| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing control apparatus which can produce an appropriate copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image by adding a monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern even if monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition that a color copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is set. <P>SOLUTION: When the monochrome printing is performed in the condition that the color copy-forgery-inhibited patter is set, and if the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern color is outputted with its color unchanged, the color is not converted into 100% black. Considering this, when a forced monochrome mode is selected, if the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting is for color, a user is notified to change a printing mode. Otherwise, the user is notified that the printing mode and the color setting of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image are conflicting. Furthermore, the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting is changed to the monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting so that the printing processing is performed in the monochrome mode using the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
