摘要 |
A network print system having a printer and a memory server connected through a communication network is capable of recovering from a printer error securely without re-transmitting data from a computer. The printer comprises an input unit for receiving print data from the communication network, an interpretation controller for converging the received print data into a file in a printer intermediate language, an expansion controller for expanding the file in the printer intermediate language into bit map data, a memory data input/output unit for exchanging data in the printer intermediate language with the memory server through the communication network, and a error detector for detecting a printer error. Simultaneously to the print output, the printer stores data in the printer intermediate language in the memory server, and reads back the data of pages which is not delivered in the case of an error. |