Patent ID: 7064847
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A copying system including a host device, a peripheral device connected to the host device, and a printing device, the peripheral device comprising: a reading device that reads an image on an original document as image data; a converting device that converts the image data read by the reading device, into printable data; a first transmission device that transmits to the host device the printable data converted by the converting device; and a reception printing device that receives the printable data converted by the converting device and transmitted from the host device and causes the printing device to print the printable data; the host device comprising: a storage device that stores various data; a reception control device that receives the printable data transmitted from the first transmission device, and stores the printable data in the storage device; and a second transmission device that transmits to the peripheral device the printable data stored in the storage device by the reception control device, wherein the peripheral device and the printing device are incorporated into one body, and wherein when a copying is started, the reading by the reading device, the conversion by the converting device, the transmission by the first transmission device, the reception and the storing by the reception control device, the transmission by the second transmission device and the reception and the printing by the reception printing device are performed successively based on the start of copying.