Patent ID: 9250846
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A print service providing apparatus which is disposed on a network and connected to at least one printer and an information processing unit through a communication line so as to provide print service, the apparatus comprising: a supply unit that is connected to the printer through the communication line; a storage unit that stores, in advance, conversion data, the conversion data having been converted into a bitmap format remote from said at least one printer and remote from the print service providing apparatus, the storage unit being connected to the supply unit through the communication line; wherein: the information processing unit is connected to the supply unit through the communication line and processes print data of a vector format to thereby generate conversion data converted into a bitmap format; the conversion data converted into the bitmap format is stored in a compressed manner using a compression method corresponding to at least one of resolution and print quality of the outputting printer; the supply unit acquires print data and supplies the print data to the information processing unit, and acquires the conversion data from the information processing unit to transmit the conversion data to the storage unit; and the supply unit acquires, in accordance with a print instruction, the conversion data stored in the storage unit and supplies the conversion data to the printer connected through the communication line and designated in accordance with the print instruction.