Data processing apparatus, data processing method, printer driver, print control apparatus, print control method, and printing system

A printing method executed by a printing system including a host computer with a spool unit, a determination unit, and a transmission unit, a printer controller with a storing unit, a transition unit, and a rendering unit, and a printer engine with a printing unit, the method comprising:

• obtaining a rendered object, by the spool unit, and determining a band where the obtained rendered object is rendered, updating specifying information for specifying a last object of the determined band, and spooling the rendered object;
• determining, by the determining unit, whether each of the rendered object is the last object of the band based on the specifying information when the spool by the spool unit of all of the rendered object is completed;
• transmitting, by the transmission unit, a band end command and a per-page rendering command converted from the rendered object to the printer controller when the determination unit determines the rendered object to be the last object of the band, and the per-page rendering command converted from the rendered object to the printer controller when the determination unit determines the rendered object not to be the last object of the band;
• determining, by the storing unit, when the per-page rendering command is received from the host computer, to which band the received per-page rendering command is intended, and to store intermediate data converted from the received per-page rendering command to an intermediate buffer for the band determined to be intended by the received per-page rendering command;
• transitioning, by the transition unit, when the band end command is received from the host computer, the band, to which the received band end command is intended, into a rendering-standby state;
• polling a state of the intermediate buffer, by the rendering unit, to determine whether there is the band in the rendering-standby state, and to render an image based on intermediate data of the band the band determined to be in the rendering-standby state, and
• printing, by the printing unit, the image rendered by the rendering unit.