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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2000
Koichi Shibata, Sakai, JP;
Koichi Shibata, Sakai, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a printing system capable of outputting print of a style desired by the user without any waste of sheets. In a printing system according to the present invention achieving this object, a plurality of different output styles corresponding to print contents are stored in a memory (), a print content to be image-formed is specified by a specifying unit (), image data is converted into the output style corresponding to the specified print content by a controller (), and image formation is performed by an image forming unit () based on the converted data. Output styles may be stored so that the user can select thereamong.