Provided are a decorative member manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing a decorative member, which are capable of reducing an amount of fluid used without impairing a texture of a decorative layer. In the decorative member manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing a decorative member of the present invention, a fluid cured by receiving light is jetted from a jetting part toward a surface of a base material, the fluid which has landed on respective portions is irradiated with light from an irradiation part to form a cured convex portion constituting the decorative layer on the respective portions on the surface of the base material, and the jetting part is controlled based on control data for forming the cured convex portion having a set thickness in the respective portions. In addition, correction processing is performed by a correction part on the control data, the correction processing being a process of reducing a thickness corresponding to a spatial frequency equal to or smaller than a set value, in a correspondence relationship between the thickness and spatial frequency of the cured convex portion which is formed in a case where the jetting part is controlled based on the control data.

Provided are a decorative member manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing a decorative member, which are capable of reducing an amount of fluid used without impairing a texture of a decorative layer. In the decorative member manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing a decorative member of the present invention, a fluid cured by receiving light is jetted from a jetting part toward a surface of a base material, the fluid which has landed on respective portions is irradiated with light from an irradiation part to form a cured convex portion constituting the decorative layer on the respective portions on the surface of the base material, and the jetting part is controlled based on control data for forming the cured convex portion having a set thickness in the respective portions. In addition, correction processing is performed by a correction part on the control data, the correction processing being a process of reducing a thickness corresponding to a spatial frequency equal to or smaller than a set value, in a correspondence relationship between the thickness and spatial frequency of the cured convex portion which is formed in a case where the jetting part is controlled based on the control data.

In a method for forming braille text on a recording medium, the braille text includes a plurality of cells with one or more dots included in each cell, and at least one of the cells includes a plurality of dots. The method includes discharging a photocurable ink onto the recording medium and curing with light the discharged photocurable ink, to form a print layer on the recording medium, and discharging a photocurable ink onto the print layer and curing with light the discharged photocurable ink, to form at least one additional print layer on the print layer. Resultant braille text is formed by the print layer and the at least one additional print layer, and the resultant braille text has an intra-cell dot-to-dot spacing of about 0.38 mm or more and about 1.32 mm or less.

According to examples, multi-color printing may include generating, based on an analysis of a print job image, a plurality of contone planes that represent the print job image. Multi-color printing may further include generating, based on an analysis of two or more sets of the contone planes determined from the plurality of contone planes, two or more corresponding sets of halftone planes and a fixer plane for each set of the halftone planes. Multi-color printing may further include generating, based on an analysis of the fixer plane for each set of the halftone planes, a combined fixer plane, and generating, based on an analysis of the two or more corresponding sets of halftone planes and the combined fixer plane, print data to print the print job image.

A reflected light amount from a patch under a first light source is acquired, and a reflected light amount from the patch under a second light source whose wavelength band is different from the first light source is acquired. The type of a printing medium on which the patch is printed is determined based on the ratio of the two acquired reflected light amounts.

A reflected light amount from a patch under a first light source is acquired, and a reflected light amount from the patch under a second light source whose wavelength band is different from the first light source is acquired. The type of a printing medium on which the patch is printed is determined based on the ratio of the two acquired reflected light amounts.

An image capturing unit includes a sensor unit that image-captures a predetermined area including a subject; and a reference chart unit that is arranged in the predetermined area and captured with the subject by the sensor unit.

An image capturing unit includes a sensor unit that image-captures a predetermined area including a subject; and a reference chart unit that is arranged in the predetermined area and captured with the subject by the sensor unit.

An object of the present invention is to cause a plurality of image processing controllers to operate in parallel without idling them. The present invention is an image processing apparatus that processes data made use of for printing an image by relatively moving a printing unit including a plurality of ink ejection ports arranged in a first direction and a printing medium in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, the image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data corresponding to one page; a plurality of processing units; and a transmission unit configured to perform repetitive transmission processing that repeats transmission of image data acquired by the acquisition unit in order to each of the plurality of image processing units by taking band data as a unit.

An object of the present invention is to cause a plurality of image processing controllers to operate in parallel without idling them. The present invention is an image processing apparatus that processes data made use of for printing an image by relatively moving a printing unit including a plurality of ink ejection ports arranged in a first direction and a printing medium in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, the image processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data corresponding to one page; a plurality of processing units; and a transmission unit configured to perform repetitive transmission processing that repeats transmission of image data acquired by the acquisition unit in order to each of the plurality of image processing units by taking band data as a unit.