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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2017
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC., Osaka-Shi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The printing apparatus can perform differential printing to print differences between a print-target image data set and a reference-source image data set, and includes a differential print request accepting unit, a differential extraction unit, a differential thumbnail image creating unit, and an output control unit. If the differential print request accepting unit accepts a differential print request, the differential extraction unit compares the print-target image data set with the reference-source image data set and extracts a difference between them. The differential thumbnail image creating unit places a mark on an area containing the difference, which is extracted by the differential extraction unit, in a page of the print-target image data set, and creates a differential thumbnail image which is a thumbnail image of the page containing the difference. The output control unit performs control operations to output the differential thumbnail image created by the differential thumbnail image creating unit.