Patent ID: 6501561
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A print control apparatus which communicates with a data processing apparatus through a predetermined communication medium and can analyze an output job that is received, the print control apparatus comprising:registering means for registering form data for a plurality of forms which are transferred from the data processing apparatus into a memory; generating means for analyzing the form data registered in the memory by said registering means and generating a form raster image which is form-overlaid to each page of the output job; deleting means for deleting the form data registered in the memory by said registering means; setting means for setting a number of holding pages to be held in the memory for each form when the form data for each form is registered into the memory; designating means for designating the form data which is used from the form data registered in the memory; and control means for skipping the registration of the same form data which is used by continuous pages into the memory by said registering means and the deletion of the registered same form data from the memory by said deleting means except for the designation of the form data by said designating means until the number of holding pages set by said setting means exceeds a number of print output pages.