Riso Kagaku Corporation

Nobuko Kubota

Michael Mehigan

Musashi Hirata

A printing control apparatus for controlling a stencil printing machine ( ), wherein a stencil sheet, which is made on the basis of image data, is wound around a printing drum ( ) with which a print sheet ( ) is held in pressured contact to perform a stencil printing operation, provides the stencil printing machine with image data representative of an image to be reproduced as an object, and printing order information representative of a page order in which the printing operation is performed using image data, an ink color for the printing drum to be used, and a timing in which one printing drum is replaced with another one. In accordance with the printing order information, the ink color contained in image data is detected and an order for each page to be printed is determined on the basis of a user's print request to execute the printing operation according to the page order and to reduce the number of times the printing drum is replaced with.

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Ibaraki-ken, Japan

Nobuko Kubota