Printing system and printing method
AssigneeSCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaki Tsujita, Yoshihiko Onogawa, Hiroshi Nishide
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Abstract
A printing system including a first printer and a second printer is provided with: a job group creation unit that creates a job group defining a plurality of jobs to be grouped and a print order thereof; a job group storage unit that stores information on the print order of the plurality of jobs; a job group updating unit that updates the information on the print order stored in the job group storage unit based on information on an output order when printing is executed by the second printer; and a print instruction unit that instructs the first printer to execute printing based on the plurality of jobs in the print order stored in the job group storage unit.
Claims14
A printing system capable of performing continuous printing based on a plurality of jobs, the printing system comprising:
- a first printing unit including a first printer that prints a first element, and configured to sequentially output the first element;
- a second printing unit including a second printer that prints a second element, and configured to sequentially output the second element;
- a bookbinding machine configured to perform bookbinding by combining the first element outputted from the first printing unit and the second element outputted from the second printing unit;
- a job group creation unit configured to create a job group defining a plurality of jobs to be grouped and a print order of the plurality of jobs;
- a job group storage unit configured to store information on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group and information on the print order of the plurality of jobs;
- a job group updating unit configured to update the information on the print order stored in the job group storage unit on a basis of information on an output order of the second element from the second printing unit in job units when printing based on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group is executed by the second printer;
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- a print instruction unit configured to instruct the first printer to execute printing such that printing based on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group is executed by the first printer in the print order stored in the job group storage unit.
A printing system including a printer capable of continuous printing based on a plurality of jobs, the printing system comprising:
- a job group creation unit configured to create a job group defining a plurality of jobs to be grouped and a print order of the plurality of jobs;
- a job group storage unit configured to store information on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group and information on the print order of the plurality of jobs;
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- a print instruction unit configured to instruct the printer to execute printing such that printing based on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group is executed in the print order stored in the job group storage unit.
A printing method in a printing system capable of performing continuous printing based on a plurality of jobs, the printing system having
- a first printing unit including a first printer that prints a first element, and configured to sequentially output the first element,
- a second printing unit including a second printer that prints a second element, and configured to sequentially output the second element, and
- a bookbinding machine configured to perform bookbinding by combining the first element outputted from the first printing unit and the second element outputted from the second printing unit,
- the printing method comprising:
- a job group creation step of creating a job group that defines a plurality of jobs to be grouped and a print order of the plurality of jobs;
- a job group storage step of storing, into a job group storage unit, information on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group and information on the print order of the plurality of jobs;
- a job group updating step of updating the information on the print order stored in the job group storage unit on a basis of information on an output order of the second element from the second printing unit in job units when printing based on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group is executed by the second printer;
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- a print instruction step of instructing the first printer to execute printing such that printing based on the plurality of jobs constituting the job group is executed by the first printer in the print order stored in the job group storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.