JPS639992B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a composite pattern for printing a plurality of composite patterns on a sheet or the like by selecting one type of image image and character information one by one from multiple types of image images and multiple types of character information and combining them. The present invention relates to a printing method.

Examples of this type of printing include printed materials such as texts, pamphlets, catalogs, price cards, books such as picture books or comic books, and parts lists. An example of printing a price card attached to a store item or package will be described. For example, let's take athletic shoes as an example.

A price card for athletic shoes, for example, as shown in Figure 1, has a photo 1 (image image) of a representative design of a certain series (in this case, for example, a series named "ORITSUX"), a series name 2, and a color symbol 3. , size 4, price 5, automatic reading mark 6, code number 7, etc. are printed and displayed.

However, the normal photo 1 (image image) part and other parts (character information part...including symbols) are processed separately depending on whether or not halftone separation is necessary during the plate-making process, and the plate is produced separately. , synthesized by multiple printing.

Among these displays, a plurality of types of other character information correspond to a certain photograph 1 (image). That is, a plurality of types of color symbols 3, sizes 4, prices 5, automatic reading signs 6, and code numbers 7 correspond. In other words, multiple types of price cards are printed that have the same photo display but different text information displays. For other photos as well,
Similarly, multiple types of price cards with different text information displays are printed for a certain photo.

These printings are usually not performed for each price card, but are instead printed on a single sheet (hereinafter referred to as m sheets) and then cut for use.

As an example of the printing method, consider an example in which 32 different price cards (m=32) are printed on one sheet 8 in 8 columns in the vertical direction and 4 lines in the horizontal direction, as shown in FIG.

Here, to indicate the address of each price card in the sheet 8, the horizontal axis is x and the vertical axis is y, and numbers provided as shown in the figure are shown as Qxy. For example, the address of price card 9 is _Q26 . Multiple sheets like this are made, but they are made one after another in an appropriate order.
They are called P ₁ , P ₂ , ...P _i ....

Photo 1 is printed on the left margin of each price card, and other indications are printed on the right margin.

The number of types in Photo 1 is considerably smaller than the number of other display types, and as mentioned above, the plate-making process is also different, so the information to be displayed can be roughly divided into two groups. An image group is a collection of images as shown, and a character information group is a collection of character information as shown in other displays.

A plurality of (sometimes a single) character information corresponds to one image, and by combining the character information with the image, many types of price cards can be obtained as a composite pattern. If the number of character information corresponding to a certain image is the number of corresponding information n _i , n _i is not necessarily the same for each image. As described below, the present invention provides n _i
This was done to eliminate the disadvantages that would arise if the two conditions were not the same.

Now, let each image belonging to the image group be A
1, A2... The character information corresponding to A1 is assumed to be B1 ₁ , B1 ₂ , B1 ₃ , . . . , and the character information corresponding to A2 is assumed to be B2 ₁ , B2 ₂ , B2 ₃ , .

A plurality of types of sheets 8 as shown in FIG. 2 are printed. The image image part can be made common to several types of price cards (the same photo of one shoe can be displayed in common to create several types of price cards with different sizes, prices, etc.). Generally, in order to reduce the number of plates and because the plate-making processes are different, a plate for image images and a plate for character information are separately made and combined to perform multiple printing.

The image plates are shown as C1, C2, . . . in FIG. Image images A1 and A in the image version
In the past, the arrangement of 2... was determined to be convenient for business administration. For example, they were classified from major categories to minor categories, by manufacturer, by application, by series, by color, and arranged in the order according to the classification. That is, according to this order, the image (photograph of shoes) is converted into the first image image version C as shown in FIG.
A plate is made so that A1, A2, A3, . . . up to A32 are arranged on 1. This plate making is photoengraved based on a separately prepared image collection.

The image images from A33 to A64 are made onto the next image image plate C2. In this way 32
Image plates C1 and C in which image images are arranged
A plurality of 2, C3... are produced.

The numbers shown in squares in the image version C1 are examples of the number n _i of corresponding information for each image, and are not produced as a version. For example, for A1, there are four types of character information B1 ₁ , B1
₂ , B1 ₃ , B1 ₄ correspond to A6, A6 ₁ , A6
₂ , ..., A6 ₁₀ types of character information correspond to each other.

Figure 4 shows the text information version. The D1 group is a group in which C1 is commonly combined as an image plate, and the D2 group is a group in which C2 is commonly combined. In addition, groups such as D3, . . . are prepared corresponding to C3, . This platemaking is photoengraved based on a separately prepared collection of character information.

In the D1 group, 10 text information versions D1
₁ , D1 ₂ , D1 ₃ , ..., D1 ₁₀ are prepared. C
The maximum value n _nax of the number of corresponding information n _i of the image on 1
Since there are 10 pieces (n ₆ =10) in A6, 10 pieces are required for the text information version.

