US 5,859,954 A · Printing apparatus, data registration method, and storage medium

Abstract

A printer controller receives PDL data from a host computer, which is then analyzed by a PDL analysis program in the order received, and converted to an intermediate-language data, and stored in an intermediate-language-data buffer. When an overlay-registration start command is read, generated intermediate-language data is stored in a file system until an overlay-registeration end command is read. The levels of overlapping between one stored intermediate-language element and the other elements are calculated for each element. When overlapped, the size required to develop the overlapping elements together with the corresponding image data is calculated. The calculated size of the image data is compared with the total size of the original intermediate-language data. When the image data is smaller in size, the image data is developed and registered as intermediate-language data, thus reducing the total size of the intermediate-language data.

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Dependent claims

A printing control apparatus which performs overlay-printing based on form information and input data which are input from an information processing apparatus comprising:

analysis means fora generating intermediate data by analyzing form information input from said information processing apparatus;
registration means for registering intermediate data generated buy said analysis means in intermediate data memory;
rasterization means for generating image data by rasterizing intermediate data of said form information;
control means for controlling to registering the part of form information of one page in said intermediate memory as intermediate data, and controlling to register the rest of the form information in said intermediate data memory as the image data generated by said rasterization means based on the result of analysis by said analysis means;
and
output means for outputting said registered form information into an output memory on the basis of the form specifying information in input data input from said information processing apparatus,
wherein said output means generates as image data by said rasterization means in case of registering the specified form information as intermediate data, and copies said image data in said output memory in case of registering said form information as image data.

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A printing control method of performing overlay-printing based on form information and input data which are input from an information processing apparatus comprising:

an analysis step of generating intermediate data by analyzing form information input from said information processing apparatus;
a registration step of registering intermediate data generated by said analysis step in intermediate data memory;
a rasterization step of generating image data by rasterizing intermediate data of said form information;
a control step of controlling to registering the part of form information of one page in said intermediate memory as intermediate data, and controlling to register the rest of the form information in said intermediate data memory as the image data generated by said rasterization step based on the result of analysis by said analysis step;
and
an output step of outputting said registered form information into an output memory on the basis of the form specifying information in input data input from said information processing apparatus,
wherein said output step generates as image data by said rasterization step in case of registering the specified form information as intermediate data, and copies said image data in said output memory in case of registering said form information as image data.

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A storage medium storing a computer readable program for controlling a printing control apparatus which performs overlay-printing based on form information and input data which are input from an information processing apparatus, the program comprising:

an analysis step of generating intermediate data by analyzing form information input from said information processing apparatus;
a registration step of registering intermediate data generated buy said analysis step in intermediate data memory;
a rasterization step of generating image data by rasterizing intermediate data of said form information;
a control step of controlling to registering the part of form information of one page in said intermediate memory as intermediate data, and controlling to register the rest of the form information in said intermediate data memory as the image data generated by said rasterization step based on the result of analysis by said analysis step;
and
an output step outputting said registered form information into an output memory on the basis of the form specifying information in input data input from said information processing apparatus,
wherein said output step generates as image data by said rasterization step in case of registering the specified form information as intermediate data, and copies said image data in said output memory in case of registering said form information as image data.

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Printing apparatus, data registration method, and storage medium

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Printing apparatus, data registration method, and storage medium

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