Patent ID: 7990557
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image forming system having an image forming apparatus and a print data generation apparatus which generates print data of a format interpretable by the image forming apparatus and outputs the print data to the image forming apparatus, the print data generation apparatus comprising: the image forming apparatus comprising: wherein said control unit a) controls the timing for transferring image data of a page of interest so that, in a case where a generation time taken to generate image data of a predetermined number of pages following the page of interest is shorter than an image forming time to be taken to form sequentially the predetermined number of pages of the image data with the specific time interval between pages, image data of the page of interest is transferred to said image forming unit in response to generation of the image data of the page of interest by said image data generation unit, and b) controls the timing for transferring image data of the page of interest so that, in a case where the generation time taken to generate image data of the predetermined number of pages following the page of interest is longer than the image forming time, the image data of the page of interest is transferred to said image forming unit with a delay equivalent to difference time between the generation time and the image forming time.