Inspection method, program, inspection device, and printing device

An inspection device comprising:

• an imaging data acquisition unit that acquires imaging data of a printed article using a special substrate;
• a non-printing region positional information acquisition unit that acquires information for specifying a position of a non-printing region in the imaging data, the non-printing region corresponding to a substrate region of the printed article on which a pattern and a background of the pattern are not printed;
• an inspection unit that specifies the non-printing region based on the information for specifying the position of the non-printing region, analyzes the imaging data by applying a predetermined inspection rule, and performs an inspection of the printed article;
• and
• a notification unit that performs a notification of an inspection result of the printed article, the notification unit not performing a notification of an inspection result indicating that a defect is present in the substrate region of the printed article corresponding to the non-printing region.

A printing device comprising:

• a printing unit that performs printing on a special substrate;
• and
• an inspection device that inspects a printed article generated by using the printing unit,
• wherein the inspection device includes
• an imaging data acquisition unit that acquires imaging data of the printed article,
• a non-printing region positional information acquisition unit that acquires information for specifying a position of a non-printing region in the imaging data, the non-printing region corresponding to a substrate region of the printed article on which a pattern and a background of the pattern are not printed,
• an inspection unit that specifies the non-printing region based on the information for specifying the position of the non-printing region, analyzes the imaging data by applying a predetermined inspection rule, and performs an inspection of the printed article, and
• a notification unit that performs a notification of an inspection result of the printed article, the notification unit not performing a notification of an inspection result indicating that a defect is present in the substrate region of the printed article corresponding to the non-printing region.

A non-temporary computer-readable storage medium that causes a computer to execute, in a case in which a command stored in the storage medium is read by the computer,

• an imaging data acquisition function of acquiring imaging data of a printed article using a special substrate,
• a non-printing region positional information acquisition function of acquiring information for specifying a position of a non-printing region in the imaging data, the non-printing region corresponding to a substrate region of the printed article on which a pattern and a background of the pattern are not printed,
• an inspection function of specifying the non-printing region based on the information for specifying the position of the non-printing region, analyzing the imaging data by applying a predetermined inspection rule, and performing an inspection of the printed article, and
• a notification function of performing a notification of an inspection result of the printed article and not performing a notification of an inspection result indicating that a defect is present in the substrate region of the printed article corresponding to the non-printing region.