Patent ID: 7483177
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing instruction device which generates a print job of document information as an object to be printed and sends it to a printer device, comprising: an embossed printing instruction unit that instructs embossed print setting including an object to be embossed-printed; an extraction unit that analyzes the document information to be printed and extracts the object instructed by the embossed printing instruction unit; an embossed print drawing command generation unit that generates, in accordance with the extracted object, an embossed print drawing command needed for embossed printing of the object; a print job generation unit that generates the print job by adding the embossed print drawing command to a non-embossed print drawing command needed for non-embossed printing of the document information to be printed; and a priority setting unit that determines whether priority is given to the instruction from the printing instruction device or the printer device for the embossed print setting instruction, wherein: the embossed print setting instruction by the embossed printing instruction unit is accepted when the priority setting unit determines to give priority to the instruction from the printing instruction device.