JP5691433B2 - Image forming system and control program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an image forming system that collects contents to be sent to the same recipient from each information source and collects them into one envelope when enclosing a delivery in an envelope.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known an image forming apparatus that includes a sealing machine that encloses a shipment in an envelope, performs image formation on the envelope and image formation on the shipment, and outputs the sealed shipment correspondingly in the envelope. . In such an image forming apparatus, for the purpose of reducing costs and facilitating settlement, response, and management of notifications on the receiving side as a customer, a technique for collectively enclosing group company notifications and the like in one envelope is, for example, It is disclosed in “Patent Document 1”.

With the above-mentioned technology, it is possible to combine information on the sending side into one envelope, but even if the recipient is the same recipient, it is necessary to separate envelopes, and there is a shipping fee for each envelope. There is a problem that the cost becomes high.
SUMMARY An advantage of some aspects of the invention is to provide an image forming system capable of solving the above-described problems and performing name identification while reducing costs.

The invention described in claim 1 includes an enclosing function for enclosing a delivery in an envelope, an image forming function for forming an image on each of the delivery and the envelope, recipient information including an address, and delivery contents. Storage means storing a list of a plurality of lines, and after forming an image on the envelope and the delivery based on the storage contents of the storage means, enclosing the delivery in the envelope The image forming system has a sorting function for sorting the delivery list by using an address as a key. When the sort function is used, an address is confirmed for each line of the delivery list, and recipients are different for the same address. When there are a plurality of deliverables, each recipient name is imaged on the envelope, and a slip sheet with the recipient name imaged is added to the head of each recipient for each recipient. envelope And collectively sealed in, has a function of the sorting function to sort the sending object list payee name as a key, the between the sending object is respective delivery was even more the case for the same recipient When the allowable number of deliverables that can be enclosed in the envelope can be set without inserting a slip sheet, and the number of deliverables to be enclosed in the envelope exceeds the set allowable number, The envelope is switched to another envelope at the line of the delivery list or the recipient name .

In the image forming system according to claim 2, in the image forming system according to claim 1, when the contents of each delivery for each recipient are the same, a circulation table in which all recipient names are listed as the slip sheet. Used, it is characterized by enclosing only one copy of the delivery .

The invention described in claim 3 is characterized in that the operation described in claim 1 or 2 can be executed, and which operation is performed can be switched .

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a control program for causing the image forming system according to any one of the first to third aspects to operate .

  According to the present invention, when the address is the same and the recipients are different, the sent items can be combined into one envelope, the postage fee and the envelope fee can be saved, and the cost can be reduced. Can be shortened.

1 is a schematic diagram of an image forming system employing an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a control block diagram of an image forming system used in an embodiment of the present invention. It is the schematic which shows an example of the delivery list | wrist stored in the storage used for one Embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic explaining the enclosure of the delivery to the conventional envelope. It is the schematic explaining the enclosure of the delivery to the envelope in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart of the control program explaining the enclosure operation | movement of the delivery to the envelope in this invention.

  FIG. 1 shows an image forming system employing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, an image forming system 1 includes a multifunction machine 4 with a sealing machine connected to a network 2 and a storage 3 as a storage unit. The storage 3 has an address necessary for sending a delivery. A delivery list including a plurality of lines in which a plurality of recipient information including the contents of delivery is recorded is stored.

  The multifunction machine 4 with a sealing machine is configured by integrally connecting a well-known electrophotographic image forming apparatus that forms an image on an envelope and a sealed material and a known sealing machine that seals the sealed material in the envelope. As in the technique disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 3666284, an image forming operation and an enclosing operation are performed online.

  FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the image forming system 1. The inside of the multifunction machine 4 with a sealing machine can be roughly divided into a controller unit 5 and a mechanical control unit 6. The controller unit 5 determines the contents of the image to be formed and instructs the mechanical control unit 6 how to handle image data and paper. The mechanical control unit 6 forms an image on the paper and performs processing (post-processing) on the paper instructed by the controller unit 5. In the present embodiment, the controller unit 5 acquires a delivery list from the storage 3, and instructs the mechanical control unit 6 to perform an image forming operation and an enclosing operation based on the acquired delivery list.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of a delivery list stored in the storage 3. In FIG. 3, A, B, C, and D indicate recipient names, and X, Y, and Z indicate addresses of destinations. Files corresponding to the recipients are stored. Each file is classified according to the contents to be sent, and there are cases where one file has multiple pages. In FIG. 3, the delivery list is one line for each recipient, but there may be a delivery list that spans multiple lines with one recipient.

  FIG. 4 shows an example in which an image forming operation and an enclosing operation are performed based on the delivery list shown in FIG. 3 using a conventional image forming system. In this example, images of different recipient names are formed on four envelopes, and a file corresponding to each recipient is enclosed in the corresponding envelope. However, in the example shown in FIG. 4, the recipient A and the recipient C have the same address X, and two mails for the recipient A and the recipient C are required even if the delivery is sent to the same address. Therefore, two envelopes are required and two mailing charges are required, resulting in an increase in cost. Further, since two envelopes are produced, the image forming process is also lengthened.

