Methods and systems for identifying cut-out patterns from a scanned raw image file and arranging shapes within a document prior to printing cut-out patterns are described. A printing device may identify and group contents in a page of a print job as shapes to be cut out from the paper after they are printed. The printing device may then detect the grouped page contents as cut-out patterns. For each cut-out pattern, the printing device may detect the white spaces of content of the cut-out pattern and mark them as available for printing other cut-out patterns. Thus, the printing device may print multiple cut-out patterns on a same page based on using the white space within larger cut-out patterns.

In some examples, the disclosure describes a computing device that includes instructions to: position an image with a first aspect ratio within a boundary with a second aspect ratio, select a window that includes a portion of the image and a portion of the boundary, predict transitional pixels into the portion of the boundary based on proximate pixels of the image within the selected window, and generate the transitional pixels into the portion of the boundary.

An image formation apparatus includes a communication unit, a controller, an operation unit, and an image forming device. The communication unit is configured to receive, as a printing job, a printing setting and printing data. The printing setting includes a size corresponding to one of a longitudinal-feed envelope and a lateral-feed envelope, but does not designate which of the longitudinal-feed and lateral-feed envelopes undergoes printing. The raster image generator is configured to generate a raster image corresponding to the longitudinal-feed envelope and a raster image corresponding to the lateral-feed envelope in accordance with the printing data. The operation unit is configured to display a screen that receives a selection between the longitudinal-feed and lateral-feed envelopes to receive the selection made by a user. The image forming device is configured to perform printing with the raster image corresponding to the longitudinal-feed or lateral-feed envelope selected.

For a plurality of kinds of printing media, spectral information is produced from results of printing of at least five points in paper white of the printing media, black, and three primary colors of coloring and printing materials, and a learned model is generated in advance by machine learning that uses the spectral information as learning data. An identification section that identifies the kinds of the printing media by using the learned model is provided. The kinds of the printing media are identified by applying the spectral information produced from the results of printing of at least five points on a printing target medium on which printing is to be performed to the learned model, and the printing target medium is processed in accordance with the identified kind of the printing target medium. In the case of a new unlearned printing medium, transfer learning is performed to learn the printing medium, and the model is updated.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions executable by a computer is provided. The computer readable instructions cause the computer to obtain first image data composing a first image and second image data composing a second image, specify first edge pixels in the first image using the first image and second edge pixels in the second image using the second image data, determine positional relation between the first image and the second image in a first degree of accuracy, based on positional relation between the first edge pixels and the second edge pixels, determine first usable pixels among the first edge pixels and the second usable pixels among the second edge pixels, and using the first usable pixels and the second usable pixels, determine positional relation between the first image and the second image in a second degree of accuracy being higher than the first degree.

A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.

The disclosure is directed towards methods and apparatus to detect effective tiling area and fill tiles efficiently. The method improves efficiency by not filling tiles within an inner box in a shape having a large unfilled area. One example method includes detecting an inner box, determining whether the detected inner box is big enough for pre-clipping, and confirming that the outer clip path contains the inner box. When filling tiles into a bounding rectangle tiling area, it is determined if a particular tile (or tile(s)) falls into an inner box or not, and if the tile falls in the inner box, that particular tile is not filled. According to one embodiment, the inner box is an internal rectangle that contains a maximum area in which it is unnecessary to fill tiles.

A support program is executable by a computer of an information processing device and supports a printer connected to the information processing device. The support program causes the computer to execute, determination processing of receiving print data corresponding to images having a plurality of pages from a general-purpose print program of an operating system and, based on the received print data, determining an arrangement order of the images according to the number of pages for one volume in a booklet printing, and composite image output control processing of transmitting the composite print data, which is made by rasterizing the composite image in which the images corresponding to the two target pages are arranged so as to fit on one surface of each sheet based on the arrangement order determined in the determination processing, from the information processing device to the printer.

A controller of an editing device executes displaying, on a display unit, an input area image corresponding to an input area in which the characters are arranged by overlapping the input area image on a medium image showing the printing medium, changing a size of the input area image displayed in the displaying, using first method or second method, according to a first instruction for changing the size of the input area, the first method being changing the size of the input area by setting a portion of the medium image corresponding to the non-light-transmitting area as a maximum range, the second method being changing the size of the input area by setting the entire medium image as a maximum range, and switching between the first method and the second method as a first switching.

An information processing device includes an acquisition unit acquiring pre-printing image data that is obtained by digitizing, as an image, the fabric before the printing process is performed and at least one of pre-drawing image data that is obtained by digitizing, as an image, the fabric after the pre-processing is performed and before the image is drawn and post-drawing image data that is obtained by digitizing, as an image, the fabric before the post-processing is performed and after the image is drawn, a storage unit storing derivation data indicating a correspondence relationship between the pre-printing image data, the pre-drawing image data or the post-drawing image data, and a recommended parameter for at least one of the pre-processing device and the post-processing device, and a control unit deriving, based on the derivation data, the recommended parameter from the pre-printing image data, the pre-drawing image data or the post-drawing image data.