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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2008
Tomoaki Okamura, Saitama, JP;
Tomoaki Okamura, Saitama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet-size decision table indicative of a correspondence of a plurality of sheet sizes and an image size printable on each sheet size is prepared in advance. An acquiring unit acquires image data, and an extracting unit extracts an image size of the image data. A searching unit searches the sheet-size decision table for a sheet size corresponding to the image size. If the searching unit cannot find a sheet size corresponding to the image size, a selecting unit selects a sheet size that can accommodate the image data when printed. Finally, a printing unit prints the image data on a print sheet corresponding to the sheet size selected by the selecting unit.