WO2001063505A1

WO2001063505A1 - Fashionable product providing system and printing order receiving method using it

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Publication number: WO2001063505A1
Application number: PCT/JP2001/001486
Authority: WO
Inventors: Yoshimi Ippitsu
Original assignee: Upepo & Maji Inc.
Priority date: 2000-02-28
Filing date: 2001-02-28
Publication date: 2001-08-30
Also published as: AU2001235987A1

Abstract

A site, that receives requests for fashionable products from various users, and receives production orders for fashionable products matching the requests, are set up on the Internet, a group of processing organizations in charge of individual steps for production processes of fashionable products are organized under the control of the site, and a computer controlling the site operates the group of these processing organizations that work in cooperation with one another while recognizing the operation conditions of respective processing organizations. In addition, the computer controlling the site is provided with a function of selecting appropriate processing organizations while recognizing the production capacities and operation conditions of respective processing organizations so that a printing facility optimal for processing each received printing order can be selected for assignment of the printing order.

Description

Product supply system and print ordering method used for it

The present invention responds to the various needs of various users of fashion products represented by textile products and apparel products, and provides a system that enables users to quickly provide fashion products desired by users. It relates to the method of receiving orders for print processing used in manufacturing. Background art

Reflecting the demands of users in products is an important factor in any industrial field. In the business of handling fashionable products such as textiles and apparel (hereinafter referred to as the fashion business), individual originality And creativity are especially important because they are respected.

There are various requests from users for fashion products, but all of them have the common point that they require a printing process on fabric in order to fulfill the requests. Requests for printing are diverse, and the content differs depending on whether the user is an individual user or a corporate user, and whether the user is professional or amateur. Is also different.

For example, taking requests from amateur individual users as an example, the requests are almost always based on one-item production. Specific requests include "I want a product that prints out the sketches I have drawn on the T-shirt in the same color pattern" or "I want an evening pastry that prints out the landscape I took." Some are abstract, and others are abstract, such as "I want refreshing clothes that my eldest daughter can wear for the coming-of-age ceremony." These are requests in a free form that is not restricted to a certain form.

On the other hand, if the user is a professional designer, Hope becomes specific and professional. For example, "I would like to have a fitting sample in which my drawing design is colored with a specific color number as soon as possible." All of these are aimed at individual users, but in the case of corporate users, requests are based on mass production, and the details are extremely detailed. It becomes something. For example, in addition to specific instructions for colors and patterns, productivity factors such as delivery date and price are always included. These productivity factors are extremely important for companies.

As described above, there are various demands for fashion products such as textile products and apparel products, but all of these requests are common in that they have a process of printing on fabric. When ordering the production of a fashion product (hereinafter referred to as a production order), the number of times that a print print on the fabric is required differs depending on the user. For example, for individual users, it is almost always once, but for corporate users, it is necessary to print several times on fabrics before mass production by final printing. For example, in the apparel industry, designers first examine product designs and colors and patterns after apparel manufacturers plan products, narrow down designs and colors and patterns to be adopted, and There is a stage to create a try-on sample, but here you will need a print to create several try-on samples. Next, when the design and color pattern to be adopted are finally determined through evaluations of these several try-on samples, several hundreds of products for test marketing to confirm the evaluation in these markets are obtained. Printing is required. Finally, mass production is required for product sales. In addition, in addition to these, prints for evaluating the color and pattern at the fabric stage may be necessary prior to the production of fitting samples, and as an intermediate stage to shift to mass production, the production scale may be larger than mass production. Medium-volume production on the order of thousands of small pieces may be required. In this way, in a series of flows that begin with product planning and end with mass production for product sales, there are several times that printing on fabric is required, but the content of these prints is not constant. . For example, a try-on sample requires the production of a single item, and the delivery time is short, but in the production for test marketing, the quantity scales up to about several hundreds of clothes, and when this is to be mass-produced, thousands of clothes are required. Up to tens of thousands of clothes, the quantity of which is much larger, but the delivery time is generally not as short as the fitting sample. There is a tendency that the finished state of the product is more important than the delivery date. Conventionally, when ordering prints with different requirements regarding the quantity scale, delivery date, and degree of finish, the user himself searches for and orders printing equipment that can respond to the order for each order, and The ordering method is also performed using traditional communication methods such as face-to-face orders, written orders, and telephone / fax.

In spite of various demands for fashion products, the traditional fashion business with print ordering services is basically aimed at corporate users, and the volume scale is large. The material procurement system, production system, delivery system, etc. are set up on the premise that production is premised, and the ordering method is also performed according to the format specific to inter-trade transactions. We could not respond to requests that were not. Therefore, even if an individual user wishes to produce a single fashion product that suits his or her taste, there is no system to fulfill the request. You have to procure the necessary materials yourself, find the printing equipment that will respond to the production of one product, and arrange for yourself how to receive the finished product. It was virtually impossible to meet the demands of the former.

And the system that cannot respond to this uneven demand not only brings about the inconvenience of not being able to respond to the demands of individual users, but also the order format when a corporate user places a print order with another fashion maker. As a result, it was an element that restricted print orders based on free ideas from in-house designers and planners.

The first invention, the fashion product providing system, aims to solve the present situation, and provides the producer with a request for a variety of fashion products such as individual users and corporate users. In addition to providing a place where people can throw casually, producers should respond flexibly to the various requests received through this place and provide fashion products desired by users quickly and at low cost. It does not provide a system that enables it.

