Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Naoyuki Urata

Teruyoshi Yamamoto

Ken Mitsui

Kanna Iinuma

Yuu Yamashita

Hiroyuki Abiru

Hiroo Kitagawa

Nobuyuki Sato

Yukihiro Hayakawa

Takeshi Shibuya

Akira Teruya

Kenichi Fujioka

Shiro Kofuji

Miki Hashimoto

Masahiro Fukuda

Yusuke Kawatsu

Kanna Ilnuma

Megumi Okumura

Hitoshi Tamura

Hiroyuki Hitachi Inform Techn Co Ltd Abiru

Toshiyuki Hitachi Inform Techn Co Ltd Yamada

A print control method in an information processing apparatus includes a registration step of accepting via a setting screen a registration of a print setting for one or more specific pages of a print target including one or more pages, a storage step of storing in a storage device the print setting accepted by the registration step with corresponding identification information identifying the specific pages, a first displaying step of displaying on the setting screen the identification information of the specific pages stored by the storage step, a selection step of accepting via the setting screen a selection of identification information displayed in the first displaying step, and a second displaying step of displaying on the setting screen the print setting corresponding to the identification information whose selection is accepted in the selection step.

Print control method to display print settings, recording medium, and print control apparatus

An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires set values of chapters representing units into which an entire job is arbitrarily divided; an image generation unit that generates a setting image including the acquired set values of the chapters as one of options of a print setting; a display control unit that performs control to display the generated setting image on a display unit; and a ticket generation unit that generates a job ticket including a designated print setting based on the setting image displayed on the display unit.

Information processing device, setting method, and computer program product

An information processing apparatus is connected to a print control apparatus for generating image data. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate gloss control plate data for specifying a type of a surface effect imparted to a recording medium and a region in the recording medium to which the surface effect is imparted; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the gloss control plate data to the print control apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for generating image data specifying a type of surface effect

A information processing unit includes: a control unit configured to control operation processing of individual units through a user interface; a print set value storage unit configured to store a print set value that is set by operation of an operation unit on a basic setting screen displayed on a display unit on which setting relating to the color printing is performed at a basic level and a print detail set value that is set by operation of the operation unit on a detail setting screen as another dialog on which the setting is performed at a detail level under operation control of the control unit; and a print data creating unit configured to create print data of the color printing based on the print set value and the print detail set value under operation control of the control unit.

Information processing unit, printing control method for printer driver, and computer program product

An information processing apparatus for generating plate data used to generate image data in an image processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a designating unit configured to designate a rendering object; a surface-effect receiving unit configured to receive a type of a surface effect imparted to the rendering object; a plate data generating unit configured to generate the plate data so that the type of the surface effect is imparted to a region in which the rendering object is to be rendered in a recording medium and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the plate data to the print processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

In a printer driver, combinations of standard print conditions and standard render data are saved as standard patterns, and combinations of standard print conditions and standard render data used for exceptional settings are saved as print application patterns. The print application patterns and the standard patterns are associated with each other. When printing document data, print condition data and render data are spooled by each page, the standard print conditions and the standard render data are compared, and a most similar standard pattern is detected. The print application pattern corresponding to the detected standard pattern is referred to, and print conditions are generated by combining standard print conditions and print conditions of the document data for each page. From the render data of the document data or from the standard render data, print data that can be processed by the printer is generated.

Printer driver

Information processing apparatus, image forming system, and computer program product

A halftoning device that converts an input pixel signal of 8 bits per pixel into an output pixel signal of r bits per pixel(r&#x3c;8), the halftoning device includes: a gradation correction unit that expands the input pixel signal into an expanded pixel signal of n bits per pixel(n&#x3e;8); a threshold value array storage that stores a threshold value array having a threshold value of 8 bits; and a threshold value expansion unit that expands the threshold value of 8 bits to expanded threshold value of n bits per pixel. A range of the expanded pixel signal output from the gradation correction unit is matched with a range of the expanded threshold value. The output pixel signal is set according to a comparison of the expanded pixel signal with the expanded threshold value corresponding to the threshold value that is selected for each input pixel signal.

Halftoning device and halftoning method and laser printer including the same

An image processing apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data is disclosed that is capable of image processing with a small memory area. The image processing apparatus includes a compression unit to compress the image data to a predetermined compression format; an omission secondary compression unit to omit a portion of the compressed image data given by the compression unit, divide the compressed image data into blocks having predetermined block sizes, and perform secondary compression to generate omission secondary compression image data; a data recovery unit to recover the omission secondary compression image data into the compressed image data; an image rotation unit to rotate the compressed image data decompressed by the data decompression unit according to the block sizes; a block storage unit to store the rotated compressed image data in units of the block sizes; and a data decompression unit to decompress the compressed image data stored in the block storage unit according to predetermined conditions.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A color image processing apparatus includes: a minimum value selection unit that selects a minimum value of an input gray level values; a first calculation unit that calculates a generation amount of black; a second calculation unit that calculates an UCR amount which is a value relevant to the minimum value; a third calculation unit that outputs a correction coefficient value which is a value relevant to the minimum value; a subtraction unit that subtracts the UCR amount from each of the input gray level values to generate output; a multiplication unit that multiply the output of the subtraction unit by the correction coefficient value; a significant bit selection unit that selects a significant bit of a multiplication result; and a gray level correction unit that makes a gray level correction to the generation amount of black and the output of the multiplication unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Naoyuki Urata