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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2000
Yasuaki Sawano, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the invention to prevent the occurrence of an overrun in a printer having a plurality of printer engines for color printing. In a print control apparatus for converting print data of a plurality of bands constructing one page into a display list and further developing the display list into bit map data, a time that is required when the display list is developed to the bit map data is predicted every band and every color, priorities are allocated every band on the basis of the predicted development time so as to allocate a high priority to the band in which the predicted development time of each color is long and stored in a priority retainer . When at least two of hard renderers of each color have requested to obtain the display list of the same band, an access request selector selects one of a plurality of obtaining requests of the display list with reference to the priorities stored in the priority retainer