The print order receiving method according to the second invention is to provide an order receiving method capable of responding to various print requests having different quantity scales and required specifications. In other words, the conventional ordering method requires a lot of labor for the orderer, requires a lot of time until delivery, and has many problems without assurance that the delivery date will be guaranteed. Another problem is that even in the case of one-piece production such as fitting samples, printing is performed on the fabric by printing, so it is expensive to make stencils, and even if unnecessary, print the minimum lot quantity. This had to be done, adding extra costs and wasting resources. In addition, the conventional print system is basically based on the idea of the trader side, and cannot respond to the various requests of individual users in a detailed manner. , So there was no route for receiving individual item orders for individual users. The print order receiving method according to the second invention solves this problem.

Regarding the problem of not being able to produce a single item, the present applicant applied for Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-204471, in which the printing on fabric was carried out by CM YK4 of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. We have proposed using an ink jet pudding that expresses colors using a set of color dots. As a result, it has become possible to respond to single-item orders and small-quantity orders such as fitting samples without extra costs and without wasting resources. However, there is no route to order single items from individual users, it is not possible to deal with print orders with different quantities, and it takes a lot of time to deliver. The solution has not been proposed yet.

The second invention is to improve the present situation, and can respond appropriately to a wide variety of print requests with different contents regarding the quantity scale, delivery date, and finish degree, and quickly obtain the target printed matter. The aim is to propose a print ordering method that can be provided, and in particular to provide a print ordering method that can respond to individual product orders from individual users in a detailed manner. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

Fig. 1 is a network configuration diagram showing the overall configuration of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the management business performed by the fashion business site, and Fig. 3 is a network configuration implementing the order receiving method of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a modification of the network, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a modification of the network, and FIG. 6 is a format conversion of the color / pattern information. Fig. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing that the printing equipment information has been constructed on the computer at the order reception site, and Fig. 8 is a spectral reflectance curve in a metameric match. FIG. 9 is a graph showing the conformity of the spectral reflectance curves of the isomeric matchi.

In order to solve the above problems, a first invention and a second invention are proposed. The first invention is a system for providing fashion products that reflect the needs of users in response to a wide variety of requests from various users, and the second invention is for providing fashion products. It provides a method of ordering prints that is required by the company.

In the first invention, a Web site for people involved in the fashion industry will be opened. In addition to providing this site with an order reception function that accepts production orders for fashion products with various requests from various users, the processing organization required to produce fashion products centered on this site A network is constructed by linking the above, and the site is given a function of controlling the entire network. In the present invention, this site is named a fashion business site.

Orders for the production of fashion products from fashion business sites include various requests from various users. Examples include requests for size, color, pattern, and production quantity. Among the various requests, the requests for colors and patterns, which are related to print orders, are particularly important. And print orders included in production orders often vary in quantity scale and required specifications. In order to be able to respond to such diverse print orders, in the print order method of the second invention, the fashion business site selects the most suitable print equipment and distributes the print orders. . Then, in order to eliminate the difference between the devices in the coloring characteristics of each printing facility and to achieve the desired color of the user on the fabric, we will use the printing facility with color profiling. .

The concept of “print” in the present invention generally refers to the application of coloring and color patterns to fashion products, and includes printing using dyes, printing using ink, and inkjet printing. It is a concept that encompasses all coloring using phosphorus.

The fashion product providing system according to the first invention completed based on such an idea has the following configuration.

That is, the production order for a fashion product including a textile product, an apparel product, and its applied product is described in a fixed form or a free form with the color information on a color or a color pattern to be applied to the product. A fashion business site equipped with a computer that receives from each user via communication means along with each user's own request for

A plurality of processing units having processing means for performing each step of the fashion product manufacturing process are managed by the computer of the fashion business site,

Between each of these processing institutions and the computer of the fashion business site, operation information including operation information and stock information of each processing agency is transmitted from each processing agency to the computer, and the operation information and user's request are transmitted. A two-way information transmission network is provided for transmitting, from the computer to each processing institution, a control command to each processing institution based on the cooperative operation policy of each processing institution determined by the computer as a judgment element.

Further, the first invention can be expressed as follows.

That is, a computer that operates a website established on the Internet and receives and analyzes requests including color information input from users in a fixed or free form, Means for managing a plurality of processing institutions for assigning product attributes, and means for selecting an optimal processing agency and selecting an optimal processing procedure for assigning a product attribute that meets the above-mentioned demand from among these processing institutions. A computer business that operates a fashion business site with

A plurality of processing institutes for assigning predetermined product attributes to fashion products, each of which has different processing contents or production scales;

An information transmission network interposed between the processing institution and the computer, wherein the processing institution transmits operation information including operation information and inventory information of the processing institution to the computer, For each processing institution from the computer, the optimal information, which is selected as a judgment factor based on the received operation information and user's request, A fashion product providing system consisting of a two-way information transmission network that transmits control commands to link and operate each processing institution based on the results of the selection of the processing institution and the selection of the optimal processing procedure.

The product attributes of fashion products include product price, color and pattern, texture, material, weaving, extensibility, etc., and requests from users for fashion products will eventually identify the product attributes of this fashion product. Synonymous with doing. The above-mentioned product attributes have specific and clear contents, but when the request is vague or abstract, such as "warm feeling" or "for young people" There is also. Even in such a case, it can often be expressed as the specification of the product attribute. In other words, anything that the user requests can be regarded as a product attribute of the fashion product.

It is preferable to use Internet communication using a personal computer as the communication means, but this does not exclude the use of conventional communication means such as facsimile and telephone. In this case, the user confirms the service contents of the fashion business site on the Internet using a personal computer, etc., but does not place an order for the production of fashion products using a facsimile or telephone, instead of using a personal computer. Will be done. These orders are basically received and processed by the computer that operates the fashion business site.

