Hybrid stencil printing apparatus, method for controlling hybrid stencil printing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium recording program for the same

A method for controlling a hybrid stencil printing apparatus, the hybrid stencil printing apparatus including a stencil-making/printing unit and an other-method image-formation unit, the method comprising:

• inputting an original digital image having image portions, determining whether a color attribute of each image portion of the inputted original digital image is the same color as a color of ink filling the print drum, and allocating an image portion of the same color as the color of the ink filling the print drum to the stencil-making/printing unit and allocating the other image portion to the other-method image-formation unit based on a determination result;
• perforating a stencil sheet corresponding to a first image portion allocated to the stencil-making/printing unit, winding the stencil sheet around an outer peripheral surface of a print drum, and transferring a printing medium to the print drum with pressure and thereby printing said first image portion on the printing medium during a single transfer operation, in the stencil-making/printing unit;
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• printing a second image portion, allocated to the other-method image-formation unit, in registration with said first image portion on the printing medium during said single transfer operation according to a different printing method from the stencil-making/printing unit in the other-method image-formation unit.

A computer-readable recording medium, recording a program for controlling a hybrid stencil printing apparatus, the hybrid stencil printing apparatus including a stencil-making/printing unit and an other-method image-formation unit, the program comprising:

• inputting an original digital image having image portions, determining whether a color attribute of each image portion of the inputted original digital image is the same color as a color of ink filling the print drum, and
• allocating an image portion of the same color as the color of the ink filling the print drum to the stencil-making/printing unit and allocating the other image portion to the other-method image-formation unit based on a determination result;
• perforating a stencil sheet corresponding to a first image allocated to the stencil-making/printing unit, winding the stencil sheet around an outer peripheral surface of a print drum, and transferring a printing medium to the print drum with pressure and thereby printing said first image portion on the printing medium during a single transfer operation, in the stencil-making/printing unit;
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• printing a second image portion, allocated to the other-method image-formation unit, in registration with said first image portion on the printing medium during said single transfer operation according to a different printing method from the stencil-making/printing unit in the other-method image-formation unit.