JP2014078188A - Drawing device and drawing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drawing device and a drawing method capable of forming a printed matter having a functional layer and a color layer with a high productivity.SOLUTION: The drawing device includes: an image design unit for preparing image data; a print job generation unit for generating a print job from the image data; a data separation processing unit for separating the print job into a print job for a functional layer and a print job for a color layer; a functional layer halftone processing unit for subjecting the print job for a function layer to halftone processing; a color layer halftone processing unit for subjecting the print job for a color layer to the halftone processing; a data synthesizing processing unit for synthesizing the print job for a functional layer and the print job for a color layer subjected to the halftone processing by the functional layer halftone processing unit and the color layer halftone processing unit so as to synthesize drawing data equivalent to one page; a storage unit for temporarily storing the drawing data; and a printer unit for performing drawing on the basis of the drawing data input from the storage unit.

Description

  The present invention relates to a drawing apparatus and a drawing method using the same.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a display device equipped in a vehicle such as an automobile, for a vehicle configured to include a display plate having a design portion made of scales, characters, and the like, and a light source disposed on the back side of the display plate There is a display panel. In the display panel of this vehicle display panel, the portion of the design portion excluding the scales and characters is configured as a light-blocking functional layer that does not transmit light, and the scales and characters are transparent or translucent to transmit light. Configured as a color layer. By illuminating the display board with a light source at night or the like, the color layer such as letters and scales on the display board is displayed with good visibility by the configuration consisting of such a functional layer and a color layer. Design properties such as luxury and texture can be imparted.

The display panel as described above is usually obtained by printing (drawing) functional layer ink and color layer ink on the surface of a transparent substrate made of resin such as polycarbonate by a method such as screen printing. Manufactured.
However, in the screen printing method, only single color printing is performed in a single printing operation, so in order to form a design such as a character, printing must be performed many times using inks of different colors. Therefore, there is a problem that the number of processing steps and processing time increase. Further, in screen printing, there is a problem that the form that can be formed is limited because the printing position, accuracy, and resolution are generally low.

There are digital printing techniques such as a laser printer electrophotographic system, a thermal transfer system, and an ink jet system as a printing technique that can replace such a screen printing system. By using these printing techniques, it is possible to draw directly on the resin substrate without producing a screen mask from the print data. Therefore, the small lot type is more suitable than the screen printing method.
Among such digital printing techniques, the inkjet method is a method of performing printing by discharging ink droplets from nozzles of an electronically controlled inkjet head. This method is rapidly spreading in the field of OA printers due to advantages such as a simple structure of the device mechanism, low initial cost, and high image resolution.
For example, Patent Document 1 introduces a method of performing multi-layer printing using a printing technique based on an inkjet method.

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However, when performing multi-layer printing with a general drawing data generation program as in the drawing method described in Patent Document 1, when halftoning a print job generated based on image data designed by a designer In addition, since the functional layer and the color layer have different look-up tables for performing halftone processing, it is necessary to perform independent halftone processing for each of the functional layer and the color layer.
For this reason, since the drawing data obtained by the halftone process is for the functional layer and for the color layer, two pieces of data for the functional layer and the color layer are used for one printed matter formed by layer printing. Since it is necessary to transmit drawing data of a page to a drawing apparatus (printing apparatus) and perform a drawing operation corresponding to two pages, there is a problem that productivity is lowered.

  SUMMARY An advantage of some aspects of the invention is to solve at least a part of the problems described above, and the invention can be implemented as the following forms or application examples.

  Application Example 1 A drawing apparatus according to this application example includes an image design unit that creates image data for forming a printed matter in which a plurality of films are stacked and has a functional layer and a color layer, and the image data A print job generation unit that generates a print job; a printer driver that generates halftone processing of the print job to generate drawing data; a storage unit that temporarily stores the drawing data; and the input from the storage unit And a printer unit that performs drawing based on drawing data, wherein the printer driver generates a print job generated by the print job generation unit, a print job for the functional layer, and the color layer. A data separation processing unit that separates the print job for the functional layer, a functional layer halftone processing unit that performs a halftone process on the print job for the functional layer, A color layer halftone processing unit that performs halftone processing on a print job for a color layer, the print job for the functional layer that has been halftone processed by the functional layer halftone processing unit, and the color layer halftone processing unit, and the color And a data composition processing unit for composing a layer print job and composing it into drawing data corresponding to one page.

