Color print output apparatus adaptive to paper types
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNorio Mizutani
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Abstract
The paper kind sensor 18 discriminates a kind of a paper to be printed by the print section 20. Receiving the paper kind information from the sensor 18, the CPU 10 selects a color-conversion table Ti out of the plurality of color-conversion tables stored in the ROM 8. The selected color-conversion table Ti corresponds to the kind of the presently-used paper. The CPU 10 then performs a color-conversion operation on print data with using the selected color-conversion table Ti. Thus color-converted print data is used in printing operation. A user will not need to consider a kind of paper to be printed, and therefore will not need to control the host computer to correct for print information before supplying the print information to the printer. It becomes possible to reduce a burden loaded on the user.
Claims19
A print output device for outputting a desired print output, the device comprising:
- instruction reception means for receiving print instruction supplied from an external device;
- data production means for producing print data based on the received print instruction;
- print paper kind discrimination means for discriminating a kind of paper desired to be printed;
- color-conversion means for performing a color-conversion on the print data, the color-conversion being dependent on the discriminated kind of paper, the color-conversion means including table storage means for previously storing a plurality of color-conversion tables each defining a color-conversion suited for a corresponding one of a plurality of kinds of paper and table selection means for selecting one color-conversion table corresponding to the discriminated kind of paper, the table selecting means performing, on the print data, a color-conversion defined by the selected color-conversion table to thereby produce color-converted print data suited for the kind of paper desired to be printed;
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- print means for obtaining a print output on the desired paper with the color-converted print data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.