Seiko Epson Corporation

Masahiko Hirasawa

Kohei Iwamoto

Yoshiki Katsuma

Junichi Takenuki

Atsushi Nagahara

Nobuyuki Saito

Satoru Nishio

Tetsuyuki Minamihara

Hiroshi Iezaki

Kenta Masuzawa

Masanori Tanizaki

Eiji Tanaka

Systems, apparatus, and methods are provided to prevent mismatches in processing and settings related to print media. A print manager device includes a media print information storage storing media print information, which is information relating image processing information used to generate print data for a specific print medium with print settings information used to print on the print medium. The image processing information and the print settings information are relationally stored to each printer configured to print based on the print data according to the print settings information. A processor that controls communication. The processor can send the image processing information stored in the media print information storage relationally to a print medium specified by media selection information to an image processing device that generates print data and can send the print settings information stored in the media print information storage to the printer.

Print manager device, printer, print manager program

A printing system that enables an image processing apparatus to, in the configuration in which one printing apparatus is managed by a plurality of management apparatuses, obtain a suitable color profile from one of the management apparatuses.

Printing system, color profile management method, and management apparatus

Provided is technology reducing the capacity required to store actual parameter information by establishing conditions enabling providing actual parameter information to the device that uses the actual parameter information. A control devicehas label information storagestoring label information relationally to combinations of printermodels and print media; and actual content storagestoring, relationally to the label information, actual parameter information that is used by printersto print to print media. When a combination of printermodel and print medium is identified and actual parameter information corresponding to that combination is requested, the control devicereferences the label information storageidentifies the label information corresponding to that combination, and acquires actual parameter information from the actual content storagebased on the identified label information.

Image processing device and image processing system

There is provided an information processing system that sets a setting value corresponding to a combination of a model of a printing apparatus and a print medium on which printing is performed to a setting item of the printing apparatus and that executes printing, the system including: a setting value table which stores a candidate setting value that can be set to the setting item in correlation with label information corresponding to each candidate setting value, in which, in a case of setting the setting value to the setting item of the printing apparatus, the information processing system determines the setting value corresponding to the setting item based on print medium information including the label information by using the setting value table, and sets the determined setting value to the setting item.

Information processing system including setting values for print execution

A print image processing device includes an input unit to which print conditions are input, a conversion unit (a printer driver) which converts image information into a print image, and a display unit which displays selection candidates (sample images) of the print image which is formed based on the input print conditions in a selectable manner.

Print image processing device, print image processing system, and display method of print image selection screen

Provided is technology enabling executing printing processes under conditions appropriate for a specific type of print medium without overburdening the print media vendor. A printing device includes: a printing mechanism configured to print images on an installed print medium; a controller configured to control a printing process based on the result of acquiring first information related to the media type of the print medium, and second information related to a condition used in a process printing images on print media by the printing mechanism; and a reader configured to read the first information of the print medium from memory affixed to the print medium installed to the printing mechanism. The controller acquires the second information, which includes a condition used when applying the printing process to a print medium of the media type indicated by the first information that was read by the reader, and controls the printing mechanism to run the printing process based on the second information.

Printer, printing method, and print medium

There is provided a print management apparatus including a display that displays a setting screen relating to a print apparatus to be managed including a first display field capable of displaying a plurality of pieces of medium print information including setting information necessary for printing corresponding to print media for each of print media and a second display field capable of displaying a plurality of pieces of medium print information selected from the plurality of pieces of medium print information displayed in the first display field, a first memory that stores the medium print information for each of print media displayed in the first display field, a second memory that stores the selected medium print information displayed in the second display field in association with the print apparatus.

Print management apparatus and print management program

A printing management apparatus includes a memory device storing information and having a shared folder for storing a print job from the outside of the apparatus, a standby folder for storing print data to be output to a predetermined printing mechanism, and a converter having a plurality of conversion modules performing a conversion process in which the print job is converted into the print data which is printed in the predetermined printing mechanism to store the data in the standby folder when the format of the print job in the shared folder is supported; an obtaining unit for obtaining the print job stored in the shared folder; and conversion control means for selecting a compliant conversion module from the plurality of conversion modules in the converter, the compliant conversion module performing the conversion process to the print job obtained by the obtaining unit, the compliant conversion module being the conversion module which supports the format of the print job obtained by the obtaining unit.

Printing management apparatus, printing management method, and program for the same

When a plurality of test copies of an identical image are required, print data of the first page is created from the same image that is used in regular printing and is test-printed; the second and following pages are test-printed using a simplified image that is created by extracting only contour portions of the image.

Print control apparatus, program, and print control method with reduced recording agent consumption

Provided is a spot color printing color converting device including: an image data acquiring unit for acquiring image data in which the colors of pixels are represented by the gradation values of a first color coordinate system; a spot color list acquiring unit for acquiring a spot color list associating the gradation values of the first color coordinate system with the ink gradation values of a second color coordinate system specifying the gradation of ink colors for printing spot colors.

Spot color printing color conversion program, color conversion device and color conversion method

A liquid ejecting apparatus executes a collective multiple liquid ejecting process of ejecting a liquid so as to superimpose the predetermined number of unit images on basic images formed on a target. The liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an ejection executing unit which ejects the liquid onto the target from an ejecting head; a position acquiring unit which acquires arrangement positions of the predetermined number of two or more basic images, at which an arrangement image in which the predetermined number of two or more unit images are arranged among the plurality of basic images formed on the target is superimposed; an image adjusting unit which detects an error between the acquired arrangement positions of the basic images and arrangement positions of the predetermined number of two or more unit images, and adjusts the arrangement positions of the unit images by allocating the detected error to each unit image.

Liquid ejecting apparatus and controlling method of the same

An image processing method for generating a gradation image, including the steps of: (a) acquiring a coordinate of a start point, a color value of the start point, a coordinate of an end point, and a color value of the end point; (b) setting either the number of pixels between the start point and the end point that is calculated on the basis of the coordinates that are acquired in the coordinate-and-color-value acquisition (a) or the number of colors between the start point and the end point, whichever is smaller, as the number of complementary colors of a complementary color list; (c) creating the complementary color list that has the number of complementary colors that is set in the complementary-color-number setting (b); and (d) generating the gradation image with the use of the complementary color list that is created in the complementary-color-list creation (c).

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Yamagata-mura, Japan

Masahiko Hirasawa