A print medium quality adjustment system includes an inspection watermark
medium output device 11 having an inspection watermark signal generation
unit 101 that generates at least one inspection watermark signal,
generates a watermark signal image by disposing the inspection watermark
signal(s) in an arbitrary arrangement, and generates inspection training
data 105 having digitally recorded therein the inspection watermark
signal(s). An inspection medium output unit 103 prints the inspection
watermark image onto a medium. A watermark quality inspection device 12
has an output unit 106 that scans the printed medium, a signal detection
unit 107 that extracts embedded watermark information, and a print
quality judgment unit 108 that judges the watermark quality by comparing
the extracted watermark information with the inspection training data.
Based upon the quality judgment results, a print adjustment value 110 is
generated to be used to improve the print quality.