Patent ID: 7821663

Claim:
An image supply device for supplying image data to a printing device, comprising: setting means for setting first reference information and second reference information to, of images to be supplied to the printing device, images that require a predetermined image process; job issuance means for issuing a print job including reference information of a print target image in accordance with a print instruction using the printing device; first image supply means for supplying, to the printing device, image data which corresponds to the first reference information and has undergone the predetermined image process, in a case that the reference information of an image requested by the printing device in response to the print job issued by said job issuance means is the first reference information; and second image supply means for supplying, to the printing device, image data which corresponds to the second reference information and is read out, in a case that the reference information of an image requested by the printing device in response to the print job issued by said job issuance means is the second reference information.