Patent ID: 9720629
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A print data generating apparatus, comprising: a print job data receiving section, for receiving print job data having a print data for a plurality of pages and which are recognizable by a printing section; a divided print job data generating section, for dividing the plurality of pages into groups of a predetermined number of pages, and for assigning the divided plurality of pages to the print job data received by the print job data receiving section, to generate a plurality of pieces of divided print job data; and an expansion processing section, for arranging the pieces of divided print job data generated by the divided print job data generating section in reverse order of page numbers, for generating page data for each page by administering expansion processes on the pieces of divided print job data in the order that they are arranged, and for outputting the page data for each piece of divided print job data in reverse order of page numbers and in the order that the expansion processes are administered, to the printing section; wherein: the expansion processing section discards page data for pages other than pages assigned to each piece of divided print job data.