US Patent Issued to RICOH on Oct. 21 for "Printing system, printing method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,752, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Printing system, printing method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Keiji Kunimi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic printing system includes circuitry configured to: select, in accordance with an operation to an input device, a mask pattern made up of first toner representing black by a combination of a plurality of color toners, the mask pattern being overlaid on an image area of a target image to be concealed within image data; and generate, based on the image data, print data for ...