Barcode printing control device
AssigneeRiso Kagaku Corporation
InventorsKoichi Nobushima, Junichi Hakamada, Tsutomu Kurose, Takahiko Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Okada, Mitsuaki Ishitoya
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Abstract
A printing device includes a barcode area dividing unit that divides a barcode area of a printing sheet into plural division areas along a Y direction, and a barcode area ejection amount conversion and output unit that controls an ink jet printing unit to print black bars such that an X direction is a direction in which the black bars and white bars are alternately arranged and occupancy dimensions of ink of pixels are different in the division areas divided by the barcode area dividing unit.
Claims3
A barcode printing control device which controls a printing unit configured to print a barcode on a predetermined area of a printing sheet using ink, the barcode having a plurality of color bars and a plurality of white bars that are alternately arranged in a barcode direction, the barcode printing control device comprising:
- an area dividing unit that divides the predetermined area into at least two areas along a first direction perpendicular to the barcode direction;
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- a printing control unit that controls the printing unit to print the color bars such that occupancy dimensions of ink of pixels forming the color bars are different in the at least two areas divided by the area dividing unit.
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