Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and recording medium define a folding lines to process user information in accordance with a position and a size of area in a template
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorMasaki Tasaka
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to perform image formation and circuitry. The circuitry acquires, from a memory, a template image defining a user information area in which user information is input, acquires the user information based on a user input operation, processes the user information in accordance with a position and a size of the user information area, generates a combined image in which the user information is combined with the template image acquired from the memory, and instructs the image forming device to form the combined image on a sheet.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device configured to perform image formation, and
- circuitry configured to:
- acquire, from a memory, a template image defining a user information area in which user information is input;
- acquire the user information based on a user input operation;
- process the user information in accordance with a position and a size of the user information area;
- generate a combined image in which the user information is combined with the template image acquired from the memory;
- and
- instruct the image forming device to form the combined image on a sheet;
- wherein the template image includes an image of a desktop nameplate defining a folding line and two user information areas including the user information area, the two user information areas in each of which a character string of a username as the user information is input, and
- wherein the circuitry enlarges or reduces each character of the character string in accordance with positions and sizes of the two user information areas.
A method for forming an image including user information, the method comprising:
- acquiring, from a memory, a template image defining a user information area in which the user information is input;
- acquiring the user information based on a user input operation;
- processing the user information in accordance with a position and a size of the user information area;
- generating a combined image in which the user information is combined with the template image;
- and
- forming the combined image on a sheet;
- wherein the template image includes an image of a desktop nameplate defining a folding line and two user information areas including the user information area, the two user information areas in each of which a character string of a username as the user information is input, and
- wherein the method further comprises enlarging or reducing each character of the character string in accordance with positions and sizes of the two user information areas.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device configured to perform image formation;
- and
- circuitry configured to:
- acquire, from a memory, a template image defining a user information area in which user information is input;
- acquire the user information based on a user input operation;
- process the user information in accordance with a position and a size of the user information area;
- generate a combined image in which the user information is combined with the template image acquired from the memory;
- and
- instruct the image forming device to form the combined image on a sheet;
- wherein the memory stores:
- a plurality of template images each of which defines the user information area corresponding to a sheet size;
- and
- management information that associates each of the plurality of template images with preference information, the preference information indicating whether to preferentially select path information indicating a storage location of corresponding one of the plurality of template images,
- wherein the circuitry acquires one of the plurality of template images using the path information based on the preference information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.