Patent ID: 6665088
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
A page printer comprising:a memory containing a buffer; an image output section for forming an image based on data and outputting the image; a reception section for writing the data received from a host into the buffer; a transfer section for transferring the data in the buffer to said image output section; and a control section for controlling said reception section and said transfer section, wherein said control section permits said transfer section to transfer the data in the buffer after at least a part as much as a predetermined amount P of one page of the data from the host is stored in the buffer, and wherein the predetermined amount P is equal to or less than a buffer size, and is set before said transfer section is permitted to transfer the data so that a predicted point in time at which said transfer section will complete transferring of all of one page of the data from the buffer becomes later than a predicted point in time at which said reception section will complete writing of all of the page of the data into the buffer.