Patent ID: 9354582
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. A print control apparatus that controls a printing device, wherein the printing device stores therein colorless clear toner and forms an image on a recording medium based on clear-toner plane data for attaching the colorless clear toner, the print control apparatus comprising: a generator that generates the clear-toner plane data based on first image data and second image data, the first image data containing a density value that corresponds to a type of a surface effect applied to the recording medium and specifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium, and the second image data containing another density value for specifying a transparent image other than the surface effect, wherein when the region where the density value corresponding to the type of the surface effect is specified in the first image data and another region where the another density value for specifying the transparent image is specified in the second image data overlap each other, the generator sets a value of the clear-toner plane data to either the density value corresponding to the type of the surface effect or the another density value for specifying the transparent image based on a predetermined condition.