Patent ID: 7999967
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: B41J,G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A print control apparatus comprising a display processing unit and a printing process unit so as to execute a printing process, wherein the display processing unit includes: a unit arranging a plurality of images in a predetermined layout and acquiring an arrangement printing instruction for executing printing; a unit outputting the arrangement printing instruction, which is a printing output instruction, to the printing process unit using at least one specified image and layout information of the image; a unit outputting an arrangement image generation instruction for generating the arrangement image data to the printing process unit using at least one specified image and layout information which is information about the arrangement of the image; a unit which, when arrangement image data of a predetermined format is acquired from the printing process unit as a response of the arrangement image generation instruction, generates display image data from the acquired arrangement image data and outputs the generated display image data to a display unit; and a display image processing unit, and wherein the printing process unit includes: a unit generating printing image data of the arrangement image data using at least one image specified by the arrangement printing instruction and the layout information when the arrangement printing instruction is acquired, and outputting the generated printing image data to a printing mechanism for forming an image on a printing medium using a coloring agent; and a unit generating the arrangement image data using at least one image specified by the arrangement image generation instruction and the layout information when the arrangement image generation instruction is acquired, and outputting the generated arrangement image data to the display image processing unit.