A printing system includes a printing apparatus and a printing control apparatus. The printing apparatus obtains stored first attribute information of a sheet, and sends the obtained first attribute information to the printing control apparatus. The printing control apparatus includes an information storing unit and a first and second receiving unit. The information storing unit stores first and second attribute information of sheets. The first receiving unit receives first attribute information and the second sending unit reads sheet candidates corresponding to the received first attribute information and sends the sheet candidates to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus further receives the received sheet candidates, displays the received sheet candidates, selects sheet information from the displayed sheet candidates, and sets the second attribute information of a selected sheet as attribute information of a sheet to be stored.

An information processing device for generating data to be used by a recording device, which includes a plurality of discharge portions configured to discharge a liquid to form the object on the medium, includes a communication circuit configured to communicate with the recording device; an identifying unit configured to identify, based on a movement direction of the recording device in formation of the object on the medium, an initial pixel of the object formed by an initial discharge of the liquid by each of the plurality of discharge portions; a data generation unit configured to generate discharge control data for controlling a discharge operation of each of the plurality of discharge portions for the initial pixel identified by the identifying unit; and a transmission control unit configured to control the communication circuit to transmit the discharge control data to the recording device.

An inkjet printing method includes: preparing a shape drawing; creating an image for an inkjet printing based on a color table or a boundary table; applying the image for the inkjet printing to an inkjet apparatus; and performing the inkjet printing based on the image by the inkjet apparatus, where the creating the image for the inkjet printing includes converting the shape drawing into a vector image, converting the vector image into a raster image, and converting the raster image into the image for the inkjet printing which is a black-and-white image.

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data including reflection characteristics information indicating reflection characteristics of a material with respect to incident light; a calculation unit configured to calculate, from reflection characteristics indicated by the reflection characteristics information corresponding to each pixel included in an area of a predetermined size in an image indicated by the image data, a statistical amount indicating the reflection characteristics of the area with the predetermined size; and a generation unit configured to generate arrangement data representing an arrangement of a structure including a printing material on a recording medium, based on the statistical amount.

A printing system includes a printing apparatus and a printing control apparatus. The printing apparatus obtains stored first attribute information of a sheet, and sends the obtained first attribute information to the printing control apparatus. The printing control apparatus includes an information storing unit and a first and second receiving unit. The information storing unit stores first and second attribute information of sheets. The first receiving unit receives first attribute information and the second sending unit reads sheet candidates corresponding to the received first attribute information and sends the sheet candidates to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus further receives the received sheet candidates, displays the received sheet candidates, selects sheet information from the displayed sheet candidates, and sets the second attribute information of a selected sheet as attribute information of a sheet to be stored.

An image processing apparatus includes a processor having a plurality of cores, each having different specifications. The image processing apparatus further includes a first estimator that estimates a processing capability of each of the plurality of cores, a second estimator that estimates, based on the processing capability of each of the plurality of cores, a required time for each of the plurality of cores to perform a specific process, and a controller. The plurality of cores comprises one or more candidate cores. The required time for each of the one or more candidate cores is equal to or less than a threshold. The controller controls one of the one or more candidate cores to perform the specific process. The required time of the candidate core that performs the specific process is the longest among the one or more candidate cores.

A system and method for converting imaging data, for example, medical imaging data, to three-dimensional printer data Imaging data may be received describing for example a three-dimensional volume of a subject or patient. Using printer definition data describing a particular printer, 3D printer input data may be created from the imaging data describing at least part of the three-dimensional volume.

A printer control system for controlling an inkjet printer that prints an image having a predetermined thickness on a print medium includes: an image data creating/editing portion, configured for creating and editing an image data; and a printer control portion, configured for converting the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion into a printing data and sending the printing data to the inkjet printer. When a portion for allowing the image to have a thickness in the image printed on the print medium is defined as a thick portion, the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion to the printer control portion includes at least one of: a thickness information regarding a thickness of the thick portion, and a shape information regarding a shape of an end portion of the thick portion.

A method for printing a product that includes a graphic that is tessellated includes receiving or generating the graphic and a tessellation pattern for the graphic; determining a first repeated swath using at least the graphic and the tessellation pattern, wherein the product to be printed includes at least two instances of the first repeated swath, wherein the first repeated swath includes i) at least two full copies of the graphic, ii) at least two partial copies of the graphic; or iii) at least one full copy and at least one partial copy of the graphic; generating raster data of the first repeated swath; and printing the product using the raster data of the first repeated swath to print the first repeated swath at least twice.

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.