A printing management apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an order quantity being a quantity of paper required for printing, acquire a stock quantity for each attribute of paper, the stock quantity being a quantity of paper having at least one or more attributes in common with attributes of the paper which is required for the printing and is in stock by a printer, and, when the order quantity is greater than the stock quantity and a sum of at least two stock quantities is equal to or greater than the order quantity, display the printer as a printer capable of accepting an order.

A method for selection of a print head of a three-dimensional (3D) printer includes receiving a model data element having first and second 3D shells, producing an ordered set of slice data elements corresponding to a planar slice of the 3D model, determining an overlapping region of the first and second 3D shells, attributing a property vector value (such as a colorization vector value or a printing material vector value) based on an overlap rule, and selecting a printing head based on the property vector value. A 3D printing system comprises printing heads that can be selected according to the method.

A printing system, a non-transitory recording medium, and a print control method. The printing system adds a command for instructing printing with special color material to a single color page in first print data, the first print data having been generated based on image data including the single color page in which an object is drawn in single color, transmits to the image forming apparatus, second print data that has the command added, and prints the single color page in the second print data with the special color material.

The image formation control apparatus controls an image forming device to execute image forming on an image forming medium based on input image data by using a plurality of color materials including a plurality of chromatic color materials. An image formation control apparatus comprising: a table generating unit to generate a visibility improvement color table by performing color conversion into intermediate image data, performing histogram equalization processing on a brightness gradation value representing brightness of an image represented by the intermediate image data, and adjusting the brightness gradation value representing brightness of the intermediate image data; and an image formation control unit to generate an image forming job for performing the color conversion using the generated color table to form an image on an image forming medium.

A printing management apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an order quantity being a quantity of paper required for printing, acquire a stock quantity for each attribute of paper, the stock quantity being a quantity of paper having at least one or more attributes in common with attributes of the paper which is required for the printing and is in stock by a printer, and, when the order quantity is greater than the stock quantity and a sum of at least two stock quantities is equal to or greater than the order quantity, display the printer as a printer capable of accepting an order.

A method is described in which a length of an image is compared with a threshold associated to a print device. The image is subdivided into a sequence of print frames. Each print frame has length equal to or less than the threshold. A stitching operation is performed on at least two consecutive print frames. The print device is controlled to sequentially print the at least two stitched consecutive print frames.

A method is described in which a length of an image is compared with a threshold associated to a print device. The image is subdivided into a sequence of print frames. Each print frame has length equal to or less than the threshold. A stitching operation is performed on at least two consecutive print Compare a length of an image with a threshold frames. The print device is controlled to sequentially print the at least two stitched consecutive print frames.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an application program readable by a computer of an information processing device, the application program, when executed by the computer, causes the information processing device to perform: displaying a first image object and a second image object on a display device of the information processing device; and based on receiving a print instruction via an input device of the information processing device, controlling a first printer to perform printing of a first image based on the first image object and a second printer to perform printing of a second image based on the second image object.

In a first print system controlling a first print apparatus and a second print apparatus by a client PC, the client PC generates, when obtaining a distributed printing request of a print job being printed by the first print apparatus from the second print apparatus based on a user operation performed on the second print apparatus, a first distributed printing job for causing the first print apparatus to print a first portion of an unprinted portion of a print job and a second distributed printing job for causing the second print apparatus to print a second portion of the unprinted portion.

Implemented are a control apparatus, a control method, and a storage medium that enable efficient setting of poster printing. To this end, a control apparatus of the present invention is a control apparatus that allows a printing apparatus to print multiple divided images, into which an input image is divided, on print media, including: a setting unit that sets the number of divisions of the input image based on user input; an obtaining unit that obtains a width of the print media; a determining unit that determines a print region width of each of the divided images based on at least the set number of divisions and the width of the print medium; and a display control unit that displays guide information indicating a dividing position on a preview screen of the input image based on at least the determined print region width of the divided image.