JP2009285936A - Printing system, and printed matter preparation method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing system and a printed matter preparation method, capable of preparing efficiently a printed matter mixed with a color printed matter and a monochromatic printed matter. <P>SOLUTION: A component analyzer 16 registers a page content in a page list, to be supplied to an imposition processor 18, when a color component is included in the page content supplied from a page content preparation device 14. The imposition processor 18 classifies the page content according to imposition numbers to the page list and press plates, transmits the imposition-processed page content including the color component, to an image setter 24, and transmits the imposition-processed page content not including the color component, to an image setter 20. A color printer 26 prepares the printed matter including the color component, using the press plate prepared by the image setter 24, and a monochromatic printer 22 prepares the printed matter comprising only the monochromatic component, using the press plate prepared by the image setter 20. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a printing system and a printed material creating method for creating a printed material in which a color printed material and a monochrome printed material are mixed.

  In recent years, DTP (Desk Top Publishing), which creates page content of each page constituting a printed material by creating and editing print content by a computer, has become the mainstream. Data relating to the page contents is supplied to a plate making apparatus such as an image setter to create each color plate, and then the plate is set in a printing machine to create a color print.

  By the way, a color printed material is generally created by creating a printing plate of each color of C, M, Y, and K and superimposing inks of each color on printing paper using each printing plate. On the other hand, the printed matter includes a monochrome printed matter created only with black ink. This monochrome printed matter is usually created from only one plate. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when creating a printed matter in which color printed matter and monochrome printed matter are mixed, a color printing machine using inks of C, M, Y, and K colors has been used (see Patent Document 1).

  However, when many parts of the printed material are composed of monochrome printed material, if a printed material is created using only a color printing machine, a process for creating a colored printed material is added at the time of creating the monochrome printed material. As a result, the printed matter cannot be efficiently created.

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  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a printing system and a printed material creation method capable of efficiently creating a printed material in which a color printed material and a monochrome printed material are mixed. .

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a component analysis apparatus that analyzes whether or not a color component is included in a print content that constitutes a page content of a printed matter;
A color printing machine for printing the page content including the color parts;
A monochrome printing machine for printing the page content not including the color component;
The imposition processing of the page content is performed, and the imposition processed page content including the color component is supplied to the color printing machine, while the imposition processing of the page content not including the color component is performed. An imposition processing device for supplying to the monochrome printing machine;
It is characterized by providing.

Further, the present invention comprises a step of analyzing whether or not a color part is included in the print content constituting the page content of the printed matter;
Performing imposition processing of the page content including the color component and supplying the page content to a color printer;
Performing imposition processing of the page content not including the color component and supplying the page content to a monochrome printing machine;
Creating a printed matter using the color printer and the monochrome printer;
It is characterized by having.

  According to the printing system and the printed material creation method of the present invention, when creating a printed material in which a color printed material and a monochrome printed material are mixed, the page content constituting each page of the printed material is analyzed, and the page content including the color component is color-coded. While printing is performed using a printing machine, a printed matter can be efficiently created by printing page content including only monochrome parts using a monochrome printing machine.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a printing system 10 that is an embodiment to which a printing system and a printed material creation method of the present invention are applied.

  The printing system 10 includes a printing content creation device 12 that creates a printing content composed of text, images, or line drawings by a writer or an artist, and a layout for one page of each printing content on a printed matter by an editor or a designer. A page content creation device 14 that creates page content set with a page content, a component analysis device 16 that analyzes whether a component that is a print content that constitutes each page content is a color component, or a monochrome component, and an analysis An imposition processing device 18 that performs imposition processing of page content based on the result, an image setter 20 that records page content consisting only of impositioned monochrome parts on a printing plate, and an image setter 20 Printing monochrome page content using a printing plate Nokuro printing machine 22, image setter 24 for recording page contents including impositioned color parts on the printing plate, and color page content and monochrome page content using the printing plate created by image setter 24 And a color printer 26 for printing.

