Image Processing Apparatus Print Area Zoning for Cropping Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing methods fail to consider the completed form of exhibits when printing information on print media, leading to issues like cropped appearance of print object information, especially in gallery wrap displays.
Innovation Solution
A control method for image processing apparatuses that zones print data into areas based on folding or cutting lines, allowing for precise placement and orientation of print information to ensure appropriate printing on print media, including different facing directions for outer peripheral areas to prevent cropping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If print object information is placed in outer peripheral areas of print data, then the information can be printed on the print medium, but the information may appear cropped when the print medium is folded or cut off
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the print data into multiple areas (center area and outer peripheral areas) based on folding lines and cutoff lines. This segmentation allows different positioning strategies to be applied to different regions, ensuring that print information in outer peripheral areas is positioned to avoid cropping while maintaining overall printing accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different positioning rules to different areas of the print medium. Specifically, print information in outer peripheral areas is positioned with consideration for the local geometry (folding lines, cutoff lines) rather than applying a uniform positioning rule across the entire print area. This local quality approach prevents cropping while maintaining printing precision.
2Ease of manufacture
If print information is positioned without considering folding lines, then the printing process is simpler, but the print information appears cropped in the completed exhibit
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary positioning of print information based on the print data layout before the actual printing process. By pre-determining the optimal position of print information in outer peripheral areas relative to folding lines and cutoff lines, the system ensures accurate positioning without adding complexity to the printing process itself.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of controlling an image processing apparatus includes displaying a plurality of areas including a center area having image data to be printed, and outer peripheral areas located in a perimeter of the center. These areas are zoned based on folding lines and/or cutoff lines. Print information is displayed in one of the plurality of outer peripheral areas. Another display step displays, when the predetermined operation is received, the print information on a target area among the plurality of the outer peripheral areas such that the print information, displayed on the target area, is facing a predetermined direction based on the target area. A processing step executes a process of printing the plurality of areas displayed on the display unit and the print information facing the predetermined direction, on the print medium to be processed by folding and/or cutting off the predetermined direction.