JP2002278731A - Printing support system and printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify a user's job when many kinds of printing requests coexist in one printing job, when types of printing are rapidly changed depending on pages or when printings job in which a plurality of kinds of printing requests coexist is successively executed. SOLUTION: A controller to control a plurality of stencil printers by one controller inspects the contents of the respective printing jobs stored in a buffer at present (a step S7). When a printing request by a type of printing which can not be executed by any stencil printer at present is included (Y in a step S8), it is registered in an impossible printing information table (a step S9). Regarding printing requests by types of printing which can be executed by any of the stencil printers at present other than the printing request which can not be executed, an original printing job is reorganized to printing jobs by every kind of printing which can be executed by any of the stencil printers at present (a step S10).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a printing support system that enables efficient printing on a stencil printing machine, and a printing system including the printing support system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In one print job, there are cases where a plurality of types of printing requests are mixed. For example, even when printing a single document file, depending on the page, plain paper,
The type of paper such as thick paper and the color of the paper may be different. Also, the paper size such as A4 or B5 may differ depending on the page. Further, the printing colors such as black and red may be different.

Conventionally, when such printing is performed, necessary paper types, colors, and sizes of paper, required colors of ink, and a printing cylinder are set in a stencil printing machine, and pages are designated to specify one page. The operation of printing the type, exchanging paper, ink, etc. again, designating a new page, and performing the second type of printing has been repeated as many times as necessary.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional printing means, when one print job includes a plurality of requests for printing, or when the printing type changes rapidly between pages, or For example, when print jobs in which print requests of the following types are mixed are executed one after another, the work performed by the user becomes extremely complicated.

[0005] An object of the present invention is to provide a case where a plurality of types of printing requests are mixed in one print job, a case where the type of printing changes rapidly between pages, or a case where a plurality of types of printing requests are mixed. This is to simplify the work performed by the user, for example, when executing print jobs one after another.

An object of the present invention is to speed up the printing process,
An object of the present invention is to reduce complicated intermediate work such as paper exchange and to simplify the work performed by a user as compared with the related art.

An object of the present invention is to facilitate the sorting of sheets after printing in the above case.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to simplify the work performed by a user as compared with the related art even when various types of paper such as plain paper and thick paper are mixed in one print job. It is.

[0009] An object of the present invention is to simplify the work performed by a user even in the case where various types of paper colors such as yellow and green are mixed in one print job, as compared with the related art. is there.

[0010] An object of the present invention is to simplify the work performed by a user as compared with the related art even when various types of paper sizes such as A4 and B5 are mixed in one print job. is there.

An object of the present invention is to simplify the work performed by a user as compared with the related art, even in a case where different printing colors such as black and red are mixed in one print job. It is to be.

[0012] An object of the present invention is to make it easy to know when a print job contains a print request of a type that cannot be executed, and immediately take measures such as replacing the paper of a stencil printing machine. That is.

An object of the present invention is to prevent the user from manually setting the types of printing that can be executed manually in the above case.

An object of the present invention is to automatically detect information on the type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine in the stencil printing machine, thereby reducing the trouble of manually setting the type of printing that can be executed by the user. It is to prevent.

[0015]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a first storage device for temporarily storing one or a plurality of print jobs requesting printing by a stencil printing machine, and the stencil printing machine can perform the first storage device. A second storage device for storing information on the type of printing, and a print job stored in the first storage device is inspected to detect a print type for each page requested by each print job. Detecting means for performing printing, reorganizing means for reorganizing the one or more print jobs into print jobs for each detected print type, and a first transmission for transmitting the plurality of print jobs after reorganization to the stencil printing machine And a printing support system comprising:

Therefore, when one type of print job includes a variety of print requests, when the type of print changes rapidly between pages, or when a plurality of types of print requests are mixed, Even when the jobs are executed one after another, one or a plurality of print jobs can be re-arranged into print jobs for each type of printing, and the jobs can be executed sequentially, thereby simplifying the work performed by the user as compared with the related art. be able to.

The type of printing includes the type of paper to be printed (plain paper, thick paper, etc.), paper color (yellow, green, etc.), paper size (A4, B5, etc.), and printing color (black, red, etc.). And so on.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to the first aspect, the second storage device stores, for each of the plurality of stencil printing presses, the type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing press. The first transmitting unit refers to the correspondence between the stencil printing machine and the type of printing and distributes the reorganized print job to the plurality of stencil printing machines and transmits the job. Is what you do.