Facsimile--Although it does not exclude production orders using conventional telephones, it goes without saying that it is preferable to order production via the Internet using a telephone that can be connected to a personal computer. . In the present invention, the standard form is that a user orders a production of a fashion product basically through a website established on the Internet.

Users are both corporate users and individual users. Since the Internet is a widespread communication network in society, any user can easily access it without being separated and without obstacles in distance. Production orders from users are only print orders, and there are orders to cut and sew the prints to complete the apparel products, as well as orders for the production of other products. But it's important to note that this production order The request is included. The expression form of the request is not restricted and may be either a fixed form or a free form, and the user communicates his thoughts to the fashion business site in a form according to his preference. It is up to the user to use the fixed or free form order sheet.

The fashion business site has a system in place to respond to these diverse demands. Under the management of the fashion business site, a group of processing institutions necessary to realize the user's request are organized, and the computer operating the fashion business site grasps the operation status of each of these processing institutions. Meanwhile, these treatment facilities will be linked and operated to produce products that meet the needs of the users. Each of these processing agencies may be an independent company or a division within the company.

It is preferable that the fashion business site has a processing organization that not only receives requests from users but also gives useful advice to users.

The processing organizations managed by the computer at the fashion business site include, for example, material manufacturers, sub-material manufacturers, dyeing factories, sewing factories, and delivery centers, and in particular, process management and production at dyeing factories. Management is important. Further, in order to respond to various print orders from users, a plurality of printing facilities having different properties are provided under the control of the computer. Regardless of which of these printing facilities is selected, each of the printing facilities is provided with a single unit so that the color of the print matches the color desired by the user. It is preferable that force color profiling is performed in advance on the color information of the color sample book including the designated color required.

In addition, it is desirable that these printing equipment be ink jet printing that performs color expression using halftone dots for purposes other than mass production.

The present invention, which is the second invention, focuses on print orders among production orders. The print order receiving method according to the second invention has the following configuration.

That is, color profiling (color matching) is performed in advance on the color information of the color sample book containing the specified color so that the specified color desired by the user can be reproduced on the cloth. A plurality of printing equipment for fabric is provided, and ink jet printing is used to express colors using a set of halftone dots, except for those intended for mass production. Configure

On the other hand, on the Inuichi Internet, there are a number of websites for different purposes where people involved in the textile fashion industry gather, and links are established between these sites, and users from each of the above-mentioned sites are connected. Established an order reception site that accepts print orders for fabrics via the Internet

The computer operator that operates the order reception site, while grasping the production capacity of each of the print equipment, selects the most suitable print equipment to process each received print order and distributes the print orders. It is characterized by.

The function of the order receiving site in the second invention corresponds to the order receiving function of the fashion business site in the first invention. Therefore, the function of the order receiving site described in the second invention is included in the fashion business site in the first invention.

In the present invention, a print order from a user via a web site arrives at an order reception site via the Internet, and the print order is processed by a computer at the order reception site. The most suitable printing equipment is selected, and the print order is distributed to the selected printing equipment. The computer 1 knows the production capacity of each printing facility, and specifies the printing facilities to be sorted by comprehensively examining the production capacity of each printing facility and the contents of the print order from the user. Although there is a difference in the coloring performance of each printing facility, the color profiling of these printing facilities is performed in advance, so that no matter which printing facility is selected, the color desired by the user can be obtained. It can be reproduced on the ground.

The force-lap mouth filling is for enabling a designated color desired by a user to be reproduced on a cloth, and is adjusted in advance with respect to color information of a color sample collection including the designated color. The color sample book may be printed in a booklet or list form, or may be in the form of electronic data that can be displayed in a list on a display. In the present invention, "color profiling" has a very important meaning, so the concept of "color profiling" in the present invention will be described here. Color profiling is also known as color matching, in the dye industry, This concept is widely used in the paint and ink industries. Color profiling itself is a concept that also includes color matching between single colors, but in the present invention, it is an operation to obtain various intermediate color dyes and intermediate color inks by blending a limited number of color dyes. is there. Therefore, the mixing ratio of the single color ink to obtain the target neutral color (hereinafter referred to as the target color), that is, the mixing and prescription, is the content of the color profiling. The designated color desired by the user is the target color. Ideally, the color profiling should exactly match the target color, but in practice it is only necessary to be within a certain tolerance. In the present invention, a printing factory is assumed as the mass production equipment, and an inkjet printer is assumed as the equipment other than the mass production. Therefore, color profiling is broadly classified into two types: printing equipment that expresses intermediate colors by combining several single-color dyes, and ink jet printing that expresses intermediate colors by using halftone dots of single-color dye inks. Within the broadly divided group, each printing facility and each inkjet printer are set according to the coloring characteristics of each printing facility. What should be noted here is what criteria should be used to evaluate the consistency between the target color and the approximate color obtained by blending or collecting multiple colors. Color profiling by colorimetry (color matching) includes metameric match and isomeric match. A typical example of a metameric match is an evaluation method using the naked eye, and is a color match that appears to be the same color at first glance for a specific lighting or a specific judge. This evaluation method is a relative one that changes as the lighting and the judge change. On the other hand, an isomeric match is a perfect color match that does not depend on lighting or the judge. The difference between the two is that while isomeric matches aim at matching spectral reflectance curves, Metameric Matchi is unaware of this point. In other words, as shown in Fig. 8, in the case of the isomeric match, the spectral reflectance curves of the target color and the approximate color have the relationship of matching or approximating over the entire wavelength range. As shown in Fig. 9, the spectral reflectance curves do not match. The color profiling in the present invention employs isomeric matches. As a specific method of performing an isometric match, the reflectance of each color to be compounded or aggregated is determined for all wavelengths for each wavelength using a spectrophotometer, and arithmetic processing is performed based on this. Method is known You. For the target color, it is necessary that the reflectance for each wavelength be obtained for all wavelengths. However, in the present invention, the target color, that is, the designated color desired by the user, uses an image scanner to capture the design color and pattern. Due to the fact that it is often performed, RGB data is often provided overnight. In this case, the reflectivity should be made based on the RGB data. When the target color is specified by a color code, the reflectance for each wavelength of the hue represented by the color code may be obtained. These reflectances may be calculated each time, but in practice, a data table is constructed in advance for a representative target color, and a combination ratio of each color to obtain the target color is obtained. Also make a table overnight. A well-known color sample listing representative target colors (designated colors) is Pantone Co., Ltd.'s Pantone, and its color profile is the ICC (International Color Consortium) profile. The extent of force profiling can be assessed by the isotropic match rate. When the reflectance at each wavelength of the target color in the original image is R t, and the reflectance at each wavelength of the approximate color having a color close to the specified color is RO, 1 = (R t — I R0—R ti) / R t X 100 is a numerical value defined by 100. In the case of the present invention, the isotropic match ratio I is set to be 90% or more. When the ratio of the isotropic match is 90% or more, the difference in the color tone from the original image is hardly confirmed by the naked eye, and it can be considered that the color tone of the original image can be substantially reproduced. On the other hand, if the isotropic match ratio I is less than 90%, a difference in the color tone from the original image can be confirmed with the naked eye, which is not preferable.

