High speed printing method and apparatus

Abstract

A high speed printing method and apparatus are provided, in which provided print data is rendered and a rendered result in response to a print request of the print data is transmitted, and an image of the rendered result is formed, wherein the rendering of the provided print data is performed by a host, and the forming of the image of the rendered result is performed by an image forming device connected to the host. Accordingly, a host performs pre-rendering before a print request is input, and when the print request is input, an image forming device receives the rendered result from the host and prints the rendered result. Thus, the image forming device can perform a printing job at a high speed regardless of the amount of print data.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objects, features and advantages of certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be more apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a high speed printing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a reference diagram for explaining the high speed printing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a high speed printing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Claims

1. A high speed printing method comprising: opening a document to be printed;generating rendered data by rendering print data of the document to be printed and storing the generated rendered data;receiving a print request corresponding to the document to be printed; andprinting the stored rendered data,wherein the opening of the document, the generating of the rendered data, and the receiving of the print request are performed by a host, and the printing of the stored rendered data is performed by an image forming device connected to the host.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the rendered data is performed by clicking at least one of a displayed icon and menu.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the rendered data is performed by at least one of a driver of the image forming device and a application program, which is installed in the host.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising, if the print data is modified after the rendered data is generated, generating rendered data of modified pages by rendering the print data of the modified pages and storing the generated rendered data of the modified pages.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the rendered data generated is replaced with the rendered data of the modified pages generated.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the rendered data of the modified pages generated is added to the rendered data generated.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after the printing of the stored rendered data, deleting at least one of the rendered data generated by the rendering print data and the rendered data of the modified pages generated.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the rendered data is performed by at least one of the host and the image forming device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of rendered data and the printing of the stored rendered data are sequentially performed a plurality of times in accordance with the print data, and in the printing of the stored rendered data, a plurality of rendered data generated that is performed a plurality of times is displayed, at least one of the plurality of displayed rendered data is selected, and the selected rendered data is printed.

10. A high speed printing apparatus comprising: a host for rendering print data in response to a pre-rendering request signal and transmitting the rendered result in response to a print request signal; andan image forming device for forming an image of the transmitted rendered result, wherein the pre-rendering request signal is generated earlier than the print request signal.

11. A computer-readable recording medium storing a computer-readable program for executing a high speed printing method comprising: opening a document to be printed;generating rendered data by rendering print data of the document to be printed and storing the generated rendered data;receiving a print request corresponding to the document to be printed; andprinting the stored rendered data,wherein the opening of the document, the generating of the rendered data, and the inputting of the print request are performed by a host, and the printing of the stored rendered data is performed by an image forming device connected to the host.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the host comprises a rendering unit for rendering print data in response to the pre-rendering request signal.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the host comprises a storage unit for storing the transmitted rendered result.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the host comprises an examination unit for determining whether the pre-rendering request signal is a first pre-rendering request signal in accordance with the print data to be rendered.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the examination unit determines whether the print data has been modified since the rendering of the provided print data.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the examination unit determines whether a start page is found among pages of the modified print data.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the render unit renders the modified print data.

18. A high speed printing apparatus comprising a host, the apparatus comprising: a rendering unit for rendering print data in response to a pre-rendering request signal and transmitting the rendered result in response to a print request signal;a storage unit for storing the transmitted rendered print data; andan examination unit for examining whether the pre-rendering request signal is at least one of a first input pre-rendering request signal corresponding to current print data and whether the current print data has been modified.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising an image forming device for receiving the rendered print data from at least one of the rendering unit and the examination unit, and printing the received rendered print data.