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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1995
Naohiro Yoshikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A print system having a plurality of printers and a plurality of host computers connected to permit communication on a network, comprises a quantifying unit provided in each of the host computers for analyzing print data to be printed to quantify the print data to an index indicating complexity, a transmission unit provided in each of the host computers for adding the index quantified by the quantifying unit to the print data and transmitting the print data to one of the printers through the network, an operation unit provided in each of the printers for converting the index added to the print data transmitted from the transmission unit to a required record time based on a pre-registered conversion value, and a presentation unit provided in each of the printers for presenting the required record time converted by the operation unit.