DE102004038284A1 - Production line for printed material has compiling medium for compiling two sheets to sheet packet whereby at least one sheet has one individualized impression with label, reading medium and control element for automatic control - Google Patents

Abstract

The production line has a compiling medium (4) for compiling two sheets (10,10'), to a sheet packet (16), from which one sheet has individualized impression and a label (C1). The device has a reading medium (5) for readout of the label. A control element is provided for automatic control of a addressing medium (6'), the compiling medium and the reading medium depending upon the impression or the label. An independent claim is also included for a fabrication method for printed material.

Description

The The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing of printed matter.

at the production of printed matter such as pamphlets, magazines, books or advertising brochures be first a certain number of bows, especially paper sheets, collected to a stack or sheet package. Are all individual Bows too the sheet packet has been collected, which have the finished printed product should, the sheet package is bound to the printed product.

at Mass-produced products, such as a daily newspaper or an advertising brochure the finished printed products all from the same sheets and thus all have the same pressure. As the printed matter same, can they can be addressed and sent in any order.

Under Use of saddle stitching It is known to use the double sheet in the middle of the magazine to provide an individualized print containing a recipient for whom the Printed matter is provided, personally responsive or special on the receiver is aligned. It must be when addressing the finished printed product be taken to ensure that the address of the recipient on the printed product is applied for which the individualized Print on the sheet determined in the middle of the printed product is. For that, the Printed matter can be created in the same order, in which they are addressed afterwards.

Underflows the synchronization of printed matter when collating or once an error has been addressed, all the subsequent ones will Printed matter incorrectly collected or addressed. Of the Production process must be stopped, the already miscarried or addressed printed products and resynchronization the production of the printed products with the associated addressing done.

task The present invention is a device or a method to provide with the manufacture of printed matter with individualized pressure and, in particular, the committee is reduced on incorrectly addressed printed products.

These The object is achieved by a Device solved according to claim 1. Thereafter, the device has a collation means, the at least two bows to assemble into a bow package, of which at least one sheet is at least one individualized Pressure has. The sheet with the individualized print still shows at least one label. The marking is from one Reading means of the device readable. Furthermore, a control means provided that both an addressing agent, the collating means as well as the reading means automatically depending on the at least an individualized print and / or the at least one label controls.

By the control of the reading means, the control means the position a bow package with a bow with an individualized Determine pressure and thus with a subsequent addressing of the printed product synchronize or synchronize pre-produced addressed Recognize bows. Characterized in that the position of the respective sheet package with the individualized Pressure known to the control means may be an error in the synchronization quickly detected and corrected.

at the production is u.U. the timing and thus the traceability interrupted the individual sheet packages through the manufacturing process. Especially therefore advantageous is the marking of the sheet in the gathered Bow package arranged so that it is also in the assembled condition can be read by the reading means. So is the position of the finished compiled sheet package readable by the reading means and forwarded to the control means. So the product can be redone be identified, and the information from the control means for the optimization used for the production and securing of faultless production.

One such arc package is initially only from loose bows, by the collator already in the correct order in which they are also to be sent to the recipient, to which individualized printing is directed. Possibly The sheet package is still bound to a printed product.

With the term "individualized Print "becomes one personal Address of the recipient or a product's audience via elements such as name, gender, Address, image or behavioral characteristics understood.

In one embodiment, the sheet is arranged with the individualized pressure at predeterminable place in the printed product. In contrast to the known from the prior art arrangement of the individualized pressure in the middle of the printed product, the sheet can at a beliebi conditions, predeterminable place be arranged in the sheet package. In this case, the collation means must be controlled by the control means so that the sheet with the individualized pressure reaches the intended position. One possibility for a predeterminable place in the printed product is also a random arrangement in the printed product, ie a point that is predetermined in each printed product, for example by a random number generator.

In a development of this embodiment are several bows arranged with individualized pressure at predeterminable place in the printed product. Individualized printing can consist of advertising, for example. specific to the receiver is tuned.

Advantageous the device has an addressing means for addressing the collated Sheet package with an address that matches the individual prints of the sheet packet corresponds, ie from the address of that Receiver, for the the pressure of the sheet package has been individualized.

there the reading means is preferably between the collating means and arranged the addressing means, so that an error in the synchronization the production of the printed products with their addressing before the Carry out the addressing can be detected. An incorrect addressing of the Print products can thus be prevented.

The Addressing fulfilled the task of a bow package with at least one bow with individualized Pressure with the associated Address to provide. It can for example be a cover feeder be that addressed the bow package with an already pre-produced Envelope provides, or a packaging device, the printed product in an addressed postal envelope. Alternatively, it can the printed product are also provided with a print on the corresponding address is printed on it. Optionally, the address also be printed directly on the printed product. By the Carrying out the addressing following the production of the printed product becomes the print product for prepared the shipment.

