Patent ID: 7233410

Claim:
A printer control apparatus that receives an image from a reader, stores the image in a memory, and transmits the stored image from the memory to a printer, comprising: first acquiring means for acquiring a reader ID representing a type of the reader from the reader; second acquiring means for acquiring a printer ID representing a type of the printer from the printer; a reader processing speed table showing a relationship between a reader processing speed, at which the reader reads an original in a particular direction, and the reader ID; a printer processing speed table showing a relationship between a printer processing speed, at which the printer prints the image in the particular direction, and the printer ID; and a controller that, while the image received from the reader is being written to the memory, determines timing for transmitting the image written in the memory to the printer according to the reader processing speed acquired by referring to said reader processing speed table with the reader ID, the printer processing speed acquired by referring to said printer processing speed table with the printer ID, and a size of the received image.