Printing system and printing control apparatus

A printing system for producing a media sheet, the media sheet having a plurality of medium regions, each of the medium regions corresponding to a different one of separate personal information media, each of the personal information media including a first personal information item and a second personal information item corresponding to each other, the printing system comprising:

• a first printing unit that performs printing using a material that includes pigment, based on first data;
• a second printing unit that performs printing using a material that exhibits structural color, based on second data;
• and
• a control apparatus that outputs the first data and the second data,
• wherein
• the control apparatus includes
• a storage unit that stores first information groups and second information groups, each of the first information groups and a corresponding one of the second information groups being linked to an item of identification information,
• each of the first information groups consisting of all first personal information items to be included in the medium sheet,
• each of the second information groups consisting of all second personal information items to be included in the medium sheet,
• the storage unit being configured to make, for the respective personal information mediums, a correspondence between a corresponding one of the first personal information items of each of the first information groups and a corresponding one of the second personal information items of a corresponding one of the second information groups,
• a first data output section that outputs the first data to the first printing unit, the first data causing the first printing unit to:
• print the first personal information items in a selected one of the first information groups on the corresponding respective medium regions of the media sheet;
• and
• print the item of identification information linked to the selected one of the first information groups on a region of the media sheet except for the medium regions,
• an identification information processing section that identifies one of the second information groups, the one of the second information groups being linked to the item of identification information read from the media sheet on which the printing based on the first data has been performed, and
• a second data output section that outputs the second data to the second printing unit, the second data causing the second printing unit to
• print the second personal information items included in the identified one of the second information groups on the corresponding respective medium regions on which the first personal information items corresponding to the respective second personal information items have been printed.

A printing control apparatus for producing a media sheet, the media sheet having a plurality of medium regions, each of the medium regions corresponding to a different one of separate personal information media, each of the personal information media including a first personal information item and a second personal information item corresponding to each other, the printing control apparatus comprising:

• a storage unit that stores first information groups and second information groups, each of the first information groups and a corresponding one of the second information groups being linked to an item of identification information,
• each of the first information groups consisting of all first personal information items to be included in the medium sheet,
• each of the second information groups consisting of all second personal information items to be included in the medium sheet,
• the storage unit being configured to make, for the respective personal information mediums, a correspondence between a corresponding one of the first personal information items of each of the first information groups and a corresponding one of the second personal information items of a corresponding one of the second information groups,
• a first data output section that outputs first data to a first printing unit that performs printing using a material that exhibits structural color, based on the first data, the first data causing the first printing unit to:
• print the first personal information items in a selected one of the first information groups on the corresponding respective medium regions of the media sheet;
• and
• print the item of identification information linked to the selected one of the first information groups on a region of the media sheet except for the medium regions,
• an identification information processing section that identifies one of the second information groups, the one of the second information groups being linked to the item of identification information read from the media sheet on which the printing based on the first data has been performed, and
• a second data output section that outputs second data to a second printing unit that performs printing using a material that includes pigment, based on the second data, the second data causing the second printing unit to
• print the second personal information items included in the identified one of the second information groups on the corresponding respective medium regions on which the first personal information items corresponding to the respective second personal information items have been printed.