Patent Document ID: 20110242559
Application ID: 13074112
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A printing system comprising: a printing section that has a mechanism for printing borderlessly at a first edge of a first type of medium and does not have a mechanism for printing borderlessly at a second edge of the first type of medium located on an opposite side of the first type of medium as the first edge; an extracting section configured to extract a first image and a second image from an original document such that the first image and the second image partially overlap each other at an overlapping portion; and a control section configured to control the printing section to execute printing onto a first medium of the first type based on the first image using a layout in which at least a portion of the overlapping portion of the first image extends beyond the first edge of the first medium and a margin is formed between the second edge of the first medium and an image edge of the first image located on an opposite side of the overlapping portion of the first image, and to control the printing section to execute printing onto a second medium of the first type based on the second image using a layout in which at least a portion of the overlapping portion of the second image extends beyond the first edge of the second medium and a margin is formed between the second edge of the second medium and an image edge of the second image located on an opposite side of the overlapping portion of the second image.