According to this application example, a print job generated by the print job generator based on the image data including the functional layer image data and the color layer image data created by the design unit is functioned by the data separation processing unit. The print job for the layer and the print job for the color layer are separated, and each print job is halftone processed by the functional layer halftone processing unit and the color layer halftone processing unit, and then the functional layer after the halftone processing The drawing data for the color layer and the color layer can be synthesized into one drawing data by the data synthesis processing unit.
As a result, the drawing operation corresponding to one page in which the drawing data for the functional layer and the color layer is combined, not the drawing operation for the drawing data for the functional layer and the drawing data for the color layer. Since a functional layer and a color layer can be formed simultaneously, a highly productive drawing apparatus capable of efficiently producing a printed matter having a functional layer and a color layer formed by laminating a plurality of films is provided. can do.

  Application Example 2 A drawing method according to this application example includes an image design unit that creates image data for forming a printed matter, a print job generation unit that generates a print job based on the image data, and the print job. A printer driver that generates drawing data by halftone processing, a storage unit that temporarily stores the drawing data, and a printer unit that performs drawing based on the drawing data input from the storage unit The printer driver separates the print job into a print job for a functional layer and a print job for a color layer, and a functional layer half that performs a halftone process on the print job for the functional layer A tone processing unit, a color layer halftone processing unit that performs halftone processing on the print job for the color layer, and the functional layer halftone. A data composition processing unit that synthesizes the print job for the functional layer and the print job for the color layer that have been halftone processed by the processing unit and the color layer halftone processing unit, and synthesizes the drawing data corresponding to one page; A drawing method for forming a printed matter having a functional layer and a color layer formed by laminating a plurality of films using a drawing apparatus comprising: a step of creating the image data by the image design unit; Generating the print job by the print job generation unit; separating the print job into a print job for the functional layer and a print job for the color layer by the data separation processing unit; The functional layer halftone processing unit performs halftone processing on the functional layer print job and the color layer halftone processing. A halftone process for the color layer print job by the printing unit, and a combination of the halftone processed print job for the functional layer and the print job for the color layer by the data synthesis processing unit. A step of combining the drawing data corresponding to a page; and a step of temporarily storing the drawing data in the storage unit.

According to this application example, a print job generated by the print job generator based on the image data including the functional layer image data and the color layer image data created by the design unit is functioned by the data separation processing unit. The print job for the layer and the print job for the color layer are separated, and each print job is halftone processed by the functional layer halftone processing unit and the color layer halftone processing unit, and then the functional layer after the halftone processing The drawing data for the color layer and the color layer can be synthesized into one drawing data by the data synthesis processing unit.
As a result, the drawing operation corresponding to one page in which the drawing data for the functional layer and the color layer is combined, not the drawing operation for the drawing data for the functional layer and the drawing data for the color layer. Since a functional layer and a color layer can be formed simultaneously, a highly productive drawing method capable of efficiently producing a printed matter having a functional layer and a color layer formed by laminating a plurality of films is provided. can do.

An example of the printed matter formed by the drawing method of this invention is shown, (a) is a top view, (b) is the sectional view on the AA line of (a). The block diagram which shows the main point of schematic structure and the flow of control of the drawing apparatus concerning the drawing method of this invention. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a printer unit (droplet discharge device) that performs drawing in a drawing apparatus, (a) is a schematic perspective view showing the entire configuration of the printer unit, and (b) shows an arrangement of discharge heads. The schematic plan view to show, (c) is a principal part schematic cross section for demonstrating the structure of an ejection head.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the drawings referred to in the following description, the vertical and horizontal scales of members and parts may be shown differently from actual ones for convenience of illustration.

[Printed matter]
First, a printed matter formed by a drawing method using the drawing apparatus of the present invention will be described. 1A and 1B show an embodiment of a printed matter of the present invention, in which FIG. 1A is a plan view and FIG. 1B is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA in FIG.

  A printed matter 50 shown in FIG. 1 shows an image formed by forming an arbitrary image on a substrate 2 that is non-absorbable with respect to the liquid ink by an ink jet recording method using an ultraviolet curable liquid ink. The printed matter 50 is a color formed by laminating a plurality of functional layers 60 on a transparent non-absorbing substrate 2 and laminating a plurality of transparent or semi-transmissive color layers. An arbitrary image (a plurality of alphabet characters in the present embodiment) is visually recognized by the difference in visible light transmittance between the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70.

