Patent ID: 11915068
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A pretreatment information generation method of a pretreatment information generation device included in a system having the pretreatment information generation device, a pretreatment device and a printer, the pretreatment device being configured to perform pretreatment on a recording medium, the printer being configured to print an image on the recording medium, and the pretreatment information generation device being configured to generate pretreatment information to be used in pretreatment by the pretreatment device, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, by a controller of the pretreatment information generation device, image data to be printed on the recording medium by the printer, the image data representing the image; and
identifying the pretreatment information to perform the pretreatment with respect to the image data received by the controller, the pretreatment information including a pretreatment range over which to perform the pretreatment by the pretreatment device, the pretreatment range including at least one unit range determined by a configuration of the pretreatment device, size of the unit range being larger than a minimum image forming range to be printed by the printer, a shape of the unit range not changing depending on a shape of the image represented by the image data, an entire range of the unit range being applied with a pretreatment agent by the pretreatment device when the image is to be printed by the printer on at least a part of the unit range, and any other unit range without at least a part of the image to be printed is not applied with the pretreatment agent by the pretreatment device.