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Image forming apparatus and method of forming images
Assignee: Toshiba Corp
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Filing: 1997-12-29
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2017-12-29
Abstract
Abstract A system CPU (100) receives print data through an external interface (124) from a host computer or the like connected to a local area network (LAN). The CPU (100) opens a job file in a hard disk drive (80) and generates a job header and a page header in the job file and writes the print data in the job header and the page header. When the sheet size represented by a data item included in the print data changes, the CPU (100) closes the job file and opens a new job file and generates a job header and a page header in the new job file and writes the renewed print data in the job header and page header of the new job file.
Inventors
- 👤 Yuji Rikima
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 15:35
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/32; H04N1/32561; H04N1/32101; H04N1/32128; H04N1/00127; H04N1/00204; H04N2201/00; H04N2201/0077; H04N2201/0082; H04N2201/0086; H04N2201/32; H04N2201/3201; H04N2201/3212; H04N2201/3216; H04N2201/3222; H04N2201/3225; H04N2201/3242; H04N2201/3243; H04N2201/3274; H04N2201/3278
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 18
Claim 1
Independent Claim
134 words
An image forming apparatus characterized by
comprising: receiving means (124) for receiving information
transmitted through a communication line and consisting
of image-forming data and image data, said image
forming data consisting of a plurality of image forming
data items each representing conditions of forming one
page of image; memory means (80) for storing a plurality of image
forming data blocks, each consisting of image data
items which represent pages of image to be formed under
at least one identical condition and an image forming
data item which represents said at least one identical
condition and other conditions; and image forming means (3) for forming pages of image
on recording media in accordance with the image-forming
data blocks stored in said memory means (80), in units
of pages which are represented by one image-forming
block.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
17 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, characterized
in that said communication line is a local area
network.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, characterized
in that said image forming data blocks stored in
said memory means are job files.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
149 words
An image forming apparatus characterized by
comprising: receiving means (124) for receiving information
transmitted through a communication line and consisting
of image-forming data and image data, said image
forming data consisting of a plurality of image forming
data items each representing conditions of forming one
page of image; job file generating means (100) for processing the
information transmitted to said receiving means (124),
thereby to generate job files each consisting of image
data items which represent pages of image to be formed
under any identical condition and an image-forming data
item which represents said identical condition and
other conditions; memory means (80) for storing the job files
generated by said job file generating means; and image-forming means (3) for forming pages of image
on recording media in accordance with the job files
stored in said memory means (80), in units of pages
which are represented by one job file.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
34 words
An apparatus according to claim 4, characterized
in that said conditions of forming one page of
image are the size of the recording media, type of
image, resolution of image, and page forming mode.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
23 words
An apparatus according to claim 5, characterized
in that said type of image indicates whether the
image data is compressed or not compressed.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
36 words
An apparatus according to claim 5, characterized
in that said page forming mode shows that the
image data is printed in double side on the recording
media or printed in single side on the recording media.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
148 words
An image forming apparatus characterized by
comprising: receiving means (124) for receiving information
transmitted through a communication line and consisting
of image-forming data and image data, said image
forming data consisting of a plurality of image forming
data items each representing a plurality of conditions
of forming one page of image; job file generating means (100) for processing the
information transmitted to said receiving means (124),
thereby to generate job files each consisting of image
data items which represent pages of image to be formed
under the same conditions and an image-forming data
item which represents these conditions; memory means (80) for storing the job files
generated by said job file generating means; and image-forming means (3) for forming pages of image
on recording media in accordance with the job files
stored in said memory means (80), in units of pages
which are represented by one job file.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
41 words
An apparatus according to claim 8, characterized
in that said plurality of conditions of forming
one page of image are the size of the recording media,
type of image, resolution of image, and page forming
mode, or are some of these.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
An apparatus according to claim 9, characterized
in that said type of image indicates whether the
image data is compressed or not compressed.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
36 words
An apparatus according to claim 9, characterized
in that said page forming mode shows that the
image data is printed in double side on the recording
media or printed in single side on the recording media.
Claim 12
Independent Claim
121 words
A method of forming images, characterized by
comprising the steps of: receiving information transmitted through a
communication line and consisting of image forming data
and image data, said image forming data consisting of a
plurality of image forming data items each representing
conditions of forming one page of image; storing a plurality of image forming data blocks,
each consisting of image data items which represent
pages of image to be formed under at least one
identical condition and an image forming data item
which represents said at least one identical condition
and other conditions; and forming pages of image on recording media in
accordance with the image-forming data blocks, in units
of pages which are represented by one image forming
block.
Claim 13
Independent Claim
119 words
A method of forming images, characterized by
comprising the steps of: receiving information transmitted through a
communication line and consisting of image forming data
and image data, said image forming data consisting of a
plurality of image forming data items each representing
conditions of forming one page of image; processing the information, thereby to generate
job files each consisting of image data items which
represent pages of image to be formed under any
identical condition and an image forming data item
which represents said identical condition and other
conditions; storing the job files generated; and forming pages of image on recording media in
accordance with the job files, in units of pages which
are represented by one job file.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method according to claim 13, characterized
in that said identical condition is either one
condition or a plurality of different conditions.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
78 words
An image forming apparatus characterized by
comprising: means for receiving a plurality of page data,
each of said page data including an image data and
an attribute data corresponding to said image data; means for generating at least one image forming
job file including said image data having the common
attribute data; and means for forming images according to said image
data of each of said at least one image forming job
file generated by the generating means.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
30 words
An image forming apparatus according to
claim 15, characterized in that said generating means
generates one image forming job file when the
successive page data has the common attribute data.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
96 words
An image forming apparatus characterized by
comprising: means for receiving a plurality of page data
successively, each of said page data including an image
data and a plurality of attribute data corresponding to
said image data; means for generating at least one image forming
job file including said image data of successive page
data when at least one of the plurality of attribute
data of successive page data is identical; and means for forming images according to said image
data of each of said at least one image forming job
file generated by the generating means.
Claim 18
Independent Claim
76 words
A method of forming images, characterized by
comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of page data, each of said
page data including an image data and an attribute data
corresponding to said image data; generating at least one image forming job file
including said image data having the common attribute
data; and forming images according to said image data of
each of said at least one image forming job file
generated by the generating means.
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