Data processing apparatus, printer network system, data processing method, and computer-readable recording medium thereof

A printer network system, comprising:

• a client computer connected through a network;
• a data processing apparatus configured to receive a print request from the client computer, to create output data, and to send the output data through the network;
• and
• a print server configured to have a remote printer indicated by a unique identification value for uniquely identifying the client computer or a user output the output data from the data processing apparatus,
• wherein the data processing apparatus includes:
• a virtual printer driver configured to receive the print request through the network, to create an intermediate file as a page image from print data corresponding to the print request, to have a remote driver corresponding to output destination printer information corresponding to the client computer or a user of the client computer create output data for a remote printer, and to cause the remote printer to output the output data;
• and
• a plurality of remote drivers each of which is configured to be called by the virtual printer driver, to create the output data including RAW data from the intermediate file, and to cause the remote printer selected through the network to print out the output data.

A computer-readable recording medium encoded with a computer program that causes a computer to execute a method of managing print outputs of one or more client computers through a network, the method comprising:

• receiving a print request through the network;
• creating an intermediate file as a page image from print data corresponding to the print request;
• selecting and calling a remote driver from a plurality of remote drivers so that the remote driver corresponds to output destination printer information selected for a remote printer corresponding to the client computer or a user by using an intermediate file;
• and
• creating output data by the remote driver being called, and having the remote printer output the output data.