JP2010284891A - Device for determining rejection of collective printed matter and system for forming collective printed matter - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the possibility of accidentally collecting variable printed matters of different orders when a plurality of kinds of variable printed matter arranged in specific order and having print contents different from each other are collected for every order. <P>SOLUTION: A device for determining rejection of collective printed matter includes: a print result information receiving unit which receives the print result information of representing rejection of the print result associated with a specific order, for at least one kind of variable printed matter in a plurality of kinds of variable printed matter arranged in specific order and having print contents different from each other; and a collective result information output unit which outputs the collective result information of representing rejection of the collective printed matter, produced by collecting the printed matters including the plurality of kinds of variable printed matters for every specific order, based on the print result information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an aggregated printed material quality determination apparatus and an aggregated printed material creation system.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a printing system that inspects whether printing is properly performed in printing including variable information, and reprints the extracted defective pages. In the invention described in this document, reprinting is performed following the end of a series of scheduled print jobs.

  Patent Document 2 describes an information processing apparatus that associates each record in a print job for variable printing with a print page and manages them in record units. In the invention described in this document, for variable printing managed as a single job, reprinting is performed in accordance with a reprinting instruction specifying a record.

JP 2006-277739 A JP 2008-269261 A

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is that when a plurality of types of variable printed products arranged in a specific order and printed with different contents for each printed material are aggregated in each order, the variable printed materials in different orders are aggregated by mistake. It is to eliminate the possibility.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the aggregate printed matter pass / fail judgment device according to claim 1 of the present invention is arranged in a specific order, and at least one of a plurality of types of variable printed matter in which different contents are printed for each printed matter. For the types of variable prints, a print result information receiving unit that receives print result information indicating the quality of the print results associated with the specific order, and the plurality of types for each specific order based on the print result information An aggregated result information output unit that outputs aggregated result information representing quality of the aggregated printed matter that is a collection of the printed matter including the variable printed matter.

  In addition, the aggregated printed material quality determination apparatus according to claim 2 of the present invention, when a plurality of pieces of print result information include information indicating defective print results in a certain order, the aggregated printed materials in the order are defective. The aggregated printed matter pass / fail judgment device according to claim 1, wherein the aggregation result information is generated by generating information indicating that it is.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a consolidated printed matter pass / fail judgment device that instructs to reprint at least all types of the variable printed materials in the order in which the consolidated printed materials are defective, based on the aggregation result information. The aggregated printed matter quality determination device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising a reprint command output unit that outputs a print command.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the aggregated printed matter amount judging device according to the third aspect, which outputs information indicating the order of the aggregated printed matter obtained after reprinting.

  An aggregated printed matter creation system according to claim 5 of the present invention aggregates the aggregated printed matter pass / fail judgment device according to any of claims 1 to 4 and a plurality of types of printed matter including the plurality of types of variable printed matter. An aggregation unit that creates the aggregated printed matter; and a removal unit that removes the aggregated printed matter in the order determined to be defective based on the aggregation result information.

  An aggregated printed matter creation system according to claim 6 of the present invention includes the aggregated printed matter pass / fail judgment device according to claim 3, at least one variable printing unit that prints the variable printed matter according to a specific order, At least one inspection unit that determines the quality of the print result of the variable printed material and generates the print result information, a print result information transmission unit that transmits the print result information to the print result information reception unit, and the reprint command And a reprint command receiving unit that causes the variable print unit to reprint the variable printed material based on the reprint command.

  According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided an aggregated printed material creation system that determines at least one variable printing unit that prints the variable printed material according to a specific order, the quality of the printed result of the variable printed material, and the print result information. At least one inspection unit for generating the print result information, a print result information transmitting unit for transmitting the print result information to the print result information receiving unit, the variable print unit based on the reprint command And a reprint command receiving unit that reprints the variable printed material.

  Further, the program according to claim 8 of the present invention relates to at least one type of variable printed matter among a plurality of types of variable printed matter in which computers are arranged in a specific order and different contents are printed for each printed matter. A print result information receiving unit that receives print result information indicating pass / fail of a print result associated with a specific order, and a print product including the plurality of types of variable print materials for each specific order based on the print result information And an aggregated result information output unit that outputs aggregated result information representing quality of the aggregated printed matter.

