Patent · US Expired

Printing control apparatus, data processing method for printing control apparatus, and storage medium storing computer-readable program

US7256908B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 19, 2005
Grant dateAug 14, 2007
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 10, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/1284
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A printing control apparatus of the present invention uses plural expansion processing units which expand printing data of a predetermined format to image data of a format to be output to a printer, by a segment. Before expansion processing to the printing data of one page is performed, a processing time necessary to expand the printing data to the image data is calculated for each segment. The expansion processing for each segment by the plural expansion processing units is scheduled based on the calculated processing time.

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