Patent ID: 8488159

Claim:
A printing system, comprising: a central processing unit; a print data generating unit for generating print data including drawing information of a document to be printed; an image data generating unit for generating image data for each page having a data size of an integral multiple of a specified block size based on said print data; a delivering unit for delivering said image data generated by said image data generating unit; an imposing unit for imposing said image data delivered by said delivering unit in such a way that images for a plurality of pages of said document to be printed will be printed on a sheet of paper; and a printing unit for printing images for a plurality of pages on a sheet of paper based on said image data imposed by said imposing unit, wherein a process for preventing a blank space from being formed in a boundary area between said images for a plurality of pages to be printed on a sheet of paper due to padding data added to said image data in order to make data size of said image data to be an integral multiple of said block size, is executed in said print data generating unit, said image data generating unit, or said delivering unit.