Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Tadayuki Sugimoto

Masahiro Ozawa

Takenori Idehara

The printer successively stores the objects contained in the PDF file as they are transmitted from the PC, and conducts the printing process for said specific page when it judges that all the objects necessary for displaying said page are stored. Also, when a memory overflow occurs, it successively prints out content objects contained in the constituent data of the PDF file stored in the RAM, while assigning identification names, and deletes the data for the content objects already printed out from the RAM so that additional constituent data of the PDF file can be received successively. It finally generates and prints out the table of contents based on the identification names of the content object and the information of the page object and the page list object. Thus, it is possible to form images directly receiving a document file such as a PDF file on a printer with a limited usable memory capacity.

Image forming device, image forming program, computer readable recording medium on which the program is recorded, and image forming method

A printer, as an image forming device, acquires data size of image data to be printed from the data storage device, and calculates the transfer completion time required for transferring the image data to be printed according to the acquired data size of the image data to be printed and a speed of transferring data via an external interface to be used.

Image forming device, image forming system, image forming method, image forming control program, and computer readable recording medium in which image forming control program is recorded

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Tokyo, Japan

Tadayuki Sugimoto