Patent ID: 8449822

Claim:
A smear preparing system comprising: a host computer which is coupled with a blood sample analyzer via a network and which obtains a plurality of analysis results of a blood sample from the blood sample analyzer, the analysis results including a hematocrit value; and a smear preparing apparatus coupled with the host computer via a network for preparing a sample smear on a glass slide, the smear preparing apparatus comprising: a spreader glass; a spreader glass driving mechanism comprising a motor and configured for preparing a sample smear on a glass slide by moving the spreader glass on the glass slide; a memory storing smear preparing conditions in association with at least ranges of hematocrit values and storing at least one smear preparing condition not in association with a range of hematocrit values but in association with a smearing levels; and a controller coupled to the spreader glass driving mechanism and the memory, wherein the controller is connected to the host computer via the network; wherein the host computer sends, to the smear preparing apparatus, the smearing level when the analysis results of the blood sample other than the hematocrit value meets a predetermined condition, and sends, to the smear preparing apparatus, the hematocrit value included in the analysis results when the analysis results other than the hematocrit value do not meet the predetermined condition; wherein when the controller receives the smearing level from the host computer, the controller controls the spreader glass driving mechanism according to a smear preparing condition stored in the memory in association with the received smearing level, and when the controller receives the hematocrit value from the host computer, the controller controls the spreader glass driving mechanism according to a smear preparing condition stored in the memory in association with the received hematocrit value.