In this system, it is preferable to install printing equipment under the control of the user and the order receiving site so that the printed matter provided by the full-scale printing equipment can be checked in advance. Printing equipment that provides printed materials to users is called final output equipment to distinguish them from these pre-check printing equipment.

Ideally, the color of the prints provided to the user should match as closely as possible the specified color desired by the user. Therefore, color profiling is performed on the color information of the color sample book including the designated color desired by the user. In addition, this system has printing equipment everywhere, and it is assumed that color information is transferred between these printing equipment. When transferring color information between such pudding equipment, it is desirable that color profiling be performed between the color information to be transferred.

Color information to be subjected to color profiling may be expressed in full color, or one of them may be color-compressed.

The printing equipment as the final output device prints based on color information, and the color information is used to convert original images and photographs sent from a user by mail or home delivery to electronic data at the printing equipment. However, from the viewpoint of speeding up the finish of the printed matter, the user should use a digital camera or image scanner to perform the work of electronic de-embedding, and the order reception site receives the print from the user. It is preferable to include the electronically converted color information in the order.

Print orders are allocated according to the production capacity of each printing facility, but it is important to pay particular attention to the production scale among the production capacities.

There is no particular limitation on the website for the purpose of linking to the reception site as long as it is related to the textile fashion industry.For example, designers gather, register and publish creative designs, and It is preferable to set up a website to provide opportunities for companies to hire. If you purchase the design by downloading the image file of the design published on the website, it will not take much effort.

Other websites for different purposes linked to the order reception site include, for example, virtual malls that display and sell products. By setting up a virtual mall, it is easy to understand the trends in the market and it is advantageous for developing a design that is easily accepted by the market.

An ink jet printer for fabric is linked to the computer at the order reception site, but if the user who is the orderer of the print order is also equipped with an ink jet printer for fabric, You can get a rough feel for the print before placing an order on the order reception site. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Next, details of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Fig. 1 shows the network configuration of the present invention. Fig. 2 shows an example of the management contents carried out by the computer of the fashion business site, which is the core of this network.

This network is composed mainly of a fashion business site that functions as an order reception site. Requests from users are transmitted to the fashion business site via the Internet, and the fashion business site receives the user who received the request. In order to fulfill the request from the government, it instructs the processing institutes that it manages the work to be processed. Users vary widely, some with individual users and some with corporate users. Some users are aimed at generating revenue, while others are not. The examples here include consumers, designers, schools, garbage companies, and boutiques. Each of these users has various orders for the production of fashion products to the fashion business site, but the common thing is that there is a request for printing with color information or color / pattern information. That is. A typical request is to produce a textile (woven fabric) with a specified color desired by the user, or to sew this textile further to create an apparel product that reflects the specified color desired by the user. Request for fabrication. Other fashion products, such as evening stories and scarves, may be requested. These users have very different characteristics, so the content of the request and the format of the request also differ greatly. For example, the general consumer (designer) usually orders one item, while boutiques are only a few, while apparel firms and schools, for example, have a number of tens to thousands of items. The content of the request is also expressed in terms of the characteristics of the product to be obtained using technical terms ≤ strictly in the request from the designer apparel company, whereas if the consumer is a general consumer or a general school, The content of the request is somewhat ambiguous, for example, "I want a calm suit based on dark blue color."

The fashion business site is operated on the Internet by a computer that is a server. Free requests from any of the above users are registered on the fashion business site, and a special business staff is provided on the fashion business site to flexibly deal with such various requests. Knowledge of fashion is located in a database so that they can be deployed and respond to diverse requests. It has been converted. It is also desirable to be able to provide professional staff with appropriate advice in response to requests from users.

