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US 2001/0022668 A1Published application
Print job management system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKazuhito Gassho, Yasushi Nakaoka
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AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKazuhito Gassho, Yasushi Nakaoka
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The present invention provides a spooler that adequately manages and controls print jobs, which require establishment of mutual communication, with relieved loading. In the arrangement of the present invention, a buffer is provided corresponding to each printer PRT connected to a network LAN to successively spool print jobs transferred from clients. In the case of a conventional print job, a print queue and whole print data are spooled in the buffer. In the case of an interactive print job that requires mutual communication between the client and the printer, only the print queue is stored in the buffer, while a wait signal is output to the client to wait for transmission of the print data of the print job. In order to carry out the interactive print job, printing is executed via a bypass that establishes the mutual communication not via the buffer but directly between a print job execution unit and the client.
A print job management apparatus that stores a plurality of print jobs sent from at least one print data generating apparatus into a buffer and causes a printer to adequately carry out printing operations corresponding to the plurality of print jobs, said print jobs including at least one interactive print job that needs mutual communication established between said print data generating apparatus and said printer, said print job management apparatus comprising:
A method of managing print jobs in a system that stores a plurality of print jobs sent from at least one print data generating apparatus into a buffer and causes a printer to adequately carry out printing operations corresponding to the plurality of print jobs, said print jobs including at least one interactive print job on the premise that mutual communication is established between said print data generating apparatus and said printer, said method comprising the steps of:
A recording medium in which a specific program is recorded in a computer readable manner, said specific program making a plurality of print jobs sent from at least one print data generating apparatus stored into a buffer and causing a printer to adequately carry out printing operations corresponding to the plurality of print jobs, said print jobs including at least one interactive print job on the premise that mutual communication is established between said print data generating apparatus and said printer, said specific program attaining the functions of:
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