Patent ID: 7363855
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: B41L,G05B

Abstract:
1. A stencil printer, the stencil printer comprising: a stencil making unit; a printing unit; and a process progress display device displaying progress status of a plurality of work processes, wherein at least two of the work processes includes operations distinct from a different one of the work processes and which are performed in a processing apparatus individually or continuously, the process progress display device comprising: a work process progress display unit having a first and a second array of light emitting diodes, each configured to display a progress status of each work process by combinations of turning on and turning off the respective light emitting diodes in correspondence with a percentage of work completed in each process, wherein at least one work process is different from another work process; a work process stop display unit corresponding to each work process, making a display as to whether the processing apparatus is to be stopped or a work process scheduled to be subsequently performed is to be continuously executed in accordance with a work process to be executed at an end of the work process, wherein the work process stop display unit dynamically expresses the work processes under progress by combinations of one of stop status and continuous status; and a control unit configured to control contents of the display of the work process progress display unit in accordance with the progress status of each work process and sequentially updates the contents of the display on the work process progress display unit, wherein the control unit selects at least one work process as an automatic default, wherein at least one of said at least two of the work processes includes a stencil making process of stencil making based on data received and a printing process of printing the data developed in the stencil making process.