Patent ID: 6956665
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A print server which is connected through a network to an external apparatus for outputting image data mixedly including BW (black-and-white) and color data, a BW image formation apparatus for outputting BW image data, and a color image formation apparatus for outputting color image data, said print server comprising: determination means for determining one of the BW image formation apparatus and the color image formation apparatus, which has an inserter having a sheet path not passing through a fixing unit, as a base; judgment means for reading the image data mixedly including the BW and color data output from the external apparatus for each page and judging whether the page is a color page or a BW page; transmission means for transmitting a previously judged color page to the color image formation apparatus to output the color page in a case where the base, determined by said determination means, is the BW image formation apparatus, and for transmitting a previously judged BW page to the BW image formation apparatus to output the BW page in a case where the base, determined by said determination means, is the color image formation apparatus; and instruction means for inserting one of the BW page and the color page, sent through the inserter and previously outputted, in the base determined by said determination means, and simultaneously instructing to output the other of the BW page and the color page.