Duplex Printing Layout Flexibility via Local Quality
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional collective and booklet printing technologies have limited flexibility and convenience, as they require similar page layouts on all sheets and are cumbersome to convert into booklets, offering low degree of freedom in usage.
Innovation Solution
A computer-readable recording medium with a print control program that allows a printing apparatus to perform duplex printing by receiving document data and setting information for different page layouts on each side of a sheet, enabling unique layout configurations for the front and back sides, thereby enhancing the convenience of page layout in duplex printing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If conventional collective printing is used to increase printable information on one sheet, then the number of pages per sheet increases, but the page layout manner must be similar on all pages reducing flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing different page layout manners on different sides of the sheet. The front side can have one layout configuration while the back side has another, enabling each side to be optimized for its specific purpose. This resolves the contradiction by making the layout adaptable to local requirements rather than forcing uniformity across the entire sheet.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamics by making the layout manner changeable between front and back sides of the sheet. Users can dynamically select different layout configurations for each side, transforming the static, uniform layout of conventional printing into a flexible, adaptive system that responds to different content requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If booklet printing is used to enable brochure style output, then sheets can be folded and bound, but the process takes much trouble and requires cutting and binding
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring the page layouts on front and back sides to be compatible with booklet folding. The system automatically arranges pages in the correct sequence and orientation before printing, so that when the sheet is folded, the pages are already in the proper booklet format. This eliminates the need for post-printing cutting and binding operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables self-service by allowing the printing system to automatically handle the booklet creation process. The print control unit automatically configures layouts and sequences pages for booklet format without requiring user intervention for cutting and binding. The system serves itself by integrating the booklet preparation functions directly into the printing process.
3Ease of manufacture
If similar page layouts are used on all pages of sheets, then printing is simplified, but the degree of freedom in usage is low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the sheet into front and back sides, each capable of having independent layout configurations. This segmentation allows each side to be optimized for different purposes while maintaining the simplicity of a single printing operation. The layout on the front side can differ from the back side, providing flexibility without complicating the printing process itself.
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AI summary
In the invention, an information processing apparatus comprises: a document data receiving unit configured to receive document data of a plurality of pages to be printed; a setting information receiving unit configured to receive special duplex printing in which a page layout manner differs on a first side and a second side in setting information used for performing printing; and a print data generating unit configured to produce print data in which the pages are laid out on the first side in a first layout manner and on the second side in a second layout manner different from the first layout manner as the print data for causing a printing apparatus to print the document data received by the document data receiving unit, when the special duplex printing is set in the setting information received by the setting information receiving unit.