Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Nec Engineering, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.

Shunichi Hashimoto

Norifumi Tasaka

Takahide Toshito

Yasuharu Suda

Shuichi Takemoto

Minoru Nagata

Toshiaki Kumagawa

Hisakatu Ochi

Colors of printed materials are easily matched. Provided is a print management system used in a printing system including a plurality of printing presses and performing printing using plates respectively created for each printing press. The print management system includes a tone-curve storage unit for linking and storing identifying information of the printing presses and tone curves for the printing presses; a communication device for obtaining binary image data from a host system; a binary-image-data correction unit for creating binary image data for each of the printing presses by correcting the binary image data using the tone curves stored in the tone-curve storage unit; and CTPs for creating respective plates for each of the printing presses on the basis of the corrected binary image data.

Print management system, method and computer-readable medium containing program for the same

A method and a system for printing management, with the intension of appropriate color management performed in a newspaper print site in which a number of newspaper rotary presses of two or more types are provided, obtain image data representing each page edited in multilevel image data along with associated data concerning the page and makes a printing plate based on the image data and concurrently select a newspaper rotary press and a print material used for printing the page based on the multilevel image data and the associated data; perform color correction of the multilevel image data in accordance with the types of the selected rotary press and print material based on the color management data previously prepared, which multilevel image data is to be converted into binary image data and used for making a printing plate.

Method and system for printing management

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Mihara, Japan

Shunichi Hashimoto