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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2014
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kazumi Yamada, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A print control apparatus including an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image file including on one page a plurality of sets of image data of a raster format for representing an object, a compression processing unit for selecting methods of compression to apply to each of the plurality of sets of image data from among a plurality of methods of compression, in accordance with the properties of the image data, and compressing each of the plurality of sets of image data by the respectively selected methods of compression, a PDL data generation unit for generating PDL data, which is PDL data in which a command to print the image file is described by a page description language and which includes the plurality of sets of compressed image data, and a transfer unit for transferring the generated PDL data to a print unit.