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US 2010/0134840 A1Published application
Apparatus, method, and system of printing document for distribution, and medium storing program of printing document for distribution
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYasushi ABE
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Abstract
A plurality of sets of a printed document for distribution to a plurality of destinations is generated. For each one of the plurality of destinations, whether to perform conceal processing to document data is determined, and destination-specific print data is generated by performing conceal processing to the document data when it is determined that conceal processing is to be performed and by adding each one of the destination identification information identifying each one of the plurality of destinations to the document data.
Claims16
A system of generating a plurality of sets of a printed document for distribution to a plurality of destinations, the system comprising:
- a document data obtaining device configured to obtain document data for distribution, the document data including a plurality of conceal areas each of which is previously designated;
- a destination information obtaining device configured to obtain distribution destination information including a plurality of items of destination identification information respectively indicating the plurality of destinations to which the plurality of sets of the printed document will be respectively distributed;
- a conceal processing determiner device configured to determine, for each one of the plurality of destinations, whether to perform conceal processing to at least one of the plurality of conceal areas included in the document data to generate destination-specific conceal processing information indicating whether to perform conceal processing for each one of the plurality of destinations;
- a print data generating device configured to generate, for each one of the plurality of destinations, destination-specific print data from the document data, by 1) performing conceal processing to the at least one of the plurality of conceal areas included in the document data based on the destination-specific conceal processing information;
- and 2) adding each one of the destination identification information identifying each one of the plurality of destinations to the document data;
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- a printer configured to print a plurality of sets of the destination-specific print data generated by the print data generating device into the plurality of sets of the printed document to be respectively distributed to the plurality of destinations.
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A method of generating a plurality of sets of a printed document for distribution to a plurality of destinations, the method comprising:
- obtaining document data for distribution from a first memory, the document data including a plurality of conceal areas each of which is previously designated;
- obtaining distribution destination information including a plurality of items of destination identification information from a second memory, the plurality of items of destination identification information respectively indicating the plurality of destinations to which the plurality of sets of the printed document will be respectively distributed;
- determining, for each one of the plurality of destinations, whether to perform conceal processing to at least one of the plurality of conceal areas included in the document data to generate destination-specific conceal processing information indicating whether to perform conceal processing for each one of the plurality of destinations;
- generating, for each one of the plurality of destinations, destination-specific print data from the document data, by 1) performing conceal processing to the at least one of the plurality of conceal areas included in the document data based on the destination-specific conceal processing information;
- and 2) adding each one of the destination identification information identifying each one of the plurality of destinations to the document data;
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- printing using a printer a plurality of sets of the destination-specific print data into the plurality of sets of the printed document to be respectively distributed to the plurality of destinations.
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A recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which cause a computer to perform a method of printing a plurality of sets of a printed document for distribution to a plurality of destinations, the method comprising:
- obtaining document data for distribution from a first memory, the document data including a plurality of conceal areas each of which is previously designated;
- obtaining distribution destination information including a plurality of items of destination identification information respectively indicating the plurality of destinations to which the plurality of sets of the printed document will be respectively distributed;
- determining, for each one of the plurality of destinations, whether to perform conceal processing to at least one of the plurality of conceal areas included in the document data to generate destination-specific conceal processing information indicating whether to perform conceal processing for each one of the plurality of destinations;
- generating, for each one of the plurality of destinations, destination-specific print data from the document data, by 1) performing conceal processing to the at least one of the plurality of conceal areas included in the document data based on the destination-specific conceal processing information;
- and 2) adding each one of the destination identification information identifying each one of the plurality of destinations to the document data;
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- printing a plurality of sets of the destination-specific print data into the plurality of sets of the printed document to be respectively distributed to the plurality of destinations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.