Patent ID: 6952274

Claim:
A double-sided printing system for printing from a plurality of document files prepared by a plurality of different applications on both faces of printing paper, comprising: a computer; and a printing apparatus connected to said computer for receiving selected portions of said plurality of document files prepared by a plurality of different applications from said computer; said computer including double-sided printing management means for receiving printer information from a user for causing said selected portions of said document files prepared by the different applications to be printed on both faces of the printing paper, the printer information including names of the plurality of document files, page numbers for said selected portions and an order in which the pages are to be printed, printing job processing means for processing data of the document files based on the printing information of said double-sided printing management means, data storage means for temporarily storing the data of the document files processed by said printing job processing means, and data transfer means for transferring the data processed by said printing job processing means to said printing apparatus.