  In the first embodiment, the image forming operation and the enclosing operation shown in FIG. 5 are performed in order to solve the above-described problems and perform name identification while reducing costs. In the first embodiment, first, the contents to be imaged are acquired from the list of items stored in the storage 3, and the acquired contents are sorted using the address of the recipient information as a key. If there are a plurality of recipients at the same address (in this example, recipient A and recipient C at address X), an image is formed with the address and each recipient name on a single envelope. The file addressed to the recipient A and the file addressed to the recipient C are encapsulated together, and a slip sheet on which the recipient name is formed is added to the head of each recipient file. The control program operation described above is shown in the flowchart of FIG. In the operation shown in FIG. 6, the address is checked for each line of the delivery list, and is sealed in the same envelope as long as the line with the same address continues. At this time, every time the recipient name changes, a slip sheet on which the recipient name is formed is inserted.

  With the above-described configuration, when the address is the same and the recipients are different, the sent items can be combined into one envelope, the postage fee and the envelope fee can be saved, and the cost can be reduced. It can be shortened. Also, if the recipient is the same and there are multiple deliverables (for example, an envelope addressed to recipient D shown in FIG. 5), it is necessary to insert a slip sheet between the deliveries because there is only one recipient. There is no. By omitting the insertion of the slip sheet, the effects of shortening the process and reducing the sheet cost can be expected.

  In the first embodiment, when the number of sheets that can be enclosed in an envelope is 10, for example, the number of deliveries addressed to the recipient A is 8, for example, and the number of deliveries addressed to the recipient C is, for example, 5. It becomes impossible to enclose a delivery addressed to each of the recipients A and C in one envelope. In this case, a configuration is adopted in which the allowable number of envelopes is set in the multifunction machine 4 with a sealing machine, and when this allowable number is exceeded, the envelope is switched to another envelope. Here, in the second embodiment, since there are 8 deliverables addressed to the recipient A and 5 deliveries addressed to the recipient C, both of which are 10 or less, the envelope is switched at the recipient's turn. . Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a problem that the envelope or the paper is damaged or the apparatus is broken in an attempt to enclose the delivery within the envelope exceeding the allowable number of envelopes.

  In the second embodiment, there are 8 deliverables addressed to the recipient A and 5 deliveries addressed to the recipient C. For example, if there are 12 deliverables addressed to the recipient A in 3 files. Even envelopes for one person need to be separated. In this case, for example, if there are five first files, four second files, and three third files, envelopes are divided between the second file and the third file. Here, the sent list stored in the storage 3 may extend over a plurality of lines even if it is the same recipient as described above, but the number of sheets that can be enclosed in one envelope in one line. In the third embodiment, envelopes are switched at the place of the line of the list of items to be sent. Thereby, the same effect as 2nd Embodiment can be acquired. In addition, when the number of items that can be enclosed in one envelope is stored in one line of the item list, the envelope is divided in the middle of the item or the contents of the item are reduced. For example, it is sufficient to fit within the number of sheets that can be enclosed in one envelope.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, the case where recipients are different and the contents of delivery are different at the same address has been described. However, the recipients may be different and the contents of delivery may be the same at the same address. In the fourth embodiment, as in the first embodiment, an address and each recipient name are image-formed in a single envelope, and only one copy common to each recipient is enclosed in the envelope. At the same time, a circulation table listing each recipient name is added as a slip sheet. Each recipient can know the contents by circulating one copy with the circulation table. As a result, the consumption of paper and envelopes can be greatly reduced, and the process can be shortened and the paper cost can be reduced.

1 Image forming system 2 Network 3 Storage means (storage)
4 Multifunction machine with enclosure 5 Controller unit 6 Mechanical control unit

JP 2002-56345 A

Claims (4)

A list of a plurality of lines in which an enclosing function for enclosing a delivery in an envelope, an image forming function for forming an image on each of the delivery and the envelope, recipient information including an address, and contents of delivery are written. In the image forming system that encloses the delivery in the envelope after image formation is performed on the envelope and the delivery based on the storage content of the storage means,
A sorting function that sorts the delivery list using an address as a key; when using the sort function, the address is confirmed for each line of the delivery list, and there are a plurality of deliveries with different recipients at the same address In this case, each recipient name is imaged on the envelope, and a slip sheet with the recipient name imaged is added to the front of each delivery for each recipient, and each delivery is enclosed in the envelope. And
The sorting function has a function of sorting the delivery list by using a recipient name as a key. In the case of the same recipient, even if there are a plurality of delivery items, the slip sheet is not inserted between the delivery items. ,
When the allowable number of deliverables that can be enclosed in the envelope can be set, and the number of deliverables to be enclosed in the envelope exceeds the set allowable number, the line of the delivery list or An image forming system which switches to another envelope at a place where a recipient name is changed . The image forming system according to claim 1.
In the case where the contents of each delivery for each recipient are the same, a circulation table in which all recipient names are listed as the slip sheet is used, and only one copy of the delivery is enclosed. . An image forming system capable of executing the operation according to claim 1 or 2 and switching which operation is performed . A control program for causing an image forming system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 to perform an operation .

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