INFORMATION PROCESSOR, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WITH COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM STORED THEREON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently continue the printing processing without being affected by the contents of print control data on continuous pages by shortening the image converting processing time of the next pages by substitutively processing the conversion to printable image data by utilizing information equipment in an idle state at the present. SOLUTION: A host computer 503 investigates the print control data of each page following a page under processing at the present and when it is certified that these data are to be substitutively expanded, a printer to transfer the print control data of relevant pages is selected out of the arbitrary number of detected information equipment candidates. Then, the print control data of each page following this page are transferred to the selected printer 502 and image data expanded by the selected printer 502 to which the print control data are transferred are acquired.