To provide a technology for gathering a plurality of business forms of various formats into one without depending on any format definition language, and for improving the productivity of the business forms by integrating and printing those business forms based on a print result without requiring any knowledge for the formats or input data of those business forms.

This multiple format business form integration printing method for integrating and printing a plurality of business forms of various formats comprises: a step for reading items coming under conditions of a policy table from print data for integration format generation, and for storing the print data in a storage device as intermediate print data; a step for reading the identification information of the items whose attributes are the same from the plurality of generated intermediate print data, and for storing the identification information as business form data reference destinations showing the reference destinations of the items in the storage device; and a step for reading the print data of the items identified according to the identification information of the business form data reference destinations from the intermediate print data, and for generating data for a business form output being data for outputting the integrated business form print data, and for storing the data in the storage device.

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