cutting separation unit 31 Paper discharge storage unit 32 Folding line 33 Cutting line 34 Folding line 35 Cutting line 36 Powder adhesive container 37 Adhesive application roller 38 Transfer roller 39 Cleaner 41 Powder adhesive 42 Lower endless heat belt 43 Pressure roller 44 Pressure roller 45 Upper endless heat belt 50 Device control unit 51 Crimping process controller 52 Paper detection unit 53 Jam sensor unit 54 Number counter 55 Paper number storage unit 56 General Memory slot 57 portability storage medium 100 crimp printed matter creation system M number number Mj jam sheet number

Claims (8)

A crimped printed material creating apparatus for creating a crimped printed material from a paper on which variable information is printed,
Monitoring means for monitoring whether the crimped printed material has been successfully created from each of the sheets;
Storage means for storing identification information of the paper determined by the monitoring means to have failed to create the press-bonded printed matter;
A pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus comprising: In the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus according to claim 1,
The pressure-sensitive printed matter creating apparatus, wherein the identification information is a paper number assigned in the order of processing of the paper. In the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus according to claim 1,
The pressure-sensitive printed material creating apparatus, wherein the storage means is a built-in memory mounted on the pressure-bonded printed material device. In the press-bonded printed material creating apparatus according to claim 1,
The pressure-sensitive printed material creating apparatus, wherein the storage means is a portable storage medium that is detachable from a general-purpose memory slot provided in the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus. An information processing apparatus for creating or storing variable information;
A printing device that prints the variable information output from the information processing device on paper;
A pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus that creates a pressure-bonded printed material from the paper on which the variable information is printed in the printing device;
A crimped printed material creation system including:
The pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus includes:
Monitoring means for monitoring whether the crimped printed material has been successfully created from each of the sheets;
Storage means for storing identification information of the paper determined to have failed to produce the crimped printed matter by the monitoring means,
A system for producing a pressure-bonded printed matter, wherein the identification information is transmitted to the information processing apparatus, and the variable information printed on the sheet of the identification information is printed on a new sheet. In the press-bonded printed material creation system according to claim 5,
The pressure-sensitive printed material creating system, wherein the identification information is a paper number assigned in the processing order of the paper. In the press-bonded printed material creation system according to claim 5,
The storage means is a built-in memory of the pressure-bonded printed material creating apparatus,
The pressure-sensitive printed material creating system, wherein the identification information stored in the built-in memory is transmitted to the information processing device via a communication unit that connects the pressure-bonded printed material device and the information processing device. In the press-bonded printed material creation system according to claim 5,
The storage means is a portable storage medium that is attached to and detached from a general-purpose memory slot provided in the pressure-bonded printed matter creating apparatus, and the identification information is transmitted to the information processing apparatus via the portable storage medium. Crimped printed material creation system characterized by