Printing control method and apparatus
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Abstract
When an original image is to be printed as a poster composed of an array of 4×4 output images, an image is generated by enlarging the original image fourfold in the vertical and horizontal directions and dividing the enlarged image into 16 parts. These 16 partial images are output successively starting from the upper left or lower right of the 4×4 array, depending upon the designation. If there is a blank page, the blank page is output as is even if the printer possesses a blank-paper economizing function. Thus, when a poster printing function is used, the user designates the manner in which the enlarged image is divided up and the order in which the divided images are printed. Even if the printer is equipped with the blank-paper economizing function, normal printed results can be obtained merely by joining the output sheets together in the order that conforms to the manner in which the enlarged image was divided.
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55 Claims
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20. A printing control apparatus, operating as a host computer, for generating print data including printer control commands to be printed by a printer, comprising:
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an input unit for inputting an enlargement-division method indicating how to enlarge and divide an image, which is set through an interface screen image provided by a printer driver;
a page division unit for acquiring an enlargement ratio for enlarging an image represented by original data to be printed on a page output by an application in accordance with the inputted enlargement-division method and dividing the original data to be printed on a page into data to be printed in plural pages; and
a print data generation unit for generating print data so that the print data is transmitted to the printer and printed by the printer in a predetermined order in accordance with the data processed by said page division unit. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A printing control method performed in a host computer, for generating print data including printer control commands to be printed by a printer, comprising:
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an input step of inputting an enlargement-division method indicating how to enlarge and divide an image, which is set through an interface screen image provided by a printer driver;
a page division step of acquiring an enlargement ratio for enlarging an image represented by an original data to be printed on a page output by an application in accordance with the inputted enlargement-division method and dividing the original data to be printed on a page into data to be printed in plural pages; and
a print data generation step of generating print data so that the print data is transmitted to the printer and printed by the printer in a predetermined order in accordance with the data processed in said page division step. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A computer program by which a computer is made to implement the following means to generate print data including printer control command to be printed by a printer, comprising:
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input means for inputting an enlargement-division method indicating how to enlarge and divide an image, which is set through an interface screen image provided by a printer driver;
page division means for acquiring an enlargement ratio for enlarging an image represented by an original data to be printed on a page output by an application in accordance with the inputted enlargement-division method and dividing the original data to be printed on a page into data to be printed in plural pages; and
print data generation means for generating print data so that the print data is transmitted to the printer and printed by the printer in a predetermined order in accordance with the data processed by said page division means. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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