  FIG. 2 is a configuration block diagram of the component analysis apparatus 16. The component analysis apparatus 16 includes a component information determination unit 28 that determines whether the print content is a color component or a monochrome component based on component information added to each print content constituting the page content. A page list registration unit 30 is provided for registering page numbers of page contents including color components in the page list based on the determination result by the component information determination unit 28.

  The printing system 10 of the present embodiment is basically configured as described above. Next, a printed matter creation process will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.

  First, a writer or an artist creates a printing content composed of text, an image, or a line drawing using the printing content creation device 12 (step S1). Each created print content is supplied to the page content creation device 14 as object data having a PDF file format, for example.

  Next, the editor or designer uses the page content creation device 14 to create page content by setting the page layout of the print content that constitutes each page of the printed material (step S2).

  Next, if the print content constituting the page content includes a color component, that is, if the color of the print content is color, component information indicating that the page content includes a color component is displayed. In addition, when all of the print content constituting the page content is a monochrome component, that is, when the color of the print content is monochrome, component information indicating that the page content is composed only of the monochrome component is added. It is added (step S3).

  The page content to which the component information is added is supplied to the component analysis device 16. Based on the component information of each page content, the component information determination unit 28 of the component analysis device 16 determines whether or not a color component is included in the page content (step S4). The page list registration unit 30 registers the page number of the page content including the color component in the page list based on the determination result of the component information determination unit 28 (step S5).

  Next, the page content is supplied to the imposition processing device 18 together with the registered page list, and imposition processing is performed (step S6). The page content imposition process will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  The imposition processing device 18 registers the bookbinding style by the image setters 20 and 24, which are output devices to be used, and the maximum number of page contents to be output on one printing plate (step S11). For example, “saddle stitching” shown in FIG. 5 is set and registered as the bookbinding style. Further, as the maximum imposition number m by the image setters 20 and 24, as shown in FIGS. 6 to 9, the imposition number (maximum imposition number) for printing a maximum of two page contents on one side of one printing paper 32. The attached number m = 2) is set and registered.

  Next, the imposition processing device 18 acquires the page list registered by the page list registration unit 30 of the component analysis device 16, the first page number i of each set of printed materials, and the page number n of each set as content information ( Step S12). FIG. 10 illustrates each page content of one set of printed matter. In this example, the first page number i is 1 and the number of pages n is 128.

  Assuming that the first page number i = 1 (step S13) and the operation parameter j = 0 (step S14), the maximum imposition number m by the image setters 20 and 24 set in step S11 (in the case of FIGS. 6 to 9, m = 2) According to the page number of the page content including the color part C that is the page list acquired in step S12, the (i + j · m) to (i + (j + 1) · m−1) pages of the page content, or (i + n−) It is determined whether or not the color component C is included in any of the pages 1-j · m) to (i + n− (j + 1) · m) (step S15). If any page contains the color component C, all these page contents are classified as output by the color printer 26, and their page numbers are registered in the color print list (step S16). On the other hand, if these pages consist only of the monochrome component M, all these page contents are classified as being output by the monochrome printer 22, and the page numbers are registered in the monochrome print list (step S17).

  Similarly, the determination as to whether or not the color component C is included is repeated until the operation parameter j reaches n / (2 · m) (steps S18 and S19).

  As described above, after all the page numbers in one set of printed matter are registered in the color print list or the monochrome print list, the imposition process for outputting the page contents by the image setters 20 and 24 is performed ( Step S20).

  Specifically, assuming that each page content constituting the printed material has the configuration shown in FIG. 10, the bookbinding style is saddle stitching, and the maximum imposition number m by the image setters 20 and 24 is set to 2. Therefore, the page numbers 1, 2, 127, and 128 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 are registered in the color print list. Therefore, the plate content created by the image setter 24 is impositioned with page contents of page numbers 1 and 128 consisting only of color parts C and page contents of page numbers 2 and 127 consisting only of monochrome parts M. . Further, page numbers 5, 6, 123, and 124 shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 are registered in the monochrome print list. Therefore, the printing plate created by the imagesetter 20 is imposed with the page contents of page numbers 5 and 124 consisting only of the monochrome part M and the page contents of page numbers 6 and 123 consisting only of the monochrome part M. . Similarly, the page contents of page numbers 7 to 122 are imposed on the printing plate created by the imagesetter 20.

