Patent ID: 8305624

Claim:
An image formation system comprising: I storage units; an assignment unit that assigns storage destinations of color component data forming a part of image data to the respective storage units; J color component image formation units that form color component images of corresponding colors based on color component data stored in the storage units; and an image formation unit that forms an image of the image data based on the formed color component image, wherein the assignment unit comprises a J-color assignment unit that assigns storage destinations of J sets of color component data forming a part of J-color image data to the I storage units and an L-color assignment unit that assigns a storage destination of L sets of color component data forming a part of L-color image data to N storage units among the I storage units, and each of I, J, and N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, L is a natural number greater than or equal to 1, L<J, and L<N≦I; said assignment unit assigning the image data of one color which is included in the J-color image data or the L-color image data and which is determined in advance, to the plurality of storage units.