Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoichi Kodama

Yoichi Matsuyama

Yuji Kojima

An angle of rotation of a sheet is determined so as to match a processing area that is processed in a processing step defined by specification information with a processing area that is processed on the sheet placed in a placement direction designated in correspondence with a processing apparatus used in the processing step. After rotating the designated placement method by the determined angle of rotation, the resultant direction is printed in, for example, an area to be trimmed off as a placement direction of the sheet in the processing step.

Printing system, printing assistance apparatus and method

In a print control apparatus which causes a print apparatus to print via a hot folder, it is monitored whether a file is submitted to the hot folder. Upon submitting the file, it is identified whether the submitted file is a reference information file indicating an external content file, and, upon identifying the reference information file, it is determined whether an acquisition process of acquiring the external content file indicated by the reference information file is to be executed by the print control apparatus or the print apparatus. Upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print control apparatus, print data is generated based on the acquired external content file, and, upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print apparatus, print data including the reference information file indicating the external content file is generated.

Print control apparatus and control method therefor

A color conversion apparatus includes a plurality of color conversion units configured to perform color conversion using a conversion table with different algorithms, a weighting unit configured to set weightings applied to the plurality of color conversion units, and a mixing unit configured to mix a plurality of color conversion results obtained by the plurality of color conversion units using the weightings calculated by the weighting unit.

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