Print control terminal, image forming apparatus, print control method, and image forming method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJong-min Hahm, Hae-kee Lee
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Abstract
A print control terminal including a user interface to receive a setting of a print command and print options of a document, a screen selection unit to select a halftone screen to be applied to the document, a transparency multiple number selection unit to select a transparency multiple number to correspond to the selected halftone screen, a print data generation unit to generate print data of the document according to the selected transparency multiple number, and a communication interface to transmit the generated print data and the print options to the image forming apparatus. A transparency multiple number is changed according to the characteristics of a halftone screen to improve quality of an output image.
Claims24
A print control terminal connected to an image forming apparatus, the print control terminal comprising:
- a screen selection unit to determine a halftone screen to be applied to a document to be printed;
- a transparency multiple number selection unit to change a transparency multiple number according to at least one of characteristics of the determined halftone screen;
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- a print data generation unit to generate print data of the document according to the changed transparency multiple number.
An image forming apparatus connected to a print control terminal, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a screen selection unit to determine a halftone screen to be applied to print data received from the print control terminal.
- a transparency multiple number selection unit to change a transparency multiple number according to at least one of characteristics of the determined halftone screen;
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- an image forming unit to print the received print data using the determined halftone screen and the changed transparency multiple number.
A print control method of a print control terminal connected to an image forming apparatus, the print control method comprising:
- determining a halftone screen to be applied to a document to be printed;
- changing a transparency multiple number according to at least one of characteristics of the determined halftone screen;
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- generating print data of the document according to the changed transparency multiple number.
An image forming method of an image forming apparatus connected to a print control terminal, the image forming method comprising:
- determining a halftone screen to be applied to print data received from the print control terminal,
- changing a transparency multiple number according to at least one of characteristics of the determined halftone screen;
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- printing the received print data using the determined halftone screen and the changed transparency multiple number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.