Patent ID: 7561939

Claim:
A data processing device, comprising: a data providing unit that provides print data and embroidery data to be subjected to printing and embroidering, respectively, a print region of the print data and an embroidery region of the embroidery data having a predetermined positional relationship; and a data correction unit that corrects at least one of the embroidery data and the print data so that the predetermined positional relationship between the embroidery region defined in the embroidery data and the print region defined in the print data is maintained on fabric after the embroidering in accordance with the embroidery data and the printing in accordance with the print data are performed on the fabric, considering shrinkage of the fabric caused by the embroidering in accordance with the embroidery data; wherein the data correction unit is configured to determine a form of stitches of an embroidery pattern defined in the embroidery data, and to correct the print data so as to shrink a size of the print region in a predetermined direction if the determined form of stitches corresponds to a predetermined stitch form.