In the first text information version D1 ₁ , versions are produced for all 32 addresses, but in the second text information version D
1 ₂ , the number of correspondence information corresponding to A7 n ₇ =
1 (because the corresponding character information is only B7 ₁ ), the address Q ₃₂ corresponding to A7 is left blank.
Similarly, Q ₃₂ is left blank from D1 ₃ to D1 ₁₀ .

Similarly, A1 has n ₁ = 4, so Q ₁₁ is blank from D1 ₅ onwards, and A2 has n ₂ = 2, so from D1 ₃ onwards, Q 11 is blank.
Q ₂₁ is left blank, etc. As the text information version becomes later in the order, the number of blank addresses increases, and in _D19 , n _i >9, A6, A8, A9, A15, A
Only addresses corresponding to 16, A22, and A27 are available, and in D1 ₁₀ , only addresses corresponding to A6 and A15 are n _i =10, and the rest are blank.

In FIG. 4, this blank space is indicated by a circle.

Similarly, in the D2 group, the same number of _character information versions D2 ₁ , D2 ₂ ,...
..., and there are many blank spaces after the order.

In printing, after the image is printed in C1, multiple printing is performed as many times as required using the character information plates of the D1 group, such as D1 ₁ , D1 ₂ , D1 ₃ , etc. Similarly, after printing the image in C2, multiple printing is performed using the character information plate of the D2 group.

However, in such conventional printing methods, there are many blank spaces in the text information version, which increases the number of text information versions, takes time to produce and store, and also leaves blank spaces in the printed sheet. This method has disadvantages such as an increase in the number of parts, an increase in the number of printed sheets, and a time-consuming process to cut out blank parts.

The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional method by arranging the images on the image plate in the order of the number of corresponding information (from large to small or from small to large). To provide a method for printing a composite pattern, which minimizes the blank area on a plate, reduces the number of plates, reduces the number of printed sheets, and reduces the effort required to remove the blank area from the sheet. The purpose is to

The present invention provides an image plate equipped with a plurality of unit image images in order to print a composite pattern in which an image image and character information selected from a plurality of character information corresponding to the image image are combined and synthesized. A composite pattern printing method in which a plurality of composite patterns are printed on a sheet by multiple printing using a character symbol plate equipped with a plurality of unit character information, and an image image collection in which a plurality of image images are accumulated. , and a character information collection that accumulates a plurality of character information, and as an image image plate, images are selected from the image image collection in order of the number of corresponding information, and are sequentially arranged on the plate to create a plurality of images. A statue image plate is prepared by photolithography, and as a character information plate, character information corresponding to a position corresponding to each image of the image image plate is selected from the character information collection and sequentially for each plate. A plurality of text information plates are prepared by photolithography and arranged on a printing plate, and each image image plate of the plurality of image image plates and a text information plate corresponding to each image image plate are used to multiplex the text information plate. This is a composite pattern printing method characterized by printing a plurality of composite patterns on a sheet.

The present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings based on examples.
Figure 5 shows image plates C1, C2..., C8.
(It is assumed that there are eight images in total), and in the first image version C1, images are arranged in order from the one with the largest number of corresponding information n _i . In Figure 5,
A... is the number of a certain image (for example, A56, A
123, etc.), and if it were specifically shown in numbers, the diagram would be complicated and difficult to understand, so
Other than A1 to A32 (see FIG. 3) are abbreviated.

Starting from the first image of the image series arranged in the order of the size of the corresponding information number n _i , the images are sequentially arranged in the first image plate C1 to the number that can be accommodated (32 in this example). Once reached, the next 33rd image is sequentially arranged in the second image plane. In this way, the images are sequentially arranged until reaching the final C8.

Since the maximum number n _i of corresponding information in the first image version C1 is 10, 10 types of character information versions (D1 ₁ , D1 ₂ . . . D1 ₁₀ ) are required to correspond to C1. However, the number n _i of corresponding information of the image included in C1 is 10, 9, 8, and the difference is small, and there is no blank space in the text information versions D1 ₁ to D1 ₈ , and in D1 ₉ and D1 ₁₀ . Only leave a minimum of blank space on two sheets.

Also, for example, looking at the last image version C8, the maximum number of corresponding information n _i is 2, so C8
There are only two types of character information versions (D8 ₁ and D8 ₂ ) that correspond to , and only D8 ₂ is left blank.

The number of character information versions corresponding to a certain image version is the maximum number of corresponding information in that image version.
It is equal to the number of n _nax , and the number of sheets that include blank parts in the text information version is when the minimum number of corresponding information in the image version is n _nio (n _nax
−n _nio ).

In this embodiment, by arranging the images in the image plates as described above, the number of image plates with small n _nax is increased as much as possible, and the difference between n _nax and n _nio in one image plate is Therefore, the number of text information versions and the amount of blank spaces can be minimized.

The series of images may be arranged in descending order of the number n _i of corresponding information.

