Continuous Printing Resume Control After Inspection Failures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to efficiently handle continuous printing interruptions due to inspection failures, leading to inconsistent resume positions and user inconvenience when failed printed materials are not promptly purged during quality inspection.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that interrupts continuous printing upon detection of a failed printed material and allows users to designate a resume page, ensuring that failed and subsequent materials are directed to a removal unit and subsequently resumed from a user-specified position.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the resume position of continuous printing is fixed automatically, then the system operation is simple, but the user convenience deteriorates when failed materials are not promptly purged
Solution Approach 1:
The resume position mechanism transitions from a fixed automatic system to a dynamic user-selectable system. The control unit provides multiple resume position options (first resume position before failure, second resume position after failure) that users can select based on whether failed materials were purged, making the system adaptable to different operational scenarios rather than following a single predetermined path.
2Extent of automation
If the system automatically determines resume position, then the automation level is high, but the manufacturing precision of output order deteriorates when failed materials remain in the discharge tray
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit implements feedback by detecting whether failed materials are present in the discharge tray and using this information to present appropriate resume position options to the user. This feedback loop allows the system to adapt its automation level based on the actual state of the discharge tray, ensuring that resume position selection aligns with the physical condition of printed materials.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple resume position options are provided, then the adaptability improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit prepares multiple resume position options in advance based on predetermined criteria (first resume position before failure occurrence, second resume position after failure occurrence). By pre-defining these options and their selection conditions, the system reduces the complexity of real-time decision-making while maintaining high adaptability to different operational scenarios.
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AI summary
An information processing system includes at least one processor configured to: interrupt continuous printing of a printed material, in a case where a printed material having an inspection result of fail is generated during the continuous printing of plural printed materials while performing quality inspection on the plural printed materials; and resume the continuous printing of the printed material from a resume page designated by a user, in a case where an operation of discharging the failed printed material and a subsequent printed material after the failed printed material, on which a printing process has already been performed, to a removal unit is not completed in time, and the failed printed material and the subsequent printed material are discharged to a body discharge unit.