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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2009
Applicant:
Kohji Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Kohji Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus, a client PC, and a thin client PC are connected to a server device via a network. The client PC, or the thin client PC, transmits a printing instruction to the server device and the server device transmits the printing instruction to the image forming apparatus. In a thin client environment, a network between the server device and the image forming apparatus can be a narrowband network. Therefore, the server device compresses the whole printing instruction and then transmits the compressed printing instruction to the image forming apparatus.