Patent ID: 9417590
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. A printing control device comprising: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire gloss-control plane data that indicates a plurality of types of surface effects to be applied during post-processing of one page of a recording medium and areas to which the respective types of surface effects are to be applied in the one page of the recording medium, the types of surface effects including at least one type of surface effect that requires a post-processing device to be on during post-processing of the one page and including at least one type of surface effect that requires the post-processing device to be off during post-processing of the one page; a determining unit configured to determine whether the post-processing device is to be turned on or off during post-processing of the one page, based on priority information that selects only one between the at least one type of surface effect that requires a post-processing device to be on and the at least one type of surface effect that requires the post-processing device to be off indicated in the gloss-control plane data of the one page; and a control unit configured to perform one of