The fashion business site has an aspect of functioning as an order reception site that accepts various requests from users, and at the same time, in order to fulfill this request, a function of linking and operating a group of managed processing institutions. Have. In other words, as shown in Fig. 1, a group of various processing organizations required to produce textile products and apparel products in response to the demands of users are organized, and each of these processing organizations is organized on a business website. It is managed by the computer 1 and operated in a coordinated manner. The organization of the processing institution group consists of selecting from the processing institution group to be managed, selecting the necessary processing institution to provide the product attribute that meets the above demand, and determining the processing procedure based on them. Each processing institution belonging to each of these processing institution groups may be an independent business entity, may be a division of a company, or may be a complex of these. Here, an example is shown in which a fabric manufacturer, an auxiliary material manufacturer, a dyeing place, a garment factory, and a distribution center are linked and operated as independent business entities. There is an information transmission network between the fashion business site and each of these processing agencies. Reports on the situation are being made in real time or periodically. The information transmission network may be a public line or a dedicated line, but it is cost-effective to use the Internet, whose infrastructure is already in place. The fashion business site formulates a production plan to satisfy the user's needs based on the information reported from each of these processing agencies, and operates each processing agency in a seamless manner based on this plan. As shown in Fig. 2, the contents of the management of each processing institution by the fashion business site are as follows: “Create samples' planning support”, “Product planning registration”, “Production schedule registration”, “Production quantity adjustment”, “Material Necessary for product provision from material procurement to product delivery, such as ordering · production ordering (fabric business ordering), “temporary order · main order (product ordering)”, “fabric ordering (fabric advance ordering)”. The entire process from upstream to downstream of the process is managed in a wide range and in detail, and attention has been paid to efficiently link and operate each processing institution in order to realize the needs of the user as soon as possible. I have.

As described above, the present invention relates to a fashion business site established on the Internet. The computer that manages the fashion business site receives requests about fashion that users have submitted to users, and cooperates with a group of processing institutions under the control of the computer to provide fashion products that reflect user requests. This is to realize the provision. There are various demands from users, such as providing textile products with their favorite colors and patterns, and also providing apparel products such as blouses using this textile product (cloth). What is common among them is that all of them involve printing out on fabric. As in the present invention, print orders are received from various users, and the quantity scale varies from single item orders by individual users to large order orders by corporate users, all of which are printed as usual. It would take a lot of time and cost if it were to be printed, making it impractical. As a result of studying to solve this problem, the applicant has conceived of using the ink jet pudding which performs color expression with halftone dots for prints other than for mass production, and received orders based on the powerful idea. The system has already been proposed as Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-20504715. This has made it possible to respond to single-item orders and small-quantity orders, such as fitting samples, at no extra cost and without wasting resources. Hereinafter, an embodiment in which a “print order system for fabric” is configured by developing the technology disclosed in this application will be described in detail.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a network configuration in a case where the present invention is specialized in a print order receiving system for fabric. In the figure, 1 to 5 are Web sites established on the Internet.

This network is centered on a comprehensive service site (www.d-fashion.com) 4, around which is a designer site (www.d-creation.com) 1, a shopping site, and www.d-shoppingmall.com. No.2, Konano management site www.d-archive.com) 3, and order reception site (www.d-made.com) 5 are linked and arranged. Comprehensive service site 4 is a site directly operated by the secretariat that supervises the network, and has the role of introducing the linked relationship between the multiple sites and the overall image to visitors who have accessed the site, It is a site that provides fashion business and design information, provides information on holding various events, and also provides system consultation when participating in this network. site) Occupy the position. Here, the comprehensive service site 4 is provided independently of the order reception site 5, but these two sites may be integrated as a fashion business site.

Designer Site 1 is a site for in-house designers of textile manufacturers and apparel manufacturers, and also for individual designers and students majoring in fashion. It is a site where designers creating and interacting with designers interact. . It is a place for designers and students to showcase their designs, and a promising place to discover design for corporate design planners. The design here includes both a textile design, which is a design related to the color and pattern of the fabric, and an apparel design, which is a design of clothes made by sewing the fabric. This site is open to designers, and anyone who satisfies certain conditions can register as a member and get a chance to sell their designs to the planner of the manufacturer. It is like that. By registering as a member, you have the right to publish your profile works. In addition, those who became corporate members considered the design creator's copyright, downloaded the registered design image files, examined the adoption, and downloaded them. Or you can buy a design. It is also possible to devise so that the experts participating here can play an active role as staff members who give advice on requests from users. The shopping site 2 is a virtual mall set up on the Internet, where boutiques, brand holders, department stores, mail order companies, etc. are participating as product providers. Companies and individuals are now able to qualify for opening a store by meeting certain conditions. Here, the product profile is displayed at the same time as the company profile is introduced, and the store can establish a promising brand on the web, that is, the web brand. Although not shown, the site also has links to brand sites, boutique sites, and shop sites, so that customers can enjoy a wide variety of shopping. Visitors to this site can register their information on these sites and write them on electronic bulletin boards to enable communalization with brands, boutiques, and shops. Content management site 3 is a site that searches and browses fashion designs and sells designs, and is a site that is slightly similar to designer sites. While the designer site has a strong characteristic of appealing the latest work by designers, the content management site 3 has a library-like character, and the number of registered designs is much larger than that of the designer site 1. Members of this site can become members as long as certain conditions are met, regardless of whether they are individuals or corporations, and those who become members can freely browse designs registered in the library and meet their needs. If there is anything, it can be purchased on the Internet as in the case of Designer Site 1. The purchase of the design involves downloading the image files registered in the library directly from the website, while the purchase price is also paid electronically over the network.

