Method and system for creating print data

A printing system for enlarging/printing each document page by using a plurality of print sheets, including:

• a printer driver which supplies print data to a printer, said printer driver comprising:
• a pattern setting module which designates the number of parts divided in enlarging/printing each document page by using a plurality of printing sheets, and a feature of a pattern on a margin to paste up which is set on one side of at least one of the printing sheets;
• a pattern page creating module which draws a page including only the pattern and inserting the pattern page prior to document print data;
• a pattern page combining module which creates a composite page by superimposing each page of the document print data and the pattern page;
• and
• an image creating module which creates bitmap data of the composite page and supplies the data to a printing unit.

A printing system comprising:

• an application;
• a user interface driver which is activated and operated by a print event notified by the printing system which interprets a print command issued by said application;
• a print processor which can lay out print data of each page of print document data, issued by said application, in a page description language state on a page basis;
• and
• a printer graphics driver,
• wherein said application creates print document data formed from an arbitrary document,
• said printer user interface driver creates, in place of said application, a pattern page on which a pattern to be printed upon being superimposed on the print document data is drawn in accordance with a print event notified by the printing system on the basis of a driver property set in response to a request to print the print document data, said print processor superimposes enlarged print data of each page of the document and the pattern page, creates at least one page with respect to one page of the document, and supplies the composite page to said printer graphics driver, and
• said printer graphics driver creates bitmap data of the composite page and supplies the data to a printer.

A computer-readable storage medium which stores a control program for controlling a printing system for enlarging/printing each document page by using a plurality of print sheets, wherein

• said control program including
• a first program module which creates, in place of said application, a pattern page on which a pattern to be printed upon being superimposed on the print document data is drawn in accordance with a print event notified by the printing system on the basis of a driver property set in response to a request to print the print document data,
• a second program module which superimposes enlarged print data of each page of the document and the pattern page, creates at least one page with respect to one page of the document, and supplies the composite page to said printer graphics driver, and
• a third program module which creates bitmap data of the composite page and supplies the data to a printer.

A printing system for printing each page of a document upon superimposing a pattern on each page, including:

• a printer driver which supplies print data to a printer, said printer driver comprising:
• a pattern setting module which designates a feature of a pattern to be superimposed on each page of a document;
• a pattern page creating module which draws a page including only the pattern and inserts the pattern page prior to print data of the document;
• a pattern page combining module which creates a superimposition page by superimposing each page of the print data of the document and the pattern page;
• and
• an image creating module which creates bitmap data of the superimposition page and supplies the data to a printing unit.

A printing system comprising:

• an application;
• a user interface driver which is activated and operated by a print event notified by the printing system which interprets a print command issued by said application;
• a print processor which can lay out print data of each page of print document data, issued by said application, in a page description language state on a page basis;
• and
• a printer graphics driver,
• wherein said application creates print document data formed from an arbitrary document,
• said printer user interface driver creates, in place of said application, a pattern page on which a pattern to be printed upon being superimposed on the print document data is drawn in accordance with a print event notified by the printing system on the basis of a driver property set in response to a request to print the print document data,
• said print processor creates a superimposition page by superimposing each page of the print data of the document and the pattern page, and supplies the data to said printer graphics driver, and said printer graphics driver creates bitmap data of the superimposition page and supplies the data to a printer.

A computer-readable storage medium which stores a control program for controlling a printing system for printing each page of a document upon superimposing pattern on each page, wherein

• said control program including:
• first program module which creates, in place of said application, a pattern page on which a pattern to be printed upon being superimposed on the print document data is drawn in accordance with a print event notified by the printing system on the basis of a driver property set in response to a request to print the print document data,
• a second program module which creates a superimposition page by superimposing each page of print data of the document and the pattern page, and
• a third program module which creates bitmap data of the superimposition page, and supplies the data to a printer.