Patent ID: 8867101

Claim:
A consumable platemaking material remote administration method for a processing system for fully-automatic photogravure platemaking comprising a zone A including a handling area of a first industrial robot for chucking and handling a roll to be engraved and a zone B including a handling area of a second industrial robot for chucking and handling the roll to be engraved, the zones A and B being brought into communication with each other, the processing system for fully-automatic photogravure platemaking comprising: at least one processing device, to be provided in the handling area of the first industrial robot provided in the zone A, selected from: a roll stock device; a photosensitive-film application device; an electronic engraving device; a laser exposure device; a degreasing device; a grinding-stone polishing device; an ultrasonic cleaning device; a copper-plating device; a surface-hardened coating formation device; a development device; an etching device; a resist-image removal device; or a paper polishing device; and at least one processing device, to be provided in the handling area of the second industrial robot provided in the zone B, out of the processing devices which are not provided in the zone A, the processing devices provided in the zones A and B being installable and removable, the roll to be engraved being passed between the first industrial robot and the second industrial robot to enable a platemaking process, the consumable platemaking material remote administration method comprising: providing a central control unit to be connected to each of the processing devices through a communication line, for receiving status information of a consumable platemaking material in each of the processing devices; and receiving the status information from the central control unit through a communication network by an external receiving device to remotely administrating the consumable platemaking material.