  According to the aggregated printed material quality determination apparatus according to claim 1, when a plurality of types of variable printed materials arranged in a specific order and printed with different contents for each printed material are aggregated in each order, the variable printed materials in different orders. It is possible to eliminate the possibility of erroneous aggregation.

  Further, according to the aggregated printed material quality determination apparatus according to claim 2, when the printing result information is obtained for a plurality of types of variable printed materials, when at least one of the variable printed materials is defective in a certain order, It is possible to determine that such an aggregated printed matter is defective.

  In addition, according to the aggregated printed material quality determination apparatus according to the third aspect, it is possible to recreate the aggregated printed material determined to be defective without erroneously aggregating the variable printed materials in different orders.

  In addition, according to the aggregated printed matter quality determination apparatus according to the fourth aspect, it is possible to know the order of the obtained aggregated printed matter.

  Further, according to the aggregated printed matter creating system according to the fifth aspect, it is possible to remove the aggregated printed matter that is determined to be defective.

  In addition, according to the aggregated printed matter creation system according to the sixth aspect, it is possible to recreate the aggregated printed matter that is determined to be defective.

  Further, according to the aggregated printed matter creation system according to the seventh aspect, aggregates determined to be defective can be removed and recreated.

  Further, according to the program according to the eighth aspect, when a plurality of types of variable printed materials arranged in a specific order and printed with different contents for each printed matter are aggregated in each order, the computers can be changed in different orders. It is possible to function as an aggregated printed matter pass / fail judgment device that can eliminate the possibility of erroneously collecting printed matter.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a printing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure explaining the flow until an aggregated printed matter is produced | generated more concretely. It is a figure which shows an example of the data which show the arrangement order of the acquired aggregated printed matter. It is a figure which shows the structure of the printing system which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a printing system 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  The printing system 1 shown in the figure aggregates a plurality of types of variable prints and normal prints to create an aggregate print.

  Here, the variable printed material refers to a printed material in which different contents are printed for each printed material in a continuous series of printed materials, and a printing method for printing the variable printed material is referred to as variable printing. In many cases, the variable printed material has a common portion where the printed content is common to each printed material, and a variable portion where the printed content is different for each printed material. The variable printed material includes, for example, an invoice for each customer, a guide or advertisement for each customer, or an envelope on which an address is printed. For example, taking an invoice as an example, the portion of the specification described in the invoice is a variable portion because it differs for each customer, and the portion of the frame describing the specification is a common portion. Of course, the variable printed material is not limited to those illustrated. Further, the printed material is not necessarily limited to that printed on a piece of paper. The print medium may be anything other than a piece of paper as long as it can be used for printing such as a box, a plastic film, a three-dimensional model such as a miniature model. Furthermore, the type of the printed material is a classification according to the content of the printed material that is distinguished by social wisdom, and in the previous example, a bill, a guide, an advertisement, an envelope, and the like correspond to the type of the printed material. Of course, it is arbitrary how to classify the types of printed matter according to necessity and purpose.

  Here, the normal printed material is a word used for the variable printed material, and is used to indicate a printed material on which a common content is printed in a continuous series of printed materials.

  The aggregated printed matter refers to a collection of a plurality of types of printed matter to be handled as one unit. In addition, the work to be organized in this way is called aggregation here. The specific work of aggregation may be any type. For example, a plurality of printed materials are bound by a stapler, bound, stored together in an envelope, and a seal printed with an address is printed on the envelope. Affixed to. Of course, a plurality of these specific operations may be combined. For example, the operation | work which accommodates the several printed matter bound with the stapler in an envelope, and also sticks the seal | sticker with the address printed on the envelope has gathered several printed matter, an envelope, and a seal | sticker.

  As an example, the printing system 1 shown in FIG. 1 shows a bill, individual advertisements, and addressed envelopes as variable prints, a guide printed as normal prints, and aggregated to create an aggregate print. Here, the individual advertisement refers to an advertisement for each customer, and the contents thereof are different for each printed matter according to the purchase history of each customer. The addressed envelope is an envelope on which the address of each mailing address is printed. The guidance is a printed matter in which contents common to all mailing destinations such as new product information and store business day notices are printed. In addition, as for the arrow in a figure, the continuous line has shown the flow of printed matter, and the broken line has shown the flow of information.