The order reception site 5 is a site that accepts print orders for fabrics from each of the above websites via the Internet, and when an order is accepted, the order is matched with the order by referring to the print information included in the print order. Select the most suitable printing equipment and distribute print orders to this selected printing equipment.

As shown in Fig. 7, a computer D that operates the order reception site has a database D that records information about multiple print facilities (hereinafter referred to as print facility information). . In the printing equipment information, the production scale and operation plan of each printing equipment, the amount of dye ink used per unit area, etc. are registered, and by looking at this information, the availability of equipment and the condition of equipment, etc. Can be grasped. On the other hand, the print information sent from the user contains data on colors and patterns (color information and pattern information) and specified color information. Computer C selects the most appropriate equipment for sorting the print order by comparing and analyzing the print equipment information in Day D and the print information sent from the user.

For example, as shown in Fig. 3, the printing equipment managed by Computer C is an ink jet printer 6 for sample production, a high-speed inkjet printer 7 for small-lot production, and a printing factory 8 for main production. If A, B, C), the procedure for selecting the optimal equipment is as follows. Here, the inkjet printer 6 and the high-speed ink jet printer 7 are internal facilities operated by the order reception site. On the other hand, printing factory 8 (A, B, C) is an external facility, but the present invention is not limited to this, and it may have a small printing factory as an internal facility, or a large-scale high-speed inkjet. In some cases, a printer is provided as external equipment. It is also possible to equip the printing factory with an ink jet printer together with the printing equipment, so that the printing factory can accept prints of all sizes at once. In this case, the selection of the printing equipment by the order reception site is the selection of the printing equipment in the printing factory. As described above, printing facilities exist in various places, but what is important is that no matter which of these printing facilities is selected, the designated color desired by the user can be reproduced on the fabric. This means that each printing facility is pre-filled with a flap. Basically, the color profiling only needs to be performed on the color information of the color sample book including the designated color desired to be reproduced by the user. When color information is exchanged between printing facilities, it is preferable that color profiling is performed between these printing facilities.

The color profiling is for enabling a specified color desired by a user to be reproduced on a cloth, and is adjusted in advance with respect to color information of a color sample collection including the specified color. The color sample book may be printed in a booklet or list form, or may be in the form of electronic data that can be displayed in a list on a display. For the above-mentioned ink jet printing, a device of a type that performs color expression by using a set of halftone dots of four colors of CMYK is used. In addition to the four colors of CMYK, there are cases where a so-called “special color” is added, and the number of colors is further increased to 16 colors, or more. The type of dye is selected according to the type of fabric, for example, acid dye ink when the fabric is silk, nylon fiber and nylon fiber, disperse dye ink when the fabric is polyester fiber, cotton, rayon Reactive dye ink is used when the fiber is hemp fiber, and cationic dye ink is used when the fabric is acrylic fiber. In addition, printing plants 8 for mass production are classified into printing plants A, B, and C according to the production capacity determined by the production scale, machine operation rate, and production method. On the other hand, print orders sent from users via the Internet contain print information. This print information includes information on the textile design, such as the color and pattern information including the color of each pattern on the fabric, as well as information on the number of prints and the desired delivery date. include. The pattern of the fabric and the color information for each part of the pattern may be directly created on the display in the form of convenience data, or an original or photo such as illustration sketch may be obtained by using an image scanner or digital camera. It may be read and converted into digital data. Apparel design information such as cutting and sewing may be added in addition to this information.

When a print order is issued through one of the websites that make up the above network system, this order is processed as follows. For example, if an individual designer receives an urgent print order that requires several fabric samples for a new textile design through the designer site, the order is distributed to the inkjet printer 6 that is linked directly to Computer Night C. Ink jet printers do not require a mold like printing, so they can quickly and inexpensively respond to small orders and provide the desired prints immediately. In addition, if an apparel maker's designer places an order for a print of several hundred copies in order to confirm the response of the market stakeholders, this order can be processed at a higher speed than the ink jet printer 6. It is distributed to high-speed inkjet printers 7 for small-lot production systems. Furthermore, if the market evaluation confirmed by the test marketing confirms that a mass production order has been placed for full-scale sales, this order will be distributed to one of the dyeing factories 8 (A, B, C). Which of the printing plants A, B, and C should be specifically selected is comprehensively determined by referring to the printing equipment information, such as the production scale of the plant, the type of printing that he is good at, and the delivery date. Is determined. If the color / pattern information received from the user is in RGB or CMYK expression, this information is converted into data for making a stencil film and printing mold for printing, and transmitted to the printing factory. In most cases, printing factories of medium scale or larger have a printing mold production department, so usually this report is sent directly to the printing factory.However, the size of the printing factory is small and it has a printing mold production department. If not, this data is sent to an external printing mold manufacturing company as shown in Fig. 4, where the underprint film and printing mold are manufactured. As shown in Fig. 4, subtle color misregistration caused by the conversion can be eliminated by having the same content in the toning database of Computer C and the computer of the printing factory. Here, in the printing process, the intermediate colors are expressed by mixing multiple colors of dyes. In the future, it is conceivable to represent the intermediate colors with a set of four CMYK dots. In addition, all the installation locations of the printing facilities may be centralized in the printing factory, and the computer C may select the optimum facility from a plurality of printing facilities in the printing factory.

What has been described above is the case where the print order received from the user via the Internet on the order reception site contains color and pattern information already converted into digital data. It is necessary to consider cases where there is no means to convert information into digital data. In such a case, the user should send the print order without the color / pattern information via the Internet first, and then send the original drawings and photos by home delivery or mail. Also, what was stated here was that the target was textile printing, but if the order required that the clothes be completed, the print was finished as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The fabric can be transported to a garment factory, where the clothing can be completed by cutting and sewing based on the cutting and sewing information included in the print information. The finished product is delivered to the user who is the ordering party by various means of transportation.

