Patent ID: 7365868
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print control method of, in an information processing apparatus in which application software and a printer driver are installed, controlling a printing process, wherein the information processing apparatus is connected to an image output device, the print control method comprising: a first determination step of determining whether or not a transmission method between the image output device and the image processing apparatus is a predetermined transmission method; a second determination step of determining whether or not printing paper, on which print data is printed by the image output device, is predetermined paper; an output step in which the application software outputs one page of data part by part in the same order as the order in which the data is printed on the printing paper in a printing direction; a conversion step in which the printer driver converts the input data into print data without spooling one page of the data and outputs the resultant print data to the image output device; and a control step of performing the output step and the conversion step in parallel when the transmission method is determined as the predetermined transmission method by the first determination step and the paper is determined as the predetermined paper by the second determination step, and of converting one page of data into the print data after the output of the one page of the data by the output step when the transmission method is not determined as the predetermined transmission method by the first determination step or the paper is not determined as the predetermined paper by the second determination step.