PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM

• Main Author: YAMAOKA MASATO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 31.08.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent print quality from deteriorating due to interruption of acquiring print data stored in a print buffer of printing equipment.SOLUTION: An SDK (Software Development Kit ) 32b to which a print control device of the present invention is applied comprises: an acquisition unit 120 for acquiring coupon print data; a division unit 160 for dividing the coupon print data into a plurality of pieces of division data; and an output unit 170 for sequentially outputting the plurality of pieces of division data to printing equipment 2. The division unit 160 divides the coupon print data in order of output by the output unit 170 so that the amount of data of the division data becomes smaller if at least one of communication means for communicating with the printing equipment 2 and the amount of data of the coupon print data satisfies a prescribed condition.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】印刷装置の印刷バッファー内に格納される印刷データの取得が途切れてしまうことによる印刷品質の低下を防止する。【解決手段】本発明の印刷制御装置を適用したＳＤＫ３２ｂは、クーポン印刷データを取得する取得部１２０と、クーポン印刷データを複数の分割データに分割する分割部１６０と、複数の分割データを印刷装置２に向けて順次出力する出力部１７０と、を備え、分割部１６０は、印刷装置２と通信する通信手段と、クーポン印刷データのデータ量と、の少なくとも一方が所定の条件を満たす場合、出力部１７０による出力順に分割データのデータ量が小さくなるようにクーポン印刷データを分割する。【選択図】図２