Patent ID: 9471260
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A printing system for producing printed material by executing, based on specification information defining at least one processing steps, the processing step using at least one corresponding processing apparatus, the printing system comprising: a storage unit that stores direction information indicating a reference placement direction of a sheet on the processing apparatus, the sheet being to be processed by the processing apparatus and processing area information indicating a processing area to be processed by the processing apparatus; a determination unit that determines a placement direction of the sheet to be placed on the processing apparatus using the reference placement direction indicated by the direction information for matching a processing area specified by the specification information for matching a processing area specified by the specification information with the processing area to be processed by the processing apparatus, the processing area being indicated by the processing area information; and an output unit that outputs the placement direction determined by the determination unit.