Therefore, by sharing a plurality of print jobs with a plurality of stencil printing machines, it is possible to speed up the printing process. In addition, by making different stencil printing machines correspond to different types of printing, the types of printing that can be performed simultaneously can be increased, and complicated intermediate operations such as paper exchange can be reduced. Furthermore, since print jobs can be automatically sorted according to different types of executable printing in each stencil printing machine, work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to the second aspect, there is provided a creation unit for creating information indicating a correspondence relationship between each print job before the reorganization and the print job after the reorganization. And a third storage device for storing the information on the correspondence after the creation.

Therefore, by referring to the stored information on the correspondence between the print jobs before and after the reorganization via the display device or the like, it is easy to sort the sheets after printing is completed.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to third aspects, the second storage device includes a sheet used for printing as one of the types of printing. Is stored.

Therefore, even when various types of paper, such as plain paper and thick paper, are mixed in one print job, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the second storage device stores the paper used for printing as one of the types of printing. Is stored.

Therefore, even when various types of paper sizes such as A4 and B5 are mixed in one print job, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, the second storage device stores a color to be printed as one of the types of printing. This is to remember the different.

Therefore, even when various types of printing colors such as black and red are mixed in one print job, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the conventional case. .

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the second storage device is configured to perform printing as one of the printing types. Is stored.

Therefore, even when the colors of various types of paper such as yellow and green are mixed in one print job, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art. .

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the printing support system according to any one of the first to seventh aspects, wherein the stencil printing machine stored in the second storage device is capable of performing printing. When a type not included in the print type is detected by the detection of the print type, a notification unit is provided for notifying that fact.

Therefore, when a print request of a type that cannot be printed is included, it is possible to easily know that, and the paper, ink, plate cylinder, etc. of the stencil printing machine are immediately replaced, or It is possible to take measures such as printing with a printing machine.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to eighth aspects, information on a type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine is received from the stencil printing machine. A receiving unit; and a storage unit configured to store the received print type information in the second storage device.

Therefore, since information about the type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine can be received from the stencil printing machine, the printing job can be received based on this information without the need to set the type of printing that can be performed by the user. Reorganization and distribution to stencil printing machines can be performed.

The tenth aspect of the present invention is the first to eighth aspects.
A printing system comprising: the printing support system according to any one of the above, and one or more stencil printing machines connected to the printing support system.

Therefore, the same operation and effect as the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 8 can be obtained.

According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printing support system according to the ninth aspect, one or more stencil printing machines connected to the printing support system, and the stencil printing machine is a stencil printing machine. And a second transmission unit that transmits information on the type of printing that can be performed to the printing support system.

Therefore, the same operation and effect as those of the ninth aspect can be obtained.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the printing system according to the eleventh aspect, the stencil printer detects a type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printer, and determines the type of printing by the sensor. Detecting means for detecting.

Therefore, information of the type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine can be automatically detected and transmitted to the printing support system.

[0040]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1, this printing system 1
, A plurality of stencil printing presses 2, 2,... And a controller 3 that drives the plurality of stencil printing presses 2, 2,.
And a PC (Person) connected to the controller 3
al Computer) 4. Note that the PC 4 may be connected to the controller 3 via a network such as a LAN. Similarly, the controller 3 may be connected to the stencil printing machine 2 via a network such as a LAN.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining each part of the printing system 1 in detail.

Although only one stencil printing machine 2 is shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of stencil printing machines 2 are actually connected as described above. The stencil printing machine 2 includes a stencil making device 11 for making a master, a stencil printing device 12 for performing stencil printing on paper by using the stencil master, A control unit 14 which is composed of a microcomputer and controls the entire stencil printing machine 2;
9 is provided.

The printing device 12 is a plate cylinder 1 on which a stencil master is wound and mounted, and is rotated to perform stencil printing on paper.
5 and an ink supply device 16 provided on the inner peripheral side of the plate cylinder 15 to supply ink to the rotating plate cylinder 15.

The sheet table 21 on which sheets to be printed are stacked and stored is provided with a sheet size detecting device 22 which is a sensor for automatically detecting the size of the sheet on the sheet table 21 using an optical sensor or the like. For more information on such technology,
See JP-A-9-30714).

Further, there is provided a plate cylinder detecting device 23 serving as a sensor for detecting the type of the plate cylinder 15 and detecting which color ink the currently loaded plate cylinder 15 corresponds to. (For details of such technology, see Patent No. 25
No. 13704).

Further, it is possible to manually set the paper type of the paper currently loaded on the paper base 21 such as plain paper, cardboard, colored paper, paper, envelope, postcard, etc.
10-139191).

