Printing control apparatus and printing control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9025987-B2
Application number	US-201213442824-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 9, 2012
Priority date	Apr 19, 2011
Publication date	May 5, 2015
Grant date	May 5, 2015

Abstract

A printing control apparatus determines whether a limit to prohibit printing using a spot color printing material is imposed on, out of a plurality of objects included in document data, an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material. Upon determining that the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot color printing material is imposed on the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material, control is performed to prohibit issuance of a rendering command to print the object using the spot color printing material.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing control apparatus comprising:
a determination unit that determines whether a limit to prohibit printing using a spot color printing material is imposed on, out of a plurality of objects included in document data, an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material; and
a control unit that controls to prohibit issuance of a rendering command to print the object using the spot color printing material when said determination unit has determined that the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot color printing material is imposed on the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material,
wherein said determination unit
determines whether the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material is an object including secure information, or
determines whether a color mode of print settings when printing the document data matches a color mode of the document data,
wherein a marker is set in a page including an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material and determined by said determination unit as an object on which the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot printing material is imposed.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said determination unit determines an accounting method when printing the document data, and when it is determined that in the accounting method, accounting occurs if a print surface includes at least one object to be printed using the spot color printing material, and at least one of the objects included in the print surface is determined by said determination unit to be an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material, on which the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot color printing material is not imposed, the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot color printing material is not imposed on other objects set to be printed using the spot color printing material, either.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said determination unit determines for each object type whether the color mode of the print settings when printing the document data matches the color mode of the document data.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said determination unit performs the determination divisionally for a region in which the printing using the spot color printing material is set on a whole surface of the document data and a region in which the printing using the spot color printing material is set at part of the document data.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said determination unit determines for each page whether to perform the printing using the spot color printing material.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said determination unit determines for each print surface whether to perform the printing using the spot color printing material.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein to set a condition to be used for the determination by said determination unit, a candidate of the condition is displayed on a screen.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said determination unit determines whether extension printing for extending a printing range of an object to be printed using the spot color printing material is designated, and upon determining that the extension printing is designated, said control unit issues a rendering command to perform the printing using the spot color printing material in a region including the extended range.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when said determination unit has determined that the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot color printing material is not imposed on the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material, a flag is generated for the object, and
based on the flag, said control unit issues a command to print the object using the spot color printing material.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the spot color printing material is a transparent printing material.

11. A printing control method comprising:
determining whether a limit to prohibit printing using a spot color printing material is imposed on, out of a plurality of objects included in document data, an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material; and
controlling to prohibit issuance of a rendering command to print the object using the spot color printing material when it is determined in the determining that the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot color printing material is imposed on the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material,
wherein in the determining step,
it is determined whether the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material is an object including secure information, or
it is determined whether a color mode of print settings when printing the document data matches a color mode of the document data,
wherein a marker is set in a page including an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material and determined in the determining step as an object on which the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot printing material is imposed.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium recording a program that causes a computer to execute a printing control method of claim 11 .

Assignees

• Shindo Yukihiro
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Shindo Yukihiro

Classifications

• G06F3/1239

  Restricting the usage of resources, e.g. usage or user levels, credit limit, consumables, special fonts · CPC title

• G06F3/1208 Primary

  resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview · CPC title

• G06F3/1285

  Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server · CPC title

• G06K15/1809

  relating to the printing process · CPC title

• G06K15/129

  Colour printing · CPC title