Book production method and device for realizing large-format printing

Abstract

The invention provides a book production method which comprises the steps of typesetting, printing, folding and cutting, and content of a book to be printed is typeset on a large page. The content of the large-format layout is printed on the continuous paper tape, and then the continuous paper tape is subjected to assembly line operations such as folding, cutting, gluing, stacking, binding and the like, so that multi-plate printing, intermittent printing and field occupation and turnover of intermediate printed matters in traditional plate printing are avoided, the production efficiency is greatly improved, and the production cost is greatly reduced. Not only is large-batch book publishing facilitated, but also small-batch book printing is allowed. The invention further relates to book production equipment adopting the production method.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to a book production method and equipment. Background Art

[0002] At present, the main way of printing books in the book publishing industry is still plate printing. This method has many disadvantages. There are many production links, including typesetting process, plate making process, printing process, folding, pagination, etc.; there are many production equipment involved, including printing machines, plate making machines, plate processing machines, folding machines, binding machines, etc.; it occupies a large area, and it is necessary to wait until all the layouts are printed before proceeding to the next step, which requires a large number of turnover production sites; there are many operators, and the operators of each equipment are as many as a dozen people; the delivery cycle is long, because the production process is long, and the delivery cycle of finished books and periodicals is long. These disadvantages are still acceptable in the production of textbooks, because the large circulation can spread the cost. There are disadvantages when publishing books with small circulation.

[0003] With the rapid development of information and communication technology, people's reading methods have also undergone major changes. From the simple reliance on paper books to the acquisition of external information through electronic books and audio-visual materials, the demand for paper books and periodicals has been significantly reduced. However, there is reason to believe that paper books and periodicals will still be indispensable for a long time to come, and there will always be a part of readers who regard reading paper books and periodicals as an important way to obtain knowledge and spiritual food. The phenomenon that has arisen in the publishing industry is that although there are many types or titles of paper books and periodicals, the audience for the same book is small, so the number of prints in the same batch will be small. In this way, traditional book publishers lose production motivation due to high production costs, which affects the publication and listing of books and is not conducive to the dissemination and prosperity of culture. Summary of the invention

[0004] The technical problem solved by the present invention is to realize continuous book production in the field of book production and reduce the space occupation and manual participation of the production site.

[0005] The book production method of the present invention comprises the following steps:

[0006] Typesetting, typeset the book pages according to the set layout to obtain a large-format page with continuous layout;

[0007] Printing, by releasing a paper roll to provide a paper tape, and printing the contents of the large-format page on the released paper tape to obtain continuous pages;

[0008] Folding: folding the printed continuous pages several times to obtain continuous folded pages with a width corresponding to the size of the book;

[0009] Cutting, cutting the continuous folded pages to obtain book signatures;

[0010] Stacking, gluing and piling up the book sheets corresponding to a book to obtain a book sheet pile;

[0011] Binding, the obtained book pages are stacked in covers, bound, and trimmed to get a book.

[0012] In a preferred embodiment, four single pages are arranged in the width direction of the large-format page, and the folding is performed twice.

[0013] Furthermore, the large-format page is arranged according to the following layout:

[0014]

[0015] Wherein, along the length direction of the large-format page, n is sequentially taken as 0, 1, 2, 3 and a larger natural number, until it becomes the largest natural number within N / 8, and N is the total number of pages of the printed book,

[0016] The first fold is to fold the page toward the back relative to the front side, and the second fold is to fold the page toward the side where 8n+5 is located.

[0017] In another preferred embodiment, 8 single pages are arranged in the width direction of the large-format page, and the folding is performed 3 times.

[0018] Furthermore, the large-format layout is arranged according to the following table:

[0019]

[0020] Wherein, along the length direction of the large-format page, n is sequentially taken as 0, 1, 2, 3 and a larger natural number, until it becomes the largest natural number within N / 16, and N is the total number of pages of the printed book,

[0021] Among them, the first fold is folded to the back side relative to the front side, the second fold is folded to the back side relative to the side where 16n+1 is located, and the third fold is folded to the back side relative to the side where 16n+1 is located.

[0022] For pages of different sizes, we designed a horizontal layout method and rotated the text 90° to accommodate the production of 16-mo, 32-mo and other uncommon specifications.

[0023] The present invention also provides a book production equipment, characterized in that it includes a printing section, a folding section, a cutting section, a stacking section and a binding section, the printing section includes a reeling device and a printing device, the reeling device provides a continuous paper tape to be printed, the printing device digitally prints pages on the paper tape according to the arranged layout, and the folding section folds the printed paper tape.

