Print control device and method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisashi Kato
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Abstract
According to the present invention, internal print settings of a document are handed over to hot folder settings. A hot folder manager 200 stores handover settings in the XPS performance settings 216 and stores print settings in PT data 217 and JDF data 218. On receipt of an input XPS document, the hot folder manager consults the handover settings, reads values of specified items from the internal print settings recorded in a print ticket of the XPS document, and merges the specified items with external print settings stored in the PT data 217 or the JDF data 218. The new print settings resulting from the merge are appended to document data in a specified output format, and transmitted to a print device 103.
Claims12
A print control device for adding externally defined external print settings to document data having a layer structure that includes internal print settings corresponding to respective layers of the layer structure, said print control device comprising:
- a storage configured to receive input of the external print settings and input of handover settings relating to a layer to be handed over among the internal print settings and store them;
- a generator configured to generate new print settings of the layer to which a handover is directed, by merging the handover settings relating to the layer to be handed over among the internal print settings with the external print settings when a handover of the print settings has been directed by the handover settings;
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- a data transmitter configured to transmit the print settings generated by said generator together with the document data to a printer device.
A print control method for adding externally defined external print settings to document data having a layer structure that includes internal print settings corresponding to respective layers of the layer structure, said print control method comprising:
- a storage step of receiving input of the external print settings and input of handover settings relating to a layer to be handed over among the internal print settings and storing them;
- a generating step of generating new print settings of the layer to which a handover is directed, by merging the handover settings relating to the layer to be handed over among the internal print settings with the external print settings when a handover of the print settings has been directed by the handover settings;
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- a data transmission step of transmitting the print settings generated in said generating step together with the document data to a printer device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium in which a program is stored for causing a computer to perform a method of controlling print control device for adding externally defined external print settings to document data having a layer structure that includes internal print settings, corresponding to respective layers of the layer structure, said method comprising:
- receiving input of the external print settings and input of handover settings relating to a layer to be handed over among the internal print settings and storing them;
- generating new print settings of the layer to which a handover is directed by merging the handover settings relating to the layer to be handed over among the internal print settings with the external print settings when a handover of the print settings has been directed by the handover settings;
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- transmitting the print settings generated in said generating step together with the document data to a printer device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.