Printing system

摘要

A printing system includes an allotment device, spooling devices, interpretation devices, and a print controller. The allotment device allots pages of print data to the interpretation devices in a distributed manner in a predetermined order without regard to a print output order corresponding to an imposition designation. The interpretation devices interpret the allotted pages to generate interpretation result data, and each cause a spooling device corresponding to that interpretation device to store the generated interpretation result data. The print controller acquires reference information indicating which spooling device stores the interpretation result data corresponding to each page and output order information indicating the print output order, acquires the interpretation result data for each page from the spooling device storing the interpretation result data for that page in the print output order, and imposes page image data based on the acquired interpretation result data in accordance with the imposition designation.

主权项

1. A printing system comprising:
a plurality of interpretation devices; a plurality of spooling devices; an allotment device that allots pages of print data written in a page description language to the plurality of interpretation devices in a distributed manner in a predetermined order without regard to a print output order of the pages corresponding to an imposition designation, the plurality of interpretation devices interpreting the pages of the print data allotted by the allotment device to generate interpretation result data, and each causing a spooling device of the plurality of spooling devices corresponding to that interpretation device to store the generated interpretation result data; and a print controller that acquires reference information indicating which of the plurality of spooling devices stores the interpretation result data corresponding to each of the pages of the print data and output order information indicating the print output order of the pages corresponding to the imposition designation, that acquires the interpretation result data for each page from the spooling device storing the interpretation result data for that page designated by the reference information in the print output order indicated by the output order information, and that imposes page image data based on the acquired interpretation result data for the pages in accordance with the imposition designation to supply the resulting data to a printer to be printed.