In a preferred embodiment the collating means has at least one feeder for docking the bow to a bow package. In this case, for example, several Normal investors are used, each with exactly one sheet of a Lay piles on the sheet package. When collecting will be here so many normal investors needed like the printed sheets should have. The bows with the individualized prints already sorted be arranged in the stacks, of which the normal investors each take a sheet and add to the sheet package.

Especially preferred however, one or more high-performance feeder may also be used each with several bows from the top of a stack and add to the bow package. So can e.g. several bows with individualized printing in a bow package in a row to come to rest, pre-produced in the correct order and be placed in the high-performance feeder. By the high-performance feeder be the bows added exactly in this order to the bow package. In order to becomes the match the arches guaranteed with individualized printing within a sheet package. The high-performance feeder can include a folding unit that the sheets to be created folds. The high-performance feeder pulls individual, not vorgefalzte Bows of a stack, which are folded by the folder. The peeling off unfolded bows in the high-performance feeder takes place much faster than peeling pre-folded bows in the normal investor and raised thus the production speed.

The Device may have a manual feeder through which a first partially assembled sheet package after passing through the Collator positioned at the beginning of the collator again so that more arcs are added to the arch package by the collator. The number of investors comprising the collator can be be kept low. A manual investor can only partially gathered sheet package also at a different position of the Reassemble collator to the manufacturing process.

Advantageous the compiled sheet package is bindable by a binder. In this case, the binder, the sheet package by saddle stitching, Bind thread stitching or adhesive binding. Alternatively to tying the Sheet package, the printed product can also be an unbound, Loose-leaf collection be. In particular, in the adhesive bond, the inventive method proves as particularly favorable, because in the manufacturing process using perfect binding the clocking and thus the Traceability of individual products is interrupted. By the Reading means, the position of a sheet package can be redetermined and over the control means are synchronized with the addressing means.

The identification is preferably designed as a matrix code, barcode, hole code, fluorescent identification (eg UV ink) and / or electro-magnetic identification. Ent It is crucial that the reader is matched to the label and can assign the label to a sheet with an individualized print.

The Addressing means can be designed as a cover feeder, the Arrange bow package in an addressed envelope, its addressing corresponds to the individualized printing of a sheet of the sheet package. The envelope feeder is equipped with pre-produced envelopes, the with the address of the recipient are provided, and also contain other individualized elements can. The envelopes are produced in the same order as those in the gathering machine pasted Bows with individualized pressure.

In a development of this embodiment, the envelope feeder, in the adhesive bond usually also serves as a binder and the product pair envelope and bow package binds to a cache in which at least one addressed Envelope after reading the position of the sheet package through the Reading means is cached. The control means compares using two reading means identified by means of labeling Bow package with the provided envelope to match. As in the case of a defect processes / binds all products in the binder Need to become, Production interruption can only be made for the products that at the time of error detection not yet in pliers of the binder were clamped.

Of the Comparison on agreement of the envelope and sheet package using the two reading means could e.g. at the time of merging done by envelope and bow package. This is the match 100% guaranteed. If an error is detected, all the defective product pair envelope and bow package following products, which are already clamped in the tongs of the binder, too Waste. The number of waste products is therefore dependent on the number of tongs of the binder.

In the embodiment of a described above Envelope book with cache will do the match for match of envelope and sheet package using the two reading means in time advanced. A buffer for already checked envelopes is inserted in the envelope feeder. Thereby the timing of the review will be so far advanced that a product pair is controlled before it is clamped in the tongs of the binder. Will be at this time If a fault is detected, the device for producing printed matter stops. The products still in the binder are still being processed. Then the error is corrected, i. the correct assignment will be back assured and without spoof copy or change possibly postage-optimized order production resumed.

The The invention is further achieved by a method for producing printed products solved according to claim 14. After that, at least two bows compiled into a sheet package, of which at least one sheet at least one individualized print and at least one label having. The marking is made during the manufacturing process read by a reader. By a control means is both the Collating means as well as the reading means automatically controlled. The control means takes care of a synchronization of the production process including an addressing the printed matter. This can be done using the label and the reading means recognize at which position the bow with is the individualized pressure, the control is so dependent on from the at least one individualized pressure and / or the at least a label.

Especially Preferably, the control means synchronizes the collation of several Bows with individualized print to a bow package. By the marking the control of the manufacturing process is facilitated.

