Patent ID: 8115960

Claim:
A method of printing data by a printer, the method comprising the steps of: (a) storing a form data including information designating one or more non-printing regions, said non-printing regions corresponding to regions of a form in which non-form data are not to be printed; (b) receiving the printing data, the printing data including: (1) ID information for identifying the stored form data, and (2) the non-form data; (c) retrieving the stored form data based on the received ID information; (d) overlaying the retrieved form data and the non-form data; (e) deleting non-blank non-form data that would be printed in the designated non-printing regions of the form, wherein the non-blank non-form data is a part of the non-form data; (f) forming overlay data, the overlay data comprising the non-form data that was not deleted in step (e); and (g) printing the overlay data.