Printing Server Image Data Preview and Reverse Side Ad Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing printing systems struggle to add advertisement images to printed matter without overlapping with the primary image, and they lack the ability to preview the entire image, especially when advertisements are printed on the reverse side, making it difficult to visualize the final printed product.
Innovation Solution
A printing server and system that creates image data by accumulating print data and adding additional images, ensuring they are printed on opposite sides of the paper without overlapping, while allowing for previewing of the complete image by generating display data that separates the primary and additional images visually.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If advertisement images are added to printed matter, then the utility value is improved, but the images may overlap with the primary image causing visual confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dimensionality change by printing the primary image on the front side of the paper and the advertisement image on the reverse side, utilizing the third dimension (depth/thickness of paper) to separate the two images spatially and prevent overlap
2Reliability
If advertisement images are printed on the reverse side, then the utility value is improved, but the ability to preview the complete image is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a preview image that is a visual copy or representation showing both the front side image and the reverse side advertisement image overlaid on the same plane, allowing users to preview the complete printed matter without actually printing it
3Ease of operation
If the entire print image is previewed, then the ease of operation is improved, but the technical complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of implementing complex 3D visualization or physical sampling, the patent creates a 2D preview image that copies the essential visual information of both sides of the printed matter, simplifying the preview function while maintaining usability
Data Source
AI summary
When print data transmitted by a PC is accumulated in a printing server, the printing server creates display data for displaying on the PC an image based on the print data and an image corresponding to an advertisement image to be added to the image, and transmits the display data to the PC. When print data is created so that an image is printed on only the front side of a recording paper, image data is created so that an advertisement image is printed on the reverse side of the recording paper. The PC previews an image on the surface and an image on the reverse side based on the received display data on an LCD of a display section.