  The variable printing machine 2a shown in the figure prints an invoice, the variable printing machine 2b prints an individual advertisement, and the variable printing machine 2c prints addressed envelopes in a specific order. Here, the specific order refers to an order in which a plurality of types of variable printed materials belonging to the same order are in a specific correspondence relationship to be aggregated, such as an order in a customer list. Here, the variable printed matter in the same order is a printed matter corresponding to a customer who is the same mailing address, and the order is distinguished by a serial number. Variable prints to which the same serial number is assigned are variable prints to be aggregated. Note that the information indicating that each variable printed material has a specific correspondence is not limited to a serial number as in this embodiment, and any information that indicates the order of each variable printed material and the corresponding relationship. There may be. In this embodiment, each of the variable printing machines 2a, 2b, and 2c prints a single type of variable printed matter. However, one variable printing machine may print a plurality of types of variable printed matter. For example, the variable printing machine 2a prints both the billing office and the individual advertisement.

  Each variable printing machine 2a, 2b, 2c is provided with a reprint command receiving unit 21a, 21b, 21c, respectively. The reprint command receiving units 21a, 21b, and 21c receive a reprint command that will be described later, and cause each variable printing machine 2a, 2b, and 2c to perform necessary reprinting.

  The printing machine 3 prints the guidance. Since all the guides have the same contents, it is not necessary to associate each printed matter in a specific order. The guide is printed in at least the same number of copies as the aforementioned variable print. The printing machine 3 is also provided with a reprinting command receiving unit 31 that receives the reprinting command and causes the printing machine 3 to perform necessary reprinting.

  The reprint command receiving units 21a, 21b, 21c, and 31 may function as a print command receiving unit that receives not only a reprint command but also a print command.

  As shown by an arrow 91, the variable printed matter printed by the variable printing press 2a, 2b, or 2c is an inspection device 4a that functions as an inspection unit that creates print result information indicating the quality of the print results associated with a specific order. 4b, 4c. The inspection devices 4a, 4b, and 4c inspect the invoices, individual advertisements, and addressed envelopes for the correct contents, whether there are any mess, missing pages, etc. The print result information recorded in is created. The print result information is sent to the print result information reception unit 61 provided in the aggregated print quality determination device 6 described later by the print result information transmission units 41a, 41b, and 41c provided in the inspection devices 4a, 4b, and 4c. . In the present embodiment, the inspection devices 4a, 4b, and 4c are provided corresponding to the variable printing machines 2a, 2b, and 2c, but are not limited thereto. For example, variable printed matter from a plurality of variable printing presses may be inspected with a smaller number of inspection devices, or may be distributed to a larger number of inspection devices for inspection.

  In this embodiment, the inspection device is not provided downstream of the printing machine 3 that prints a guide that is a normal printed matter. However, an inspection device may be provided for inspection. At that time, the inspection apparatus generates print result information in the same manner as the inspection apparatuses 4 a, 4 b, and 4 c provided downstream of the variable printing machines 2 a, 2 b, and 2 c, and sends the print result information to the print result information reception unit 61. Alternatively, if the inspection result is defective, the defective printed matter may be removed immediately. In any case, a necessary number of copies are sent from the printing press 3 to the aggregation device 5.

  Printed products from the inspection devices 4 a, 4 b, 4 c and the printing press 3 are sent to the aggregation device 5 as indicated by an arrow 92. The aggregation device 5 functions as an aggregation unit that aggregates each printed matter, that is, an invoice, an individual advertisement, an addressed envelope, and a guide in each order to create an aggregated printed matter. Specifically, the same number of bills, individual advertisements, and guidance are enclosed in an envelope with the same number. If necessary, other operations may be performed simultaneously. Such an operation may be, for example, sealing an addressed envelope, or folding an invoice, an individual advertisement, or a guide according to the size of the addressed envelope. Of course, operations such as sealing and folding may be performed by providing a separate dedicated device.