In an embodiment compares the control means by reading the label the reading means is an actual position the collated sheet package with a desired position of the sheet package. Deviates the actual position of the target position so far that danger there would be a bow package incorrectly assigned and thus addressed incorrectly, the production becomes stopped by the control means. For example, the control means compares by two reading means the marking in the assembled sheet package with an identification of an envelope, which is the bow package in the following binding process should be assigned. Indicates the actual position from the nominal position there is a risk that a bow package the wrong envelope would be assigned and thus possibly would be addressed incorrectly. Then the production stopped by the control means. The manufacturing process will be here resynchronized and after the error has been eliminated, resumed.

Advantageously, the reading means reads the identification of a gathered sheet package before the sheet package is bound. If the actual position of the sheet package deviates too far from its desired position, the production of the printed products can be stopped before the corresponding sheet package is bound at all. By the early detection of the misposition will minimize a scrap of printed matter. The rule here is that the rejection is minimized the sooner the misalignment of the sheet package is detected. Particularly advantageously, the marking is arranged on the side of the sheet or on the side of the gathered sheet package, which can be read out as the first after the completion of the gathering of the reading means. In particular, if a label in the sheet package does not correspond with an addressed envelope to which the sheet package is to be bound, production is stopped. This requires that the envelope be identified at the early time as the bow package. To do this, the envelope must be pulled from the cover feeder, read and buffered before the sheet package is prepared by the binder and can be merged with the envelope.

Prefers An addressing of the printed product is done either by a addressed envelope or by imprint, with the address is matched to the individualized pressure of the sheets.

Further advantageous embodiments of the invention will be described below explained by figures. Show it:

1 a schematic representation of a device for producing a bonded-bound printed product, in which the sheet packets are provided with an addressed envelope; and

2 a schematic representation of a device for the production of adhesive bound printed products with static envelopes that are printed after binding with an address.

1 shows a schematic representation of a device for the production of printed products. On a production line 20 is starting from left to right a printed product 16 manufactured with individualized print. A collator 4 ensures the collection of individual bows 10 . 10 ' to a bow package 15 , The collator 4 consists of two standard investors 2 and a regular investor 2 ' , The normal investors 2 contain bows 10 with static prints. Static pressure means that the bows 10 all have the same pressure. Between the two normal investors 2 is the normal investor 2 ' arranged, which arches 10 ' containing individualized prints. Each of the two normal investors 2 and the normal investor 2 ' takes the bottom sheet from the stack of sheets it contains, and places it in a sheet package on the production line 20 ,

A finished bow package 15 consists here at the bottom of a sheet with static pressure (shown with a solid line), a sheet with individualized pressure (shown in phantom) and again a sheet with static pressure. These three sheets are in the sheet package 15 one above the other.

The arc 10 ' with the individualized pressure has a label C1. This marking is located at one end of the bow 10 ' , which in the assembled state over the other bows 10 of the bow package 15 also available.

As well as the bow package 15 is finished, goes through it on the production line 20 a position where there is a reading device 5 happens. The reading device 5 reads the label C1, which consists of a barcode, for example. Each sheet packet is intended for a particular recipient. Each recipient is assigned a barcode. The of the reading means 5 read bar code is transmitted to an unillustrated control means, which checks whether the sheet package 15 is in the right position. If the position deviates too much from a desired position, the production is stopped by the control means. Otherwise, the production will continue. Such a desired position can for example be determined by the fact that at the same time for reading the label C1 and a mark one for the sheet package 15 predetermined envelope 11 ' is read out and thus checked whether envelope 11 ' and bow package 15 are coordinated.

In one variant, it would also be possible to use one or more reading means which carry the identification C1 at several positions in the production line 20 can read. Thus, the position of the label C1 and thereby the sheet package could 15 be tracked by the control means.

A device 8th standing on the production line behind the reading device 5 is arranged, mills and glues the sheet package 15 , This is followed by the bow package 15 on the production line 20 a position where it comes from a cover feeder 6 with an envelope 11 ' is provided. This envelope 11 ' has an address 12 which represents the address of the recipient to whom the previously read identifier C1 has been assigned. The envelope 11 ' thus also has an individualized pressure, namely the address on. The envelope 11 ' is at the of the device 8th Applied glue applied. This will make the bow package 15 to the printed product 16 bound, on whose envelope the address 12 is attached, which corresponds to the individualized printing of the printed product. This is followed by the printed product 16 the dry road 9 to dry the glue. After that it is trimmed on three sides and is finished. In this case also the protruding marking C1 of the arc 10 ' cut off with the individualized pressure.

