Patent ID: 9110426
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus connected to a print control apparatus that controls a printing device, wherein the printing device forms an image to which a surface effect that is a visual or tactile effect is applied by attaching clear toner to a recording medium, the information processing apparatus comprising: an input unit that receives specifications both of a plurality of types of surface effects to be applied to the recording medium, and regions to which the surface effects are respectively applied, with respect to input image data for one page of the recording medium; a storing unit that stores therein the types of surface effects and values respectively corresponding to the types of surface effects; a generating unit that generates, based on the types of surface effects received by the input unit, values respectively corresponding to the types of surface effects thus received by referring to the storing unit; and a sending unit that sends both of the regions to which the types of surface effects are respectively applied and the values respectively corresponding to the types of surface effects generated by the generating unit to the print control apparatus, wherein the values stored in the storing unit include a value determinative of whether a plurality of types of surface effects can be applied to one page of the recording medium, and wherein the sending unit sends both of the regions to which the types of surface effects are respectively applied and the values respectively corresponding to the types of surface effects generated by the generating unit to the print control apparatus only when the value determinative of whether a plurality of types of surface effects can be applied to one page of the recording medium corresponds to a value indicating that a plurality of types of surface effects can be applied to one page of the recording medium.