Patent ID: 8913259
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a printer driver, the printer driver causing a computer to function as: a page description language (PDL) conversion unit configured to convert drawing data received from an application into PDL data; a rasterization unit configured to convert an object into a raster object when the drawing data is converted into the PDL data, wherein the object is at least one of a text object and a vector object; and a communication control unit configured to transmit the PDL data to an image forming apparatus, wherein before-conversion information is attached as a comment to a front or a rear of the converted raster object, which indicates that a data format of the object before the conversion into a raster object is a text object or a vector object, and wherein the printer driver controls the image forming apparatus to reduce a number of gray levels of color information included in the object (i) if the transmitted PDL data is printed in color and (ii) if the before-conversion information is attached to the converted raster object.