The controller 3 realizes a printing support system, and includes a communication interface 31 for communicating with the PC 4 to transmit and receive various data, and a buffer 32 for buffering image data received via the communication interface 31. , A page memory 33, a selector 34 for switching the destination of data transmission to one of the plurality of stencil printing machines 2, 2,..., And a control unit 35 including a microcomputer and controlling the entire controller 3. ing. The control unit 35 buffers the image data received via the communication interface 31 in the buffer 32, and develops the image data in the page memory 33. Then, the selector 34 is switched to transmit the raster image data developed in the page memory 33 to one of the stencil printing machines 2, 2,. Further, the control unit 14 of the stencil printing machine 2 and the command /
Sends and receives responses.

The PC 4 is installed with predetermined driver software for driving the stencil printing machine 2.

Next, the operation of the printing system 1 will be described.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the processing performed by the control unit 35 of the controller 3. FIG.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed by the control unit 14 of the stencil printing machine 2.

As shown in FIG. 3, when there is no transmission of a command instructing a batch processing of printing, which will be described later, from the PC 4 (N in step S1), the control unit 35 determines whether or not there is a transmission of a print job from the PC 4. Is determined (step S2).
When a print job is received (Y in step S2), the print job is stored in the buffer 32 (step S2).
3). By the processing in steps S2 and S3, print jobs are accumulated in the buffer 32 one after another until a command for instructing batch printing is transmitted (Y in step S1). Therefore, the buffer 32 functions as a first storage device.

When a command instructing batch processing of printing is received (Y in step S1), batch processing of one or more print jobs stored in the buffer 32 is started as follows. The execution of the batch processing may be caused by receiving a command from the PC 4, may be caused by a print command transmitted from the PC 4, may be caused by the accumulated amount of print jobs, or may be controlled by the control unit 35. It may be performed based on various conditions, such as automatically starting at a time.

When a command instructing batch processing of printing is received (Y in step S1), first, the type of printing that can be currently executed by each stencil printing machine 2, in this example, the paper type, paper size, paper A command requesting transmission of each data of color and printing color is transmitted to each stencil printing machine 2 (step S4).

As shown in FIG. 4, the control unit 14 of the stencil printing machine 2 receives this command (step S2).
1), information on the currently available print type is detected (step S22). Step S22 implements a detecting means. That is, the size of the paper currently loaded on the paper platform 21 is detected by the paper size detection device 22, and the color of the currently loaded plate cylinder 15 is determined by the color of the plate cylinder detection device 23. , The currently available printing color is detected, and the currently set paper type is read. Then, a response including the information is transmitted to the controller 3 (step S23). Step S23 implements a second transmission unit.

As shown in FIG. 3, when this response is received by the control unit 35 of the controller 3 (Y in step S5), the received information is transmitted to the R of the control unit 35 as shown in FIG.
It is registered in the possible print information table 41 constructed in the AM or the like (step S6). Step S5 implements a receiving unit, and step S6 implements a storage unit. This possible printing information table 41 is provided for each stencil printing machine 2.
Executable paper size, paper color, paper type, and print color data are registered. That is, the serial No. serving as an identification mark for identifying each stencil printing machine 2. (In this example, four stencil printing machines 2 are prepared, and No. 1 to No. 4
), An area for storing data of paper size, paper color, paper type, and print color is prepared. Therefore, the storage device such as the RAM of the control unit 35
Function as a storage device.

Next, the control unit 35 checks the contents of each print job currently stored in the buffer 32 (step S7). Step S7 implements a detecting means. Specifically, the type of printing requested for each page of the document file to be printed in each print job is checked. Then, referring to the possible print information table 41 constructed in the RAM or the like of the control unit 35, if any of the stencil printing machines 2 includes a print request based on a print type that cannot be executed at present, ( (Y in step S8), and registers it in the impossible print information table 42 described later (step S9). For a print request based on the type of printing that can be currently performed by any one of the stencil printing machines 2, the original print job is converted into a print job for each of the currently executable printing types by the stencil printing machine 2. Reorganization (step S10). Step S10 implements restructuring means.

For example, it is assumed that four print jobs 43 shown in FIG. Each print job 43 has a serial No. as an identification mark of the print job 43. (Indicated by a, b, c,...)
Also, an area for storing data of “paper size”, “paper type”, “print color”, and “paper color” is prepared for each page range by designating “page range”.

Then, referring to the possible print information table 41 shown in FIG. 5, the plurality of print jobs 43 are reorganized into a plurality of new print jobs, resulting in a plurality of print jobs 44 shown in FIG. In FIG. 7, each print job 44 after the reorganization has a serial No. as an identification mark of the print job 44. (Indicated by A, B, C...) And the serial No. of the stencil printing machine 2. (No. 1, No. 2,...)
The new page range (the pages within this new print job 44) and the serial number of the original print job 43 (A,
b, c...), the page range of the original print job 43, the document name (the information is included in the original print job 43), and the date and time when the controller 3 received the print job 43. It is registered. Since the print job 44 after the reorganization includes information indicating the correspondence between the print jobs 43 and 44 before and after the reorganization, step S1 is performed.
0 also implements the creation means. Also, this print job 4
The buffer 32 and the other storage device that store No. 4 function as a third storage device.

