Printing system, print control apparatus and control method for connecting to a printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkiko Katano, Kazuhisa Ebuchi, Satoshi Seki, Akihiko Nakatani
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Abstract
A user is prompted to select one coating mode from a plurality of coating modes having different methods of applying a transparent recording agent. If the selected coating mode is not available in a preset print setting, a print setting available in the selected coating mode is presented to the user, and the set print setting is changed.
Claims13
A printing system in which a printing apparatus for applying a colored recording agent and a transparent recording agent to a printing medium is connected to a print control apparatus for controlling the printing apparatus,
- wherein the print control apparatus comprises:
- selection means for causing a user to select one coating mode from a plurality of coating modes having different coating areas for the transparent recording agent;
- determination means for determining whether it is predetermined that coating of the transparent recording agent by a first coating mode selected by said selection means cannot be performed by a preset first print setting;
- display means for displaying, on a display apparatus, a message that prompts the user to change the preset first print setting to a setting that differs from the preset first print setting without changing the selected first coating mode, in a case where said determination means determines that it is predetermined that the coating of the transparent recording agent by the selected first coating mode cannot be performed by the preset first print setting;
- and
- change means for changing, according to an instruction by the user, the preset first print setting to a second print setting that can perform the coating of the transparent recording agent by the first coating mode, and
- wherein the printing apparatus comprises:
- printing means for applying the transparent recording agent to a recording agent coating area of the printing medium in accordance with the first coating mode by the second print setting changed by said change means, and performing printing on the printing medium with the second print setting.
A print control apparatus for connecting to a printing apparatus that applies a colored recording agent and a transparent recording agent to a printing medium, and for controlling the printing apparatus, comprising:
- selection means for causing a user to select one coating mode from a plurality of coating modes having different coating areas for the transparent recording agent;
- determination means for determining whether it is predetermined that coating of the transparent recording agent by a first coating mode selected by said selection means cannot be performed by a preset first print setting;
- and
- display means for displaying, on a display apparatus, a message that prompts the user to change the preset first print setting to a setting that differs from the preset first print setting without changing the selected first coating mode so as to cause a change to the different print setting, in a case where said determination means determines that it is predetermined that the coating of the transparent recording agent by the selected first coating mode cannot be performed by the preset first print setting.
A control method of a print control apparatus for connecting to a printing apparatus that applies a colored recording agent and a transparent recording agent to a printing medium, and for controlling the printing apparatus, comprising:
- a selection step of causing a user to select one coating mode from a plurality of coating modes having different coating areas for the transparent recording agent;
- a determination step of determining whether it is predetermined that coating of the transparent recording agent by a first coating mode selected in the selection step cannot be performed by a preset first print setting;
- and
- a display step of displaying, on a display apparatus, a message that prompts the user to change the preset first print setting to a setting that differs from the preset first print setting without changing the selected coating mode so as to cause a change to the different print setting, in a case where it is determined in the determination step that is predetermined that the coating of the transparent recording agent by the selected first coating mode cannot be performed by the preset first print setting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.