Printer Driver Size Range Adjustment via Print Quality
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional printer drivers for rolled-paper printers have limitations in setting print medium sizes due to an upper data size limit for renderable image data, leading to restricted size options and potential partial image omission when printing large formats.
Innovation Solution
A non-transitory storage medium with instructions that allow an information processing apparatus to determine and accept different size ranges based on print quality parameters, enabling the selection of larger sizes by reducing print quality when necessary, thereby expanding the range of receivable sheet sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If print quality is set to high quality, then print quality is improved, but the range of acceptable medium sizes is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the acceptable medium size range adjustable based on print quality settings. The system dynamically changes the size range constraints according to the selected quality level, allowing high quality to have stricter size limits while low quality permits larger sizes, thus adapting the system behavior to different operational requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of acceptable medium size range based on the print quality parameter. When print quality is set to high quality, a first (smaller) size range is applied; when set to low quality, a second (larger) size range is applied. This parameter change resolves the contradiction by allowing both high quality with size limits and low quality with expanded size options.
2Adaptability or versatility
If print medium size is increased, then the range of medium sizes is improved, but image data may be omitted or print quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the relationship between medium size and print quality. When a large medium size is selected, the system can automatically suggest or apply lower print quality settings to maintain data size within limits, thus preserving complete image printing while accepting size flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes print quality parameters based on medium size selections. When users select larger medium sizes, the system applies a second quality level that permits these larger dimensions while maintaining acceptable print output, thus resolving the conflict between size range and print quality.
3Reliability
If data size limit is enforced, then system reliability is improved, but flexibility in medium size setting is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the data size constraints flexible rather than fixed. The system dynamically adjusts acceptable medium size ranges based on print quality settings, allowing the same system to enforce size limits when high quality is selected while permitting larger sizes when low quality is acceptable, thus maintaining reliability while improving flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the print system universal by enabling it to handle both small and large medium sizes through different quality settings. The same printing apparatus and software can serve multiple functions: high-quality printing with size constraints and low-quality printing with expanded size capabilities, thus resolving the contradiction between data size control and size flexibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory storage medium stores a plurality of instructions readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. When executed by the computer, the plurality of instructions cause the information processing apparatus to obtain a quality parameter indicating print quality that includes at least a first quality and a second quality, determine, when the obtained quality parameter is the first quality, a first size range, determine, when the obtained quality parameter is the second quality, a second size range, accept, when the obtained quality parameter is the first quality, designation of the medium size parameter indicating a size within the first size range, and accept, when the obtained quality parameter is the second quality, designation of the medium size parameter indicating a size within the second size range and not within the first range in addition to the size within the first size range.