Patent ID: 8634088

Claim:
A print system comprising: a first printer; and a print data output device that is communicably connected to the first printer and outputs to the first printer print data generated based on internal print data generated by any of a plurality of programs, wherein the internal print data comprises: data corresponding to a second printer that is different from the first printer and is used for causing the second printer to form an image; and data for specifying at least one font that is stored in the second printer; and wherein the print data output device comprises: a printer-retained information storage unit that stores a font image data copy of a font image data that is stored in the second printer; an intermediate data generation section that generates raster image data based on the internal print data corresponding to the second printer and the font image data copy; and a print data generation section that generates print data used for causing the first printer to form an image based on the raster image data on an image recording medium, wherein the printer-retained information storage unit is configured to store second printer-retained information that is based on information stored in the second printer, and wherein the intermediate data generation section generates the raster image data based on the second printer-retained information in addition to the internal print data and the font image data.