The address 12 can also be provided with a label, for example in the form of a bar code, before applying the envelope 11 ' to the bow package 15 is compared at the moment with the label C1, by the label C1 from the reader 5 is read out. The control means, not shown, thus the receiver, which is associated with the label C1, with the address 12 of that envelope 11 ' Compare that after the milling and Beleimprozess by the device 8th to the bow package 15 is created. If the two receivers do not match, the manufacturing process is stopped. When the production process stops, all the sheet packages already processed in the perfect binder (milling, glueing, etc.) must be removed. Since they can not be reused afterwards, the parts have to be re-produced with an individualized imprint. Thus, it is particularly advantageous in the apparatus and method according to the invention, when the label C1 from the reading means 5 as directly as possible after the collation of the sheet package 15 through the collator 4 read out and with the address 12 is compared. Then the control means can control the manufacturing process on the production line 20 Stop immediately and the number of bow packages to be removed 15 is minimized.

The 2 shows a further device for the production of printed products with individualized printing in a schematic representation. As in 1 the production of the printed product takes place 16 on a production line 20 which extends from the left to the right edge of the figure. The reference numerals of 1 and 2 correspond to each other, so denote the same devices.

A collator 4 consists of a high-performance feeder 3 and a regular investor 2 , The number of high-performance feeder and normal feeder of the collator 4 is in the embodiments of 1 and 2 to be understood as an example and can be selected depending on the product to be manufactured. However, the gathering means must consist of at least one high-performance feeder or at least two normal feeders to form a plurality of sheets 10 . 10 ' to gather together.

If the collator 4 consists of standard investors, the normal investors can be equipped with a label reader. Folded sheets or single sheets, which are pre-produced in a digital printing system in a defined order, are processed by the normal investors, ie collected. By reading the labels (for example, bar codes), which are mounted in a variant on all sheets with individualized pressure (and not only, as described above, exclusively on a sheet), the synchronicity of the individual sheets can be controlled in a sheet package and by the control means are controlled whether individual sheets should be added to the respective sheet package or not (so-called selective binding). By the timing of the collating means, it can be calculated whether the signature with individualized pressure just added to the sheet packet in the individualization matches the already collected sheets.

High Performance investors as used in folding machines, pull several single sheets of From a stack, collect them and lead them to a manhole Collator on the production line. About a signature of the individual Bows can the control means determine if and how many leaves the added single sheet package should be. The bows are previously in order on a digital press produces and can be arranged in the high-performance feeder.

In 2 lays the high-performance feeder 3 from the upper end of the stack of sheets arranged in it 10 . 10 ' one sheet with individualized print, one with static and one third sheet with individualized print and a label C1. A downstream normal feeder 2 Add another sheet of static pressure, causing the existing sheet package 15 total consists of two sheets with individualized pressure and two sheets with static pressure. The gathering machine 4 is a device 8th downstream, the the bow package 15 Milled and glued. After gluing through the device 8th becomes an envelope 11 with static pressure on the sheet package 15 from the envelope feeder 6 created. The result is a bound intermediate pressure product from which one side 10 ' stands out with individualized printing and the C1 label. The protruding label is from a reader 5 read out and forwarded to a control means. The control means then shares the corresponding receiver with a printer 7 with who on the production line 20 is arranged below the reading means. The printer 7 prints the address corresponding to the label C1 on the envelope 11 , After printing the address is a sticky printed product 16 emerged, the following on a dry road 9 dry and can be cropped as described above.

In all investors 2 . 2 ' and 3 ' lie the bows 10 . 10 ' already sorted before, so that they only have to be compiled by the investors to a sheet package, without changing the order.

Alternatively to the solution with one from the sheet package 15 protruding marking C1, the mark C1 can also be on a sheet 10 ' be arranged with individualized pressure, the dimensions of the other bows 10 . 10 ' of the bow package 15 corresponds, not from the sheet package 15 protrudes. This may be, for example, in a device according to the embodiment 1 then take place when the label C1 on the top sheet of the sheet package 15 is arranged, so the top sheet is a sheet with individualized pressure. Then the reader can easily read the tag, and the device 8th the protruding marking C1 does not have to be from the arc packet 15 cut off. Alternatively, an electromagnetic marking can also be used, which is also inside a sheet package 15 can be read by a corresponding detector as a reading means.

The Invention is not on the two previous embodiments limited, neither is it limited to perfect binding. she can also do a saddle stitch or a thread stitching. The invention is just as good applicable even if only a loose stack of sheets to a sheet package collected which is not tied but addressed.

