Patent ID: 6050732
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A double-side printing control method executed by a printing apparatus including a system control part and an external storage part, the method comprising the steps of:receiving a printing request transmitted by a host computer, the printing request including print data and a given resolution of the print data;expanding the print data to image data at the given resolution;storing the image data in the system control part;performing a double-side printing with the stored image data when the printing request is a double-side printing request;determining, before performing the double-side printing at the given resolution, whether an image memory area of the system control part that stores two pages of image data is held; anddetermining, before performing the double-side printing at the given resolution, whether an image memory area of the external storage part that stores one page of image data can be held.