Patent ID: 7587257

Claim:
A print/embroidery data creating device that creates print/embroidery data from image data which is a collection of a plurality of pixels, the print/embroidery data being printed by a printer and embroidered by an embroidering machine, the print/embroidery data creating device comprising: a usable color designating system that allows a user to designate at least one usable color; an output information setting system that allows the user to set an output size and an output position of each of an embroidery of the embroidery data formed by the embroidering machine and a printout of the print data formed by the printer; a pixel examining system that examines whether each pixel of the image data corresponds to the usable color; an area setting system that sets a pixel area, which is a collection of pixels, determined to correspond to the usable color as a usable color area and sets an area which does not correspond to the usable color area as a print area; an embroidery data creating system that creates embroidery data such that a pixel area set as the usable color area by the area setting system is output as embroidered with a thread having a color corresponding to the usable color, the usable color area being output with the size set by the output information setting system at the position set by the output information setting system by the embroidering machine; and a print data creating system that creates print data such that a pixel area set as the print area by the area setting system is output as printed area with a color corresponding to the pixel color, the print area being output with the size set by the output information setting system at the position set by the output information setting system by the printer.