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US 9,001,385 B2Granted
Printer driver and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Hirakawa
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Abstract
A printer driver and an image forming apparatus for appropriately combining additional information (such as a stamp) and an original to print the combined image data. The printer driver according to one embodiment of the present invention, relates to a printer driver connected to a printer for registering form data transmitted from the printer driver, and for combining the registered form data and contents data. The printer driver transmits transparent data as form data and a command indicating that the form data is transparent data, to the printer.
Claims7
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a switching unit configured to switch, through a setting screen, between a setting to output additional image data with a selected color of a plurality of colors and a setting to output additional image data with a transparent color using transparent color material, wherein the additional image data is to be superimposed on content data to be output;
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- a transmitting unit configured to,
- in a case where the switching unit switches to the setting to output additional image data with a transparent color using transparent color material, transmit the additional image data and a first command for the additional image data to be output by using the transparent color material to an image forming apparatus capable of connecting to the information processing apparatus, and to thereafter transmit, to the image forming apparatus, the content data that is different data from the additional image data and a second command for the content data that is to be combined with the additional image data at the image forming apparatus and the combined content data on which the additional image data with transparent color is to be superimposed is to be output, and
- in a case where the switching unit switches to the setting to output additional image data with a selected color of a plurality of colors, transmit additional image data and the content data each designated in RGB or CMYK data format and a third command for the content data that is to be combined with the additional image data in bitmap format and the combined content data on which the additional image data is to be superimposed is to be output;
- wherein the first command transmitted by the transmitting unit is generated by the information processing apparatus in a case where a color of the additional image data is determined to be transparent by the information processing apparatus, and the image forming apparatus identifies the color of the additional image data in accordance with the transmitted first command without determining whether the color of the additional image data is transparent or not.
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A control method of an information processing apparatus, the control method comprising the steps of:
- switching, through a setting screen, between a setting to output additional image data with a selected color of a plurality of colors and a setting to output additional image data with a transparent color using transparent color material, wherein the additional image data is to be superimposed on content data to be output;
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- transmitting,
- in a case where the switching step switches to the setting to output additional image data with a transparent color using transparent color material, the additional image data and a first command for the additional image data to be output by using the transparent color material to an image forming apparatus capable of connecting to the information processing apparatus, and thereafter transmitting, to the image form apparatus, the content data that is different data from the additional image data and a second command for the content data is to be combined with the additional image data at the image forming apparatus and the combined content data on which the additional image data with transparent color is to be superimposed is to be output, and
- in a case where the switching unit switches to the setting to output additional image data with a selected color of a plurality of colors, transmitting additional image data and the content data each designated in RGB or CMYK data format and a third command for the content data that is to be combined with the additional image data in bitmap format and the combined content data on which the additional image data is to be superimposed is to be output;
- wherein the first command transmitted in the transmitting step is generated by the information processing apparatus in a case where a color of the additional image data is determined to be transparent by the information processing apparatus, and the image forming apparatus identifies the color of the additional image data in accordance with the transmitted first command without determining whether the color of the additional image data is transparent or not.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.