  Further, the print result information from the print result information transmitting units 41a, 41b, 41c of the inspection devices 4a, 4b, 4c is the print result information receiving unit 61 provided in the aggregated print quality determining device 6 as indicated by an arrow 93. Sent to. Based on the received print result information, the consolidated printed material quality determination device 6 outputs the consolidated result information that records the quality of the consolidated printed material for each number. More specifically, the print result information is sent from the print result information reception unit 61 to the aggregation result information generation unit 62 as indicated by an arrow 94, and the aggregation result information is generated. The aggregation result information is further sent to the aggregation result information output unit 63 as indicated by an arrow 95, and is output in a usable format. In the present embodiment, as indicated by an arrow 96, it is transmitted to an aggregation result information receiving unit 71 provided in the sorting apparatus 7 described later, and is also transmitted to a reprint command output unit 64 as indicated by an arrow 97. Of course, the output is not limited to these modes. In addition, the aggregation result information is displayed using an arbitrary image display device, printed on a print medium, and notified to the user, or a hard disk. Or a DVD-ROM (DVD-Read Only Memory) FD (Flexible Disk) or any other information recording medium. The reprint command output unit 64 uses the arrows 98 for the reprint command reception units 21a, 21b, 21c, and 31 of the variable printing machines 2a, 2b, and 2c and the printing machine 3 for the aggregated prints determined to be defective based on the aggregation result information. A reprint command is issued as shown in FIG. At this time, the reprint command is issued for at least all variable prints. In this embodiment, a reprint command is issued for all variable prints and normal prints, so a reprint command is issued to all variable printers 2a, 2b, 2c and the printer 3.

  Note that the aggregated printed material quality determination device 6 may use a dedicated device, or a general computer having a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a memory, an input / output interface, a monitor, an external storage device, and the like may determine the aggregated printed material quality determination The device 6 may be used. In that case, by executing a program for causing the computer to operate as the aggregated print product quality determination device 6 on such a computer, the aggregated print product quality determination device 6 is virtually realized. A program for causing a computer to operate as the aggregated print quality determination device 6 may be recorded on an arbitrary information recording medium such as a DVD-ROM or a CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory), and may be represented by the Internet. It may be provided as a computer-readable electric signal via a telecommunication line such as a public line.

  The aggregated printed matter aggregated by the aggregation device 5 is sent to the sorting device 7 as indicated by an arrow 99. The sorting device 7 functions as a removing unit that removes the aggregated printed matter in the order determined to be defective based on the aggregation result information received by the aggregation result information receiving unit 71. Specifically, in the aggregation result information, the aggregated printed matter having a serial number in which information indicating that the aggregated printed matter is defective is extracted and discarded. Note that the sorting device 7 is not always essential, and instead, for example, based on the printed aggregation result information, it is also possible to manually remove the aggregated printed matter in which the worker is defective. However, it is preferable to perform the removal work with an automatic machine because it is fast and free of mistakes in removal. Moreover, although it is preferable to provide the aggregation device 5 for aggregation, an operator may perform aggregation.

  Further, the aggregated printed matter removed as defective is reprinted by the variable printing presses 2a, 2b, 2c and the printing press 3 in accordance with a reprinting instruction made for all the variable printed matter and the normal printed matter as indicated by an arrow 98. Is done. Each reprinted printed matter is inspected in the same manner as the printed matter described so far, collected by the collecting device 5, and those determined to be defective are removed again by the sorting device 7. If there is an aggregated print that is determined to be defective at the reprinting stage, reprinting is further performed, and the same is repeated until there is no aggregate determined to be defective.

  Through the above-described process, the aggregated printed matter 8 determined as a non-defective product is created. In the present embodiment, the variable printing presses 2a, 2b, 2c, the printing press 3, the inspection devices 4a, 4b, 4c, and the sorting device 7 are connected to the aggregated printed matter pass / fail judgment device 6 through an electric communication line so that they can communicate with each other. It was supposed to be. Such a telecommunication line is not particularly limited, and a dedicated line may be used, or a public line represented by a LAN (Local Area Network) or the Internet may be used.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 2, the flow until the aggregated printed matter 8 is generated will be described more specifically. In the drawing, each printed matter, the printing result information, and the aggregation result information are schematically shown. What is indicated by reference numeral 81 is an invoice 81 printed by the variable printing machine 2a (see FIG. 1), in which it is divided into 81-1, 81-2, etc. , Individual bills corresponding to each order. A subscript attached to the reference numeral 81 after a hyphen indicates a serial number of each bill. Similarly, an individual advertisement 82 and an addressed envelope 83 are shown, and variable prints having a common subscript, for example, an invoice 81-1, an individual advertisement 82-1 and an addressed envelope 83-1, are printed. For example, should be sent to the same destination. The guide 84 includes a number of individual guides 85 all having the same contents. Further, the variable printed materials are arranged in a specific order, in this case, stacked in the order of serial numbers. In this figure, for the convenience of illustration, each variable printed matter is shown in the direction in which the serial number increases from the upper side to the lower side in the figure, but how to actually arrange each variable printed matter is arbitrary, for example, It can be in ascending order or descending order.

