Patent ID: 8928912
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing control device comprising: a distributing unit that distributes received image data page by page; a plurality of image processing units that perform image processing for converting the image data distributed by page from the distributing unit into print data; and a plurality of output control units configured to communicate with a plurality of image output sections respectively, and control the output processing of each of the plurality of the image output sections based on the print data generated by the image processing of the plurality of the image processing units, respectively, each output control unit and respective image output section corresponding to a different color, when aggregate printing where images of a plurality of pages are merged into one image and output is executed, the distributing unit distributes the image data so that the received image data is subjected to the image processing by different image processing units in parallel, wherein each of the plurality of image processing units is configured to transmit print data corresponding to the different colors to each of the plurality of output control units, wherein the plurality of the output control units generate print data in units of plurality of pages by combining the print data transferred respectively from the plurality of the image processing units processed in parallel, and transmit the generated print data to the image output sections corresponding to the output control units, respectively, and wherein the distributing unit changes the distributing method to distribute the image data so that the image data is subjected to the image processing by a single image processing unit when the data amount of the completed print data by the plurality of image processing units becomes more than a predetermined value corresponding to completion of at least one physical page.