Patent ID: 7532337
Filing Date: 2009-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print processing system that sends selected image data to a computer of a print operator involved in actually printing the selected image data, in response to reception of a print request of the selected image data from a user's computer, said print processing system comprising: a request receiving module that receives a request for printing a specified number of copies of the selected image data from the user's computer; a data storage module that stores multiple data; a data reading module that reads the selected image data included in the received request from said data storage module; and a data transmission module that sends the selected image data, which is read from said data reading module and is embedded in a print control program, to the computer of the print operator, where the print control program is provided in one-to-one correspondence to the selected image data and includes a time limit program designed to prohibit printing of the selected image data after elapse of a preset time period since a start of printing the selected image data, and the preset time period is not less than a time period required for printing the specified number of copies of the selected image data with a printer connected with the computer of the print operator but is less than a time period required for printing any greater number of copies of the selected image data than the specified number.