Patent ID: 7725617

Claim:
A data output system for the output of bank account data, comprising: a printing device; a database device, in which corresponding control data are stored for a plurality of data output system users; and a data output control device that in a normal operating mode of the system delivers, at points in time determined by the data output control device, output data sets allocated to a corresponding normal data output order to the printing device, wherein in a test operating mode of the system a predefined subset of bank account output data sets allocated to a test data output order is—for performing a test printing—delivered to the printing device, wherein in the test operating mode each bank account data set of the predefined subset of the bank account output data sets allocated to the test data output order is completely compiled and then readily provided to an intermediate database and the printing device, separate from the intermediate database, and wherein when a further, highest priority, data output order is triggered during the test operating mode, the test data output order is deferred, and firstly bank account output data sets allocated to the further data output order are compiled and provided, whereas each remaining bank account output data set allocated to the test data output order is completely compiled and then readily provided to the intermediate database and the printing device, separate from the intermediate database only after releasing of the test printing.