US Patent 7619770 Printing method of making a booklet

A printing method of making a booklet includes requesting a printing task, calculating a number of pages corresponding to a printing range, arranging the pages according to a predetermined page layout, reducing images of the pages according to the predetermined page layout, and composing the reduced images of the pages into a single image in response to the predetermined page layout to transmit the single image. An N-up operation and a duplex operation may be used to allow the portable booklet to be readily made, and a title page and a punching space may be taken into consideration.