Patent ID: 7463375

Claim:
A method for transforming an original image into a plurality of copies in at lease one format, the method comprising the steps of: (a) capturing the original image and transforming the original image into a gray-leveled image; (b) guiding the gray-leveled image into a direct output path to output a first copy of the plurality of copies, and guiding the gray-leveled image into a predetermined encoding path to compress the gray-leveled image into a predetermined-formatted data according to the format of the copies, so as to store the remaining copies of the plurality of copies; and (c) determining if a remaining data storage capacity of a memory is large enough to store the predetermined-formatted data, and storing the predetermined-formatted data into the memory and guiding the predetermined-formatted data stored in the memory into a predetermined decoding path to print the remaining copies of the plurality of copies if the remaining data storage capacity of the memory is large enough to store the predetermined-formatted data.