Patent ID: 9348294
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. A printer control device that controls an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material based on color planes for applying one or more color toners on the recording material and clear toner planes for applying clear toner on the recording material, and that fixes the one or more color toners and the clear toner on the recording material, the printer control device comprising: a storage that stores therein, in a manner associated with each other, a total amount of density values of the one or more color toners, a surface effect being a visual effect or a tactile effect using the clear toner, and a number of times of overprinting that is a number of clear-toner-fusing times with which each of surface effects is satisfied; and circuitry that determines a number of times of overprinting required for satisfying each type of the surface effects based on the total amount of density values of one or more of color toners, wherein the printer control device controls the image forming apparatus so as to perform firstly overprinting for the surface effect that has a maximum number of times among the determined numbers of times of overprinting determined by the circuitry.