Patent ID: 7444933

Claim:
A stencil printer for perforating a thermosensitive stencil with heating means to thereby make a master, said stencil printer comprising: a platen roller for conveying the stencil, said platen roller facing the heating means; stencil setting means for allowing an operator of said stencil printer to set a kind of the stencil using an input/output device, said kind of the stencil includes information regarding a perforation sensitivity of the stencil; and adjusting means for selecting, among master making conditions experimentally determined beforehand, a master making condition matching with information output from said stencil setting means, wherein said adjusting means adjusts a master making speed of the platen roller in accordance with said information, and wherein when the perforation sensitivity of the stencil is low, data indicative of a low master making speed is selected, and when the perforation sensitivity is standard, data indicative of a standard master making speed is selected.