Patent ID: 7131775

Claim:
A printing control apparatus that generates printing image data including a manuscript data and a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image, comprising: a first setting section for setting color of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image; a second setting section that can set the printing image to output in color or monochrome; a drawing section for generating drawing of the manuscript image data and the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data based on information set by said first setting section and said second setting section; and a control section for controlling by changing color setting set by said first setting section to color setting for using only black recording material prior to generating drawing of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data by said drawing section such that said drawing section performs drawing based on the changed color setting when the color of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data is set as chromatic color by said first setting section and the printing image data is set to output in monochrome by said second setting section.