Patent ID: 8854638

Claim:
A variable printing control apparatus for creating an image data to be printed, using variable printing data containing a plurality of page data in which one of a plurality of parts is arranged in one page, the variable printing control apparatus comprising: an analysis processing section which analyzes the variable printing data and selects a processing method in conformity to a form of the plurality of parts; a conversion processing section which converts the page data into PDL data in cases where a specific processing method has been selected; an edit processing section which lays out and edits the converted PDL data, and superimposes the plurality of parts in PDL format; a RIP processing section which rasterizes the PDL data obtained by superimposing the plurality of parts to create the image data; wherein the analysis processing section selects the specific processing method, in cases where a number of temporarily usable parts is not less than a prescribed value, or in cases where the number is less than the prescribed value and a ratio of total area of reusable parts with respect to a page area is less than a prescribed ratio; and wherein the analysis processing section specifies, among the reusable parts, a part whose frequency of use is below a prescribed frequency value and whose ratio of area to the page area is below a prescribed ratio value, as a part outside a scope of objective parts, and wherein the analysis processing section selects the specific processing method, in cases where a total number of the number of the temporarily usable parts and the number of the parts outside the scope of objective parts is not less than a prescribed number, or in cases where the total number is less than the prescribed number and a ratio of total added area of the reusable parts in the scope of objective reusable parts with respect to the page area is less than a prescribed ratio.