Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft

Rupert Baur

Hermann Kilb

Egon Durler

Jurgen Krause

Wilfried Rohde

Lothar Bauer

A printer for a plurality of different printing objects serving as a multifunctional printer is subject to problems of economic production. A printer system which allows to process all internationally required forms and savings booklets, records, checks, protocols, driver licenses for motor vehicles, passports, identification cards, motor vehicle registration papers, picture-text BTX texts, and teletext texts, can be furnished, depending on the selected functions, by forming a base model (1), which includes a print apparatus (2), a print-object transport device (3), an operating field (4), an electronic control device (5), and a power supply (6), where the print apparatus (2), the power supply (6), and the electronic control device (5) form in each case modular building blocks (7), which can be easily mounted and easily demounted by receiving and bolting means (8, 10 or, respectively, 9a, 10a) disposed at a base frame (8) and where further receiving and bolting means (9, 10 or, respectively, 9b, 10b) are provided at the base frame ( 8) for an optical character-recognition device (15) and/or for a magnetic-strip processing (20) and/or for an optical line searcher (21) and/or for an optical marking searching (22) and/or for a journal-printer modular building block (23, 7).

Expandable module frame for mounting printer and accessory modules

In a multifunction printer with a journal device (13) for recording of data processed in the printer for purposes of data securing or, respectively, documentation, at least one print unit (6) is provided for the printing of the input data. In addition, in most cases, further printer modules (9), coordinated to a respective printer function, are furnished. In order to solve the space requirements of a space-volume-requiring journal device (13), and in order to achieve the smallest possible dimensions of the overall printer, a journal device (13) is coordinated to a form print unit (15) or to an additional sales-receipt print unit (11), which journal device (13) comprises a secondary controller (16), selectable from the pull-in controller (3) of the main platen (2), with an interface (17) and with a data storage memory (18), where the input data are permanently filed in the data storage memory (18) and are recallable and are printable with the aid of a form print unit (15) or of the sales-receipt print unit ( 11).

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Rupert Baur