Patent ID: 7237866

Claim:
A printing control device for generating print data from image data, the print data representing an ink ejection state at each pixel of a print image, the ink ejection state including an ejection amount of colored ink containing colorant and an ejection amount of quality enhancing ink for improving image quality of the print image, the printing control device comprising: ejection characteristic designation receiving means for receiving an ejection characteristic designation that specifies ejection characteristics of the quality enhancing ink from a user, wherein the ejection characteristic designation excludes a print medium, a temperature, and a print mode; ejection characteristics modifying means for modifying the ejection amount of the quality enhancing ink on the basis of the received ejection characteristic designation; and print data generating means for generating print data representing the ink ejection state including the ejection amount of the colored ink and the modified ejection amount of the quality enhancing ink at each pixel of the print image.