PRINTING MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD, PRINTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINTING SYSTEM INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DECIDING A PRINTOUT CONDITION

摘要

A printing management device includes: a customer property DB configured to accumulate history data for each customer; a printer property DB configured to record printer property data for each of multiple printers; target image quality index decision means configured to decide a target image quality index by the use of the history data of the customer property DB; and printout condition decision means configured to decide/output output conditions with reference to the printer property DB according to order information and the target image quality index.

主权项

1. A printing management device configured to decide output conditions of a printed matter according to a customer's order information, comprising:
a customer property database configured to accumulate history data associated with classification information on at least one of usage and content type of a printed matter provided in past dealings with each customer, an image quality index showing quality of the printed matter by a numerical value, and customer's evaluation with respect to the printed matter; an image quality distribution generation unit configured to generate image quality distribution data showing distribution of image quality indices that satisfy customer's request quality, from the history data accumulated in the customer property database; and a target image quality index decision unit configured to decide a target image quality index showing target quality of a printed matter according to the customer's order information using the image quality distribution data.