An image forming apparatus includes: a processor that analyzes printable data to generate rendering data, renders the rendering data to generate image data, and acquires the number of pages of the image data, supplies the printable data to one or more external image forming apparatuses, and acquires, from each external image forming apparatuses, the number of pages of image data generated by the corresponding external image forming apparatus by analyzing the printable data to generate rendering data and rendering the generated rendering data, sorts the information processing apparatus itself and the one or more external image forming apparatuses into one or more groups of the same number of pages, and determines whether or not the information processing apparatus itself belongs to a group having the largest number of image forming apparatuses, and outputs the generated image data where the information processing apparatus itself belongs to the group.

A printing apparatus is provided with a plurality of analyzing units, and a control unit. Each of the plurality of analyzing units analyzes each of different pages of print data, and notifies an error in a case that an analysis error occurs. The control unit receives the error notification from the analyzing unit, at which the analysis error occurs, among the plurality of analyzing units. And, the control unit notifies a cancel to another analyzing unit at which the analysis error does not occur. The control unit is further configured to notify, on a condition that a printing of all pages before a page at which the analysis error occurs is completed, the cancel to the another analyzing unit.

When ink is discharged more than once to one pixel area, the ink is discharged without focusing on specific scans among a plurality of scans if the attribute in an image is a first attribute, and the ink is discharged intensively in specific scans among the plurality of scans if the attribute in the image is a second attribute.

A printing device can produce a bendable printed matter. The printing device acquires bending information including information of a bending region that is a region to be bent in a medium and information of the direction of the bending, and execute a first print mode in which printing is performed based on the bending information and a second print mode in which printing is performed differently from the first print mode. In a case of printing, in a printing region including the bending region of the medium, an image at least partially continuous in the direction of the bending, the coverage by dots of a liquid discharged to the bending region when printing the image in the first print mode is made lower than the coverage by dots of the liquid discharged to the bending region when printing the image in the second print mode.

An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet includes a reading section, a determining section, a generation section, a searching section, and a placement section. The reading section reads a predetermined shape from an original document. The determining section determines whether or not the predetermined shape contains a first image. The generation section generates a first search condition based on the first image. The searching section searches for at least one second image fulfilling the first search condition from a storage apparatus storing a plurality of images. The placement section places the second image in a first area in which the predetermined shape is located.

According to one example, there is provided a method of processing content data representing content to be printed. The method comprises obtaining content data representing content to be printed, and generating raised print data from the content data, the raised print data representing areas of the content to be formed as raised print.

A printing apparatus is provided with a plurality of analyzing units, and a control unit. Each of the plurality of analyzing units analyzes each of different pages of print data, and notifies an error in a case that an analysis error occurs. The control unit receives the error notification from the analyzing unit, at which the analysis error occurs, among the plurality of analyzing units. And, the control unit notifies a cancel to another analyzing unit at which the analysis error does not occur. The control unit is further configured to notify, on a condition that a printing of all pages before a page at which the analysis error occurs is completed, the cancel to the another analyzing unit.

A color correction device includes: a color conversion unit configured to convert an input value in an input color space into an output value in an output color space; a selection unit configured to receive a selection, as a target color component, of one or more color components among a plurality of color components used in a printing device; and a correction unit configured to execute a first correction process of correcting, when the input value is a first type input value representing a color not including the target color component, a first type output value corresponding to the first type input value in a manner of reducing the target color component. The first correction process includes non-target-color component correction of reducing a color difference between before and after correction by correcting an output value component corresponding to a non-target-color component that is a color component other than the target color component among the plurality of color components.

A printer includes a memory, a print engine, and a controller. The controller performs a first acquisition process to acquire print data specifying a character, and a second acquisition process to acquire specific information from the print data. The specific information specifies a font. The controller performs an identification process to identify a target font file, using the piece of allocation information stored in the memory, from among the plurality of font files. The piece of allocation information is for associating the specific information with the target font file. The identification process references the piece of allocation information to identify the target font file associated with the specific information acquired in the second acquisition process. The controller performs a drawing process to draw an image of the character using the target font file to generate image data to be used in printing by the print engine.

A color correction device includes a color conversion section configured to convert an input value of an input color space into an output value of an output color space, a selection section configured to receive selection of one or more color components as target color components from among a plurality of color components used in a printing device, and a correction section configured to corrects a output value. The correction section configured to, when the input value is a first type input value representing a color that does not include the target color component, execute a first correction process that corrects a first type output value corresponding to a first type input value so as to reduce the target color component. The correction section configured to, when the input value is a second type input value within a propagated correction range set around the first type input value in the input color space, a second correction process that corrects a second type output value corresponding to the second type input value in accordance with a position of the second type input value within the propagated correction range.