Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.

Disclosed herein is a method and a printer driver unit for printing variable copies of a plurality of pages in a document. In an embodiment, a user input comprising a number of copies of the plurality of pages to be printed is received from a user. Further, the user input is parsed to determine the plurality of pages to be printed and the number of copies that each of the plurality of pages to be printed. Thereafter, the content of each of the plurality of pages is retrieved from a temporary file or a memory associated with the printer driver unit and printed with the help of a printer device. Accordingly, the present disclosure allows users to print variable copies of plurality of pages on a single print action, and thereby enhances speed of printing and ensures optimal usage of resources.

An information processing system that manages an application executed by an image processing apparatus with an application identifier includes one or more controllers configured to provide combined information of a reproduction application that reproduces a description file for defining operation procedures and a first description file as a first combined application, provide combined information of the reproduction application and a second description file as a second combined application, manage a first description identifier corresponding to the first description file and a second description identifier corresponding to the second description file, and manage the first combined application and the second combined application in a distinguishable manner based on the first description identifier and the second description identifier.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions executable by a processor of an information processing device. The instructions support a general-purpose printing program incorporated in an operating system of the information processing device. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to obtain, from a printer, main body information about sheet characteristics for each feed tray of the printer, obtain, after print settings are changed via a print setting screen displayed using the general-purpose printing program, the changed print settings from the general-purpose printing program, generate, based on the main body information, notification data including sheet information indicating the sheet characteristics for a feed tray set in the changed print settings, and provide the notification data to the general-purpose printing program, thereby enabling the notification data to be displayed on the print setting screen.

An apparatus includes a specifying unit that specifies a color; an input unit that inputs an image; a converting unit that converts a color in the image, which has a hue within a predetermined range with respect to the specified color, into a color of a predetermined hue and converts a color in the image, which has a hue outside the predetermined range with respect to the color, into black; a printing unit that prints the image subjected to the converted color; and a counting unit that separately counts a number of sheets when the printed image includes the color of the predetermined hue and a number of sheets when the printed image does not include the color of the predetermined hue.

An image processing system and method provide for receiving a digital document page to be printed. The page includes a background region for which no color is specified. A user is presented with an option to select a print medium from a set of print media of different colors and to select an option for a color of the selected print medium be used as a color of a background layer of the digital document page. When the option is selected, a background layer is inserted into the page. A print job incorporating the processed digital document page is output to an associated printer that is configured to convert the color of the background layer to colorant values that use the print media as a colorant for rendering at least a part of the background region.

An apparatus including a first memory area and a second memory area is provided with a control method including specifying one or a plurality of types of image processing to be applied in the first memory area, specifying a size of obtainment target image data as a predetermined size based on a memory capacity of the second memory area and a content of the specified one or plurality of types of image processing; and obtaining first divided image data having the specified predetermined size in predetermined image data.

Provided is technology by which an information processing device having an OS standard printing program installed therein causes a printer to perform collate printing without applying a load to the printer. In a case where a print instruction that causes a printer to execute printing of an image is output from an editing application to a general-purpose print program installed in an OS to cause the printer to execute collate printing in a job based on the print instruction an auxiliary program causes a CPU of a PC to acquire print data of one copy rasterized based on the image having the plurality of pages, and to cause the PC to transmit the acquired print data of the one copy to the printer as a transmission destination one copy by one copy over the N copies.

To make it unnecessary to repeat the same work in a case where a destination color is set for each of a plurality of adjustment-target colors within a printing-target image. A plurality of adjustment-target colors is set at a time for a printing-target image, a patch in a color having a desired tint is selected from among each similar color patch group for each adjustment-target color, and a destination color is determined, which is a conversion destination for each adjustment-target color.

According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus, comprises a document feeder to feed a document page by page, a scanner to scan the document fed by the document feeder and generate image data of the document, a printing apparatus to print images on recording media. An interface is configured to receive print settings and a test printing command. A controller is configured to control the document feeder to feed pages of the document according to the print settings when the test printing command is received, acquire image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder, and control the printing apparatus to print images in a test printing. The images in the test printing comprising image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder.