Patent ID: 8928922
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising: a plurality of interpretation devices; a plurality of spooling devices; an allotment device that allots pages of print data written in a page description language to the plurality of interpretation devices in a distributed manner in a predetermined order without regard to a print output order of the pages corresponding to an imposition designation, the plurality of interpretation devices interpreting the pages of the print data allotted by the allotment device to generate interpretation result data, and each causing a spooling device of the plurality of spooling devices corresponding to that interpretation device to store the generated interpretation result data; and a print controller that acquires reference information indicating which of the plurality of spooling devices stores the interpretation result data corresponding to each of the pages of the print data and output order information indicating the print output order of the pages corresponding to the imposition designation, that acquires the interpretation result data for each page from the spooling device storing the interpretation result data for that page designated by the reference information in the print output order indicated by the output order information, and that imposes page image data based on the acquired interpretation result data for the pages in accordance with the imposition designation to supply the resulting data to a printer to be printed.