Patent ID: 6990899

Claim:
A stencil printing machine, comprising: a conveying route along which a leading edge side of a roll stencil sheet is conveyed to a stencil sheet clamp section of a printing drum; a writing head which forms a perforated image on the stencil sheet; a platen roller on which the writing head is brought into pressure contact and which conveys the stencil sheet; a stencil sheet cutter which cuts the stencil sheet; a stencil positioning sensor which detects a leading edge of the stencil sheet; storage means for temporarily storing the stencil sheet; and control means for controlling a timing at which the printing drum is rotated to start loading of the stencil sheet, the control means determining the timing between an earliest timing, which is earlier by a predetermined time period than a timing at which the writing head completes forming a perforated image on the stencil sheet, and a latest timing, which is a same timing as completion of release of stencil making pressure, wherein the predetermined time period is obtained by dividing a conveying distance between the stencil sheet cutter and the stencil sheet clamp section by a peripheral speed of the platen roller.