US 2004/0105114 A1 · Information processing apparatus, method of controlling printing, computer program, and printing system

Abstract

In order to reduce the total time needed to print data produced by application software, producing of data and printing of the data are performed in parallel. In the parallel processing mode, the application software outputs data part by part in the same order as the order in which the data is printed by a printer on printing paper in a printing direction, that is, in a direction from the top to the bottom of the page. A printer driver declares to an OS (Operating System) that the OS should perform processing in an unbanding mode, and banding is performed by the printer driver. In the parallel processing mode, data of an area is printed when data of a next area is being scanned, and thus the total time from the start of a copying process to the end of printing is reduced.

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Dependent claims

A print control method of, in an information processing apparatus in which application software and a printer driver are installed, controlling a printing process, comprising

an output step in which the application software outputs one page of data part by part in the same order as the order in which the data is printed on printing paper in a printing direction;
a conversion step in which the printer driver converts the input data into print data without spooling one page of the data and outputs the resultant print data to an image output device;
and
a parallel processing step of performing the output step and the conversion step in parallel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling printing, computer program, and printing system

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Information processing apparatus, method of controlling printing, computer program, and printing system

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