Image forming system and image forming apparatus
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoji Hiramatsu, Tatsuya Eguchi
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Abstract
An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network, the plurality of image forming apparatuses including a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus. The image forming system includes a distributor which distributes an executing or waiting job registered in the first image forming apparatus into a first distributed job to be executed by the first image forming apparatus and a second distributed job to be executed by the second image forming apparatus, and a controller which makes the first and second image forming apparatuses execute the first and second distributed jobs distributed by the distributor.
Claims13
An image forming system including a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network, said plurality of image forming apparatuses including a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus, said image forming system, comprising:
- a distributor which distributes an executing or waiting job registered in said first image forming apparatus into a first distributed job to be executed by said first image forming apparatus and a second distributed job to be executed by said second image forming apparatus;
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- a controller which makes said first and second image forming apparatuses execute said first and second distributed jobs distributed by said distributor.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a distributor which distributes an executing or waiting job registered in another image forming apparatus connected to a network into a job to be executed by said another image forming apparatus and a job to be executed by said image forming apparatus;
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- a controller which makes said image forming apparatus execute the job distributed to said image forming apparatus by said distributor.
An image forming apparatus capable of communicate with another image forming apparatus via a network, said image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a computing portion which computes a respective distribution amount of a job to be distributed into said another image forming apparatus and said image forming apparatus, wherein the job is being executed or waiting in said another image forming apparatus;
- an operation portion which instructs an execution of the job distributed to said image forming apparatus by said computing portion;
- a receiver which receives a data regarding the job from said another image forming apparatus;
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- a controller which executes the job distributed to said image forming apparatus in response to an operation-of said operation portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.