Printing system, processing image production method, and print production method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKento KOBAYASHI, Akio TAKAMOTO
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Abstract
A printing system receives a print image to be printed and an operation instruction, generates a processing image obtained by adding an instruction image corresponding to the operation instruction to the print image, receives the processing image and converts the processing image into a processing job, receives the processing job, discriminates the instruction image from an image of the processing job, and operates according to the operation instruction corresponding to the instruction image to cause a printing unit to print the print image.
Claims11
A printing system comprising:
- a generation computer configured to receive a print image to be printed and an operation instruction and generate a processing image, which is an image obtained by adding an instruction image corresponding to the operation instruction to the print image;
- a conversion computer configured to receive the processing image and convert the processing image into a processing job;
- and
- a printing control computer configured to receive the processing job, discriminate the instruction image from an image of the processing job, and operate according to the operation instruction corresponding to the instruction image to cause a printing unit to print the print image.
A processing image production method comprising:
- receiving a print image to be printed and an operation instruction;
- and
- generating a processing image obtained by adding an instruction image corresponding to the operation instruction to the print image.
A print production method comprising:
- receiving a processing image obtained by adding an instruction image corresponding to an operation instruction to a print image;
- discriminating the instruction image from the processing image;
- and
- operating according to the operation instruction corresponding to the instruction image to cause a printing unit to print the print image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.