Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printing control apparatus and printing control method
- Patent Title (中): 印刷控制装置和印刷控制方法
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Application No.: US13075111Application Date: 2011-03-29
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Publication No.: US08009304B2Publication Date: 2011-08-30
- Inventor: Tatsuro Uchida , Masanori Aritomi , Yasuhiro Kujirai , Hiroshi Oomura , Yoshihiro Takagi
- Applicant: Tatsuro Uchida , Masanori Aritomi , Yasuhiro Kujirai , Hiroshi Oomura , Yoshihiro Takagi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2003-411060 20031209; JP2004-322750 20041105
- Main IPC: G06F15/00
- IPC: G06F15/00 ; G06F3/12 ; G06K1/00 ; G06K15/00 ; H04N1/40

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110176177A1 PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2011-07-21
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