Patent ID: 8725053
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A print control apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a glossiness indicating a degree of glossy effect on a recording medium; a first generating unit configured to generate image data based on the glossiness acquired by the acquiring unit; and an output unit configured to output the image data, wherein: the print control apparatus is connected to an image forming apparatus that includes color toner and colorless clear toner, the image forming apparatus forming an image on the recording medium based on color plate data for making the color toner adhere and clear toner plate data for making the clear toner adhere, the first generating unit generates the clear toner plate data as the image data based on the color plate data, and the clear toner plate data defines an adhesion amount of the color toner and an adhesion amount of the clear toner that give a glossy effect with a glossiness equivalent to the glossiness of the recording medium, wherein the print control apparatus further comprises: an extracting unit configured to extract a color toner region to which the color toner is to adhere on the recording medium, from the color plate data, wherein the first generating unit generates the clear toner plate data for the color toner region based on the color plate data, and wherein the extracting unit excludes, from a result of extraction, a color toner region having a size smaller than a predetermined threshold among the extracted color toner regions.