Label issuing device, label issuing system, and management device

Abstract

The present invention provides a label issuing device, a label issuing system, and a management device that can display all display items on a label, or replace some of the display items with code information and display them on the label, without placing a heavy burden on the operator. [Solution] The label issuing device includes a storage unit that stores the contents of multiple display items for each product, and a control unit that, when one of the products is selected, retrieves the contents of multiple display items corresponding to the selected product from the storage unit and controls the printing unit to print the retrieved contents of multiple display items onto the label. The storage unit stores specification information for each display item, which specifies whether to print the contents of the display item on the label as text or as code information. Based on the specification information for the selected product, the control unit controls the printing unit to print the contents of multiple display items corresponding to the selected product on the label as text or as code information.

Claims

1. A label issuing device that prints the contents of multiple display items that are required to be displayed on processed foods onto a label, A storage unit that stores the contents of each of the multiple display items for each product, The system includes a control unit that, when one of the aforementioned products is selected, retrieves the contents of each of the multiple display items corresponding to the selected product from the storage unit and controls the printing unit to print each of the retrieved contents of the multiple display items onto the label, The storage unit stores, for each display item, specification information that specifies whether the content of the display item should be printed on the label as text or as code information. A label issuing device in which the control unit controls the printing unit to print the contents of each of a plurality of display items corresponding to a specified product on the label as characters or as code information, based on the specified information of the specified product.

2. The raw material name, which is one of the display items, is stored in the storage unit in such a way that information belonging to the first group and information belonging to the second group can be distinguished by specific symbols. The label issuing device according to claim 1, wherein, if the designated information specifies that the raw material names should be printed as code information, the control unit prints the raw material names belonging to the first group as code information on the label, and prints the raw material names belonging to the second group as characters on the label.

3. The label issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the specified information includes three cases in which the content of the display item is specified to be printed as (1) characters, (2) only as code information, and (3) both of (1) and (2).

4. The label issuing device according to claim 1, wherein the code information is the URL of the provider that provides the content of the display item, or the content of the display item is converted into a two-dimensional code and displayed.

5. A plurality of label issuing devices according to any one of claims 1 to 4, The system includes a management device that is configured to communicate with the plurality of label issuing devices and manages the contents of each of the plurality of display items for each product and the specified information stored in the storage unit of each of the plurality of label issuing devices, The management device distributes the contents of each of the multiple display items updated in the management device and the specified information to the multiple label issuing devices. A label issuing system in which each of the plurality of label issuing devices updates the contents of the plurality of display items and the designated information stored in the storage unit based on the contents of the plurality of display items and the designated information distributed from the management device.

6. A management device that is configured to communicate with a plurality of label issuing devices according to any one of claims 1 to 4, It has a management storage unit that stores the contents of each of the multiple display items for each product and the specified information transmitted from each of the multiple label issuing devices, The management storage unit is configured to be accessible by a third party via a URL provided by the code information printed on the labels issued by the plurality of label issuing devices.

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