JP2005119261A5

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Publication number: JP2005119261A5
Application number: JP2004059460A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2004-03-03
Publication date: 2006-07-20
Anticipated expiration: 2024-03-03

Claims

In a printing apparatus comprising: a capturing unit that can capture an image of a sample medium by scanning or reading data from a storage medium; and a print execution unit that executes printing based on the image data captured by the capturing unit.
Image processing means for processing the image data of the sample media captured by the capturing means in accordance with the print range of the media that is the printing destination;
A printing apparatus comprising: control means for operating the print execution means to print the image on the medium based on image data processed by the image processing means.

The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the capturing unit is a scanner device that captures an image of the sample medium by scanning.

The image data of the sample media captured by the scanner device includes a shadow portion generated by scanning processing on the outer periphery of the sample media,
3. The image processing unit according to claim 2, wherein the shadowed pixels of the image data are masked, and the masked pixels are used as data that does not color the medium during printing. The printing apparatus as described.

The sample media has a disk shape with a hole in the center,
The image processing means masks pixels of a shadow portion of the sample medium, which is a printing unnecessary portion, a central hole portion, and an outer portion of the shadow portion, and the masked pixels are applied to the medium at the time of printing. The printing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the data is not colored.

Identifying means for identifying the size of the sample media;
5. The printing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the image processing unit masks a pixel of a shadow portion corresponding to a size of the sample media in the image data based on an identification result of the identification unit. .

The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the capturing unit is a reading device that reads image data stored in the storage medium and captures the image.

The image processing means sets a region corresponding to the print range in the image data read by the reading device as a region to be printed based on a print range of the medium to be printed, and based on the setting result The printing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein image data of pixels corresponding to the print range is expanded, and pixels that protrude from the medium at the time of printing are masked as print unnecessary portions.

An operation unit operated when selecting and setting layout information of an image to be printed on the medium;
The image processing means develops image data of pixels corresponding to the print range based on the layout information set by the operation means, and masks pixels in unnecessary print portions. The printing apparatus according to claim 7.

When a plurality of images are selected as images to be printed on the medium, the image processing unit divides the print range by a plurality of layout frames and sets the images set for each of the images to be laid out in each layout frame. 9. The printing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein image data of pixels corresponding to the print range is developed based on layout information.

The layout information is a coordinate value indicating position information when the image is laid out in the print range,
The printing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the image processing unit develops image data of pixels corresponding to the print range based on the coordinate values.

The image processing means sequentially develops the image data developed for pixels corresponding to the print range in units of a predetermined data size corresponding to the capacity of a storage unit that stores the developed image data. The printing apparatus according to any one of claims 7 to 10.

It is used in a printing apparatus including a capturing unit that can capture an image of a sample medium by scanning or reading data from a storage medium, and a print execution unit that executes a printing process based on the image data captured by the capturing unit. In the printing method on media
The image processing means processes the image data of the sample media captured by the capturing means in accordance with the print range of the medium that is the printing destination, and the control means performs the printing based on the image data processed by the image processing means. A printing method on a medium, wherein an execution unit is operated to print the image on the medium.

A scanner device that scans a sample medium having a disk-shaped outer shape placed on a platen and a hole in the center;
Image processing means for processing the image data of the sample media captured by the scanner device in accordance with a print range of a print medium having the same shape as the sample media;
Print execution means for executing printing on the print medium based on the image data processed by the image processing means;
With
The image processing means masks shadowed pixels of the image data using mask information stored in advance, and data that does not color the print medium when the masked pixels are printed. A printing system characterized by:

The scanner device can read the sample media at a first resolution and a second resolution higher than the first resolution, and the scanner device reads the sample media at the first resolution pre-scan, and the press 14. The printing system according to claim 13, wherein an area including the sample medium determined based on the result of the can and a shadow portion of the sample medium is read by the main scan of the second resolution.

Each of the sample medium and the printing medium is a CD-R or a DVD-R,
When the CD-R or DVD-R printing mode using scan printing is set, the scanner device executes the pre-scan and the main scan, and copies the image data of the sample medium to the printing medium. The printing system according to claim 14.