  What is indicated by reference numeral 86 is print result information of the invoice 81 obtained by the inspection device 4a (see FIG. 1). The serial number is shown in the left column of the print result information 86, and the inspection result of the invoice 81 with the corresponding serial number is shown in the right column. In the figure, “OK” indicates that the product is determined to be a non-defective product as a result of inspection, and “NG” indicates that the product is determined to be defective as a result of inspection. In the case of the print result information 86, the bill 81-3 having the serial number 3 has some printing error or the like, and is determined to be defective. Similarly, the print result information 87 indicates the inspection result of the individual advertisement 82, and the print result information 88 indicates the inspection result of the addressed envelope 83. Here, the print result information 87 indicates that the individual advertisement 82-20 with serial number 20 has a defect.

  All the printed materials, that is, the bill 81, the individual advertisement 82, the addressed envelope 83, and the guide 84 are aggregated by the aggregation device 5 (see FIG. 1), and the aggregated printed material 8 is obtained. As shown in the figure, the aggregated print 8 is a collection of variable prints and normal prints that are in a corresponding relationship, and each aggregated print includes a part of each variable print and normal print having a common serial number. . For example, the aggregated printed matter 8-1 is obtained by enclosing a bill 81-1, an individual advertisement 82-1 and a guide 85 in an addressed envelope 83-1. The aggregate printed matter 8 is also arranged in a specific order.

  On the other hand, the printing result information 86, 87, 88 received by the printing result information receiving unit 61 of the consolidated printed material quality determination apparatus 6 (see FIG. 1) generates the aggregation result information 89 in the aggregation result information generating unit 62. Used for The aggregation result information 89 is information indicating whether or not each aggregated print product in the aggregated print product 8 is a non-defective product. The quality of individual consolidated prints is determined in a certain order, in this case, when all the printed products included in the consolidated printed product corresponding to a certain serial number are non-defective products, the specific consolidated printed product is determined to be non-defective, If the printed matter includes a printed matter that is defective, it is determined that the specific aggregate printed matter is defective. More specifically, aggregated result information 89 is generated by performing a logical sum for each serial number for all print result information, that is, information indicating defects in the print result information 86, 87 and 88. In the example shown in this embodiment, the print result information 86 includes information indicating that the invoice 81-3 with the serial number 3 is defective, and the print result information 87 includes the individual advertisement 82-20 with the serial number 20. Information indicating a failure is included. Therefore, the aggregation result information 89 includes information indicating that the serial numbers 3 and 20 of the aggregated printed products 8-3 and 8-20 are defective, as indicated by “NG” in the drawing.

  As described with reference to FIG. 1, based on the aggregation result information 89, the sorting device 7 removes defective aggregated printed products 8-3 and 8-20. Further, the consolidated printed material quality determination device 9 transmits a reprint command to the variable printing machines 2a, 2b, and 2c and the printing machine 3 for the defective consolidated printed products 8-3 and 8-20.

  According to the printing system 1 described above, all variable printed materials are arranged in a specific order when the printed materials are collected. Therefore, a plurality of types of variable printed matter having a specific correspondence relationship are accurately collected.

  Further, the consolidated printed material quality determination apparatus 6 may further output information indicating the order of alignment of the obtained consolidated printed material 8. FIG. 3 shows an example of information indicating the alignment order of the obtained aggregated printed matter 8. This figure schematically shows the contents of such information in the form of a table.

  In the figure, “serial number” is a serial number of the printed matter. Further, the columns of “invoice”, “individual advertisement”, and “addressed envelope” indicate the inspection results of the invoice, individual advertisement, and addressed envelope, respectively, and print result information 86, 87, and 88 in FIG. It is the same information as. The column “aggregated printed matter” is information indicating the quality of each aggregated printed matter 8 and is the same information as the aggregation result information 89. In the present embodiment, as an example, it is assumed that 200 copies of the aggregate printed material 8 are printed. In this case, a serial number from 1 to 200 is shown in the “serial number” column in the figure, and the quality of each printed matter and the aggregated printed matter 8 corresponding to each serial number is shown on the same line. Then, the numbers 3 and 20 which are the numbers of the reprinted printed materials are added below the serial number 200 printed materials in the order of the reprinting.

