Industrial printing system, print server, and variable printing method for distributed processing of variable content in variable printing of production printing by peer-to-peer

A print server for an industrial printing system that performs variable printing for production printing, comprising:

• a variable attribute generating unit configured to generate variable attribute information having content information that is variable content information of variable data for variable printing, wherein the variable data comprises variable content;
• a variable analyzing unit configured to analyze the content information of the variable attribute information generated by the variable attribute generating unit and determine other print server capable of processing the variable content;
• and
• a processing management unit configured to request the other print server determined to be capable of processing by the variable analyzing unit to process the variable content;
• wherein:
• the processing management unit transmits the content information to the other print server to request processing, acquires rasterized data generated by the other print server based on the content information, imports the rasterized data into the variable data, and perform a rasterizing process.

A variable printing method performed by an industrial printing system having a plurality of print servers performing variable printing for production printing, comprising the steps of:

• generating variable attribute information having content information that is variable content information of variable data comprising variable content, wherein the variable data is for variable printing;
• analyzing the content information of the generated variable attribute information;
• determining other print server capable of processing the variable content;
• and
• requesting the other print server determined to be capable of processing to process the variable content;
• wherein the method further comprises the steps of:
• transmitting the content information to the other print server to request processing;
• acquiring rasterized data generated by the other print server based on the content information;
• importing the rasterized data into variable data;
• and
• performing a rasterizing process.