Patent ID: 8599433

Claim:
An image processor comprising: a storage unit that comprises a first part and a second part, the first part storing a plurality of templates for variable images to be created based on records constituting variable data; a rendering unit that renders a first template for a first variable image to be created based on a first record constituting variable data, and generates a first rendered template and stores the first rendered template to the second part; a receiving unit that receives a second record constituting variable data; a determining unit that determines if a second template to be used for creating a second variable image is equal to the first template that has been rendered by the rendering unit; a control unit that controls, based on a result of the determining, whether to output (1) both of the second variable image and an inspection image of the second variable image, or (2) the second variable image only; a retrieval unit that retrieves, from the first part, the second template as suitable for the second variable image according to at least one of (1) definition of the second variable data, (2) contents of the second variable data, and (3) a template condition information, wherein a portion of at least one of the records arranged in the inspection image is highlighted as compared to the second variable image.