| 摘要 |
A network imaging system includes a plurality of networked peripheral devices (3, 5), such as a printer each peripheral device having a data storage means (21) for storing one or more document or image data files together with data sufficient to identify a current user for each file. The peripheral devices have a means (61) to convert document or image data files into binary image data, and image formation means (63) for creating a document or image from the binary image data. A selected peripheral device can retrieve or receive image data from one or more other peripheral devices at the request of the current user, the image data being converted into a different data format which the selected peripheral device can recognize and use for creating a document or image.
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