Abstract

A printing system including a client terminal and a separate printer connected to the client terminal via signal cables. The client terminal includes a print conditions transfer mechanism which transfers print conditions entered by an operator and a document component generating mechanism. The document component generating mechanism divides a document entered by the operator into a document block, converts data in each document block into printable data, and generates document component. A number of the document component is equal to the number of the divided document blocks so that the document components and the divided document block correspond to each other on a one to one basis. The printer includes a print conditions storing mechanism which receives and stores the print conditions, a document component storing mechanism which sequentially stores and transmits the transferred document component, and a composite print processing mechanism. The composite print processing mechanism generates image data according to the print conditions and corresponding to each of the document components and accumulates the generated image data to print the document with the accumulated image data upon receiving a print start instruction.