A medium dispensing device including a storage section that stores a sheet shaped medium, a conveying section that conveys the medium, plural dispensing ports that dispense the medium, an instruction reception section that receives from plural external terminal devices instructions related to dispensing the medium, a controller that, based on the instructions, feeds out the medium from the storage section and conveys the medium to a dispensing port using a conveying section, and a notification section that notifies a correspondence between the terminal device that the instruction is received from and the dispensing port for dispensing the medium. The notification section is equipped with a display section that displays characters, graphics, symbols, images, hue, or brightness, or a combination thereof.

A method and a device for monitoring a post print processing machine through which printed products are successively transported. An image recording device is assigned to the post print processing machine and connected to a computer unit for recording during each operating cycle an image series with at least two images of a printed product, spaced apart by a time interval. The images of the image series are transmitted to the computer unit and the images are displayed in real time on a display device that is connected to the computer unit.

The present disclosure relates to a safety-enhanced hydraulic metal coil loading system and method thereof (100) comprising a hydraulic lifting unit (102) configured to elevate metal coils, the hydraulic lifting unit (102) including a large hydraulic cylinder (104) and a small hydraulic cylinder (106), a positioning mechanism (110) mechanically linked to the hydraulic lifting unit (102), the positioning mechanism (110) including a lifter fork (112), a decoiler machine (116) operatively connected to the positioning mechanism (110), a support structure (118) comprising a frame and a carriage (120), a control unit (122) electrically coupled to the hydraulic lifting unit (102), positioning mechanism (110), and decoiler machine (116), the control unit (122) programmed to regulate lifting operations, monitor alignment, and prevent overload conditions, a monitoring interface (124) in communication with the control unit (122), a floor with a cutout cover (126) secured below the frame.

Provided is a technique that enables proper sorting of discharged print media by suppressing curling of each of the print media sufficiently. A determining unit determines a curling suppressing operation to be executed such that in a case where sorting operation is executed, the suppressing operation having a higher effect of suppressing curling is executed than in a case where the sorting operation is executed. Then, a print control unit controls a print head to perform printing on print media while executing the suppressing operation determined by the determining unit.