The functional layer 60 refers to an ink layer that constitutes a functional part in the printed matter 50, and the functional layer 60 of the present embodiment has a function as a light shielding layer. As functional layers other than the light shielding layer, for example, a shielding layer having a function of shielding an arbitrary layer from being viewed from the viewer side, or a base layer of a color layer for the purpose of making the color of the color layer vividly visible to the viewer There is a base layer to be laminated.
The functional layer 60 of the present embodiment is a laminated film formed so as to impart light shielding properties by laminating a light shielding first functional layer 63 and a second functional layer 65 in this order on the substrate 2. Yes, for example, an optical density OD (Optical Density) is designed to be 5 or more.

In the printed matter 50 including the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70, the color layer 70 is a portion that expresses various graphics such as images, characters, and symbols. In the printed matter 50, the functional layer 60 may be said to refer to all portions other than the color layer 70 that forms graphics.
The color layer 70 of this embodiment is formed by laminating a first light transmission film 73 and a second light transmission film 75 having predetermined color characteristics and light transmission on the substrate 2 in this order. The first light transmission film 73 is a semi-transmissive film, and the second light transmission film 75 is a film that forms a transparent clear layer, for example. The color layer 70 formed by laminating the first light transmission film 73 and the second light transmission film 75 is a layer formed so as to attenuate and transmit visible light, and is designed with, for example, OD = 1.3. Has been. In addition, an image (alphabetic characters) provided with designability such as durability and texture by the color layer 70 in which the second light transmission film 75 as a clear layer is laminated on the first light transmission film 73 that is semi-transmissive. Can be provided as a printed material 50 formed with
The design values of the optical characteristics such as the OD values of the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70 described above are appropriately set according to the purpose.
Further, the optical characteristics of the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70 are adjusted by changing the thickness of each laminated film by adjusting the type of ink used for forming each laminated film and the amount of ink applied (not shown). be able to.

[Drawing device]
Next, a drawing apparatus that forms droplets on the substrate 2 to form the printed matter 50 will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the drawing apparatus according to the drawing method of the present embodiment and the main points of a control flow. FIG. 3 shows the configuration of a printer unit (droplet discharge device) that performs drawing in the drawing apparatus. FIG. 3A is a schematic perspective view showing the overall configuration of the printer unit, and FIG. FIG. 5C is a schematic plan view showing the arrangement of the ejection head, and FIG. 5C is a schematic cross-sectional view of the main part for explaining the structure of the ejection head.

In FIG. 2, the drawing apparatus 1 of the present embodiment includes an image design unit 101, a print job generation unit 115 that generates a print job from image data designed by the image design unit 101, and halftone processing on the generated print job. A drawing control unit 110 including a printer driver 120 to be applied, a storage unit 150 in which drawing data generated by the drawing control unit 110 is temporarily stored, and a printer that performs drawing on the substrate 2 using drawing data transmitted from the storage unit 150 Part 6.
The drawing control unit 110 includes a data separation processing unit 122 that separates the print job generated by the print job generation unit 115 into a print job for a functional layer and a print job for a color layer, and the data separation processing unit 122 separates the print job. The functional layer halftone processing unit 125 that performs halftone processing on each of the functional layer and color layer print jobs, and the color layer halftone processing unit 126, and each halftone processed print job And a data composition processing unit 128 that receives from the tone processing unit 125 and the color layer halftone processing unit 126 and composes them into one drawing data.
The image design unit 101, the drawing control unit 110, the storage unit 150, and the printer unit 6 in the drawing apparatus 1 can communicate with each other via a communication device such as a communication network or a dedicated communication cable. A third device such as a print server may be interposed in the communication path.

(Printer (droplet discharge device))
Here, the printer unit 6 that performs drawing in the drawing apparatus 1 of the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIG. There are various types of printer units, but a printer unit using an ink jet method is preferable. A printer unit (droplet discharge device) based on an ink jet method is suitable for fine processing because it can discharge minute droplets.

FIG. 3A is a schematic perspective view illustrating a configuration of the printer unit 6 that forms an image on the printed matter 50.
As shown in FIG. 3A, the printer unit 6 includes a base 7 formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape. In the present embodiment, the longitudinal direction of the base 7 is the Y direction, and the direction orthogonal to the Y direction on the horizontal plane is the X direction. The vertical direction is the Z direction. The direction in which the ejection head 22 and the object to be ejected move relative to each other when ejecting droplets is defined as a main scanning direction. The direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction is defined as the sub scanning direction. The sub-scanning direction is a direction in which the ejection head 22 and the object to be ejected move relative to each other when a line feed is made. In this embodiment, the Y direction is the main scanning direction, and the X direction is the sub scanning direction.

