Control of multipart print jobs

A method of printing a print job in a printing system, the printing system comprising one or more printers and a computer system, the computer system being connected to the printers, wherein the computer system has a user display and the method comprises the steps of:

• i) using the computer system to generate at least one print job including at least one multipart print job, said multipart print job being split into a plurality of sub-parts;
• ii) sending the sub-parts of the multipart print job to one or more of the printers for printing;
• and
• iii) displaying status information regarding said at least one print job on the display;
• wherein the status information comprises:
• a master status control indicator showing the overall status of the or each print job;
• and for the or each multipart print job a plurality of sub-status control indicators associated with a corresponding master status control indicator.

A method of controlling multipart print job printing in a printing system, the printing system comprising one or more printers and a computer system, the computer system being connected to the printers, wherein the computer system has a display for presenting to a user printer status information, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

• i) using the computer system to generate at least one multipart print job, said multipart print job being composed of a plurality of sub-parts;
• ii) sending said sub-parts of the multipart print job to one or more of the printers for printing;
• and
• iii) displaying on the display, status information regarding the multipart print job, wherein the status information comprises a user-interactive master status control indicator for the or each multipart print job and associated with the or each master status control indicator a plurality of user-interactive sub-status control indicators, one for each of the associated sub-parts of the multipart print job;
• iv) using the computer system to control the printing of at least one multipart print job via an associated master status control indicator and/or via an associated sub-status control indicator.

A method of printing multipart print jobs in a printing system, the printing system comprising one or more printers and a computer system, the computer system being connected to the printers and having a user display, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

• i) using the computer system to generate the multipart print job, said multipart print job being split into a plurality of sub-parts;
• ii) sending the sub-parts of the multipart print job to one or more of the printers for printing;
• and
• iii) displaying on the user display status information regarding the multipart print job, said status information comprising a master status control indicator for the multipart print job and a plurality of sub-status control indicators, one for each of said sub-parts, wherein each of said sub-status control indicators is graphically associated on the user display with the master status control indicator.

A printing system comprising one or more printers and a computer system, the computer system being connected to the printers, the computer system having a user display for presenting to a user of the system status information regarding a print job, wherein the computer system is operable to:

• a) generate one or more print jobs at least one of which is a multipart print job split into a plurality of sub-parts;
• b) send said sub-parts of the multipart print job to one or more of the printers for printing;
• and
• c) display on the user display status information regarding said generated print job(s);
• wherein the status information comprises a master status control indicator for the or each print job and associated with the master status control indicator of a multipart print job a plurality of sub-status control indicators, one for each of the sub-parts of the corresponding multipart print job.

A printing system comprising one or more printers and a computer system, the computer system being connected to the printers, the computer system having a user display for presenting to a user of the system status information regarding a print job, and a user-operable control device, wherein the computer system is operable to:

• a) generate at least one multipart print job, said multipart print job being composed of a plurality of sub-parts;
• b) send said sub-parts of the multipart print job to one or more of the printers for printing;
• c) display on the user display status information regarding said multipart print job(s), wherein the status information comprises a user-interactive master status control indicator for the or each multipart print job and associated with the or each master status control indicator a plurality of user-interactive sub-status control indicators, one for each of the associated sub-parts of the multipart print job;
• d) in response to user-operable control device, to control the printing of at least one multipart print job via an associated master status control indicator and/or via an associated sub-status control indicator.