PRINTER SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD BY COMPUTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently reuse a print document and to provide versatility to a print result and a security level.

SOLUTION: The printer server generates print data in a format dependent on a printer connected to a network from application data to be printed out by an application. The printer server includes a work processing part 124 which performs work processing to intermediate data independent of the printer generated from the application data based on an additive attribute indicating an attribute relating to the generation and security added to the intermediate data at the time of generating the intermediate data and a print data conversion part 123 which converts the processed intermediate data into print data in a format dependent on the printer.

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