Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Tetsuji Uzuda

Teruo Suzuki

Takeo Onga

Takashi Kuramoto

Takeshi Suwa

Takeo Kondo

Masaru Koizumi

A color original is picked up by a pickup head and B, G, and R image signals are obtained and supplied to a color process circuit including masking correction, under-color removal, and gradation correction circuits. Y, M, C, and K image signals output from the color process circuit are supplied to an exposure head to form a color separation plate. A print simulation unit having first and second frame memories is connected in parallel with the color process circuit. The B, G, and R signals are also written into the first frame memory. The signal read out from the first frame memory is supplied to the color process circuit and is color-corrected. The output from the color process circuit is written into the second frame memory and output to a color monitor. The second frame memory stores two frames, and can display both frames on the color monitor for comparison. The second frame memory has a data latch for latching a predetermined pixel signal, and a circuit for synthesizing the latched data in place of a predetermined pixel signal of the image signals. The second frame memory further has a comparator for detecting a pixel of the image signals having a level higher than a highlight set level, and a circuit for flashing the pixel having a level higher than the highlight set level.

Print simulation apparatus for adjusting the color separation conditions

A silhouette cutting apparatus includes a two-dimensional image scanner for reading a color separation film, a frame memory for storing a read image signal, a CRT display for displaying an image of any color separation film selectively output from the frame memory, a pointer for displaying a cross mark at one point in a desired figure in a displayed image, a latch for latching color or brightness of a displayed point of the cross mark, a comparator for comparing the data from the latch with color or brightness of all other points of image signals of any separation film selectively output from the frame memory and detecting silhouette image information of the desired figure in accordance with whether or not their difference exceeds a predetermined value, and a cutting plotter for cutting a peel-off film in accordance with the detected silhouette image information.

Silhouette cutting apparatus

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Kawagoe, Japan

Tetsuji Uzuda