Patent ID: 8482777

Claim:
An image information processing device comprising: a receiving unit that receives image information and instruction information including printing form information and scale information for printing on the basis of the image information in order to execute printing with a printing apparatus that is capable of applying at least plural differing printing forms and applies as a basic form any printing form of the plural differing printing forms to print an image; a processing unit that executes processing that is necessary in order to print on the basis of the instruction information that is received by the receiving unit; a sending unit that sends to the printing apparatus printing information after the execution of the processing by the processing unit; an information acquiring unit that acquires printing form designation information and scale designation information that are instructed by the instruction information at the time of the processing in the processing unit; an extracting unit that extracts, on the basis of the scale designation information that is acquired by the information acquiring unit, an object whose printing form is to be changed in code image units registered on the basis of identification codes beforehand; a comparing unit that compares, with respect to the object that is extracted by the extracting unit, a dot pattern that is expanded on the basis of the printing form designation information that is acquired by the information acquiring unit and a dot pattern that is expanded on the basis of the basic form; and a determining unit that determines, on the basis of the result of comparison by the comparing unit, whether or not to maintain a designated printing form based on the printing form designation information with respect to the extracted object.