Methods and systems for dynamically determining interchange fees. In an embodiment, an acquirer computer transmits a payment card account authorization request to a payment processing network, and receives an authorization response authorizing the transaction and comprising a spending history indication reflecting a compilation of spending history data of a group of payment card accounts that qualify for dynamic interchange rate setting. The acquirer computer then stores the spending history indication, transmits the authorization response to a merchant processing system computer, receives a clearing file from the merchant processing system computer, determines that an interchange rate depends on the spending history indication, selects an interchange rate from an interchange rate selection database based on the spending history indication, calculates an interchange fee based on the interchange rate, and transmits the clearing file and the interchange fee to the payment network for clearing of the transaction.

In response to a print instruction instructing a printer to print an image being made with respect to a general-use printing program implemented in an operating system of the information processing device, the information processing device uses a supporting program to obtain an image size of print data subject to printing based on the number of vertical dots, the number of horizontal dots, and print resolution of the print data. Further, the information processing device obtains second size information indicating a sheet size included in a print setting and determines, by comparing the image size the sheet size, whether the sheet size conforms to the image size. When determining that the sheet size does not conform to the image size, the information processing device performs a warning process of displaying a warning message using a user interface.

Methods and systems for printing clear tagged objects on clear plane are described herein. In an example, the system draws a bounding box for each block of text/graphic objects. Within each bounding box, an occupancy percentage of foreground pixels (tagged as clear objects) is computed against background pixels. If the computed occupancy percentage falls below a defined threshold value, then that text/graphic object is considered for application of dilation. Thus, the device described herein doesn't check the size of the text/graphic objects; rather checks for the occupancy percentage of the text/graphic objects within a bounding box. While constructing the clear plane to support flood clear, the clear values corresponding to the dilated pixels (pixels considered for dilation) will be intelligently modified. In this way, only intended and logically desired text/graphic objects undergo for dilation.

A print apparatus is provided that executes a print using print data that is stored in the apparatus, and in addition to executing post-processing on output materials after the printing, deletes the corresponding print data when processing of the print job ends. Here, the print apparatus according to the embodiment deletes the corresponding print data only in a case when the post-processing to all the sheets or the like set in one print job successfully ends.

An image forming apparatus capable of performing color erasing print processing using a color erasable recording material, the image forming apparatus includes a receiving interface (IF) configured to receive a print job, and a notification IF configured to notify of information. The image forming apparatus causes, in a case where the receiving IF has received a print job for the color erasing print processing, and a printing content of print data contained in the print job for the color erasing print processing does not satisfy a condition, the notification IF to notify of a warning for the color erasing print processing.

Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus, including: an image forming part to form an image made of plural pixels by using plural printing colors and a special color different from the plural printing colors; an input part of image data of the image; an image processing part to output component data of the plural printing colors from the image data for each of the pixels; a user interface to specify a condition for converting the component data of the plural printing colors into component data of a multi color in which the special color is added to the plural printing colors; and a conversion part to convert the component data of the plural printing colors from the image processing part into the component data of the multi color to the image forming part based on the condition of the user interface.

An electronic image in a first color space, used by image acquisition devices, is obtained and converted into a second color space with a larger gamut, to produce a second color space image. Corrections are made to the second color space image to produce a corrected image, without performing background suppression. The corrected image is converted into a third color space, used by printing devices, to produce a third color space image, and this process of converting the corrected image into the third color space includes performing background suppression. This process of converting the corrected image into the third color space samples nodes of the second color space values, classifies the nodes as background nodes or non-background nodes, multiplies the second color space values of the background nodes by a percentage less than 100%, and after multiplying, interpolates values between the nodes.

An image forming system includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet. The image forming unit forms a first image inside a trimming region of a sheet, and forms a second image and an adjustment pattern outside the trimming region of the sheet, the adjustment pattern being for adjusting an image forming condition. Execution of instructions causes one or more processors to adjust the image forming condition at a time of image formation by the image forming unit, and, in a case where a formation region of the second image and at least a part of a formation region of the adjustment pattern overlap, control a display to display information indicating that the formation region of the second image and the formation region of the adjustment pattern overlap.

A display control apparatus includes a display control unit that controls display of a display unit. A communication unit starts wireless communication with a printing apparatus according to a decrease in distance between the display control apparatus and the printing apparatus. A display switching unit performs a predetermined display related to printing in a case where the communication unit starts communication with the printing apparatus while a content to be printed is displayed on the display unit. The display control unit is configured to not perform the predetermined display in a case where the communication unit starts communication with the printing apparatus while a content not to be printed is displayed on the display unit.

An electronic image in a first color space, used by image acquisition devices, is obtained and converted into a second color space with a larger gamut, to produce a second color space image. Corrections are made to the second color space image to produce a corrected image, without performing background suppression. The corrected image is converted into a third color space, used by printing devices, to produce a third color space image, and this process of converting the corrected image into the third color space includes performing background suppression. This process of converting the corrected image into the third color space samples nodes of the second color space values, classifies the nodes as background nodes or non-background nodes, multiplies the second color space values of the background nodes by a percentage less than 100%, and after multiplying, interpolates values between the nodes.