  The page content subjected to imposition processing for the color printing machine 26 is transmitted to the image setter 24 (step S21). Further, the page content subjected to the imposition process for the monochrome printing machine 22 is transmitted to the image setter 20. Similarly, imposition processing for each set of printed materials is performed (step S22).

  The page contents transmitted to the image setter 24 are supplied to the color printing machine 26 after the page contents of page numbers 1 and 128 are formed on the printing plate, and as shown in FIG. A color print with page numbers 1 and 128 is created on the surface of the image. Further, the image setter 24 forms page contents of page numbers 2 and 127 on a printing plate, and this printing plate is supplied to the color printing machine 26. As shown in FIG. And 127 page contents are created.

  On the other hand, the page contents transmitted to the image setter 20 are supplied to the monochrome printing machine 22 after the page contents of page numbers 5 and 124 are formed on the printing plate, and printing is performed as shown in FIG. Monochrome prints with page numbers 5 and 124 are created on the surface of the paper 32. Further, the image setter 20 forms page contents of page numbers 6 and 123 on a printing plate, and this printing plate is supplied to the monochrome printing machine 22, and the page number 6 is printed on the back surface of the printing paper 32 as shown in FIG. And 123 page contents are created.

  Similarly, the page contents of the page numbers 7 to 122 are created by the monochrome printing machine 22, so that a printed matter in which color printed matter and monochrome printed matter are mixed is created. In this case, it is possible to create a printed material more efficiently than when all the page contents constituting the printed material are printed using the color printer 26.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above, Of course, it can change freely in the range which does not deviate from the main point of this invention.

1 is a configuration block diagram of a printing system according to an embodiment. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a component analysis apparatus that constitutes a printing system. It is a flowchart of the creation process of the printed matter by the printing system of this embodiment. It is a flowchart of the imposition process by the printing system of this embodiment. It is explanatory drawing of the page arrangement | positioning of printed matter when a bookbinding style is saddle stitching. It is explanatory drawing of the printed material surface printed by a color printer. It is explanatory drawing of the printed matter back printed by a color printer. It is explanatory drawing of the printed matter surface printed by a monochrome printing machine. It is explanatory drawing of the printed matter back printed by a monochrome printing machine. It is explanatory drawing of the printed matter in which a color printed matter and a monochrome printed matter are mixed.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Printing system 12 ... Print content creation apparatus 14 ... Page content creation apparatus 16 ... Component analysis apparatus 18 ... Imposition processing apparatus 20, 24 ... Image setter 22 ... Monochrome printing machine 26 ... Color printing machine 28 ... Component information determination part 30: Page list registration unit 32 ... Printing paper

Claims (5)

A component analyzer for analyzing whether or not a color component is included in the print content constituting the page content of the printed matter;
A color printing machine for printing the page content including the color parts;
A monochrome printing machine for printing the page content not including the color component;
The imposition processing of the page content is performed, and the imposition processed page content including the color component is supplied to the color printing machine, while the imposition processing of the page content not including the color component is performed. An imposition processing device for supplying to the monochrome printing machine;
A printing system comprising: The system of claim 1, wherein
A printing system comprising: a page content creation device that creates the page content constituting each page of a printed matter using the printing content. The system of claim 1, wherein
The component analysis apparatus includes a page list registration unit that registers the page content including the color component as a page list.
The imposition processing apparatus classifies the page content supplied to the color printer and the page content supplied to the monochrome printer according to the page list. The system of claim 1, wherein
The color printing machine comprises a plate-making printing machine for printing the page content including the color parts,
The monochrome printing machine comprises a plate-making printing machine for printing the page content made up of only monochrome parts. Analyzing whether or not a color component is included in the print content constituting the page content of the printed matter;
Performing imposition processing of the page content including the color component and supplying the page content to a color printer;
Performing imposition processing of the page content not including the color component and supplying the page content to a monochrome printing machine;
Creating a printed matter using the color printer and the monochrome printer;
A printed matter producing method characterized by comprising:

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