The character edge area determining unit (21) determines a character edge area in input image data.

The output image processing unit (12) performs an image process for a target pixel in the determined character edge area in order to adjust a toner consumption amount in accordance with the number of continuous edge pixels (i.e. continuous pixels that belong to the character edge area) included in a reference window of which a center is set on the target pixel and an average value of pixel values of the continuous edge pixels.

A raster image conversion device is inputted with printing data and converts this printing data into raster image data to be outputted to a printing device. A storage unit stores printing environment data stipulating conditions for converting the printing data into the raster image data. An operating unit sets or edits the printing environment data. A conversion processing unit converts the printing data into the raster image data, based on the printing environment data. The printing environment data includes printing template information having a plurality of printing slots. The operating unit comprises an operating mode enabling the printing template information to be generated or edited. The conversion processing unit is inputted with or creates printing data made up of a plurality of pages, and, based on the printing template information, allocates a printing position and printing range of each page of the printing data to the printing slots.

An aspect of the present invention is a printer communicable with an external device in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol. The printer includes: a data reception unit configured to receive data containing a character string to be printed, from the external device; an acquisition unit configured to acquire extraction setting information that is information relating to a method of extracting the character string contained in the data that is received by the data reception unit; an extraction unit configured to, upon receiving the data from the external device, extract the character string from the received data, based on the extraction setting information that is acquired by the acquisition unit; and a print unit configured to print the character string that is extracted by the extraction unit, on a print medium.

Even from a plurality of small documents, their front-side and back-side images to be formed on a recording paper sheet, with alignment and coincidence of the front-side and back-side images of each document between the front and back sides of the recording paper sheet. In an image forming apparatus, an image processing section detects a front-side image of an original document from a scan area read in a first scan by an image reading section, detects a back-side image of the original document from a scan area read in a second scan, and moves or rotates the front-side image and the back-side image of the original document in terms of a whole image of the scan area so that the front-side image and the back-side image of the original document are brought into alignment and coincidence between a front side and a back side of a recording paper sheet.

The present invention enables a desired number of original gift boxes to be produced easily. An image print device includes an input unit to which a user image is input, a storage unit storing a template image of a gift box, an edit processing unit combining the template image with the user image to generate a combined image, and a printer printing, for output, the combined image on a sheet. The storage unit stores a plurality of template images of gift boxes different in shape or size. The image print device further includes a box selection unit receiving selection of a gift box shape or size, and the edit processing unit combines a template image with the user image, the template image corresponding to the gift box shape or size that is selected.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller including one or more processors and one or more memories. The controller receives attribute information of a printing apparatus from the printing apparatus, determines, based on the received attribute information, whether or not to generate a portrait image which format is a predetermined format, and rotates a landscape image in a predetermined rotational direction to generate the portrait image in a case it is determined the portrait image is to be generated. The controller also transmits the generated portrait image to the printing apparatus, and transmits information indicating that the portrait image has been generated from the landscape image.

A printing system includes a printing device including a thermal head that prints print content on a print medium; and an information processing apparatus that controls the printing device. The information processing apparatus comprises a processor configured to detect, from print image data from a server, a position of a control target portion including a specific portion in a print image corresponding to the print image data. The processor is configured to generate printing control information for printing the control target portion. The processor is configured to transmit the print image data, the position of the control target portion, and the printing control information to the printing device. The printing device executes different printing controls for the control target portion and a portion other than the control target portion based on the print image data, the position of the control target portion, and the printing control information.

A display device (1) includes a receiving section (11), a generating section (12), and a display section (40). The receiving section (11) receives an arrangement setting that is a setting by which a page image P is arranged in formation of the page image P on a sheet. The generating section (12) generates based on the arrangement setting a preview image (AP) in which an identification image D identifying the page image P is disposed. The display section (40) displays the preview image (AP). A location of the identification image D in the preview image (AP) indicates a location of the page image P when the page image P is formed on the sheet. The identification image D has a data size smaller than a data size of the page image P.

A display device (1) includes a receiving section (11), a generating section (12), and a display section (40). The receiving section (11) receives an arrangement setting that is a setting by which a page image P is arranged in formation of the page image P on a sheet. The generating section (12) generates based on the arrangement setting a preview image (AP) in which an identification image D identifying the page image P is disposed. The display section (40) displays the preview image (AP). A location of the identification image D in the preview image (AP) indicates a location of the page image P when the page image P is formed on the sheet. The identification image D has a data size smaller than a data size of the page image P.

An aspect of the present invention is a printer communicable with an external device in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol. The printer includes: a data reception unit configured to receive data containing a character string to be printed, from the external device; an acquisition unit configured to acquire extraction setting information that is information relating to a method of extracting the character string contained in the data that is received by the data reception unit; an extraction unit configured to, upon receiving the data from the external device, extract the character string from the received data, based on the extraction setting information that is acquired by the acquisition unit; and a print unit configured to print the character string that is extracted by the extraction unit, on a print medium.