STENCIL PRINTING EQUIPMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give a secure feeling to a user, who sends a printing command remotely to a stencil printing equipment, which frequently prints in bulk at a time. SOLUTION: At the execution of a plate making action, in which a master is thermally perforated and made into a plate on the basis of the printing command of copy data sent through a communication line from a personal computer 201, and a printing action, in which the master made into the plate is wound about a rotatable plate cylinder for printing on a printing paper, the expected time of the finish of printing is calculated on the basis of the printing command of the copy data sent through the communication line 101 from the personal computer 201 so as to send the calculated expected time of the finish of printing to the personal computer 201 before the start of the plate making action. As a result, before the start of the plate making action, the criterion of the expected time of the finish of printing can be shown to the user of the personal computer 201, who can remotely control the stencil printing equipment 1, resulting in allowing to give a secure feeling to the user.