Printing control apparatus, printing system, recording medium having recorded thereon printing control program, and printing control method

摘要

A first RIP processing unit reads cache data from a first cache unit. The first RIP processing unit transmits first RIP-processed variable part data to a printer. Since an identifier read by the first RIP processing unit is not a transmitted identifier, the first RIP processing unit transmits RIP-processed reuse part data to the printer. A second RIP processing unit reads cache data from a second cache unit. The second RIP processing unit transmits second RIP-processed variable part data to the printer. Since an identifier read by the second RIP processing unit is a transmitted identifier, the second RIP processing unit does not transmit the RIP-processed reuse part data to the printer.

主权项

1. A printing control apparatus for obtaining output data in a print output form from manuscript data expressed in a page description language and made up of a plurality of pages, and transmitting the output data to an external printer, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of output processing units for converting the manuscript data assigned to the output data and transmitting the output data to the printer; and a first storage unit for storing at least a reuse part obtained by converting reuse part data indicative of a part reused in the manuscript data and an identifier corresponding to the reuse part, in the output data, wherein the output processing units read a reuse part to be transmitted to the printer and an identifier corresponding to the reuse part from the first storage unit, and are configured to mutually refer to identifiers read from the first storage unit, and wherein each output processing unit determines whether or not the identifier read from the first storage unit is an identifier corresponding to a reuse part already transmitted to the printer, and omits transmission of a reuse part corresponding to the same identifier as that corresponding to the reuse part already transmitted to the printer.