To sufficiently express texture and three-dimensional appearance by compatibly attaining superiorities of embroidery and printing and to shorten a processing time required for embroidering.
This complex data processor reads preselected embroidery data (S11), analyzes the embroidery data (S12), when an embroidery region includes special stitches and has a color-mixed region embroidered with threads of a plurality of colors (S14; Yes), creates print data for printing the color-mixed region for every color embroidery region, and unifies the thread color information of embroidery data to, for example, "white" or the like (S16). After a fabric set in an embroidery frame is embroidered based on the unified embroidery data, the fabric is printed by an ink jet printer based on the created print data.
KAWAGUCHI YASUHIKO
HAYAKAWA ATSUYA
