Industrial printing system, print server, and variable printing method that guarantees print quality even when requesting peer-to-peer variable printing

Abstract

Provided is an industrial printing system that guarantees print quality when requesting peer-to-peer variable printing for production printing. An industrial printing system includes a plurality of print servers, printing apparatuses, and inspecting apparatuses, and performs variable printing of print data for production printing. Each of the plurality of print servers includes an inspection master generating unit and a processing management unit. The inspection master generating unit generates master data for inspection in which inspection processing and good-quality standard are set for the print data. The processing management unit transmits the print data and the master data generated by the inspection master generating unit to the other print server and requests processing. The inspecting apparatus inspects the printed matter of the print data based on the master data.