Patent ID: 6684768
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: B41L

Abstract:
A stencil printing machine comprising:a conversion processing section for processing to convert input image data into perforating data; a data holding section electrically connected to the conversion processing section for holding the perforating data as re-perforating data; a control section electrically connected to the data holding section for controlling stencil making and printing operations, said control section, if required, retrieving the perforating data held in the data holding section as the re-perforating data; a stencil making section electrically connected to the control section for perforating a stencil sheet based on the perforating data subjected to the conversion processing and re-perforating another stencil sheet based on the re-perforating data by an operation of the control section; a printing section for printing a print sheet by using the perforated stencil sheet; and an operation panel section electrically connected to the control section and having a manual stencil making key for manually instructing a stencil remaking operation by the re-perforating data held in the data holding section, said control section reading the re-perforating data held in the data holding section and operating the stencil making section to perforate the another stencil sheet by an instruction input of a stencil remaking operation from the operation panel section.