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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2008
Tatsuro Uchida, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanori Aritomi, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Kujirai, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Oomura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Takagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuro Uchida, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanori Aritomi, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Kujirai, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Oomura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Takagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing control apparatus is provided which can produce an appropriate copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image by adding a monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern even if monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition in which a color copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is set. When the monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition in which the color copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is set, and if the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern color is output with its color unchanged, the color is not converted into 100% black. Considering this, when a forced monochrome mode is selected, even if the user's setting for the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is color, the color is changed to monochrome (black) before output. If the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting is for color, the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting is changed to the monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting so that the printing processing is performed in the monochrome mode using the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting.