Patent Document ID: 9292772
Application ID: 14631656
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus configured to create a material in a form of a stack made by a plurality of paper sheets being piled so as to be used in production of a piece of work, the piece of work being made by each of the plurality of paper sheets being cut out along cutting lines formed thereon, the image processing apparatus comprising: an image reading portion configured to optically read a document sheet and generate image data for the document sheet; an image forming portion; and a processor, configured to execute: a detecting portion operatively coupled to the image reading portion and configured to detect, based on the image data read by the image reading portion, at least one of color information and density information included in the image data; a correspondence setting portion operatively coupled to the image reading portion and configured to set correspondence between each of a plurality of section image regions which are made by an image, indicated by the image data, being sectioned based on the information detected by the detecting portion, and either one or both of a color and a density of each of a plurality of paper sheets to be used in creation of the material; a piling order determining portion operatively coupled to the image forming portion and configured to determine, based on a condition defined in advance, a piling order for a case where paper sheets having either one or both of the colors and the densities whose correspondence with the respective section image regions has been set by the correspondence setting portion are to be used in the material; and a print data generating portion operatively coupled to the image forming portion and configured to generate, for each paper sheet to be used in the material, print data that includes line images indicating cutting lines in accordance with the piling order defined based on borders of the respective section image regions and determined by the piling order determining portion, wherein the image forming portion is configured to form, on the paper sheets, the line images based on the print data generated by the print data generating portion in accordance with the piling order determined by the piling order determining portion.