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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2003
Koji Inose, Saitama, JP;
Tsunehiro Tsukada, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Inose, Saitama, JP;
Tsunehiro Tsukada, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A request is transferred from a first information processing apparatus to a second one, and document data for printing is generated in accordance with the print request by a generating program provided in an image generating apparatus, and then the generated document data is transferred from the second information processing apparatus to the first one so that the document data is printed out. A type of input data or a type of output data processable by the generating program provided in the image generating apparatus is registered in the second information processing apparatus. A type of input data necessary to generate the document data and a type of the document data generated is specified in accordance with the print request. A generating program for generating the document data is selected by comparing the specified type to the registered type. A generating request for generating the document data is transferred to the image generating apparatus having the selected generating program.