  On the upper surface 7a of the base 7, a pair of guide rails 8 extending in the Y direction are provided so as to protrude over the entire width in the Y direction. A stage 9 having a linear motion mechanism (not shown) corresponding to the pair of guide rails 8 is attached to the upper side of the base 7. As the linear motion mechanism of the stage 9, a mechanism such as a linear motor or a screw type linear motion mechanism can be used. In this embodiment, for example, a linear motor is employed. The stage 9 moves forward or backward along the Y direction at a predetermined speed. Repeating forward and backward movement is called scanning movement. Further, a main scanning position detection device 10 is disposed on the upper surface 7 a of the base 7 in parallel with the guide rail 8, and the position of the stage 9 is detected by the main scanning position detection device 10.

  A placement surface 11 is formed on the upper surface of the stage 9, and a suction-type substrate chuck mechanism (not shown) is provided on the placement surface 11. A substrate 2 is placed on the mounting surface 11, and the substrate 2 is fixed to the mounting surface 11 by a substrate chuck mechanism.

  A pair of support bases 12 are erected on both sides in the X direction of the base 7, and a guide member 13 extending in the X direction is installed on the pair of support bases 12. On the upper side of the guide member 13, a storage tank 14 that stores the functional liquid 26 to be discharged is installed. The storage tank 14 stores a functional liquid 26 containing a dye or pigment.

  Under the guide member 13, a guide rail 15 extending in the X direction is installed over the entire width in the X direction. The carriage 16 attached so as to be movable along the guide rail 15 is formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. The carriage 16 includes a linear motion mechanism. As the linear motion mechanism, for example, a mechanism similar to the linear motion mechanism included in the stage 9 can be used. Then, the carriage 16 scans and moves along the guide rail 15. A sub-scanning position detection device 17 is disposed between the guide member 13 and the carriage 16 to measure the position of the carriage 16. A head unit 18 is installed on the lower side of the carriage 16, and a discharge head 22 (not shown) is projected on the stage 9 side of the head unit 18.

  As shown in FIG. 3B, in one head unit 18, the ejection heads 22 as three ejection units are arranged at equal intervals in the Y direction. Red, blue and green functional liquids 26 are supplied to the three ejection heads 22. The ejection heads 22 that eject the functional liquids 26 of the respective colors are arranged in a staggered manner in the X direction.

  A nozzle plate 23 is disposed on the surface of the ejection head 22, and a plurality of nozzles 24 are formed on the nozzle plate 23. The number and arrangement of the nozzles 24 may be set according to the pattern to be ejected and the size of the substrate 2. In the present embodiment, for example, one nozzle plate 23 has an array of nozzles 24 formed in one row, and 15 nozzles 24 are arranged in each row.

  As shown in FIG. 3C, the ejection head 22 includes a nozzle plate 23, and the nozzle 24 is formed on the nozzle plate 23. A cavity 25 as a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle 24 is formed on the upper side of the nozzle plate 23 in the drawing and at a position facing the nozzle 24. A functional liquid 26 as a liquid material stored in the storage tank 14 is supplied to the cavity 25 of the ejection head 22 via a flow path (not shown).

  Above the cavity 25, a vibration plate 27 that vibrates in the vertical direction (Z direction) and expands and contracts the volume in the cavity 25, and a piezoelectric element as a drive element that expands and contracts in the vertical direction to vibrate the vibration plate 27. 28 is disposed. When the ejection head 22 receives an element drive signal for controlling and driving the piezoelectric element 28, the piezoelectric element 28 expands and contracts. Thereby, the diaphragm 27 pressurizes the cavity 25 by enlarging / reducing the volume in the cavity 25. As a result, the functional liquid 26 corresponding to the reduced volume is ejected as droplets 29 from the nozzles 24 of the ejection head 22.

(Flow of drawing device control)
Returning to FIG. 2, the control flow of the drawing apparatus 1 in the drawing method of this embodiment will be described.
In FIG. 2, first, a designer creates image data to be drawn by the drawing apparatus 1 using a design personal computer provided in the image design unit 101. The image data created by the image design unit 101 is transmitted to the print job generation unit 115 via a communication device such as a communication network or a dedicated communication cable.

  The print job generation unit 115 that has received the image data transmitted from the image design unit 101 generates a print job based on the received image data. The print job generated by the print job generation unit 115 is transmitted to the printer driver 120.

