JPH07175795A - Document preparing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency and accuracy of a plate making work by editing document data of every one page and further outputting plural pages to one sheet of output medium by an edition form where a printing plate is imposed. CONSTITUTION:An input means 12 inputs document data for printing. An edition mans 13 edits the document data inputted by the input means 12 by the output form every one page. A storage means 14 stores the document data edited by the edition means 13. A plate making imposition edition means 16 arrays document data edited to the output form every one page by the rule of printing plate making imposition and edits the data by the output form where plural pages are printed on one sheet of output medium. A plate making imposition output means 17 outputs the document data edited to the output form of the plate making imposition by the plate making imposition edition means 16.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation machine, and more particularly to a document preparation machine for preparing a printing block that has been imprinted with a printing plate.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In printing, a medium for reproducing an original document to be reproduced and transferring ink to paper is called a plate, and a process of making a plate from the original document is called plate making. When the created document is printed, it is edited as an output format and output by its own printer device as a block copy. In this case, the output artwork is all 1
It is page by page.

However, a printed matter including a plurality of pages such as a book is called a page article, and when the page article is printed, pages 4 to 32 are printed on one sheet of paper. In order to create a plate, platemaking is performed by arranging on a printing plate of a printing press, according to a rule of assembling a printing plate, a master copy for each page output from a conventional document making machine.

[0004]

As described above, in the above-described conventional document creating machine, when creating a printing plate for a page, the block copy output for each page is printed on the plate surface of the printing machine. In order to arrange the printing plates, a process of assembling the printing plates is required.There are various methods for assembling the printing plates, which correspond to the printing method and the bookbinding method. However, it has a drawback that the plate becomes complicated and the plate surface tends to be misaligned or the page may be misaligned after bookbinding unless the plate surface is accurately arranged.

[0005]

A document creator according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises (A) input means for inputting document data for printing;
(B) an editing unit that edits the document data input by the input unit in an output format for each page; and (C) a storage unit that stores the document data edited by the editing unit.
(D) The document data edited in the output format for each page by the editing means is arranged according to the rule of printing plate assembly.
A printing plate assembling editing means for editing a plurality of pages on one output medium in an output format, and (E) a printing plate for outputting document data edited in the printing form assembling output format by the printing plate assembling editing means And an assembling output means.

The document creator of the second invention is (A)
Input document data for printing, (B) edit the input document data in the output format for each page, (C) store the edited document data in the output format for each page, and (D) edit The document data of the output format for each page is arranged according to the rule of printing plate assembly, and is edited in the output format of printing plate assembly that prints a plurality of pages on one output medium. This includes outputting the document data edited in the output format.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creator according to the present invention. The document creator of this embodiment is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 1, the data processing device 1 includes a control means 11, an input means 12, an editing means 13, a storage means 14, an output means 15, a plate surface assembly editing means 16, and a plate surface assembly output means 17.
A document data storage device 2 before editing and a document data storage device 3 after one-page editing, which are connected to the data processing device 1.
The output device 4 further includes a printing plate assembling output device 5 and a terminal device 6.

The terminal device 6 has a display device 61 for displaying a function instruction screen and a keyboard 62 for inputting information instructing a function.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an arrangement for assembling a printing plate according to this embodiment. In the arrangement shown in FIG. 2, eight portions are printed on each of the front and back sides of one sheet, and after cutting, eight 16 sheets are printed.
The case where the page is displayed is shown. The case where the arrangement of FIG. 2 is printed by the document creator of FIG. 1 will be described below.

First, the control means 11 causes the input means 12 to read the unedited document data from the unedited document data storage device 2. Then, the control means 11 uses the editing means 13 to edit the read document data into an output format for each page. The editing in this case is a process of converting the output position and the output direction of the data into data expressed in a format that the output device 4 can recognize. The data output position is represented by the distance from the origin on the output medium. Then, the control means 11 includes the storage means 14
Thus, the edited data is stored in the one-page edited document data storage device 3.

Next, the control means 11 reads the document data edited in the output format for each page from the document data storage device 3 after one-page editing by the input means 12, and uses the plate assembling editing means 16. I am doing the edition assembly. At this time, the display device 61 displays information relating to the printing plate assembly, and the user displays the information for the printing plate assembly on the keyboard 62.
It is possible to input from. In this case, in order to output the data for multiple pages on one output medium, the printing for assembling the printing plates is performed by rewriting the output position and the output direction of the data for each page, and the data for multiple pages is printed as one sheet. Integrated into the minute output data.

In the example of FIG. 2, the output position of one page of data is
It is expressed by the distance from the origin of page 1, but the origin after printing plate assembly is the upper left corner of each part, so the output position in the data is rewritten to the distance from the printing plate assembly origin. . As described above, when the data of each page are integrated by the plate-face assembling edit and become the data for one sheet, the control means 11 uses the plate-face-assembling output device 17 to output the plate-face-assembling output device. From 5, the plates that have been prefaced are output. The plate output from the plate-face assembling output device 5 can be directly printed by a printing machine.

[0013]

As described above, the document creating machine of the present invention uses the plate that can be directly output by the printer itself by providing the plate-face assembling editing means and the plate-face assembling output means. Therefore, it is possible to omit the work of assembling the printing plate by using the master block for each page as in the conventional document making machine, and it is possible to perform the plate making work much more accurately and quickly. have.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creator according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an array for plate assembly according to the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Data Processing Device 2 Document Data Storage Device Before Editing 3 Document Data Storage Device After 1-Page Editing 4 Output Device 5 Plate Assembly Output Device 6 Terminal Device 11 Control Means 12 Input Means 13 Editing Means 14 Storage Means 15 Output Means 16 Plate Composing Attaching / editing means 17 Plate-assembling output means 61 Display device 62 Keyboard

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting (A) document data for printing, (B) an editing unit for editing the document data input by the input unit in an output format for each page, and (C) the editing. Storage means for storing the document data edited by the means, and (D) the document data edited in the output format for each page by the editing means are arranged according to the rule of the printing plate assembling, and one output medium And (E) plate-face assembling output means for outputting the document data edited in the face-face-assembled output format by the plate-face-assembling edit means, A document creation machine, comprising: 2. (A) Input document data for printing,
(B) The input document data is edited in the output format of each page, (C) the edited document data of the output format of each page is stored, and (D) the edited document data of the output format of each page. Are arranged according to the rule of assembling the printing plate, and are edited in the output form of the printing plate assembly in which a plurality of pages are printed on one output medium,
(E) A document creating machine, which outputs document data edited in an output format with a printing plate assembly.