Printing – Processes – Position or alignment
Patent
1995-09-25
1997-12-23
Eickholt, Eugene H.
Printing
Processes
Position or alignment
400582, 400708, 400621, 25055906, B41F 1324
Patent
active
056997418
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for scanning document codes at an output of a document printer, and particularly at an output of a check printer.
2. Description of the Related Art
Document printers or check printers for the printing of checks or other forms have already been in use in banks or in the retail trade for some considerable time. They generally contain a print head and a transport duct for transporting the ready printed checks to the printer outlet. A device of this type, which is described as a value transmitter, is known from German Patent Document DE-C2-35 14 062. The known device further contains a reading device, which reads and hence monitors codes already present on the check forms and symbols imprinted in the print bay. To this end, there is an examination of security related parts of the inscription on the notes of value prior to the print operation and of the data imprinted by the print head. If, in comparing these data with stored set values, inconsistencies should be revealed, the incorrectly printed check forms are stored in a collecting tray to prevent these incorrectly printed check forms from being handed over to the customer.
Blank checks are produced in printing works, to be precise as individual documents or, in a manner according to the invention, as printed sheets or as form rolls having a plurality of checks arranged thereon. The use of printed sheets or form rolls has and advantages in terms of stockholding and administration.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Since blank checks can easily be misused, according to the invention the blank checks are provided on the printed sheets or individually with a consecutive-running number in the form of a control marking. The whereabouts of the checks can thereby be perfectly monitored. The control marking is preferably disposed on the unprinted reverse of the document. The application of the control marking is herein carried out in the printing works, but, where appropriate, it can also be applied in the bank with the use of a corresponding printer. It is in ant event necessary, prior to the delivery of the checks to the customer, to separate the checks by cutting the printed sheets, to provide them with corresponding customer-specific data and to register the control markings. To enable a perfect control to take place, the identification must be registered directly at the site of transfer to the bank customer, i.e. at the delivery point, to be precise in a region in which it is assured that a physical transfer to the customer is also actually carried out.
The aim of the invention is therefore to provide a document printer and a process for the operation of such a document printer, with which invention it is possible, simply and cheaply, to monitor documents directly at the site of transfer to the customer such that, following the control, either a physical transfer to the customer also actually takes place or the documents are determinately withheld.
A further aim of the invention is to design and dispose a reading device, which is necessary to the control, such that there is no need, in order to accommodate it, for any basic alteration to be made to the overall structural design of the document printer.
A further aim of the invention is to design the document printer such that it can be easily converted contingent upon the application.
These and other objects and advantages of the invention are achieved by a method for registering documents by means of control markings using a document printer having a print unit and a conveying channel with an associated transport device which transports the documents in a predefinable transport position through the document printer to an outlet of a document removal bay, having the following features: documents, consideration being given to the predefinable transport position via a printer, outlet of the removal bay by means of a reading device, the relative motion of reading device and documents, which relative m
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Heise Wolfgang
Lappe Bernhard
Schmidt Peter
Eickholt Eugene H.
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
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