Patent ID: 8474939
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: C09D,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing control device for controlling a printing mechanism equipped with pigment ink and a plurality of colors of dye ink to record a color image expressed by image data, the printing control device comprising: an image processing unit configured to determine an injection amount of dye ink injected for each of the colors with respect to positions of pixels that make up the color image, based on color information included in the image data, and to send the injection amount of the dye ink to the printing mechanism, the image processing unit being configured to calculate an image characteristic amount included in the color image based on the color information for each of the pixels that make up the color image, to determine an injection amount of pigment ink to be injected along with the dye ink at the pixel positions based on the image characteristic amount, and to send the injection amount of the pigment ink along with the injection amount of the dye ink of each of the colors to the printing mechanism.