Output control method and apparatus, and output system
US6621588B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 19, 1997 |
| Grant date | Sep 16, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 19, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K15/1825
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A rendering area of a memory resource in the unit of a band to be used by print information written in a predetermined page description language is suppressed as much as possible from not being reserved in the memory resource. A rendering process in the unit of a band can be executed as many times as possible to obtain a high quality print. The print information is converted into intermediate language data for each data type judged by a CPU. CPU also judged whether the total capacity of the converted intermediate language data exceeds a capacity set to a management RAM to control switching between rendering process modes used by a hardware renderer.
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