Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Screen Holdings Co., Ltd.

Takako Kato

Iwata Ikeda

Yoshihiko Onogawa

Yo Izawa

A print job data generation portion generates print job data, including flatplan information that specifies an actual position of each of pages on a unit printing sheet, based on submission data and a flatplan template. In the case where a page size in the submission data is smaller than a maximum page size defined by the flatplan template, the print job data generation portion determines the position of each of the pages in accordance with an intra-cell positioning rule set in the flatplan template Dt with no change in the folding position represented by the flatplan template.

Printing data generation device, printing data generation method and storage medium for creating booklet

A rasterization processor capable of properly selecting a rasterization processing method reducing a non-operating time of an output unit is provided. The rasterization processor acquires the operating state of the output unit and a time up to termination of output operation of the output unit, calculates times for rasterizing page data at a time and consecutively rasterizing a plurality of separation data separated from page data respectively and compares an output operation end time and an at-a-time RIP processing time with each other. On the basis of the result, the rasterization processor selects and executes either rasterization processing. Thus, a rasterization processor maximally keeping the operating time of the output unit and improving efficiency of printing/prepress steps can be provided.

Page data processor, page data processing method and program

A page data processor capable of reducing a dead time or an output interrupting time of an output unit calculates an output start time in the output unit from a time necessary for rasterizing page data and a time necessary for outputting output data generated by the rasterization processing. The page data processor also generates a plurality of output files by dividing the output data every time the rasterized output data reaches a prescribed data size, and transmits the same to the output unit in units of the output files at the output start time. Thus, the page data processor can reduce the dead time of the output unit for improving the efficiency of printing/prepress steps.

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Kyoto, Japan

Takako Kato