Patent ID: 7450272
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
1. A method for printing management carried out in a newspaper print site in which a number of rotary presses of two or more types for newspaper are provided, said method obtaining image data representing an image of each page that has been edited in the form of multilevel image data along with associated data concerning the page, making a printing plate for the page based on said image data and causing one of the rotary presses to print the image of the page using the printing plate, and comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining the multilevel image data and the associated data, and recording the multilevel image data and associated data as print data in a memory; (b) selecting, on the basis of the multilevel image data and the associated data obtained in said step (a) of obtaining, at least one of the rotary presses that is to print the image of the page and a print material that is to be used for print of the image, and retaining schedule data including the one rotary press selected and the print material selected as the print data in the memory; (c) performing color correction for color reproducibility on the multilevel image data obtained in said step (a) of obtaining in accordance with a type of the one rotary press and a type of the print material selected in said step (b) of selecting, based on color management data that has previously been prepared in consideration of a combination of the type of the one rotary press and the type of the print material selected in said step (b) of selecting; (d) performing RIP (Raster-Image Processing) on the multilevel image data, on which the color correction has been performed in said step (c) of performing color correction, so that the multilevel image data is converted into binary image data; (e) forming the image of the page on a plate, using the binary image data obtained in said step (d) of performing RIP, so that the printing plate is made ready for printing; and at the one rotary press selected in said step (b) of selecting (f) printing the image of the page on a web, using the printing plate made ready for printing in said step (e) of forming and the print material selected in said step (b) of selecting.