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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2001
Azusa Iwai, Nagano, JP;
Azusa Iwai, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
During print operation, it sometimes happened that an intermediate file of print data becomes so huge in gigabytes as to make printing impossible. The present invention is constituted to permit a computer: a print data acquisition step Pto acquire print data; an intermediate file creation step Pto divide the acquired print data into parts while keeping the file size of each parts within certain bounds and thereby create a plurality of intermediate files, and an actual-data-for-printing creation step Pto read the created intermediate files into the memory for pre-determined conversions, and thereby create actual-data-for-printing. The effect is that the intermediate file size does not become so huge as to make printing impossible, and therefore printing can certainly be done even if a huge amount of print data is created.