Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takashi Kikuchi

Sho Nakamura

An image forming apparatus performs printing of only a special color area by extracting an area to which a special color ink is to be applied or an area to which a decorative printing, such as a texture, is to be performed and not applying ink on an area other than the extracted area.

Image forming apparatus, method, and computer product for test printing a special color area

To provide a control device and a control method with which a consumed amount of ink can be calculated with higher accuracy, a processing unit configured to execute image processing to image data, based on a reference value according to a state of a print head of a printing apparatus, and a calculating unit configured to calculate a consumed amount of ink during printing, based on print data and a parameter indicating a condition of printing, the print data being generated based on the image data to which the image processing has been performed by the processing unit, are included.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takashi Kikuchi