Patent ID: 7161695

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: a communication unit configured to communicate with an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus configured to operate on image information; a storage configured to store first image information which represents at least one element; and a controller configured to send second image information to the information processing apparatus, said second image information represents the at least one element and an amount of the second image information is smaller than an amount of the first image information, wherein the controller is further configured to acquire result information, the result information being a result of an operation which is executed on the sent second image information in the information processing apparatus, the result information includes information with a z-order of the at least one element in the second image information, wherein the z-order indicates whether the at least one element is arranged nearer or farther to a viewer of the second image information; the controller is further configured to edit the first image information, the first image information is edited according to the acquired result information, so that if at least two elements superimpose each other, a portion of the image information covered by any of the at least two elements is not included by the edited first image information; and the controller is further configured to send the edited first image information to the information processing apparatus for printing by a printing device provided at the information processing apparatus.