Printing Control Apparatus

A printing control apparatus comprising:

• a processor which performs a process including:
• generating, using apiece of data on a print target, a piece of intermediate data including a rendering command for each individual piece of object data;
• first judging, using attribute information of a piece of judgment-target object data included in the rendering command, whether the piece of judgment-target object data is a bitmap image;
• when the piece of judgment-target object data is a bitmap image, second judging, using the attribute information, whether the piece of judgment-target object data is in color, so as to judge whether the piece of judgment-target object data corresponds to a designated object indicating a type of object data including a color element, the designated object is designated in a print setting;
• when a judgment-target bitmap image is judged to be in color by the second judging, third judging which of color or monochrome each individual pixel of the judgment-target bitmap image is in, so as to judge whether the piece of judgment-target object data corresponds to the designated object;
• and
• generating a piece of job data for applying a predetermined process to a piece of object data judged to correspond to the designated object by the third judging.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer of a printing control apparatus to perform a process comprising:

• generating, using a piece of data on a print target, a piece of intermediate data including a rendering command for each individual piece of object data;
• judging, using attribute information of a piece of judgment-target object data included in the rendering command, whether the piece of judgment-target object data is a bitmap image;
• judging, using the attribute information, which of color or monochrome the piece of judgment-target object data is in;
• further judging which of color or monochrome each individual pixel of the piece of judgment-target object data is in when the piece of judgment-target object data is a bitmap image and is judged to be in color using the attribute information;
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• when the piece of judgment-target object data is judged to include a color pixel, generating a piece of job data indicating a color mode for a page of the print target on which the piece of judgment-target object data is placed.