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contraption for the production of printed matter

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normal investors with static prints

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normal investors with individualized prints

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High Performance Investors

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cover feeder

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printer

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contraption for milling and gluing

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dry road

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bow with static pressure

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envelope

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address

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adhesive Bound Printed Media

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Labelling on bow with individualized print

Claims (21)

Device for the production of printed products comprising: - a collating means ( 4 ) for gathering at least two sheets ( 10 . 10 ' ) to a sheet package ( 16 ), whereby at least one sheet ( 10 ' ) has at least one individualized pressure; - at least one marking (C1) on the sheet ( 10 ' ) with the individualized pressure; A reading means ( 5 ) for reading out the at least one identifier (C1); and - a control means for automatically controlling an addressing means ( 6 '; 7 ), the collating agent ( 4 ) and the reading device ( 5 ) as a function of the at least one individualized pressure and / or the at least one identification (C1). Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one marking (C1) of the sheet ( 10 ' ) with individualized printing in the assembled sheet package ( 15 ) by the reading means ( 5 ) is readable. Apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that at least one sheet ( 10 ' ) with individualized pressure at predeterminable place in the sheet package ( 15 ) is arranged. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by an addressing means ( 6 '; 7 ) for addressing the compiled sheet packet ( 15 ) or the printed product ( 16 ) with an address associated with the individualized printing of the sheet package ( 15 ) corresponds. Device according to claim 4, characterized in that the reading means ( 5 ) between collating means ( 4 ) and the addressing means ( 6 '; 7 ) is arranged. Apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the addressing means ( 6 '; 7 ) the bow package ( 15 ) in an addressed envelope. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the collating means ( 4 ) at least one feeder ( 2 . 2 ' . 3 ' ) for applying the sheets ( 10 . 10 ' ) to a Bo genpaket ( 15 ) having. Apparatus according to claim 7, characterized in that the investor as a normal investor ( 2 . 2 ' ) or high-performance feeder ( 3 ' ) is trained. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by a manual feeder, through which a partially assembled sheet package ( 15 ) after passing through the collating means ( 4 ) again at the beginning of the collator ( 4 ) and the sheet package ( 15 ) from the collating means ( 4 ) further sheets ( 10 . 10 ' ) to be added. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by a binder ( 6 '; 6 ), through which the gathered sheet package is bindable by saddle stitching, thread stitching or adhesive binding. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized characterized in that the identifier (C1) is a matrix code, barcode, Hole code, fluorescent marking and / or electromagnetic Marking is formed. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the addressing means ( 6 '; 7 ) as a cover feeder ( 6 ' ) is formed, the bow package ( 15 ) in an addressed envelope ( 11 ' ) whose addressing with the individualized printing of a sheet ( 10 ' ) of the sheet package ( 15 ) corresponds. Apparatus according to claim 12, characterized in that the cover feeder ( 6 ' ) has a cache in which at least one addressed envelope ( 11 ' ) after reading out the position of the sheet package ( 15 ) by the reading means ( 5 ) is cached. Process for the production of printed matter, wherein - at least two sheets ( 10 . 10 ' ) to a sheet package ( 15 ), of which at least one sheet ( 10 ' ) has an individualized print and a label (C1); - the identifier (C1) of a reading device ( 5 ) is read out; and automatic control of an addressing means by a control means ( 6 '; 7 ), the collating agent ( 4 ) and the reading device ( 5 ) as a function of the at least one individualized pressure and / or the at least one identification (C1). A method according to claim 14, characterized in that by the control means the collation of a plurality of sheets ( 10 ' ) with individualized printing to a sheet package ( 15 ) is synchronized. Method according to one of claims 13 or 14, characterized in that by the reading of the label (C1) by the reading means ( 5 ) the control means has an ACTUAL position of a collated sheet packet ( 15 ) with a DESIRED position of the sheet package ( 15 ) compares. A method according to claim 16, characterized in that in a deviation of the actual position of a collated sheet packet ( 15 ) is stopped from its target position, the production of the control means. Method according to one of claims 14 to 17, characterized in that the gathered sheet package ( 15 ) is tied by saddle stitching, thread stitching or adhesive binding. Method according to claim 18, characterized in that the reading means ( 5 ) the identification (C1) of a compiled sheet package ( 15 ), before the bow package ( 15 ) is bound. Method according to one of claims 14 to 19, characterized in that the sheet packet ( 15 ) in an addressed envelope ( 11 ' ) whose addressing with the individualized printing of a sheet ( 10 ' ) of the sheet package ( 15 ) corresponds. Method according to one of claims 14 to 19, characterized in that the sheet packet ( 15 ) by a print ( 12 ) is provided with an addressing which corresponds to the individualized printing of a sheet ( 10 ' ) of the sheet package ( 15 ) corresponds.