Image forming device, method, and program product with correction image not recognized as post-processing image
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorKosuke Tsuji
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Abstract
An image forming device which forms an image for color correction in the margin of a continuous recording medium such as continuous paper as appropriate without causing erroneous detection by a mark sensor at a post-processing stage. In the image forming device, a printing data generator (control section) performs: acquiring a detection criterion to detect a post-processing image for use at the post-processing stage; creating a color correction image to be used for color correction of an original image according to the detection criterion; and arranging the color correction image as an outer area image in an area other than an original image formation area in printing data.
Claims15
An image forming device comprising:
- a printing data generator which generates printing data by adding outer area image data to form an outer area image in an outer area extending in a transportation direction of a continuous recording medium, other than an area for formation of an original image, to original image data;
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- an image forming section which forms the original image on the continuous recording medium according to the original image data included in the printing data generated by the printing data generator and forms the outer area image on the continuous recording medium according to the outer area image data included in the printing data generated by the printing data generator, wherein
- the printing data generator creates a color correction image, to be used for color correction of the original image to be formed by the image forming section, according to a detection criterion to detect a post-processing image for use at a post-processing stage, such that the created color correction image does not satisfy the detection criterion and is not thereby recognized as a post-processing image, which satisfies the detection criterion, for use at a post-processing stage;
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- the printing data generator arranges the created color correction image in the outer area of the continuous recording medium as the outer area image.
An image forming method for an image forming device comprising:
- a printing data generator which generates printing data by adding outer area image data to form an outer area image in an outer area extending in a continuous recording medium transportation direction of a continuous recording medium, other than an area for formation of an original image, to original image data;
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- an image forming section which forms the original image on the continuous recording medium according to the original image data included in the printing data generated by the printing data generator and forms the outer area image on the continuous recording medium according to the outer area image data,
- the method using a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program causing a computer to enable the printing data generator to perform:
- acquiring a detection criterion to detect a post-processing image for use at a post-processing stage;
- creating a color correction image to be used for color correction of the original image to be formed by the image forming section, according to the detection criterion, such that the created color correction image does not satisfy the detection criterion and is not thereby recognized as a post-processing image for use at a post-processing stage, satisfying the detection criterion;
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- arranging the created color correction image in the outer area in the printing data of the continuous recording medium, as the outer area image.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program causing a computer, which generates printing data by adding outer area image data to form an outer area image in an outer area extending in a transportation direction of a continuous recording medium, other than an area for formation of an original image, to original image data, to perform:
- acquiring a detection criterion to detect a post-processing image for use at a post-processing stage;
- creating a color correction image to be used for color correction of the original image, according to the detection criterion, such that the created color correction image does not satisfy the detection criterion and is not thereby recognized as a post-processing image for use at a post-processing stage, satisfying the detection criterion;
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- arranging the created color correction image in the outer area of the continuous recording medium, as the outer area image.
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