摘要:
Techniques for providing an ID image on a print medium are disclosed. Commodity information on a commodity settled in a store is received from a store terminal installed at the store. ID images, defining ID information in a frequency domain and accompanied by attribute information that is used by the store terminal to decide whether or not each of the stored ID images is to be printed, are stored. A correspondence between the commodity information and the stored ID images is also stored. ID images corresponding to the received commodity information from the stored ID images using the stored correspondence are then retrieved. An attribute list, which registers the attribute information of the stored ID images that is used by the store terminal to decide whether or not each of the stored ID images is to be printed, is stored. Thereafter, only the retrieved ID images which have been decided to be printed based on the stored attribute list are transmitted. The transmitted ID images are then printed on a print medium.
摘要:
To provide an advertisement meaningful to a customer at an optimal timing, a store controller (3) receives, from a cash register (7), checkout information relating to a commodity purchased by the customer, creates image search information based on the checkout information, and transmits the image search information to an advertisement search server (2), the advertisement search server (2) retrieves advertising ID images by using the image search information transmitted from the store controller (3) and transmits the advertising ID images to the store controller (3), the store controller (3) transmits the filtered advertising ID images to the cash register (7), the cash register (7) prints the advertising ID images on a receipt (4), a cellular phone (5) photographs the advertising ID images on the receipt 4 and transmits the photographed image to the advertisement search server (2), the advertisement search server (2) transmits a URL associated with the photographed image to the cellular phone (5), and the cellular phone (5) connects to an advertisement website of an advertising content server (6) by using the URL.
摘要:
Provided are a printing device, an information providing system, and a printing method each capable of properly printing a dispersed image where information for specifying a plurality of websites is dispersed and human-readable information regarding each of the websites, and a printed matter obtained therethrough. A dispersed image generation unit (27) subjects ID pattern for designating a plurality of websites in a data storage unit (26) to inverse Fourier transform to disperse the ID pattern, and divides an image generated by the dispersion into the number equal to the plurality of websites, to thereby generate partial images. A printing unit (28) prints each partial image so as to be superposed on human-readable information such that multiple pieces of human-readable information in the data storage unit (26) can all be printed.
摘要:
When first print information is input, a print length thereof is calculated so as to calculate a length of a double-sided printed material 1 to be finally produced. Then, print information blocks 2 to be printed on a back surface of the recording medium is selected. The print information blocks 2 are selected according to a priority thereof, and a single print information block 2 to be selected last is selected, based on the length of the double-sided printed material, so that all the margins have the same length within a predetermined allowable range when the selected print information blocks 2 are sequentially arranged to be printed on the back surface. After the second print information is thus determined, the first print information is printed on the front surface of the recording medium and is cut by a cutter unit, and then the second print information is printed on the back surface thereof.
摘要:
Provided is an apparatus for producing a sheet material including: an RFID reader (11) for reading information from an RFID tag; a sheet supply unit (12) for supplying the sheet material (4) having a heat-sensitive printing layer on one surface of a sheet-type base material, and having a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on the other surface of the sheet-type base material; a printing unit (13) for performing printing on the heat-sensitive printing layer of the sheet material (4) supplied from the sheet supply unit (12); a thermal activation unit (15) for heating the heat-sensitive adhesive layer of the sheet material (4), which is printed by the printing unit (13), to develop an adhesive force of the heat-sensitive adhesive layer; and a control unit (16) for controlling the thermal activation unit (15) to develop the adhesive force in a predetermined area of the heat-sensitive adhesive layer other than an area facing the RFID tag so as to form an adhesive area to be attached to the article, and for controlling the printing unit (13) to print predetermined information on the heat-sensitive printing layer, based on the information read from the RFID tag by the RFID reader (11), thereby making it possible to match information of the tag with information printed on the sheet material with reliability, and to simply attach the tag to the article.
摘要:
Provided is an apparatus for producing a sheet material including: an RFID reader (11) for reading information froth an RFID tag; a sheet supply unit (12) for supplying the sheet material (4) having a heat-sensitive printing layer on one surface of a sheet-type base material, and having a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on the other surface of the sheet-type base material; a printing unit (13) for performing printing on the heat-sensitive printing layer of the sheet material (4) supplied from the sheet supply unit (12); a thermal activation unit (15) for heating the heat-sensitive adhesive layer of the sheet material (4), which is printed by the printing unit (13), to develop an adhesive force of the heat-sensitive adhesive layer; and a control unit (16) for controlling the thermal activation unit (15) to develop the adhesive force in a predetermined area of the heat-sensitive adhesive layer other than an area facing the RFID tag so as to form an adhesive area to be attached to the article, and for controlling the printing unit (13) to print predetermined information on the heat-sensitive printing layer, based on the information read from the RFID tag by the RFID reader (11), thereby making it possible to match information of the tag with information printed on the sheet material with reliability, and to simply attach the tag to the article.
摘要:
A thermal head comprises a first substrate having a concave portion, a second substrate mounted on the first substrate and covering the concave portion to form with the first substrate a cavity portion, a heating resistor provided on a surface of the second substrate, and a pair of electrodes connected to the heating resistor for supplying power to the heating resistor. At least one of the pair of electrodes has a low thermal conductivity portion in a region opposed to the cavity portion. The low thermal conductivity portion is made of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity in other regions of the pair of electrodes and having an electrical resistance lower than an electrical resistance of the heating resistor.
摘要:
Provided is a manufacturing method for a thermal head, including: bonding a flat upper substrate in a stacked state onto a flat supporting substrate including a heat-insulating concave portion open to one surface thereof so that the heat-insulating concave portion is closed (bonding step (SA2)); thinning the upper substrate bonded onto the supporting substrate by the bonding step (SA2) (plate thinning step (SA3)); measuring a thickness of the upper substrate thinned by the plate thinning step (SA3) (measurement step (SA4)); deciding a target resistance value of heating resistors based on the thickness of the upper substrate, which is measured by the measurement step (SA4) (decision step (SA5)); and forming, at positions of a surface of the upper substrate thinned by the plate thinning step (SA3), the heating resistors having the target resistance value determined by the decision step (SA5), the positions being opposed to the heat-insulating concave portion (resistor forming step (SA6)). Thus, a high-efficiency thermal head capable of accurately outputting a target heating amount obtained by estimating an amount of heat wasted without being used is easily manufactured without using a special apparatus.
摘要:
Provided are a thermal head that has a cavity portion at a position corresponding to heating resistors and is capable of improving thermal efficiency while ensuring strength of the cavity portion, and a printer including the thermal head. The thermal head (1) includes: a supporting substrate (3) including a concave portion (2) in a surface thereof; an upper substrate (5) bonded in a stacked state to the surface of the supporting substrate (3); and a heating resistor (7) provided at a position, which corresponds to the concave portion (2), of a surface of the upper substrate (5), in which a centerline average roughness of at least a region of a back surface of the upper substrate (5) is set to be less than 5 nm, the region being opposed to the concave portion (2).
摘要:
To improve print quality, a plurality of heating resistors (14) are arranged with spaces therebetween on a heat storage layer (13) laminated on a surface of a supporting substrate (11) via an adhesive layer (12) made of an elastic material. A cavity portion (19) is formed at a region between the supporting substrate (11) and the heat storage layer (13), the region being opposed to a heat generating portion of each of the plurality of heating resistors (14). The elastic material constituting the adhesive layer (12) is arranged so that the elastic material is in a bonded state with respect to at least a part of a surface of the heat storage layer (13) opposed to the cavity portion (19).