The print job transmitted from the print job generation unit 115 is received by the data separation processing unit 122 of the printer driver 120, and is separated into a print job for the functional layer and a print job for the color layer. Among the separated print jobs, the print job for the functional layer is sent to the functional layer halftone processing unit 125 and subjected to halftone processing, and the print job for the color layer is sent to the color layer halftone processing unit 126. Halftone processing.
Each print job subjected to the halftone processing by the functional layer halftone processing unit 125 and the color layer halftone processing unit 126 is sent to the data composition processing unit 128 to be combined into one drawing data.

The drawing data synthesized by the data synthesis processing unit 128 is transmitted to the storage unit 150 and temporarily stored. The drawing data stored in the storage unit 150 is transmitted to the printer unit 6.
Based on the drawing data received from the storage unit 150, the printer unit 6 performs drawing on a drawing medium such as the substrate (2).

[Drawing method]
Next, an embodiment of a drawing method using the drawing apparatus 1 will be described.

A control flow of the drawing apparatus 1 in the drawing method of this embodiment will be described.
In FIG. 2, first, a designer creates image data of a printed matter 50 (see FIG. 1) to be drawn by the drawing apparatus 1 using a design personal computer provided in the image design unit 101.
The image data of the printed matter 50 illustrated in FIG. 1 includes image data for the functional layer 60 and image data for the color layer 70. Among these, the image data for the functional layer 60 is for directly designating the ejection conditions such as the ejection amount for each type of ink used by the designer of the printed product 50 to form the functional layer 60 in the image design unit 101.
Of the image data, the image data for the color layer 70 is used by the image design unit 101 to design an image in a standard color space using design software.
The image data created by the image design unit 101 is transmitted to the drawing control unit 110 of the drawing apparatus 1 via a communication device such as a communication network or a dedicated communication cable.

  The image data transmitted from the image design unit 101 is received by the print job generation unit 115 of the drawing control unit 110. The print job generation unit 115 generates a print job based on the received image data. The print job generated by the print job generation unit 115 is transmitted to the printer driver 120.

The print job transmitted from the print job generation unit 115 is received by the data separation processing unit 122 of the printer driver 120, and is separated into a print job for the functional layer and a print job for the color layer.
Of the print jobs separated by the data separation processing unit 122, the print job for the functional layer 60 is sent to the functional layer halftone processing unit 125 for halftone processing, and the print job for the color layer 70 is color. It is sent to the layer halftone processing unit 126 and subjected to halftone processing.
In the functional layer halftone processing unit 125, the input print job for the functional layer 60 has a one-to-one relationship with the color density of the print job, and the linear one-dimensional dither matrix is determined. By referring to the quantization process, drawing data for the functional layer 60 is generated.
In the color layer halftone processing unit 126, the input print job for the color layer 70 is a color conversion process that matches the color characteristics of the ink mounted on the printer unit 6, and the color of the input print job. The drawing data for the color layer 70 is generated by performing a quantization process with reference to a dither matrix having a non-linear multidimensional output for the density of the output color. Here, the multidimensionality of the non-linear multidimensional dither matrix means three-dimensional RGB or four-dimensional CMYK.
The drawing data for the functional layer and the color layer generated by the halftone processing by the functional layer halftone processing unit 125 and the color layer halftone processing unit 126 are sent to the data composition processing unit 128.
The data composition processing unit 128 calculates a logical sum of the drawing data for the functional layer and the color layer and composes it into one drawing data.

The drawing data synthesized by the data synthesis processing unit 128 is transmitted to the storage unit 150 and temporarily stored. The drawing data stored in the storage unit 150 is transmitted to the printer unit 6.
The printer unit 6 ejects ink to the substrate 2 based on the drawing data received from the storage unit 150, thereby causing the first light transmission film 73, the second light transmission film 75, and the first functional layer 63. Then, the second functional layer 65 is laminated to form a printed matter 50 (see FIG. 1) composed of the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70.

