A print control apparatus includes: a job reception unit that receives a print job in which a plurality of different print conditions are capable of being set; a setting reception unit that receives setting of a single print condition among the plurality of print conditions; a print execution unit that prints an image based on the print job as a result of executing the print job in accordance with a single print condition. The print execution unit, when the print condition set in the setting reception unit is changed during execution of the print job, prints an image based on the print job executed under the print condition subsequent to the change immediately after an image based on the print job executed under the print condition prior to the change.

Based on characteristics of the font type, the results of printing by a previous printer and the results of printing by a replacement printer are made the same or nearly the same. The control unit 15 of the printer 10 receives control data including font type information specifying a font type, and character identification information specifying a character or string. When the font type specified by the font type information is a specific type of font, the control unit 15 adjusts the size of the font data of the character specified by the character identification information based on an adjustment value read from adjustment information data KY stored by a storage unit 16, and controls a print unit 17 to print the character based on the adjusted font data.

An image processing apparatus scans an image of a document into image data, splits the image data into a plurality of areas to generate split image data, magnifies the split image data, and aggregates the magnified split image data at least based on a font size of one or more characters included in the split image data.

A printer driver enables appropriately executing real-time commands without causing operating errors even when print data is compressed for transmission to a printer. A driver causing a host computer that connects to a printer to execute a process, including causing the host computer to generate first commands executed by the printer in the order received, and second commands executed with priority over the first commands; generate print data including the first commands and send the print data to the printer; and execute a compression process converting data of the first commands contained in the print data to compressed data not containing a data train identical to a second command when generating the print data.

An image formation apparatus includes: an image formation unit that forms an image based on a job; and a control unit that controls the image formation unit, the control unit having an image quality verification/adjustment function to compare an image quality of the scanned image and a predetermined image quality standard, and to carry out an image quality adjustment such that the image quality of the image is within an allowable range of the predetermined image quality standard when the image quality of the scanned image is not within the allowable range, the control unit comparing a required image quality for the job and the predetermined image quality standard before a carrying-out procedure to carry out the image quality verification/adjustment function before execution of the job as necessary, and deciding whether the image for the job satisfies the required image quality by the image quality verification/adjustment function.

The compensation method includes an importing step, an analyzing step, an identifying step, a comparing step, and a compensating step. The importing step includes obtaining a template pattern and an initial pad printed image. The analyzing step includes analyzing the initial pad printed image to generate a plurality of sample feature points. The identifying step includes identifying the coordinates of each of the sample feature points to generate corresponding sample feature point coordinates. The comparing step includes comparing the sample feature point coordinates to template sample feature point coordinates to generate a coordinate change result. The compensating step includes generating a compensation pattern based on the coordinate change result and the template pattern.

Examples include a method for mitigating decap in a printing system that comprises nozzles, in which printing data associated to a graphical representation and that comprise pixel data points are received. Some data points are associated with a corresponding nozzle and a corresponding direction of movement and at least one specific data point is associated with a specific direction of movement and a specific nozzle which has a decap time below a first predetermined threshold. The received printing data is modified by displacing the printing data of the specific data point in a direction opposite to the specific direction of movement in order to compensate for the decap time.

An information processing device includes a storage and a processor. The storage stores an information processing program supporting a printer. The processor executing the program receives specified print data from a standard printing software integrated in an operating system. The standard printing software performs a modification process modifying the original print data to size-reduced print data representing a size-reduced image when a size of an original image represented by original print data exceeds a designated sheet size of a printing sheet for printing. The specified print data is the original print data or the size-reduced print data. In response to reception of the specified print data, the processor executing the program transmits, to the standard printing software, a request for the original print data, receive the original print data from the standard printing software, and transmit, to the printer, finalized print data based on the original print data received.

An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure stores image data of an image having a plurality of regions, the plurality of regions having stepwise different densities, including a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first region and the second region, and satisfying a relationship of a moisture amount in the first region<a moisture amount in the third region<a moisture amount in the second region, and forms the stored image data on a print medium.