Screen Holdings Co., Ltd.

Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiko Onogawa

Hiroshi Nishide

Kazuhiro Nakai

Tomohiro Suzuki

Takako Kato

Yo Izawa

Masaki Tsujita

A printing system including a first printer and a second printer is provided with: a job group creation unit that creates a job group defining a plurality of jobs to be grouped and a print order thereof; a job group storage unit that stores information on the print order of the plurality of jobs; a job group updating unit that updates the information on the print order stored in the job group storage unit based on information on an output order when printing is executed by the second printer; and a print instruction unit that instructs the first printer to execute printing based on the plurality of jobs in the print order stored in the job group storage unit.

Printing system and printing method

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

This application discloses a print control device suppressing paper waste without reducing the size of a print sheet that is to form a section upon printing for bookbinding. In one configuration example of the print control device, the numbers Npand Npof first and second print sheets to be used, which correspond to two pieces of imposition information Dflyand Dflyprepared for manuscript data Dd for a single print job, are determined so as not to waste paper, on the basis of the numbers of pages imposed on the first and second print sheets and a total page number Npg in the manuscript data Dd. On the basis of the determined numbers Npand Npand the two pieces of imposition information Dflyand Dfly, overall imposition for the manuscript data Dd is determined such that, of the first and second print sheets, the shorter print sheets are sandwiched between the longer print sheets.

Print control device, print control method, and recording medium having print control program recorded thereon

A beam direct-writing apparatus for writing a pattern on a semiconductor substrate is provided with a head part for emitting an electron beam for direct writing and a computer for performing a computation. A program is installed in the computer in advance to obtain a path passing through a plurality of writing points on the substrate. The program divides a region ( ) dotted with writing points ( ) into a plurality of divided regions on the basis of the density of the points contained therein and sets a passing order among a plurality of divided regions by using an algorithm for generating the Hilbert Curve. Subsequently, the program sets a path in each of the divided regions by using a path setting algorithm and subsequently connects the path in one divided region to the path in another divided region according to the passing order, to obtain a final path ( ). This allows an efficient beam direct-writing on a substrate ( ).

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Kyoto, Japan

Yoshihiko Onogawa