Patent ID: 7368080

Claim:
A smear preparing apparatus comprising: a smear preparing device comprising a spreader glass for preparing a smear on a glass slide and a spreader driving mechanism driving the spreader glass based on a smearing condition; a memory storing a plurality of smearing conditions and a plurality of pertinent information, said pertinent information not comprising information determined automatically based on blood analysis data obtained by an analyzer, said pertinent information being selected from the group consisting of observer's preference as to smear characteristics, a disease, and an identification of a specimen source, wherein the plurality of smearing conditions is associated with the plurality of pertinent information; an acceptor which accepts a pertinent information of a specimen; and a controller coupled to the acceptor and configured for retrieving one of the stored smearing conditions corresponding to the accepted pertinent information of the specimen from the memory, for determining the retrieved smearing condition as the smearing condition of the specimen and for controlling the smear preparing device based on the determined smearing condition.