Patent ID: 7865022

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for sending print data to either a printing apparatus having sufficient memory to print printing the print data even if the print data includes color copy forgery inhibited pattern image data, or to a printing apparatus having sufficient memory to print the print data if the print data includes monochrome copy forgery inhibited pattern image data, but not having sufficient memory to print the print data if the print data includes color copy forgery inhibited pattern image data, the information processing apparatus comprising: a processor programmed to control: a print data generating unit for generating print data including copy-forgergy-inhibited-pattern image data; an additional information generating unit for generating additional information including color information indicating whether the included copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data is color or monochrome, and including region information indicating whether the copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data is a full scale image or a partial image; and a sending unit for sending the generated print data with the generated additional information, wherein the copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data comprises a latent image and a background image, the latent image being an image that is reproduced more clearly via copying than the background image, and wherein the additional information generating unit generates the additional information including the color information indicating the included copy-forgery-inhibited -pattern image data is color when the copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data includes both color copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data and monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data.