Print server, printing system, printing method, printing...

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2007-10-30

2007-10-30

Williams, Kimberly A. (Department: 2625)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

Communication

C358S001140, C358S001130, C710S008000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10310953

ABSTRACT:
In cluster printing, the pages of a print job are divided and output to a plurality of image forming apparatuses. When this is done, a table that records the image size (data size) for each page included in the print job and the speed of data transmission to an image forming apparatus for that page is created. A determination is made whether there are pages with a data transmission speed lower than a threshold value (i.e., whether unprintable pages exist), and if there are, the job is re-divided such that the number of image forming apparatuses to be used is reduced. Consequently, the data transmission speed for each page is prevented from becoming slower than the printing speed.

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