| 摘要 |
A machine readable file is prepared for use in offering a print line that produces a layer or material having a series of panels printed thereon for quilting. The file includes information on the order in which panels are to be quilted, the amount of shrinkage that will occur to a panel during quilting and the amount of crop to be made between the adjacent panels following quilting. Such information is placed, preferably printed, onto the material at the print line. Such information is readable by a sensor at a quilting station, which reads the information and controls a quitter to quilt in accordance with the information. Panels are then quilted in accordance with a schedule and in batches in a most efficient manner. A panel cutter is also controlled by information read from records on the material. Shrinkage is also compensated for and appropriate crops are made between panels. The printing line produces the material having the series of panel thereon, preferably in an order that is the opposite of that in which the panel are to be quilted, and rolls the material so that in can be fed, last-printed panel first, into a quilter. The printer is in part controlled by information read from the machine readable file, with other of the information from the machine readable file being printed or otherwise placed in the records on the material. |