[0024] In the method of the present invention, the content of the book to be printed is typeset on a large-format page. The content of the large-format page is printed on a continuous paper tape, and then the continuous paper tape is subjected to assembly line operations such as folding, cutting, gluing, piling, and binding, thereby avoiding the multiple printing, intermittent printing, and site occupation and turnover of intermediate printed materials in traditional plate printing, greatly improving production efficiency and greatly reducing production costs. This is conducive to the publication of large quantities of books and allows the printing of small quantities of books. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0025] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described below. It should be noted that the drawings described below only relate to some embodiments of the present disclosure, but are not intended to limit the present disclosure, wherein:

[0026] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the layout of consecutive header rows before the first fold in a specific embodiment of the method according to the present invention;

[0027] Figure 2 yes Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the layout of the first row of the continuous pages during the first folding process

[0028] Figure 3 is Figure 1 A schematic diagram of the folding basis shown in the figure performing a second folding;

[0029] Figure 4 It is a schematic diagram of the continuous fold obtained after folding. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0030] In order to make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of the embodiments of the present disclosure clearer, the technical solution of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, rather than all of the embodiments. Based on the described embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative work also fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.

[0031] The book production method according to the present invention comprises the steps of typesetting, printing, folding, cutting, stacking and binding.

[0032] In the typesetting step, the content of the book is arranged into a large-format layout in units of pages. In the present invention, the term "large-format layout" means that the content to be printed is laid out on a layout, and the width of the layout allows multiple pages to be arranged. Typically, the width of the layout can be between 800-1200mm, and the length depends on the amount of content to be printed. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the book pages are made of 16-page paper, which is equivalent to the size of an A4 paper, and the layout arranges 4 pages in the width direction. Accordingly, the present invention uses the layout shown in Table 1 below for page typesetting:

[0033] Table 1

[0034]

[0035] The numbers in the above table correspond to page numbers. Along the length direction of the large-format page, n is sequentially taken as natural numbers such as 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., until it reaches the maximum natural number within N / 8, and N is the total number of pages of the printed book. The value of n is incremented by one natural number for each line. For example, if a book with 501 pages is printed, N is 501, and the maximum value of n is 62. The page layout of the first 5 lines on the front of the first page of the page is shown in Table 2 below:

[0036] Table 2

[0037]

[0038] Corresponding to each row in the table above, Table 3 below is the page number arrangement on the back:

[0039] Table 3

[0040]

[0041] In another typical embodiment of the present invention, the book pages are in 32-page format, and 8 pages are arranged in the width direction. Accordingly, the present invention uses the layout shown in Table 4 below for page layout:

[0042] Table 4

[0043]

[0044] The numbers in the above table correspond to page numbers. Along the length direction of the large-format page, n is sequentially taken as natural numbers such as 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., until it reaches the maximum natural number within N / 16, and N is the total number of pages of the printed book. The value of n is incremented by one natural number for each line. For example, if a book with 501 pages is printed, N is 501, and the maximum value of n is 31. The page layout of the first 3 lines on the front of the first page of the page is shown in Table 5 below:

[0045] Table 5

[0046]

[0047] Corresponding to the first page of the above layout, the page layout of the first three lines on the back is shown in Table 6 below:

[0048] Table 6

[0049]

[0050] In addition to the above preferred embodiments, the present invention may also have other layout methods. When the total width of the page is fixed, for example, 9500 mm, when the size of the printed book is special, the whole page can be opened in three or six openings, which requires corresponding adjustments to the subsequent folding process.

[0051] In the printing step according to the present invention, the layout content is printed onto a continuous paper tape in units of the entire large-format layout. The paper tape is provided by releasing a paper roll. Printing can be laser printing or inkjet printing. In the present invention, the term "printing" or "printing" refers to printing the content of the book to be printed (the content arranged in a complete layout) on the paper tape in the order of page numbers. The so-called "copying" means printing the content of a single book in one printing cycle. After one cycle is completed, the next cycle is carried out, that is, the content of the next book is printed. In this article, the paper tape is called a "continuous page" after being printed. The continuous page can be rolled up again and then processed on a separate book block processing equipment. The continuous page can also be directly transported to the folding section for folding.

[0052] In the folding step, the printed continuous pages are folded several times to obtain continuous folds corresponding to the width of the book. For the layout of Table 1 above, two folds are performed. The first fold is folded from the front to the back, such as Figure 1 and 2 As shown; the second fold is to fold towards the side where 8n+5 is located, as shown Figure 3 shown.

[0053] For the layout shown in Table 4, three folds are required. The first fold is to fold in half from the middle in the reverse direction, the second fold is to fold in the reverse direction of the face where 16n+1 is located, and the third fold is to fold in the reverse direction of the face where 16n+1 is located.

[0054] As an alternative example, the page arrangement shown in Table 7 below may be used:

[0055] Table 7

[0056]

[0057] In this case, the first fold is to fold toward the back side relative to the front side, the second fold is to fold toward the side where 16n+5 is located, and the third fold is to fold toward the back side relative to the side where 16n+1 is located.

[0058] After typesetting and folding in the above manner, the width of the continuous folded pages formed is the length or width of the book. That is, the pages of the book can be arranged vertically or horizontally on the paper tape, depending on the width of the paper tape and the size of the pages of the book being printed. For example, when the width of the paper tape is 900mm and the book pages are the size of A4 paper (300mm long and 210mm wide), the preferred arrangement is to arrange the four pages vertically in the width direction of the paper tape. In this way, the aforementioned continuous folded pages can be obtained after two folds. A non-preferred method is to arrange the three pages horizontally in the width direction of the paper tape, so that after two folds, the paper tape is folded into three layers of continuous folded pages, and the width of the folded pages corresponds to the length of the pages of the book. The "corresponding" mentioned here cannot be understood as "equal to" or "that is", but the required length or width of the book can be obtained after the continuous folded pages are cut.

