Patent ID: 9501023
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store therein a surface effect selection table in which density values indicating surface effects as visual or tactile effects on a recording medium, types of the surface effects, and types of linkage effects as other surface effects related to the types of the surface effects are associated with one another; a determination unit configured to determine whether the type information indicates the normal printing or the test printing; a reading unit configured to read the types of the surface effects and the types of the linkage effects that correspond to the density values specified in the first gloss control plane data from the surface effect selection table when the type information has been determined to indicate the test printing; a first generating unit configured to generate second gloss control plane data that specifies a second generating unit configured to generate special color colorant plane data that is used by an execution unit configured to apply a special color colorant onto the recording medium from the first gloss control plane data and the second gloss control plane data.