Computer-readable storage medium, method, and printing system

• US 10,445,039 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2018
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kiyose, Katsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bataille, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US16/128,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20190079715A1
• Time in Patent Office: 398 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1232 Transmitting printer device capabilities, e.g. upon request or periodically
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1244 Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1252 for sheet based media
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1275 Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/4045 Managing the interface to the data source, e.g. choosing an interface for data reception

Abstract

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus connected with a printer, is provided. The computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to generate image data, rasterize, in a specific print-controlling, the generated image data and transmit the rasterized image data to the printer and, output, in an administrating, the generated image data to one of the first channel and the second channel. The computer readable instructions cause the administering to select one of the first channel and the second channel, command to generate first-typed image data based on a first margin condition when the first channel is selected and second-typed image data based on a second margin condition when the second channel is selected, and output the first-typed data, when generated, to the first channel and the second-typed image data, when generated, to the second channel.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising a communication interface, through which the information processing apparatus is connected with a printer, the information processing apparatus comprising a first channel and a second channel being processing channels configured to cause the printer to print an image based on data of the image, the computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, causing the information processing apparatus to:

generate image data in a generating;

rasterize, when the generated image data is input, in a specific print-controlling, the generated image data and transmit, in the specific print-controlling, the rasterized image data to the printer; and

output, in an administering, the generated image data to one of the first channel, through which the image is printed by the specific print-controlling, and the second channel, through which the image is printed by a basic print-controlling executed by an operating system installed in the information processing apparatus,

wherein, in the administering, the computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to;

select one of the first channel and the second channel;

command to generate first-typed image data when the first channel is selected, the first-typed image data being generated based on a first margin condition, and second-typed image data when the second channel is selected, the second-typed image data being generated based on a second margin condition; and

output the generated first-typed image data to the first channel when the first-typed image data is generated and the generated second-typed image data to the second channel when the second-typed image data is generated.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the second-typed image data being generated based on the second margin condition is image data of an image exclusive of a margin, and

wherein, in the administering, the computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to output the second-typed image data along with information concerning the margin to the second channel.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the second-typed image data being generated based on the second margin condition is image data of an image including a margin.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the first-typed image data being generated based on the first margin condition is image data of an image with a designated margin amount exclusive of a physical offset amount, the physical offset amount being an amount of an area in which no image is printable.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 4,

wherein, in the generating, the computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to generate the first-typed image data with use of the physical offset amount associated with the printer connected with the information processing apparatus through the communication interface.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 5,

wherein, in the administering, the computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to identify a model of the printer connected through the communication interface with the information processing apparatus, refer to a table in which the model of the printer is associated with at least one of the first channel and the second channel as a feasible processing channel to the printer, determine one of the first channel and the second channel feasible to the printer, and select the determined one of the first channel and the second channel to be the processing channel, to which the one of the first-typed image data and the second-typed image data is output.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the information processing apparatus further comprises a user interface,

wherein the computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to accept a command entered through the user interface, and

wherein, when the information processing apparatus accepts a print command through the user interface, the computer readable instructions cause the information processing apparatus to output the generated image data to the selected one of the first channel and the second channel.

8. A method implementable on a processor coupled with an information processing apparatus in a printing system, the information processing apparatus being connected with a printer to communicate mutually through a specific communication interface, the printing system comprising processing channels configured to cause the printer to print an image based on data of the image, the processing channels including a first channel and a second channel, the method comprising:

generating image data in a generating;

rasterizing, when the generated image data is input, in a specific print-controlling, the generated image data in the information processing apparatus and transmitting, in the specific print-controlling, the rasterized image data to the printer; and

outputting the generated image data in the information processing apparatus to one of the first channel, through which the image is printed by the specific print-controlling, and the second channel, through which the image is printed by a basic print-controlling executed by an operating system installed in the information processing apparatus,

wherein the outputting the generated image data to the one of the first channel and the second channel includes;

selecting the one of the first channel and the second channel;

commanding to generate first-typed image data when the first channel is selected, the first-typed image data being generated based on a first margin condition, and second-typed image data when the second channel is selected, the second-typed image data being generated based on a second margin condition; and

outputting the first-typed image data to the first channel when the first-typed image data is generated and the second-typed image data to the second channel when the second-typed image data is generated.

9. The method according to claim 8,

wherein the second-typed image data being generated based on the second margin condition is image data of an image exclusive of a margin, and

wherein the second-typed image data to be output to the second channel is output along with information concerning the margin.

10. The method according to claim 8,

wherein the second-typed image data being generated based on the second margin condition is image data of an image including a margin.

11. The method according to claim 8,

wherein the first-typed image data being generated based on the first margin condition is image data of an image with a designated margin amount exclusive of a physical offset amount, the physical offset amount being an amount of an area in which no image is printable.

12. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the first-typed image data is generated with use of the physical offset amount associated with the printer connected with the information processing apparatus through the communication interface.

13. The method according to claim 12,

wherein the outputting the generated image data to the one of the first channel and the second channel further includes:

identifying a model of the printer connected through the communication interface with the information processing apparatus;

referring to a table in which the model of the printer is associated with at least one of the first channel and the second channel as a feasible processing channel to the printer;

determining one of the first channel and the second channel feasible to the printer; and

selecting the determined one of the first channel and the second channel to be the processing channel, to which the one of the first-typed image data and the second-typed image data is output.

14. The method according to claim 8,

wherein the information processing apparatus further comprises a user interface,

wherein a command to the information processing apparatus is acceptable through the user interface, and

wherein, when the information processing apparatus accepts a print command through the user interface, the image data is generated and output to the selected one of the first channel and the second channel.

15. A printing system comprising an information processing apparatus and a printer, the information processing apparatus and the printer being configured to communicate with each other through a specific communication interface, the printing system comprising processing channels configured to cause the printer to print an image based on data of the image, the processing channels including a first channel and a second channel,

wherein the information processing apparatus comprising:

a generating means configured to generate image data;

a specific print-controlling means associated with the printer, the specific print-controlling means being configured to rasterize the image data generated by the generating means in response to input of the image data therein and transmit the rasterized image data to the printer; and

an administering means configured to output the image data generated by the generating means from the generating means to one of the first channel, through which the image is printed with use of the specific print-controlling means, and the second channel, through which the image is printed with use of a basic print-controlling means executed by an operating system installed in the information processing apparatus, the administering means comprising;

a selecting means configured to select one of the first channel and the second channel;

a commanding means configured to command the generating means to generate one of first-typed image data when the first channel is selected by the selecting means, the first-typed image data being generated based on a first margin condition, and second-typed image data when the second channel is selected by the selecting means, the second-typed image data being generated based on a second margin condition; and

an outputting means configured to output the first-typed image data to the first channel when the first-typed image data is generated by the generating means and the second-typed image data to the second channel when the second-typed image data is generated by the generating means.