Below is an example of a price card for athletic shoes. To explain the process leading up to printing, a large number of photos of athletic shoes to be displayed as images on the price card are taken, and a collection of images, that is, a photo album, is created as an image ledger. prepare. A photo number (corresponding to A1, A2, . . . in the above example) is attached to each photo.

This photo number, the number of corresponding information n _i for each photo, and the version number of the image image version (C
1, C2, ...), and the address Q _xy in the version,
Create a series of photos based on the arrangement standard, for example, in order of the number of corresponding information n _i , and from the beginning of this series, set a constant (32
The image array is determined by a computer or manually based on the standard of arranging images in groups of 1). When this array is printed out as a list, it becomes a list corresponding to FIG. 5.

Based on this image arrangement, a predetermined photograph is selected from the photo album and arranged at a predetermined address of a predetermined plate number, automatically or manually, to create an image version. At this time, it is helpful to create a comparison table of photo numbers, edition numbers, and street addresses using a computer, etc., to aid in arranging and checking. A predetermined image plate is created from this image plate base by photolithography, and only the image image is printed on a predetermined number of sheets.

On the other hand, for character information, a separate character information collection is prepared, and the character information arrangement is determined in the same manner as described above and in correspondence with the image arrangement. Based on this character information arrangement, a character information version is created in the same manner as described above, and a character information version is created based on this.

Text information is mainly information that can be made into a plate by phototypesetting, etc., so the collection of text information may be based on digital symbols rather than actual concrete information, and it is possible to directly create a text information version without creating a copy. You may.

As described above, multiple printing is performed on a predetermined sheet on which only the image is printed, using the text information plate created as described above, and sheets of price cards, which are composite patterns, are printed one by one. Cut it out to obtain a price card as shown in Figure 1.

In the above explanation, the elements of the composite pattern are divided into image image and character information.
"Image image" is not limited to only an image such as a photograph, but also the A information part that has a large degree of commonality among the elements divided into two, and "text information" is not limited to characters and symbols, but also the information part A. It means a plurality of (sometimes a single) B information section corresponding to an A information section.

Note that the present invention is applicable not only to price cards, but also to
It can be applied to printed materials such as texts, pamphlets, catalogs, books such as illustrated books or comic books, and parts lists.

The present invention provides an image printing plate equipped with a plurality of unit image images in order to print a composite pattern of an image image and character information selected from a plurality of character information corresponding to the image image. , a composite pattern printing method in which a plurality of composite patterns are printed on a sheet by multiple printing using a character information plate equipped with a plurality of unit character information, an image image collection in which a plurality of image images are accumulated; A character information collection that accumulates a plurality of character information is provided, and as an image version, images are selected from the image collection in order of the number of corresponding information, and are sequentially arranged on the version to create a plurality of images. An image image plate is produced and prepared by photolithography, and as a text information plate, character information corresponding to a position corresponding to each image on the image image plate is selected from the text information collection and printed sequentially for each plate. A plurality of text information plates are produced by photolithography and arranged on top of the image plate, and multiple printing is performed using each image image plate of the plurality of image image plates and a text information plate corresponding to each image image plate. By printing multiple composite patterns on a sheet, the maximum number of corresponding information in each image plate can be minimized, and the difference between the maximum and minimum number of corresponding information in a certain image plate can be minimized. and minimize the amount of blank spaces, and
The number of text information plates is minimized, reducing the effort and cost of plate production, plate storage, printing, etc. Also, blank areas on printed sheets are minimized, significantly reducing the effort of removing them. Therefore, it is possible to provide an efficient method for printing composite patterns that saves materials and has extremely great practical effects.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 shows the completed price card, Fig. 2 shows the price card sheet, Fig. 3 shows the conventional image image version, Fig. 4 shows the conventional text information version, and Fig. 5 shows the image image of the embodiment of the present invention. It is an explanatory diagram of a version. 1...Photo, 2...Series name, 3...Color code, 4...Size, 5...Price, 6...Automatic reading sign, 7...Code number, 8...Sheet, 9
...Price card.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In order to print a composite pattern that combines and synthesizes an image and character information selected from a plurality of character information corresponding to the image,
In a composite pattern printing method for printing a plurality of composite patterns on a sheet by multiple printing using an image plate having a plurality of unit image images and a character symbol plate having a plurality of unit character information, It is equipped with a picture image collection that collects a plurality of picture images and a text information collection that collects a plurality of character information. In order, image images are selected from the image image collection and sequentially arranged on the plate to produce and provide a plurality of image image plates by photolithography, and as a text information plate, each image image of the image image plates is selected. A plurality of character information plates are produced and provided by photolithography by selecting character information corresponding to the position corresponding to the character information from the character information collection and sequentially disposing it on each plate for each plate, and preparing a plurality of character information plates by photolithography. A method for printing a composite pattern, comprising printing a plurality of composite patterns on a sheet by performing multiple printing using each image image plate and a character information plate corresponding to each image image plate.