An image processing device generates secondary data by acquiring a plurality of pieces of band data from a processor and performing image processing to the band data, and generates an interrupt to the processor each time of generating a piece of secondary data. The processor includes a division line number setting portion and a band dividing portion. The division line number setting portion sets, for each of the page images, a division line number representing a number of line images based on contents of one or more predetermined reference parameters related to load of the processor. The band dividing portion divides data of each of the page images into the plurality of pieces of band data each of which is composed of data of as many line images as the division line number.

A printing device includes a printing unit, a buffer, and a control unit. The control unit reads out data from the buffer as target data. When the read-out target data is a character code, the control unit determines whether the target data is a character code associated with a plurality of character forms or not. When the target data is the character code associated with the plurality of character forms, the control unit prefetches data stored in the buffer after the target data, as prefetched data, before printing the target data, and determines whether the prefetched data is a predetermined code or not. When the prefetched data is the predetermined code, the control unit selects a character form indicated by the predetermined code as a target character form and causes the printing unit to print a character represented by the target data, in the selected target character form.

Two dimensional layer data representing successive layers of objects to be 3D-printed is reduced in size to reduce storage requirements and transmission bottlenecks that increase costs and reduce the efficiency of 3D printers, by encoding the layer data in accordance with systems and methods that take into account 2D and 3D regularities inherent in such layer data, and allow for efficient and lossless reconstruction of the original 3D layer data when it is needed by the 3D printer.

To make it possible to appropriately reproduce a desired color in a case where it is desired to change hue of a specific area on a reproduced image obtained by projecting a projection image onto printed matter in an overlapping manner. In an image processing apparatus, a print image for outputting printed matter by a printer onto which a moving image in which color of an object changes in a time series is projected in an overlapping manner is generated. The image processing apparatus acquires an image at least including the object whose color changes. Then, the image processing apparatus generates the print image by performing saturation reduction processing for an area of the object whose color changes in the acquired image.

In a case where a size of a path object contained in drawing data is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, a drawing instruction to draw a line of a predetermined line width along an outline of the path object is added to the drawing data.

An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image formers each capable of forming, on a sheet, an overlap image and a non-overlap image, a fixer that fixes, on the sheet, a whole image composed of the overlap images and the non-overlap images, and a hardware processor that controls each of the plurality of image formers such that a difference in image at a boundary between the overlap image and the non-overlap image is reduced in the whole image.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating, based on a portrait image, a foreground image mask to indicate foreground pixels of the portrait image; identifying a percentage of white or near white pixels in the foreground by using the foreground image mask and pixel colors in the portrait image; determining whether the percentage of white or near white pixels in the foreground is larger than a predefined threshold; in response to determining, triggering identification of edge pixels in a background of the portrait image; adjusting white background pixels to add shadows by darkening the white background pixels; and adjusting the white or near white pixels in the foreground by darkening the white or near white pixels.

An information processing device includes a table data acquirer that acquires table data; a print data generator that generates print data including an unconverted image in which information stored in the table data is not converted into other information when a user selects a text option and that generates the print data including a first code image obtained by converting the information stored in the table data into a one-dimensional code image when the user selects a one-dimensional code option; and a display controller that displays, on a touch panel, a fourth operation screen including an option region in which a plurality of options including the text option and the one-dimensional code option are displayed and a second table data region in which the table data is displayed.

An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result of a state of a user, who has given a transmission job execution instruction, determined based on biological information of the user; and a job control unit configured to control an execution of the transmission job according to the user state determination result, wherein when it is determined that the user is in an off-normal state, the job control unit executes a confirmation request process to request the user to make a confirmation related to the transmission job.

A printing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a conveying device which conveys a record medium in a conveyance direction; a cutter which cuts out the record medium; a printing unit which prints an image on the record medium; a mark detector which detects a reference mark indicating a page start position of the record medium; a receiver which receives record medium type information; and a controller which, based on a content of the record medium type information, switches a cut position to be cut with the cutter between a first position being a position upstream in the conveyance direction by a predetermined one-page length from the page start position and a second position being a position shifted in the conveyance direction by a prescribed length from the first position.