Finally, how the color information is converted in this network system will be described with reference to FIG. In this system, color information is first converted to RGB digital data. In this conversion, the original image or photograph may be read by an image scanner or digital camera, or the color and pattern information may be directly created on a computer while viewing the display using graphic software. Normally, these operations are performed by the user using their own equipment.If the user does not own these equipment, the original drawings and photos are sent to the order reception management processing organization and the printing factory as described above. Will be digitized. The data converted to RGB digital data is then converted to CMYK digital data, and this data is used to print out to an inkjet printer. This data is transferred to a sample production system using inkjet printing, a small-lot production system, and a mass production system using printing equipment. The color information transferred in this way may be handled in full color in the entire process of the transfer, but such handling is unrealistic due to the large amount of information. It is practical to reduce the number of colors by performing color reduction called color compression. By the way, the ink jet printer mentioned here refers to a printer capable of printing on fabric, and is slightly different from a printer that prints out on a generally used paper medium. Therefore, there are few situations where conversion to CMYK data to evening is required for printing on fabric at the user stage, but a fabric inkjet printer for general users can be provided at relatively low cost. Since the development of technology is also progressing, if such a print spreads to general users, there is a possibility of printing out to fabric at the user stage. If output to the inkjet printer is not required at all, the RGB digital data may be sent to the mass production system without conversion to CMYK digital data, as shown by the broken line in FIG.

This order-receiving system opens an order-receiving site on the Internet that accepts a wide variety of print orders that occur in various aspects of the textile fashion industry and distributes the print orders to the optimal print equipment. However, those who are involved in the textile fashion industry will be able to obtain the desired prints relatively inexpensively and quickly, without having to worry about the size of the required quantity. In addition, since all of the plurality of printing facilities are provided with color profiling, it is ensured that the user can obtain the desired color print regardless of which printing facility is selected. As described above, according to the method of the present invention, a desired print can be promptly received in response to a variety of orders of different sizes, ranging from a single item order by an individual user such as a designer or a consumer to a large order by a corporate user. It can be provided to users, and for example, it becomes possible to make the only clothes in the world based on a design drawn by a personal user as a hobby, and the market for printed matter will be activated.

As described above, the order receiving method of the present invention provides an order receiving site that accepts a variety of print orders generated in various aspects in the textile fashion industry and distributes the print orders to optimal printing equipment. Since it has been set up on the Internet, people involved in the textile fashion industry will be able to obtain the desired prints relatively inexpensively and quickly, without having to worry about the size required. In addition, since all of the plurality of printing facilities are color-profiling, it is ensured that the user can obtain a print of a desired color regardless of which printing facility is selected. : According to the method of the present invention, It is possible to promptly provide desired prints to users in response to various orders with different quantities, ranging from single item orders by individual users such as designers and consumers to large orders by corporate users. It will be possible to make only one piece of clothing in the world based on designs drawn by hobbies, and the market for printed products will be activated. Industrial applicability

The entire process from material procurement to product delivery in order to handle various requests for fashion products from users with different characteristics, such as individual users and corporate users, and to fulfill the requests of users. Since the establishment of a business website on the Internet, which manages responsibilities, users can easily submit requests for fashion without worrying about the size of the quantity scale, and as a result of the demand. You will be able to get fashion products. This solves the problem that, in the past, it was not possible to become a customer because of its small scale, or even if it could be a customer, it was expensive and put a great burden on the user. In addition, this system is designed to respond to special requests, so that it is possible to provide highly creative fashion products that respect individuality.

If an organization is set up to provide advice on requests received from users, the users will be able to refer to the advice of experts to make their requests more feasible and more fashionable. Can be increased.

If each of the multiple print facilities is pre-colored in advance, regardless of which print facility is selected, obtain a fashion product that faithfully reproduces the colors and colors desired by the user. Can be.

If the printing equipment used for purposes other than mass production is inkjet printing, which uses a set of dots to express colors, it is possible to order single items or small orders at low cost, and to provide users with printed materials as early as possible. be able to.

The company accepts a wide variety of print orders with different volume scales and required specifications at once, and sets up an order reception site on the Internet to arrange the most suitable printing equipment to process these orders. Pudding on the site via internet People involved in the textile fashion industry can place orders for print requests that occur in various situations on the order reception site regardless of the quantity scale or the contents of the required specifications. In this way, the required number of prints can be obtained with little effort, without waste, and in a very short time. Since each printing facility is pre-colored in advance, the reproduction of the color desired by the user is guaranteed regardless of which printing facility is selected.

If the order reception site includes color information converted into electronic data in the print order received from the user via the Internet, there is no need to digitize the color / pattern information on the order reception site, etc., so it is more efficient It becomes something.

If you set up a designer site as one of the websites for different purposes linked to the order reception site, you will be able to spread the power of new designers and activate design transactions.

Further, if the purchase of the design can be performed by downloading the image file, the design transaction is further activated.

If a virtual mall that displays and sells products is linked to the order reception site, it will be useful for knowing market trends and gaining an opportunity to evaluate finished printed products in the market.

If the user who is the orderer of the print order is provided with an ink print pudding for the fabric, the user can check the approximate finished state before placing the print order on the order reception site.

