DATA GENERATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DATA GENERATION PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data generation device capable of eliminating rasterization and generating special toner print image data, according to circumstances, even when the output condition of special toner is changed and to provide an image forming apparatus and a data generation program.SOLUTION: A printer controller 10 includes an inter printer part 101 generating a tag bit including attribute information for each one pixel of image data used for printing from original data and a print job including printing setting and a clear toner print image data generation part 108 generating special toner print image data used for printing special toner, on the basis of the tag bit, when the print job is edited after the tag bit is generated and the output condition of the special toner in the printing setting included in the print job after being edited is added or changed compared with that in the print job before being edited and when an output range based on the output condition of the special toner can be specified by the attribute information.