According to the drawing method using the drawing apparatus 1 of the above embodiment, first, based on the image data including the image data for the functional layer 60 and the image data for the color layer 70 created by the image design unit 101, the print job The print job generated by the generation unit 115 is separated into the print job for the functional layer and the print job for the color layer by the data separation processing unit 122. Next, the separated print jobs are subjected to halftone processing by the functional layer halftone processing unit 125 and the color layer halftone processing unit 126, and then the drawing data for the functional layer and the color layer after the halftone processing are stored as data. The data is synthesized into one drawing data by the synthesis processing unit 128. Then, by driving the printer unit 6 based on the synthesized drawing data for one page and ejecting ink to the substrate 2, the first light transmission film 73, the second light transmission film 75, and The first functional layer 63 and the second functional layer 65 are laminated to form the printed matter 50 including the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70.
Accordingly, the drawing operation corresponding to one page in which the drawing data for the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70 is combined, not the drawing operation for the drawing data for the functional layer 60 and the drawing data for the color layer 70. Since the functional layer 60 and the color layer 70 can be formed at the same time by performing the above, production capable of efficiently producing the printed matter 50 having the functional layer and the color layer formed by laminating a plurality of films. A highly efficient drawing apparatus 1 and a drawing method using the same can be provided.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention made by the inventor have been specifically described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and modifications thereof, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. It is possible to make changes.

  For example, the drawing method described in the above embodiment can be applied not only to the electronic printer unit 6 such as an ink jet printer or a laser printer, but also to a drawing system including a screen printing type printer unit, for example.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Drawing apparatus, 2 ... Board | substrate, 6 ... Printer part, 7 ... Base, 7a ... Upper surface, 8 ... Guide rail, 9 ... Stage, 10 ... Main-scanning position detection apparatus, 11 ... Mounting surface, 12 ... Support stand , 13 ... guide member, 14 ... storage tank, 15 ... guide rail, 16 ... carriage, 17 ... sub-scanning position detector, 18 ... head unit, 22 ... discharge head, 23 ... nozzle plate, 24 ... nozzle, 25 ... cavity , 26 ... functional liquid, 27 ... diaphragm, 28 ... piezoelectric element, 29 ... droplet, 50 ... printed matter, 60 ... functional layer, 63 ... first functional layer, 65 ... second functional layer, 70 ... color layer, 73 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1st light transmission film, 75 ... 2nd light transmission film, 101 ... Image design part, 110 ... Drawing control part, 115 ... Print job generation part, 120 ... Printer driver, 122 ... Data separation processing part, 125 ... Functional layer Halftone Processing section, 126 ... color layer halftone processing section, 128 ... data combining section, 150 ... storage unit.

Claims (2)

An image design section for creating image data for forming a printed material having a functional layer and a color layer, in which a plurality of films are laminated;
A print job generation unit that generates a print job from the image data;
A printer driver that generates halftone processing of the print job and generates drawing data;
A storage unit for temporarily storing the drawing data;
A drawing unit comprising: a printer unit that performs drawing based on the drawing data input from the storage unit;
The printer driver is
A data separation processing unit that separates the print job generated by the print job generation unit into the print job for the functional layer and the print job for the color layer;
A functional layer halftone processing unit for halftone processing the print job for the functional layer;
A color layer halftone processing section for halftone processing the color layer print job;
Data that combines the print job for the functional layer and the print job for the color layer that have been halftone processed by the functional layer halftone processing unit and the color layer halftone processing unit and combines them into drawing data equivalent to one page A synthesis processing unit;
A drawing apparatus comprising: An image design section for creating image data for forming a printed material;
A print job generation unit that generates a print job based on the image data;
A printer driver that generates halftone processing of the print job and generates drawing data;
A storage unit for temporarily storing the drawing data;
A printer unit that performs drawing based on the drawing data input from the storage unit,
The printer driver is
A data separation processing unit for separating the print job into a print job for a functional layer and a print job for a color layer;
A functional layer halftone processing unit for halftone processing the print job for the functional layer;
A color layer halftone processing section for halftone processing the color layer print job;
Data that combines the print job for the functional layer and the print job for the color layer that have been halftone processed by the functional layer halftone processing unit and the color layer halftone processing unit and combines them into drawing data equivalent to one page A synthesis processing unit;
A drawing method for forming a printed matter having a functional layer and a color layer, in which a plurality of films are laminated using a drawing apparatus comprising:
Creating the image data by the image design unit;
Generating the print job by the print job generation unit;
Separating the print job into a print job for the functional layer and a print job for the color layer by the data separation processing unit;
Halftone processing the functional layer print job by the functional layer halftone processing unit, and halftone processing the color layer print job by the color layer halftone processing unit;
Combining the halftone-processed print job for the functional layer and the print job for the color layer by the data synthesis processing unit to synthesize the drawing data corresponding to one page;
Temporarily storing the drawing data in the storage unit;
The drawing method characterized by including.

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