摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make fast printable a plurality of copies while suppressing the cost increase of a printer and the load on a client. SOLUTION: The client 1 is provided with a printer driver 12 for generating printer language data, the printer 2 is provided with an intermediate data generating part 21 for generating intermediate data from the printer language data, a raster data generating part 22 for generating raster data from the intermediate data and a storage device 24 for sharing and storing print data with the storage device 31 of a server 3, and the server 3 is provided with the storage device 31 for storing the print data and a virtual storage server 32 for processing the print data stored in the storage device 31 with a virtual storage processing part 24, transmits the intermediate data stored in the device 31 to the printer 2 in response to a request from the processing part 24 and generates raster data in regard to the printing of the second and succeeding copies. |