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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Satoru Kiyohara, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1211 (2013.01); G06F 3/1212 (2013.01); G06F 3/1247 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); G06K 15/181 (2013.01); G06K 15/1805 (2013.01); G06K 15/1806 (2013.01);
Abstract
A replacing unit replaces lower bits of tone values expressed in binary numbers of the specific pixels of source image data with additional information needed in a print data creating process in a printing machine. That is, least significant bits of the tone values expressed in binary numbers of specific pixels of the source image data after RIP processing are replaced with information to be communicated to the printing machine. As the information to be communicated to the printing machine, there is multi-SPM selection information used in a halftone dot process in the printing machine.