US 12,398,010 B2 · General printing management device, conveyance management device, and printing system

Abstract

Personnel saving of a process from a printer to a sheet processing machine is achieved. A general printing management device is connected to be communicable with a conveyance management device that manages a plurality of automatic guided vehicles each conveying a stacker in which paper ejected from a printer is stackable. The general printing management device generates conveyance instruction information for conveying a stacker in which paper ejected from the printer is stacked from a sheet receiving position of the printer to a sheet supply position of a next processing machine, based on job information in which a manufacturing process procedure for manufacturing a printed product is registered, and transmits the conveyance instruction information to the conveyance management device.

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Dependent claims

A general printing management device connected to be communicable with a conveyance management device that manages a plurality of automatic guided conveying apparatuses each conveying a sheet stacking apparatus in which a sheet ejected from a printer is stackable, the general printing management device comprising:

a processor configured to generate a conveyance instruction information for conveying, by one of the automatic guided conveying apparatuses, the sheet stacking apparatus in which the sheet ejected from the printer is stacked from a sheet receiving position of the printer to a sheet supply position of a next processing machine, based on a job information in which a manufacturing process procedure for manufacturing a printed product is registered;
and
a transmitter configured to transmit the conveyance instruction information to the conveyance management device,
wherein the conveyance instruction information includes information concerning an orientation of a sheet to be ejected from the printer to the sheet stacking apparatus.

1 more element

A conveyance management device configured to manage a plurality of automatic guided conveying apparatuses each conveying a sheet stacking apparatus in which a sheet ejected from a printer is stackable, the conveyance management device comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory including a program that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations, the operations including:
acquiring at least one of a battery information, an operating information, or a current position information of each of the plurality of automatic guided conveying apparatuses;
receiving a conveyance instruction information for conveying the sheet stacking apparatus;
determining one automatic guided conveying apparatus based on the information acquired by the acquired information and the conveyance instruction information;
and
transmitting the conveyance instruction information to a determined automatic guided conveying apparatus, the conveyance instruction information including at least one of a sheet size, a sheet thickness and a number of sheets to be stacked in the sheet stacking apparatus, an identification information of the sheet stacking apparatus, or an identification information of the printer or a processing machine that is a conveyance destination of the sheet stacking apparatus,
wherein the conveyance instruction information includes information concerning an orientation of a sheet to be ejected from the printer to the sheet stacking apparatus.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

General printing management device, conveyance management device, and printing system

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General printing management device, conveyance management device, and printing system

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Abstract

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