  Such information indicates the order in which the finally obtained aggregated print 8 is arranged. That is, when “NG” indicating that the aggregated print product 8 is defective is indicated in the “aggregate print product” column, the aggregated print product 8 has been removed, so the “serial number” column indicates the serial number. Except for the corresponding aggregated print product 8, the sequence of remaining serial numbers indicates the sequence of the aggregated print product 8 actually obtained.

  This information includes the inspection results for invoices, individual advertisements, and addressed envelopes. However, if such inspection results are unnecessary, information on such inspection results may not be included. Good. In addition, if information indicating that the aggregated printed matter is defective is not necessary, the information may be deleted. Specifically, the line displaying “NG” in the “aggregated printed matter” column in the figure is deleted. In this case, information indicating the arrangement order of the aggregated printed matter 8 obtained only from the arrangement order of the serial numbers in the “serial number” column obtained after deleting the line may be used.

  Further, the information indicating the order of arrangement of the obtained consolidated printed matter 8 may be output in an arbitrary format. For example, the image can be displayed using an arbitrary image display device, printed on a print medium, recorded on an arbitrary information recording medium, or transmitted to an external information processing apparatus via an electric communication line. Good.

  As described above, in the printing system 1 according to the first embodiment, the variable printing machines 2a, 2b, and 2c, the printing machine 3, and the inspection devices 4a, 4b, and 4c can communicate with the aggregated printed material quality determination device 6. Connected by telecommunication line. However, connection via such a telecommunication line is not essential. Further, each device constituting the printing system 1 may belong to a separate business entity.

  In the printing system 101 according to the second embodiment of the present invention that will be described subsequently, the variable printing machines 2a, 2b, and 2c, the printing machine 3, and the inspection devices 4a, 4b, and 4c are not necessarily in electrical communication with the consolidated printed material quality determination device 6. In this example, the apparatuses are not connected by a line, and each device constituting the printing system 101 belongs to a separate business entity.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a printing system 101 according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the same reference numerals are given to the same configurations as those in the first embodiment, and the detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, the printing system 101 shown in the figure aggregates and collects bills, individual advertisements and addressed envelopes that are variable prints, and guidance that is normal prints, as in the printing system 1 according to the first embodiment. A printed material shall be created.

  In the printing system 101, the business operator 102 that prints the invoice, the business operator 103 that prints the individual advertisement, the business operator 104 that prints the addressed envelope and the guidance, and the business operator 105 that creates the aggregated printed matter 8 are all different. . Note that this is merely an example, and it is of course arbitrary which business entity creates which printed matter.

  The aggregation device 5, the consolidated printed material quality determination device 6, and the sorting device 7 belong to the business operator 105. The variable printing machine 2a and the inspection device 4a belonging to the business operator 102 are connected to the aggregated printed material quality determination device 6 through an electric communication line. Therefore, printing and reprinting instructions are exchanged electronically as indicated by an arrow 98-1, and printing result information is exchanged electronically as indicated by an arrow 93-1.

  Further, the variable printing machine 2b and the inspection device 4b belonging to the business operator 103 and the aggregated printed material quality determination device 6 are not connected to be communicable. Therefore, printing and reprinting instructions are issued by a printing instruction as shown by an arrow 98-2. The business operator 103 causes the variable printing machine 2b to perform necessary printing in accordance with the print instruction received from the business operator 105. The print instruction does not necessarily have to be recorded on a paper medium. The print instruction may be recorded on an arbitrary information recording medium, or an instruction for printing attached to an e-mail or the like may be given. It may be information. The print result information obtained by the inspection device 4b is recorded on an arbitrary information recording medium and delivered as shown by an arrow 93-2.

  A variable printing machine 2 c and a printing machine 3 belong to the business operator 104. Then, the business operator 104 checks the quality of the addressed envelopes and guidance printed by the variable printing machine 2c and the printing machine 3, replaces them with non-defective products if they are defective, and arranges them in a specific order. Delivered to 105. For this reason, the printing result information about the addressed envelope is not sent to the aggregated printed material quality determination device 6. Also, instructions for printing and reprinting addressed envelopes and guidance are made by a print instruction as shown by an arrow 98-3. The point that the print instruction is not necessarily a paper medium is as described above.

