Process and configuration for an internal cost accounting printout

US5790768A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Harald Windel · Berlin, DE
• Wolfgang Thiel · Köngen, DE
• Klaus Dietrich · Munich, DE
• Stephan Gunther · Berlin, DE
• Norbert Knoth · Berlin, DE
• Erwin Simon · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 28, 1996
• Grant date: Aug 4, 1998
• Expiry date: Aug 28, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00572
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A postage meter module has a printing unit, a control unit connected to the printing unit, input/output devices connected to the control unit, and memory devices connected to the control unit. A configuration for an internal cost center printout includes a pixel memory having a field and at least one memory area for accounting data into which data are loaded and converted and/or from which data are read out and converted. The conversion is a blockwise orthogonal rotation of the pixel memory field. A device for orthogonal rotation of the pixel memory field permits a block of a print image with accounting data having been electronically rotated by 90.degree. or by 270.degree. in a direction of printing to be temporarily stored in or read out from the at least one memory area of the pixel memory. A print control unit reads out print image data corresponding to the accounting data by blocks from the pixel memory. A process for an internal cost center printout with a printing device for printing out variable information, includes switching over operation of a print head from printing postage for postal matter to printing a cost center printout.