Editing apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomotaka Katano, Daisuke Abe, Yuta Kamihira, Sayaka Kurihara, Kazuki Shibata
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Abstract
An editing apparatus displays an editing screen for editing data for a medium to be processed by processing equipment including a printer, a cutting machine, and a sewing machine on a display. The data includes print data to drive the printer, cutting data to drive the cutting machine, and sewing data to drive the sewing machine. The editing apparatus receives an operation for editing the data with the editing screen or the preview screen displayed on the display, edits the data in accordance with the operation received, and outputs the data edited to the printer, the cutting machine, and the sewing machine.
Claims16
A data processing method for processing print data for a printer, cutting data for a cutting machine, and embroidery data for a sewing machine, the data processing method comprising:
- displaying sample images indicating works to be created by the printer, the cutting machine, and the sewing machine;
- selecting one of the works as a selected work, based on the sample images displayed;
- determining the print data, the cutting data, and the embroidery data to be used for creating the selected work;
- outputting the print data to the printer from a computer in response to a first instruction to output the print data, and
- after outputting the print data:
- outputting the embroidery data to the sewing machine from the computer in response to outputting the cutting data to the cutting machine from the computer;
- or
- outputting the cutting data to the cutting machine from the computer in response to outputting the embroidery data to the sewing machine from the computer.
A data processing method for processing print data for a printer, cutting data for a cutting machine, and embroidery data for a sewing machine, the data processing method comprising:
- displaying sample images indicating works to be created by the printer, the cutting machine, and the sewing machine;
- selecting one of the works as a selected work, based on the sample images displayed, wherein the selected work is associated with print data, cutting data, and embroidery data;
- outputting the print data to be used for creating the selected work to the printer;
- outputting the accessed cutting data to be used for creating the selected work to the cutting machine;
- outputting the embroidery data to be used for creating the selected work to the sewing machine;
- and
- printing on a medium based on the output print data in response to a print instruction received by the printer,
- after printing:
- cutting the medium based on the output cutting data in response to a cutting instruction received by the cutting machine, and after cutting, stitching on the medium based on the embroidery data in response to a sewing instruction received by the sewing machine;
- or
- stitching on the medium based on the output embroidery data in response to the embroidery instruction received by the sewing machine, and after stitching, cutting the medium based on the cutting data in response to the cutting instruction received by the cutting machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.