Printing system
AssigneeSCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Nishide
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Abstract
A printing system includes a book body printing section including a book body printing machine and outputting book bodies sequentially, and a cover printing section including a cover printing machine and outputting covers sequentially. The book body printing machine and the cover printing machine respectively receive printing order data indicating a printing order with regard to a plurality of jobs from a print control apparatus, and perform printing in the printing order indicated by the printing order data. The print control apparatus generates the printing order data, so that an inserting order in unit of job to a bookbinding machine of the book bodies output from the book body printing section coincides with an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the covers output from the cover printing section.
Claims12
A printing system that outputs first elements and second elements to a bookbinding machine performing bookbinding of books by combining the first elements and the second elements, the system comprising:
- a first printing section including a first printing machine configured to print the first elements with regard to a plurality of jobs, the first printing section configured to output the first elements sequentially;
- a second printing section including a second printing machine configured to print the second elements with regard to the plurality of jobs, the second printing section configured to output the second elements sequentially;
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- a print control apparatus configured to generate first printing order data indicating a printing order of the first elements by the first printing machine and second printing order data indicating a printing order of the second elements by the second printing machine, to output the first printing order data to the first printing machine, and to output the second printing order data to the second printing machine, wherein
- the first printing machine is configured to print the first elements in the printing order indicated by the first printing order data,
- the second printing machine is configured to print the second elements in the printing order indicated by the second printing order data,
- the print control apparatus generates the first printing order data based on first apparatus related information including information indicating a correspondence relation between a printing order of the plurality of jobs in the first printing machine and an output order of the first elements output from the first printing section and generates the second printing order data based on second apparatus related information including information indicating a correspondence relation between a printing order of the plurality of jobs in the second printing machine and an output order of the second elements output from the second printing section, and
- the print control apparatus is configured to generate the first printing order data and the second printing order data, so that an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the first elements output from the first printing section coincides with an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the second elements output from the second printing section.
A printing system that outputs first elements and second elements to a bookbinding machine performing bookbinding of books by combining the first elements and the second elements, the system comprising:
- a first printing section including a first printing machine configured to print the first elements, the first printing section configured to output the first elements sequentially;
- and
- a second printing section including a second printing machine configured to print the second elements, the second printing section configured to output the second elements sequentially, wherein
- at least one of the first printing machine and the second printing machine is configured to receive printing order data indicating a printing order with regard to a plurality of jobs,
- the at least one of the first printing machine and the second printing machine is configured to perform printing referring to the printing order data so that an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the first elements output from the first printing section coincides with an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the second elements output from the second printing section,
- the second printing machine is configured to generate the printing order data indicating the printing order at time of printing the second elements with regard to the plurality of jobs, and to output the printing order data to the first printing machine, and
- the first printing machine is configured to determine a printing order of the first elements based on the printing order data, so that the inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the first elements output from the first printing section coincides with the inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the second elements output from the second printing section, and to print the first elements in the determined printing order.
A printing system that outputs first elements and second elements to a bookbinding machine performing bookbinding of books by combining the first elements and the second elements, the system comprising:
- a first printing section including a first printing machine configured to print the first elements, the first printing section configured to output the first elements sequentially;
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- a second printing section including a second printing machine configured to print the second elements, the second printing section configured to output the second elements sequentially, wherein
- at least one of the first printing machine and the second printing machine is configured to receive printing order data indicating a printing order with regard to a plurality of jobs,
- the at least one of the first printing machine and the second printing machine is configured to perform printing referring to the printing order data so that an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the first elements output from the first printing section coincides with an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the second elements output from the second printing section,
- the second printing section includes an order obtaining apparatus configured to obtain an overlapping order in unit of job of the second elements printed by the second printing machine, and to output data indicating the overlapping order as the printing order data to the first printing machine, and
- the first printing machine is configured to determine a printing order of the first elements based on the printing order data, so that the inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the first elements output from the first printing section coincides with the inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the second elements output from the second printing section, and to print the first elements in the determined printing order.
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