PRINTER PRINTING SYSTEM USING HARDWARE RIP DEVICE CONNECTED TO LAN

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide plural printer devices which have the same print quality as a language processing printer device by connecting a single hardware RIP device to a LAN. SOLUTION: The print signals sent from the computer devices 1 and 2 are once received by a hardware RIP device 14 connected to a LAN 15, and the signals received by an internal receiving communication interface device of the device 14 undergo the language processing via an interpreter. This processing result is rasterized and stored in a page memory equivalent to a single page, and the data stored in the page memory are sent again to the LAN line by the receiving communication interface device via a signal line 22. These data are received by the non-PDL printer devices 12 and 13 connected to the LAN 15 and printed. In such a signal processing way, even the printer devices 12 and 13 can print the beautiful characters, pictures, etc., on the print forms since a non-PDL is converted into a PDL before the print processing.