Patent ID: 7995233
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing control method for reducing printing memory requirement, comprising: (A) receiving print data of a page from a host through an interface; (B) determining a number of bands of the page to be divided, and a printing time length of each band; (C) interpreting the print data to intermediate format data corresponding to each band; (D) computing a rasterizing time length for rasterizing each band in the form of the intermediate format data; (E) defining each band whose printing time length is less than its rasterizing time length as a complicated band; (F) defining each band whose printing time length is larger than or equal to its rasterizing time length as a simple band; (G) determining start timing of rasterization of each band and setting the start timing of printing a first band as 0, further comprising: (H) starting a printing task to print the page until the end of the printing.