[0059] The continuous folding pages obtained after folding are as follows Figure 4 As shown, the book is transported to the cutting section and cut into book signatures by a cutter. The book signatures are glued, stacked into book signature piles, and then compacted and sent to the binding section for binding into books.

[0060] In order to avoid mixing pages between adjacent books, a book start mark is designed on the first page of a book, and a book end mark is designed on the last page of a book. The mark can be in various forms: black block, barcode, QR code, to identify a book in production. The pages between books are not glued and staggered to facilitate picking.

[0061] The method of the present invention carries out book production in a highly automated manner, adopts digital large-format typesetting and continuous printing, and then cuts, glues, and stacks the sheets into books, avoiding the time-consuming operations of manufacturing and storing dozens or even hundreds of printing plates, storing intermediate printed materials, intermittent folding, cutting, and pasting in traditional printing, greatly improving production efficiency, reducing site occupancy, and thus reducing costs.

[0062] The method of the present invention also allows the publication of multiple books without stopping the machine. For example, after printing 100 books A, 300 books B are printed next. Before printing, the name and number of pages of each book are input, and the printing device of the printing section prints out the designated books in sequence according to the instruction. The stacking device of the stacking section also responds to the instruction to stack the corresponding book sheets into a book sheet pile, so that when producing small batches of books, the production efficiency is neither reduced nor the production cost is increased.

[0063] The present invention also relates to a book production equipment, which comprises a printing section, a folding section, a cutting section, a gluing section, a stacking section and a binding section in sequence, the printing section comprises a reeling device and a printing device, the reeling device provides a continuous paper tape to be printed, the printing device digitally prints pages on the paper tape according to the arranged layout, and the folding section folds the printed paper tape.

[0064] In the method of the present invention, the content of the book to be printed is typeset on a large-format page. The content of the large-format page is printed on a continuous paper tape, and then the continuous paper tape is subjected to assembly line operations such as folding, cutting, gluing, piling, and binding, thereby avoiding the multiple printing, intermittent printing, and site occupation and turnover of intermediate printed materials in traditional plate printing, greatly improving production efficiency and greatly reducing production costs. This is conducive to the publication of large quantities of books and allows the printing of small quantities of books.

[0065] It should be understood that various aspects of the present application can be implemented alone or in combination with one or more other aspects. It should also be understood that the description and specific embodiments herein are intended for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present application.

[0066] Several embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail above, but it is obvious that those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the embodiments of the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. The protection scope of the present disclosure is defined by the attached claims.

Claims

1. A book production method, characterized in that: The following steps are involved: Typesetting, typeset the book pages according to the set layout to obtain a large-format page with continuous layout; Printing, by releasing a paper roll to provide a paper tape, and printing the contents of the large-format page on the released paper tape to obtain continuous pages; Folding: folding the printed continuous pages several times to obtain continuous folded pages with a width corresponding to the size of the book; Cutting, cutting the continuous folded pages to obtain book signatures; Stacking, gluing and piling up the book sheets corresponding to a book to obtain a book sheet pile; Binding, the obtained book pages are stacked in covers, bound, and trimmed to get a book.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that Four single pages are arranged in the width direction of the large-format page, and the folding is performed twice.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that The large format pages are arranged according to the following layout: Wherein, along the length direction of the large-format page, n is sequentially taken as 0, 1, 2, 3 and a larger natural number, until it becomes the largest natural number within N / 8, and N is the total number of pages of the printed book, The first fold is to fold the page toward the back relative to the front side, and the second fold is to fold the page toward the side where 8n+5 is located.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that: Eight single pages are arranged in the width direction of the large-format page, and the folding is performed three times.

5. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that The large format layout is arranged according to the following table: Wherein, along the length direction of the large-format page, n is sequentially taken as 0, 1, 2, 3 and a larger natural number, until it becomes the largest natural number within N / 16, and N is the total number of pages of the printed book, Among them, the first fold is folded to the back side relative to the front side, the second fold is folded to the back side relative to the side where 16n+1 is located, and the third fold is folded to the back side relative to the side where 16n+1 is located.

6. The method according to claim 2 or 4, characterized in that: The width of the large-format page is 900-1000 mm.

7. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The printing step is completed on a separate digital printing device. After printing, the continuous pages are rolled into a roll, and the roll is opened on a book block preparation device for subsequent steps.

8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that: The printing device and the book block preparation device are integrated devices, and the printed continuous pages are directly folded in the folding section until the subsequent steps are completed.

9. A book production device, characterized in that: It includes a printing section, a folding section, a cutting section, a stacking section and a binding section. The printing section includes a reeling device and a printing device. The reeling device provides a continuous paper tape to be printed. The printing device digitally prints pages on the paper tape according to the arranged layout. The folding section folds the printed paper tape.

10. The book production equipment according to claim 9, characterized in that: The contents arranged in the width direction of the layout correspond to 4 or 8 pages of the book to be printed.

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