Patent ID: 8033217
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: B41L

Abstract:
1. A stencil printing apparatus for wrapping a master around an outer circumferential surface of a plate cylinder to perform printing, the stencil printing apparatus comprising: means for measuring a leaving time during which the apparatus is left idle, the leaving time being a total time since completion of an operation for printing; and means for controlling a plate-discharging portion, the means for controlling outputs a plate-discharge command to the plate-discharging portion before the means for measuring measures the leaving time as exceeding a first predetermined time while the master is wrapped around the outer circumferential surface, and the means for controlling shifts the stencil printing apparatus to a standby state after the master is discharged from the outer circumferential surface so that the outer circumferential surface is unwrapped in the standby state, the standby state being a state during which the means for measuring continues to measure the leaving time.