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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
Yoichiro Maki, Nagano-ken, JP;
Hideyuki Narusawa, Nagano-ken, JP;
Goro Ishida, Nagano-ken, JP;
Shoji Kojima, Nagano-ken, JP;
Makoto Oyanagi, Nagano-ken, JP;
Masaya Kobayashi, Nagano-ken, JP;
Yoichiro Maki, Nagano-ken, JP;
Hideyuki Narusawa, Nagano-ken, JP;
Goro Ishida, Nagano-ken, JP;
Shoji Kojima, Nagano-ken, JP;
Makoto Oyanagi, Nagano-ken, JP;
Masaya Kobayashi, Nagano-ken, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming system is provided and includes an access unit, a reductive color processing unit, an order sheet print control unit, a composition unit, and a composite print control unit. The access unit accesses a user image stored in a recording medium, the processing unit forms a background image by reducing a color gamut of the user image, and the order sheet print control unit causes a printer unit to create an order sheet on which the background image is printed in a free rendering area. Also, the composition unit separates an area of a subject recorded by a user in the free rendering area from an image of the free rendering area read by a scan unit based on a color gamut of the background image and superimposing the area of the subject on the user image to thereby form a composite image. Finally, the composite print control unit causes the printer unit to print the composite image. A method that the system performs is also provided.