IMAGE DATA PRINTING SYSTEM

摘要

PURPOSE:To shorten printing time and to halve the number of sheets of paper to be used when a large amount of image data is printed by printing two pages of image data in a sheet of paper. CONSTITUTION:An image temporary storage area 8 of a memory have a capacity holding two pages of image data to be outputted in a sheet of paper in a dual page printing system. An image data reduction means 6 reduces the read image data to the size capable of outputting two pages of image data in one sheet of paper in the dual page printing system. An image data storage means 7 stores the reduced image data in an image temporary storage area 8. A printer printing control mechanism 9 outputs the content to one sheet of paper in the dual page printing system by a printer 10 every time the two pages of image data is stored in the image temporary storage area 8.