Print system, print control apparatus, and storage medium for controlling print control apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYohei Kondo
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Abstract
In a first print system controlling a first print apparatus and a second print apparatus by a client PC, the client PC generates, when obtaining a distributed printing request of a print job being printed by the first print apparatus from the second print apparatus based on a user operation performed on the second print apparatus, a first distributed printing job for causing the first print apparatus to print a first portion of an unprinted portion of a print job and a second distributed printing job for causing the second print apparatus to print a second portion of the unprinted portion.
Claims8
A print system controlling first and second print apparatuses by a print control apparatus, wherein
- the print control apparatus is configured such that, in response to obtaining a request from the second print apparatus for performing distributed printing of a print job being printed by the first print apparatus, the request having been generated by the second print apparatus based on a user operation performed on the second print apparatus, the print control apparatus
- generates a first distributed printing job for causing the first print apparatus to print a first portion in an unprinted portion of a print job and a second distributed printing job for causing the second print apparatus to print a second portion in the unprinted portion.
A print control apparatus controlling a first print apparatus and a second print apparatus, the print control apparatus comprising:
- an obtaining section configured to obtain a distributed printing request from the second print apparatus, the distributed printing request having been generated by the second print apparatus based on a user operation performed on the second print apparatus, the distributed printing request being for performing distributed printing of a print job being printed by the first print apparatus;
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- a controller configured to, in response to obtaining the distributed printing request, generate a first distributed printing job for causing the first print apparatus to print a first portion of an unprinted portion of the print job and a second distributed printing job for causing the second print apparatus to print a second portion of the unprinted portion.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program structured to cause a print control apparatus controlling a first print apparatus and a second print apparatus to execute:
- obtaining a distributed printing request from the second print apparatus, the distributed printing request having been generated by the second print apparatus based on a user operation performed on the second print apparatus, the distributed printing request being for performing distributed printing of a print job being printed by the first print apparatus;
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- generating, in response to obtaining the distributed printing request, a first distributed printing job for causing the first print apparatus to print a first portion of an unprinted portion of the print job and a second distributed printing job for causing the second print apparatus to print a second portion of the unprinted portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.