Patent ID: 8873088

Claim:
A printing control device for controlling a printing unit that forms an image on a recording medium, comprising: a web page data acquiring portion configured to access web server on a network and acquire HTML data that is a source code of a prescribed web page from the web server; a display configured to display the prescribed web page based on the HTML data acquired from the web server; an object determination portion configured to determine, by searching the HTML data, that the prescribed web page displayed by the display includes a duplication object, which is an object to be duplicated, when the HTML data includes a character string indicating that the duplication object is included and while the duplication object is displayed on the display; a first extraction portion configured to extract data for constituting the duplication object when the object determination portion determines that the prescribed web page includes the duplication object; a print data creation portion configured to: create first print data for forming at least two duplicated images of the duplication object on the identical recording medium based on the data extracted by the first extraction portion when the first extraction portion extracts the data for constituting the duplication object; and create second print data for forming an image of the web page itself based on the web page data when the object determination portion determines that the prescribed web page does not include the duplication object; and a printing instruction portion configured to instruct the printing unit to: form a first image on the recording medium based on the first print data created by the print data creation portion when the print data creation portion creates the first print data; and form a second image on the recording medium based on the second print data created by the print data creation portion when the print data creation portion creates the second print data.