| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing apparatus that stores data at high speeding to a memory independently of the available capacity of the memory and can transfer the stored data to an output device, and to provide an image processing method. SOLUTION: A printer driver 13 converts image data outputted from an application software program 11 and received from an operating system 12 into an intermediate code and stores the intermediate code to an image storage memory 14. In this case, until the quantity of the image data stored in the image storage memory 14 exceeds a first threshold value, the printer driver 13 converts the image data into the intermediate code in the first state where the processing load of a client device 1 is least. When the data quantity exceeds the first threshold, the succeeding image data are converted into an intermediate code in a second state with a higher compression effect than that in the first state. Furthermore, when the data quantity reaches a second threshold, all the image data so far are converted into the intermediate code in the second state. |
