Image processing method and image processing apparatus

摘要

An image processing method includes printing out a layout mark-sensing sheet indicating a plurality of different sample image layout options that graphically indicate different layouts of an image to be printed on a recording medium that has a specific shape. The layout mark-sensing sheet allows a user to mark the layout mark-sensing sheet to designate a specific image layout option from among the plurality of different sample image layout options. The layout mark-sensing sheet marked by the user is read and the image is printed on the recording medium based on the specific image layout option marked by the user on the layout mark-sensing sheet.

主权项

1. An image processing method comprising:
deciding, in an image to be printed on a printing area of a predetermined shape which has been determined as a shape of a print target, a plurality of printing areas of the predetermined shape in a plurality of patterns using the predetermined shape of a predetermined print medium commonly for the plurality of patterns; generating a plurality of sample images for indicating the plurality of decided printing areas corresponding to the plurality of patterns for which the predetermined shape of the predetermined print medium is used commonly; causing a printing apparatus to print a designation sheet including the generated sample images, the designation sheet allowing a user to designate a sample image from the plurality of sample images; determining a sample image designated by a user in the designation sheet, based on a read image obtained by reading, by a reading apparatus, of the designation sheet; and causing a printing apparatus to print the printing area, corresponding to the determined sample image, in the image on a print medium of the predetermined shape.