Print control apparatus and print instruction apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshihide Yoshimura, Hiromi Ohara
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Abstract
A print server temporarily stores into a spooler, print data contained in print jobs, which are accepted from scanners and clients. The print server also outputs a portion of the print data as a sample print and the remaining print data thereof as a final print when the print jobs are executed in accordance with a predetermined condition.
Claims26
A print control apparatus for executing a print job and outputting the print job to at least one of a plurality of output destinations connected thereto through a network, the print control apparatus comprising:
- job accepting means for accepting the print job;
- temporary storage means for temporarily storing thereinto print data contained in the print job;
- data converting means for converting the print data stored in the temporary storage means into output data corresponding to the output destination;
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- output managing means for outputting a portion of data of the output data as first output data and for outputting at least the remaining data of the output data as second output data in accordance with a predetermined condition.
A print instruction apparatus applied to a print system, connected via a network to a plurality of printers, the print instruction apparatus comprising:
- number-of-output-copy accepting means for accepting an input of a number of output copy;
- sample printing operation instructing means for instructing a plurality of printers to execute a sample printing operation;
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- final printing operation instructing means for selecting a printer to instruct the selected printer to execute a final printing operation.
A print control apparatus for executing a print control with respect to a plurality of printers connected to a network in accordance with a printing instruction issued from a client connected thereto via the network, the print control apparatus comprising:
- sample printing job accepting means for accepting a sample printing instruction issued from the client with respect to the plurality of printers;
- sample printing job producing means for producing print jobs to be processed in the printers designated by the sample printing instruction based on the sample printing instruction accepted by the sample job accepting means;
- sample printing information managing means for storing thereinto one of the sample printing instruction accepted by the sample printing job accepting means and the plurality of the print jobs produced by the sample printing job producing means to manage the one;
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- sample printing job requesting means for transmitting the plurality of print jobs produced by the sample print job producing means to the printers corresponding thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.