HARD COPY SYSTEM FOR DISPLAY PATTERN IN ELECTRONIC FILING DEVICE CLUSTER SYSTEM

PURPOSE:To reduce the transmission time between terminal equipments by outputting a hard copy of an image being displayed on a display device of its own terminal equipment to a printer of other terminal equipment at a fast speed. CONSTITUTION:The hard copy of the pattern is instructed by key operation of the keyboard 3, an input control section 4 starts an image information control device 6 to instruct it to an image information during display on storage device 5. The storage device 5 gives the image information during display on the display device 8 to the control device 6, where the signal is subject to compression coding. The communication speed between the communication control device 9 and the control device 10 of the terminal B is quickened by the compression coding. When the control device 10 receives the image information subject to compression coding, the image information is sent to the image information control device 11, where the inversion of the compression coding is applied. The image information subject to inversion is sent to the image information storage device 12 and expanded, and then outputted as a hard copy 14 from the printer 13.