Patent ID: 7460274

Claim:
A system for outputting an image formed on a recording medium, based on image data transmitted through a network, said system comprising: an image outputting apparatus to output said image formed on said recording medium; and a controlling apparatus that receives said image data transmitted through said network to output processed-image data generated from said image data, and controls said image outputting apparatus so as to form said image on said recording medium, based on said processed-image data; wherein said controlling apparatus includes: an extracting section to extract an edge, defined as a contour of an intermediate tone object, based on depicting information represented by said image data; a correcting section to correct a density value, residing within said intermediate tone object and located in a vicinity of said edge, so as to make said density value high and to generate corrected image data; and a halftone-dot image data generating section to convert said corrected image data to halftone-dot image data, which represent a halftone-dot image constituted by halftone-dots, each of which is formed by a plurality of pixels based on said corrected image data; and wherein said controlling apparatus controls said image outputting apparatus so as to output said halftone-dot image formed on said recording medium, based on said halftone-dot image data, serving as said processed-image data.