The impossible print information table 42 includes:
Data as shown in FIG. 8 is registered. That is, in this example, the serial No. of the original print job 43 is used. , The name of the document to be printed, the date and time when the controller 3 received the print job 43, the page range in the original print job 43, and the type of print that can be performed, ie, paper size, paper type, paper color, The print color is registered in association with the content of the type.

As shown in FIG. 3, the reorganization of a new print job (step S10) and the impossible print information table 42
Is registered (step S9), the serial number of the stencil printing machine 2 recorded in each print job 44 is registered. , The print job 44 is transmitted together with a command for instructing the stencil printing machine 2 to execute printing (step S11). Step S11 implements a first transmission unit. That is, the image data of each print job 44 is developed in the page memory 33, and the selector 34 is switched to the target stencil printing machine 2. Then, the raster image data after the image development is converted to the target stencil printing machine 2 line by line.
Send to Further, the data of the impossible print information table 42 is transmitted to the PC 4 (step S12).

As shown in FIG. 4, when the control unit 14 of the stencil printing machine 2 receives a print job 44 together with a command to execute printing (Y in step S24), the control unit 14 executes the print job 44 and performs printing. (Step S2
5) In addition, a message as shown in FIG. 9 is displayed on the display of the operation panel 19, for example.

The message shown in FIG. 9 includes a list indicating which range of each page of the print job 44 executed by the stencil printing machine 2 belongs to which print job 43.
This list is displayed based on the data of the print job 44 shown in FIG. In other words, the page range indicates the pages of the paper in a printed and stacked state, and each page range includes the document name and the controller 3
Is received, and the page range in the original print job 43 is displayed.

The PC 4 having received the data of the impossible print information table 42 displays a message such as shown in FIG. 10 on the display based on the data. This implements the notification means.

According to the printing system 1 described above, 1
When one type of print job 43 includes a plurality of types of print requests, when the type of print changes rapidly depending on the page, or when a plurality of types of print requests are mixed, the print job 43 is executed one after another. Even in such a case, one or a plurality of print jobs 43 can be re-arranged into print jobs 44 for each type of printing and can be executed sequentially, so that the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art. it can.

That is, even when various types of paper, such as plain paper and thick paper, are mixed in one print job 43, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art. Even when various types of paper sizes such as A4 and B5 are mixed in one print job 43, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art. Even when multi-colored paper such as yellow and green is mixed in one print job 43, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art. Even when various print colors such as black and red are mixed in one print job 43, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

Although the stencil printing machine 2 may be constituted by one unit,
As described above, the plurality of print jobs 4
By sharing the execution of step 4, the print processing can be speeded up. In addition, by making the stencil printing machine 2 correspond to different printing types, it is possible to increase the types of printing that can be performed simultaneously and to reduce complicated intermediate work such as paper exchange. Further, since the print jobs 44 can be automatically sorted according to the types of prints that can be executed differently in each stencil printing machine 2, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

The message shown in FIG.
Since the correspondence between the print jobs 43 and 44 before and after the reorganization can be understood from the display on the display, it is easy to sort the sheets after the printing is completed. The message of FIG. 9 may be displayed on the display of the PC 4. However, if the message of FIG.
Is displayed close to the location of the printed paper, so that the work of sorting the paper is easier.

Further, when a print request of a type that cannot be printed is included (Y in step S8), the data of the impossible print information table 42 is displayed on the display of the PC 4 so that the fact can be easily known. Therefore, it is possible to immediately take measures such as replacing the paper, ink, plate cylinder 15 and the like of the stencil printing machine 2 or performing printing with another printing machine.

The information on the type of printing that can be currently executed by each stencil printing machine 2 can be manually set in the printing information table 4.
1, may be automatically collected as described above (step S22), and automatically registered in the print information table 41 (step S6). Therefore, user operability is improved.

The function of the print support system may be realized by the PC 4 instead of the controller 3. However, if the processing is performed by the controller 3 as described above, a plurality of Ps connected to the network
More preferably, all the print jobs 43 output from C4 can be processed collectively by the controller 3.

