Printing apparatus and printing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11413889-B2
Application number	US-201817049705-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 5, 2018
Priority date	Nov 16, 2017
Publication date	Aug 16, 2022
Grant date	Aug 16, 2022

Abstract

A printing apparatus configured to print on a continuous sheet to be cut into a plurality of cut sheets at a plurality of cutting positions while being conveyed, includes a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the continuous sheet, and a print head provided so as to face a conveyance path for the continuous sheet in the conveyance mechanism and configured to sequentially print a plurality of cutting marks indicating the plurality of cutting positions on the continuous sheet being conveyed by the conveyance mechanism, in which, from between front end portions and rear end portions of each of the pages in a conveyance direction of the continuous sheet in the conveyance mechanism when printing by the print head is performed, the print head prints the cutting marks on the rear end portions for a plurality of pages on the continuous sheet corresponding to the plurality of cut sheets.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus configured to print on a continuous sheet to be cut into a plurality of cut sheets at a plurality of cutting positions arranged in a longitudinal direction while being conveyed in the longitudinal direction, comprising:
a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the continuous sheet in the longitudinal direction; and
a print head provided so as to face a conveyance path for the continuous sheet in the conveyance mechanism and configured to sequentially print a plurality of cutting marks indicating the plurality of cutting positions on the continuous sheet being conveyed by the conveyance mechanism, wherein,
from between front end portions and rear end portions of each of the pages in a conveyance direction of the continuous sheet in the conveyance mechanism when printing by the print head is performed, the print head prints the cutting marks on the rear end portions for a plurality of pages on the continuous sheet corresponding to the plurality of cut sheets,
the printing apparatus further comprising:
a reception unit configured to accept designation that, from between the front end portions and the rear end portions of the pages, ones that are designated as the target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed, wherein
when the reception unit accepts the designation that the front end portions of the pages are the target portions, the print head prints the cutting marks at the front end portions of the pages, and when the reception unit accepts the designation that the rear end portions of the pages are the target portions, the print head prints the cutting marks at the rear end portions of the pages.

2. A printing apparatus configured to print on a continuous sheet to be cut into a plurality of cut sheets at a plurality of cutting positions arranged in a longitudinal direction while being conveyed in the longitudinal direction, comprising:
a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the continuous sheet in the longitudinal direction; and
a print head provided so as to face a conveyance path for the continuous sheet in the conveyance mechanism and configured to sequentially print a plurality of cutting marks indicating the plurality of cutting positions on the continuous sheet being conveyed by the conveyance mechanism, wherein,
from between front end portions and rear end portions of each of the pages in a conveyance direction of the continuous sheet in the conveyance mechanism when printing by the print head is performed, the print head prints the cutting marks on the rear end portions for a plurality of pages on the continuous sheet corresponding to the plurality of cut sheets,
the printing apparatus further comprising:
an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating whether or not a first conveyance direction of the continuous sheet in the conveyance mechanism when the printing by the print head is performed and a second conveyance direction of the continuous sheet when the continuous sheet is cut into the plurality of cut sheets are a same; and
a determination unit configured to determine the front end portions of the pages as target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed when the first conveyance direction and the second conveyance direction are the same, and determine the rear end portions of the pages as target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed when the first conveyance direction is different from the second conveyance direction in the information acquired by the information acquisition unit, wherein
the print head prints the cutting marks on the target portions of the pages.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the information acquisition unit accepts post-processing machine-related information about a post-processing machine that processes the continuous sheet on which the print head has finished printing and determines the target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed based on the post-processing machine-related information.

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the post-processing machine-related information is written, as an image information, in a job provided to the printing apparatus, and the information acquisition unit determines the target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed based on the post-processing machine-related information extracted from the job.

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the post-processing machine-related information is output by a detection sensor configured to detect the post-processing machine connected to the printing apparatus.

6. A printing method of printing on a continuous sheet to be cut into a plurality of cut sheets at a plurality of cutting positions arranged in a longitudinal direction while being conveyed in the longitudinal direction, comprising:
a conveying step of conveying the continuous sheet in the longitudinal direction; and
a printing step of sequentially printing a plurality of cutting marks indicating the plurality of cutting positions on the continuous sheet being conveyed in the step of conveying, wherein
the printing step is a step which, from between front end portions and rear end portions of each of the pages in a conveyance direction of the continuous sheet in the printing step, the cutting marks are printed on the rear end portions for a plurality of pages on the continuous sheet corresponding to the plurality of cut sheets,
the printing method further comprising
a receiving step of accepting designation that ones from between the front end portions and the rear end portions of the pages are designated as the target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed, wherein
the printing step includes a step of printing the cutting marks on the front end portions of the pages when the designation is accepted in which the front end portions of the pages are designated as the target portions in the reception step, and a step of printing the cutting marks on the rear end portions of the pages when the designation is accepted in which the rear end portions of the pages are designated as the target portions in the reception step.

7. A printing method of printing on a continuous sheet to be cut into a plurality of cut sheets at a plurality of cutting positions arranged in a longitudinal direction while being conveyed in the longitudinal direction, comprising:
a conveying step of conveying the continuous sheet in the longitudinal direction; and
a printing step of sequentially printing a plurality of cutting marks indicating the plurality of cutting positions on the continuous sheet being conveyed in the step of conveying, wherein
the printing step is a step which, from between front end portions and rear end portions of each of the pages in a conveyance direction of the continuous sheet in the printing step, the cutting marks are printed on the rear end portions for a plurality of pages on the continuous sheet corresponding to the plurality of cut sheets,
the printing method further comprising
an information acquisition step of acquiring information indicating whether or not a first conveyance direction of the continuous sheet in the conveying step and a second conveyance direction of the continuous sheet when the continuous sheet is cut into the plurality of cut sheets are a same; and
a determination step of determining the front end portions of the pages as target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed when the first conveyance direction and the second conveyance direction are the same, and determining the rear end portions of the pages as target portions at which the cutting marks to be printed when the first conveyance direction is different from the second conveyance direction in

Assignees

• Screen Holdings Co Ltd

Inventors

• Takahashi Susumu
• Kataoka Hiroyuki
• Yasuda Satoshi
• Ishida Tetsuya
• Soma Masahiko
• Nishide Hiroshi

Classifications

• B41J11/663 Primary

  Controlling cutting, cutting resulting in special shapes of the cutting line, e.g. controlling cutting positions, e.g. for cutting in the immediate vicinity of a printed image · CPC title

• B41J11/70

  cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed · CPC title