Patent ID: 6950203

Claim:
A print system comprising: a computer; comprising a logical printer driver for making print instructions of a prepared document, preparing a PDL document and print information from the document, and spooling as a print job, wherein the print information comprises storage data indicating whether the print job is to be archived in a printer and storage format data indicating in what format the print job should be archived; wherein: the printer is connected to the computer, and comprises: a spool control section for receiving the spooled print job; a PDL processing section for processing the PDL document in accordance with the print information of the print job; an interpreter for interpreting the PDL document and expanding the PDL document into a dot image; an output work for storing the dot image; an output control section for controlling the output work; and a printer engine for printing the dot image transmitted from the output control section; wherein the document is printed in a format specified by the computer.