[0072]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when one type of print job includes requests for various types of printing, when the type of printing changes rapidly depending on the page, or when a plurality of types of printing are performed, Even in the case where print jobs in which requests are mixed are executed one after another, one or a plurality of print jobs can be reorganized into print jobs for each type of printing, and can be executed sequentially. The operation can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to the first aspect, a plurality of print jobs are shared by a plurality of stencil printers, so that the printing process can be sped up. In addition, by making different stencil printing machines correspond to different types of printing, the types of printing that can be performed simultaneously can be increased, and complicated intermediate operations such as paper exchange can be reduced. Furthermore, since print jobs can be automatically sorted according to different types of executable printing in each stencil printing machine, work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to the second aspect, the information on the correspondence between the stored print jobs before and after the reorganization is referred to via a display device or the like. In addition, it is easy to sort sheets after printing.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to third aspects, various types of paper such as plain paper and thick paper are mixed in one print job. Even if there is, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, A4,
Even when various types of paper sizes such as B5 are mixed in one print job, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the print support system according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, different types of printing colors such as black and red are mixed in one print job. Even when the user is performing the operation, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, different types of paper colors such as yellow and green are mixed in one print job. Even when the user is performing the operation, the work performed by the user can be simplified as compared with the related art.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, when a print request of a type that cannot be printed is included in the print support system according to any one of the first to seventh aspects, it is easy to know that fact. Therefore, it is possible to immediately take measures such as replacing the paper, ink, plate cylinder, and the like of the stencil printing machine, or performing printing with another printing machine.

According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, in the printing support system according to any one of the first to eighth aspects, information on a type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine can be received from the stencil printing machine. Even if the user does not bother with setting the type of printing that can be performed, the print job can be reorganized or distributed to the stencil printing machine based on this information.

The tenth aspect of the present invention provides the first to eighth aspects.
The same operation and effect as the invention described in any one of the above aspects can be obtained.

The eleventh aspect of the present invention can provide the same functions and effects as those of the ninth aspect of the present invention.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the printing system according to the eleventh aspect, information on a type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine is automatically detected in the stencil printing machine and transmitted to the printing support system. be able to.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating each part of the printing system in detail.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a controller constituting the printing system.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a stencil printing machine constituting the printing system.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a possible print information table used in the printing system.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a print job before reorganization used in the printing system.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a print job after reorganization used in the printing system.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an impossible print information table used in the printing system.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a message displayed on a display of the stencil printing machine.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a message displayed on a display of a PC used in the printing system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 printing system 2 stencil printing machine 3 controller (printing support system)

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Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. A first storage device for temporarily storing one or a plurality of print jobs requesting printing on a stencil printing machine, and a second storage for storing information on a type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine. A detecting device for inspecting each print job stored in the first storage device to detect a type of printing for each page requested in each print job; A print support system comprising: a reorganization unit configured to reorganize the one or more print jobs into a print job; and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the plurality of print jobs after the reorganization to the stencil printing machine. 2. The stencil printing machine according to claim 2, wherein the second storage device stores, for each of the plurality of stencil printing presses, the type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing press in association with each other. The printing support system according to claim 1, wherein the print job after the reorganization is distributed to the plurality of stencil printing machines and transmitted with reference to the correspondence between the stencil printing machine and the type of printing. 3. A creating means for creating information indicating the correspondence between each print job before the reorganization and the print job after the reorganization, and a third storage device for storing information on the correspondence after the creation. The printing support system according to claim 2, comprising: 4. The printing support system according to claim 1, wherein the second storage device stores a paper type of a paper used for printing as one of the printing types. . 5. The printing support system according to claim 1, wherein said second storage device stores a size of a sheet used for printing as one of said printing types. 6. The print support system according to claim 1, wherein the second storage device stores a color to be printed as one of the print types. 7. The printing support according to claim 1, wherein the second storage device stores, as one of the printing types, a color of a sheet on which printing is performed. system. 8. When a print type stored in the second storage device that is not included in the types of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine is detected by the detection of the print type, the fact is notified. The printing support system according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit. 9. A receiving means for receiving, from the stencil printing machine, information on a type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine; and a storage means for storing the received printing type information in the second storage device. The printing support system according to any one of claims 1 to 8, further comprising: 10. A printing system comprising: the printing support system according to claim 1; and one or more stencil printing machines connected to the printing support system. 11. A printing support system according to claim 9, one or more stencil printing machines connected to the printing support system, and the stencil printing machine is capable of executing the printing by the stencil printing machine. And a second transmitting unit for transmitting the information of the first printing apparatus to the printing support system. 12. The printing method according to claim 11, wherein the stencil printing machine includes a sensor for detecting a type of printing that can be performed by the stencil printing machine, and a detecting unit that detects the type of printing by the sensor. system.