Patent ID: 7808659

Claim:
An image forming system comprising a host apparatus and an image forming apparatus, wherein the host apparatus comprises: a text drawing data transmission unit that transmits text drawing data including first text drawing data for printing a character contained in a fixed image placed at a predetermined position of a recording medium and second text drawing data for printing a character contained in a body; a character identification data determination unit that determines first and second character identification data that correspond to the first and second text drawing data, respectively, and uniquely identify the first text drawing data and the second text drawing data, respectively, wherein the character identification data determination unit determines the first character identification data to use a numeric value selected from a first predetermined area of one series of numeric values, and determines the second character identification data to use a numeric value selected from a second predetermined area of the one series of numeric values, the second predetermined area being different from the first predetermined area; and a character identification data transmission unit that transmits the first and second character identification data determined by the character identification data determination unit, and wherein the image forming apparatus comprises: a storage unit; an image formation unit; a storage control unit that stores the first text drawing data and the first character identification data both transmitted from the host apparatus in the storage unit in association with each other, and stores the second text drawing data and the second character identification data both transmitted from the host apparatus in the storage unit in association with each other; and an image formation control unit that, upon reception of an image formation command containing the first character identification data and the second character identification data, reads the first text drawing data identified by the first character identification data and stored in the storage unit, and reads the second text drawing data identified by the second character identification data and stored in the storage unit, and controls the image formation unit to form an image based on the read first and second text drawing data.