An information processing device processes information related to a printing process performed by an inkjet device drawing an image onto a fabric and at least one of a pre-processing device performing pre-processing on the fabric before an image is drawn and a post-processing device performing post-processing on the fabric after an image is drawn, the information processing device including an acquisition unit acquiring image data and original image data, the image data being obtained by digitizing a printed fabric as an image, the original image data being original data of an image drawn on the fabric; a storage unit storing derivation data for deriving, based on the image data and the original image data, 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 image data and the original image data.

A system determines an object-design for a three-dimensional model of an object. The object-design may exhibit a design continuity. The system breaks the object-design in to spatial patterns corresponding to the discrete surfaces making up the outward surface of the object. The system then generates flattened patterns by projecting the spatial patterns into a two-dimensional plane. The system prints the flattened patterns on to designated regions of material sheets in an orientation that preserves the design continuity of the object-design. The regions may be extracted from the sheets and then joined at their edges to form a cover for object that exhibits the continuity of the object design.

A color printing system includes a printing device and other components that use color printing resources, such as calibration and ICC profiles, to complete color printing operations. These color printing resources are used for a large number of paper types stored in a paper catalog. The paper types can be further placed into paper groups within the paper catalog. The paper groups may be formed by assigning new papers into the paper catalog to those having paper types with existing calibration data and ICC profiles. These relationships are shown in a paper catalog map. The print shop can use the paper catalog map for selling paper types, providing different capabilities for paper types, and other information.

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.

In an example, an apparatus comprising an image processor is configured to perform edge detection on the image to detect a plurality of edges, automatically identify a path across the image based on the detected plurality of edges, divide the image into two adjacent sub-images based on the determined path, and generate first and second print data to cause the printing device to print the two adjacent sub-images.

A producing method for a print by a printing system including a printing device that is manually moved with respect to a medium to perform printing on the medium, the producing method including prompting a user to designate a print plan size of a print image, printing the print image in the print plan size, and notifying a size of the print image printable in one pass by the printing device to the user before the print plan size is decided.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire physical property information on physical properties of a recording medium and on physical properties of ink to be ejected onto the recording medium and setting information on a setting of a device configured to eject the ink onto the recording medium, the ink including a first ink and a second ink; derive a feature quantity relating to characteristics of the ink by estimating behavior of a first ink to be ejected onto the recording medium and of a second ink to be ejected to a position adjacent to the first ink ejected, using the physical property information and the information on a setting to derive a feature quantity relating to characteristics of the recording medium; and output the feature quantity.

A controller of an editing device executes overlapping an input area image on a medium image indicating the printing medium, displaying the medium image and the input area image in a direction in which a width direction of the printing medium and an arrangement direction of the characters coincide with each other, determining whether the characters fit in the input area, when it is determined that the characters do not fit in the input area in the determining, rotating the input area image so that the arrangement direction of the characters in the input area coincides with a longitudinal direction of the printing medium, increasing a size of the input area image in the arrangement direction so that the characters fit in the input area, and displaying the input area image increased in size and the characters arranged in the input area.

In a printing system capable of supplying a sheet of a job having undergone print processing by the printing unit of a printing apparatus to a post-processing unit capable of executing at least a specific type of post-processing among a plurality of types of post-processes, when the target job requires the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is inhibited from executing print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by a user using a user interface unit. When the target job does not require the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is permitted to execute print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by the user using the user interface unit.

A system determines an object-design for a three-dimensional model of an object. The object-design may exhibit a design continuity. The system breaks the object-design in to spatial patterns corresponding to the discrete surfaces making up the outward surface of the object. The system then generates flattened patterns by projecting the spatial patterns into a two-dimensional plane. The system prints the flattened patterns on to designated regions of material sheets in an orientation that preserves the design continuity of the object-design. The regions may be extracted from the sheets and then joined at their edges to form a cover for object that exhibits the continuity of the object design.