Claims

The scope of the claims

1. Includes textile products, varnish products and their applications.

Each user of the fashion product expressed in a fixed form or free form, together with color information on the color or color pattern to be applied to the product, from each user via communication means together with their own requests. Establish a fashion business site on the Internet with a computer computer

A plurality of processing institutions having processing means for performing each stage of the fashion product production process are managed by a computer of the fashion business site,

Between each of these processing institutions and the computer of the fashion business site, operation information including operation information and stock information of each processing agency is transmitted from each processing agency to the computer, and the operation information and the contents requested by the user A bidirectional information transmission network for transmitting from the computer to each processing institution a control command to each processing institution based on the cooperative operation policy of each processing institution determined by the compilation system as a judgment factor is provided. A fashion business system.

2. A computer that operates a website established on the Internet and receives and analyzes requests including color information input from users in fixed or free form, and fashion. A means for managing a plurality of processing institutions for giving a predetermined product attribute to a product, and a selection and an optimum processing of an optimum processing agency for providing a product attribute that meets the above-mentioned request from the processing institutions. A computer that operates a fashion business site with means for selecting procedures,

A plurality of processing institutes for giving predetermined product attributes to fashion products, the processing contents or sizes of which are different from each other;

An information transmission network interposed between the processing institution and the computer, wherein the processing institution transmits operation information including operation information and inventory information of the processing institution to the computer, From the computer to each processing institution, based on the selection of the optimal processing institution and the selection result of the optimal processing procedure, which are selected based on the received operation information and the contents of the user's request, the processing of each processing institution is continued A two-way information transmission network that transmits control commands to operate Fashion product providing system.

3. The fashion product providing system according to claim 1, wherein each of the processing institutions is an independent company or a division within the company.

4. The fashion product providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a processing institution for giving advice on a request received from the user.

5. The provision of the fashion product according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the processing institution constituting the processing institution group includes a material manufacturer, an auxiliary material manufacturer, a dyeing factory, a sewing factory, and a delivery center. system.

6. The fashion product providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the computer of the fashion business site manages the process control and production control of the dyeing factory.

7. A plurality of printing facilities having different properties to meet various demands of users are provided under the control of the combination user, and each of these printing facilities has a color including a designated color required by the user. The fashion product providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the color information of the sample book is preliminarily profiled.

8. The fashion product providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the printing equipment used for purposes other than mass production is an ink jet printing apparatus that performs color expression using halftone dots.

9. Printing on fabrics with different production capacities, in which the color information of the color sample book containing the designated colors is color-profiling in advance so that the designated colors required by the user can be reproduced on the fabric. A number of facilities are provided, and of those, except those intended for mass production, are configured using ink jet printers that express colors using halftone dots. Multiple websites for different purposes where people involved gather and links to these sites, and order acceptance to receive print orders for fabrics from users at each site via internet. Open a site and

The computer that operates the order reception site checks the production capacity of each of the printing equipment and, for each received print order, prints the most suitable print order. A print ordering method characterized by selecting printing equipment and sorting out print orders.

10. A print order receiving method used in the fashion product providing system according to claim 1 to claim 8,

In order to reproduce the specified color desired by the user on the fabric, a plurality of printing facilities for fabrics with different production capacities are provided in which color profiling is performed in advance on the color information of the color sample collection including the specified color. Other than those intended for mass production, ink jet printing is used to express colors using halftone dots.

On the Internet, on the other hand, there are a number of purpose-specific websites where people involved in the textile fashion industry gather, and links are established between these sites, from the users of each of the above sites to the Internet. And an order acceptance site that accepts print orders for fabrics via

The computer that operates the order reception site, while grasping the production capacity of each of the printing equipment, selects the most suitable printing equipment for processing the received printing order and distributes the printing order. And the print order method.

11. The print order receiving method according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the color information of the color sample book is digitized electronically.

1 2. In addition to the color profiling for the color information in the color sample book that includes the designated color required by the user, each printing facility must be able to print color information. 12. The print ordering method in the textile fashion industry according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein color profiling is performed.

13. The print order receiving method according to any one of claims 9 to 12, wherein color information to be subjected to color profiling is expressed in full color.

14. The fiber fashion industry according to any one of claims 9 to 13, wherein one of the color information to be subjected to color profiling is represented by full color and the other is represented by color compression. Print order method.

1 5. When the reflectance at each wavelength of the specified color in the original image is Rt :, and the reflectance at each wavelength of the approximate color that approximates the color of the specified color is RO, 1 = (Rt-IR0-R tI) / RtX100, wherein the isotropic match ratio I for evaluating the degree of color profiling is 90% or more, according to any one of claims 9 to 14. Print order method.

1 6. The print in the textile fashion industry according to any one of claims 9 to 15, wherein the print order received from the user via the Internet by the order receiving site includes color information converted into electronic data. Ordering method.

17. The printing order method in the textile fashion industry according to any one of claims 9 to 16, wherein printing equipment is selected by focusing on production scale among production capacity.

1 8. One of the purpose-specific websites to link to the order reception site is to provide designers with a chance to gather, register and publish creative designs, and to provide companies with the opportunity to work with companies to adopt creative designs. The method for receiving a printed product in the textile fashion industry according to any one of claims 9 to 17, wherein the web site is a registered web site.

19. The print ordering method in the textile fashion industry according to claim 18, wherein the purchase of the design is performed by downloading an image file of the design published on the website.

20.A print order in the textile fashion industry according to any one of claims 9 to 19, wherein one of the purpose-specific websites linked to the order reception site is a virtual mall that displays and sells products. Method.

21. The print order in the textile fashion industry according to any one of claims 9 to 20, wherein the user who is the orderer of the print order is provided with an ink jet pudding which can be printed out on fabric. Method.