Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and ink jet printing system

An image processing method comprising:

• a base material information acquisition step of acquiring base material information including at least information indicating a quality of fiber in cloth which is a medium to be printed;
• an image acquisition step of acquiring image data to be printed on the cloth;
• and
• a bleeding prevention image processing step of generating a bleeding-prevented image indicating an ink application pattern in which at least one of an ink application position or an amount of ink applied is limited in anticipation of wetting and spreading of the ink in the cloth, on the basis of the base material information and the image data,
• wherein the base material information includes weave type information indicating the type of weave and thickness information indicating a thickness of a yarn,
• wherein the bleeding prevention image processing step includes:
• a function determination step of determining a function used to calculate a bleeding prevention direction and a bleeding prevention range in which the application of the ink is limited on the basis of the base material information;
• and
• an arithmetic processing step of applying the function determined by the function determination step to the image data to calculate a bleeding prevention position and bleeding prevention strength corresponding to the image data.

A non-transitory computer-readable tangible medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as:

• base material information acquisition means for acquiring base material information including at least information indicating a quality of fiber in cloth which is a medium to be printed;
• image acquisition means for acquiring image data to be printed on the cloth;
• and
• bleeding prevention image processing means for generating a bleeding-prevented image indicating an ink application pattern in which at least one of an ink application position or an amount of ink applied is limited in anticipation of wetting and spreading of the ink in the cloth, on the basis of the base material information and the image data,
• wherein the base material information includes weave type information indicating the type of weave and thickness information indicating a thickness of a yarn,
• wherein the bleeding prevention image processing means includes:
• function determination means for determining a function used to calculate a bleeding prevention direction and a bleeding prevention range in which the application of the ink is limited on the basis of the base material information;
• and
• arithmetic processing means for applying the function determined by the function determination means to the image data to calculate a bleeding prevention position and bleeding prevention strength corresponding to the image data.