Print layout and apparatus and method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuro Uchida
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Abstract
This invention relates to a technique that prevents an image from falling outside a given range when a printer is controlled to form an image on an arbitrary medium while assuring a margin of a predetermined amount. A host computer shifts an image by only a partial amount of a target margin amount in a predetermined direction within an effective print range of a medium. Furthermore, the host computer controls a printer to form the image by further shifting the image by nearly the remaining amount of the target margin amount so as to form an image within the effective print range. In this way, since the host computer and printer add a margin in two steps, print data can be prevented from falling outside a given range upon processing a binding margin on the printer side.
Claims19
1-19. (canceled)
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, comprising:
- a setting unit adapted to set a first binding margin of printing paper;
- an enlargement/reduction unit adapted to enlarging/reducing an image in accordance with a printable region except a second binding margin, which is smaller than the first binding margin, from predetermined region of the printing sheet;
- a layout unit adapted to lay out the enlarged/reduced image on the printable region;
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- a generating unit adapted to generate print data based on the enlarged/reduced image and designation information for designating the difference value between the first binding margin and the second binding margin as an amount of a shift of the image in predetermined direction.
An information processing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said setting unit is further adapted to set the first binding margin using a user setting value set through a setting window provided by a printer driver.
An image formation control method comprising the steps of:
- setting a first binding margin of printing paper;
- enlarging/reducing an image in accordance with a printable region except a second binding margin, which is smaller than the first binding margin, from predetermined region of the printing sheet;
- laying out the enlarged/reduced image on the printable region;
- and
- generating print data based on the enlarged/reduced image and designation information for designating the difference value between the first binding margin and the second binding margin as an amount of a shift of the image in predetermined direction.
A computer program, stored in a computer readable storage medium, executed on a computer for image formation control, computer program comprising the modules of:
- setting a first binding margin of printing paper;
- enlarging/reducing an image in accordance with a printable region except a second binding margin, which is smaller than the first binding margin, from predetermined region of the printing sheet;
- laying out the enlarged/reduced image on the printable region;
- and
- generating print data based on the enlarged/reduced image and designation information for designating the difference value between the first binding margin and the second binding margin as an amount of a shift of the image in predetermined direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.