  Also in such a printing system 101, the created bill, individual advertisement, addressed envelope and guide are sent to the aggregation device 5 as indicated by an arrow 92 and are aggregated. Then, the consolidated printed matter pass / fail judgment device 6 receives the print result information electronically sent from the print result information transmission unit 41a of the inspection device 4a and the inspection result device 4b in the print result information reception unit 61, and stores it on the recording medium. The recorded print result information is received, and the aggregation result information generation unit 62 generates the aggregation result information.

  Thereafter, the aggregated result information is sent from the aggregated result information output unit 63 to the aggregated result information receiving unit 71, used for removing defective aggregated printed matter by the sorting device 7, and sent to the reprint command output unit 64. The reprint command output unit 64 issues a necessary reprint command. That is, as indicated by an arrow 98-1, a reprint command is electronically sent to the reprint command receiving unit 21a of the variable printing machine 2a, and as indicated by arrows 98-2 and 98-3, the operator 103 And 104 are sent print instructions.

  Also with the printing system 101 having such a configuration, at the time of collecting the printed materials, all the variable printed materials are arranged in a specific order, and a plurality of types of variable printed materials having a specific correspondence relationship are accurately integrated.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Printing system, 2a, 2b, 2c Variable printing machine, 3 Printing machine, 4a, 4b, 4c Inspection apparatus, 5 Aggregation apparatus, 6 laps About printed quality judgment apparatus, 7 Sorting apparatus, 8 Aggregated printing material, 21a, 21b, 21c Reprint command receiving unit, 41a, 41b, 41c Print result information transmitting unit, 61 Print result information receiving unit, 62 Aggregation result information generating unit, 63 Aggregation result information output unit, 64 Reprint command output unit, 81 Invoice, 82 Individual advertisement, 83 addressed envelope, 84, 85 guidance, 86, 87, 88 Print result information, 89 Aggregation result information, 101 Print system, 102, 103, 104, 105

Claims (8)

Print result information representing the quality of the print results associated with the specific order of at least one type of variable prints among a plurality of types of variable prints arranged in a specific order and printed with different contents for each print. A print result information receiving unit for receiving
Based on the print result information, an aggregated result information output unit that outputs aggregated result information representing the quality of the aggregated printed matter in which the printed matter including the plurality of types of variable printed matter is aggregated for each specific order;
An integrated printed matter pass / fail judgment device. For a plurality of the print result information, when information indicating a print result defect is included in a certain order, the information indicating that the consolidated print product in the order is defective is generated to generate the aggregate result information. The aggregated printed matter quality determination apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an aggregation result information generation unit that generates the aggregated printed matter. 3. A reprint command output unit that outputs a reprint command that instructs reprinting of at least all types of the variable prints in the order in which the consolidated prints are defective based on the aggregation result information. The integrated printed matter quality determination device described. The apparatus for determining whether or not an aggregated printed product is acceptable according to claim 3, wherein information indicating an arrangement order of the aggregated printed material obtained after reprinting is output. The aggregated printed matter pass / fail judgment device according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
An aggregation unit for aggregating a plurality of types of printed matter including the plurality of types of variable printed matter to create the aggregated printed matter;
Based on the aggregation result information, a removing unit that removes the aggregated printed matter in the order determined to be defective,
Integrated print production system having The aggregate printed matter pass / fail judgment device according to claim 3 or 4,
At least one variable printing section for printing the variable printed matter in a specific order;
At least one inspection unit that determines whether the printing result of the variable printed material is good and generates the printing result information;
A print result information transmitting unit for transmitting the print result information to the print result information receiving unit;
A reprint command receiving unit that receives the reprint command and causes the variable print unit to reprint the variable printed material based on the reprint command;
Integrated print production system having At least one variable printing section for printing the variable printed matter in a specific order;
At least one inspection unit that determines whether the printing result of the variable printed material is good and generates the printing result information;
A print result information transmitting unit for transmitting the print result information to the print result information receiving unit;
A reprint command receiving unit that receives the reprint command and causes the variable print unit to reprint the variable printed material based on the reprint command;
The consolidated printed matter creating system according to claim 5, comprising: Computer
Print result information representing the quality of the print results associated with the specific order of at least one type of variable prints among a plurality of types of variable prints arranged in a specific order and printed with different contents for each print. A print result information receiving unit for receiving
Based on the print result information, an aggregated result information output unit that outputs aggregated result information representing the quality of the aggregated printed matter in which the printed matter including the plurality of types of variable printed matter is aggregated for each specific order;
A program for operating as an integrated printed matter pass / fail judgment device.

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