Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an information processing equipment and a computer-readable recording medium that generate print data for leaves for leaf pressing processing.
Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, leaf pressing print has been known for forming characters and designs made of leaves of gold, silver, and the like, on a sheet. Leaf pressing print is performed by applying adhesive material such as varnish on the sheet, and bonding a metal thin film (leaf) with a point where the adhesive material is applied.
Here, with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, a print system including a conventional leaf pressing machine will be described. FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating an entire construction of the print system including a conventional leaf pressing machine. FIG. 2 illustrates conventional leaf pressing print (when a leaf object does not stride over a boundary).
According to the conventional leaf pressing print, when print data (submitted data 5) including a gold leaf image and a silver leaf image is submitted from a client terminal 1, the submitted data 5 is divided by a controller 2 into three kinds of print data 6 without leaves excluding a gold or a silver leaf object (also referred to as a “leaf pressed image”), print data 7g for gold leaves including a gold leaf object, and print data 7s for silver leaves including a silver leaf object.
Subsequently, the print data 6 without leaves is printed by a printer 3, and a user sets printed matter 8 in a leaf pressing machine 4. Since only one kind of leaf pressing can be performed by a general leaf pressing machine 4, a gold leaf roll is set in the leaf pressing machine 4 first, and the leaf pressing machine 4 performs additional print (leaf pressing) on the printed matter 8 based on the print data 7g for gold leaves. Subsequently, a silver color leaf roll is set in the leaf pressing machine 4, and the leaf pressing machine 4 performs the additional print (leaf pressing) based on print data 7s for silver leaves to create printed matter 9 on which the gold leaf and the silver leaf are pressed.
Further, in recent years, a leaf pressing machine that can mount two leaf rolls has been developed. As illustrated in FIG. 2, two leaf rolls in different colors are arranged adjacent to each other in a vertical direction with respect to a sheet forwarding direction. A boundary C is a boundary part between a gold leaf region 11g (one example of first region) where the leaf pressing processing is performed with a gold leaf roll 10g (first leaf roll), and a silver leaf region 11s (one example of second region) where the leaf pressing processing is performed with a silver leaf roll 10s (second leaf roll), and corresponds to a center of a leaf image 12 of the submitted data. Such a leaf pressing machine mounting two leaf rolls can press the gold leaf and the silver leaf at a time, if a leaf image 12 includes a gold leaf object 13g and a silver leaf object 13s that are located at a left side and a right side respectively holding the boundary C between the gold leaf object 13g and the silver leaf object 13s as illustrated in FIG. 2.
Patent Literature 1 discloses constructions of a rotational drive section, a bearing device, a winding axis, and the like, to keep stopping a partial leaf roll that does not perform the leaf pressing, in a device provided with a partial leaf roll sending a partial leaf row obtained by dividing a transfer leaf into one or more.