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US 2003/0197892 A1Published application
Print server apparatus and network print system
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InventorChohiko Fukuoh
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The present invention relates to a print server apparatus for acquiring a print job relating to a print data file to be printed from outside via a network, and for conducting an outputting process based on the print job. The print server apparatus comprising: a print job acquiring section to acquire the print job from outside via the network and to acquire the print data file corresponding to the print job; a file format identifying section to identify a data form of the print data file corresponding to the print job; a data form converting section to convert the data form of the print data file into a data form of an image data for conducting a printing process, and a image forming section to form an image based on the image data and to output the image onto a recording material.
A print server apparatus for acquiring a print job relating to a print data file to be printed from outside via a network, and for conducting an outputting process based on the print job, comprising:
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Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings,…
Reducing or saving of used resources, e.g. avoiding waste of consumables or improving usage of hardware resources: with regard to power consumption
Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding: by conversion to printer ready format
Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding: by printer language recognition, e.g. PDL, PCL, PDF
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The present invention relates to a print server apparatus and a network print system. In particular, the present invention relates to a print server apparatus having a printer server function and having a multiple printing function as, for example, a printer, a copying machine, a facsimile machine, and to a network print system to transmit a print job to the print server apparatus by the use of a network for outputting.
Nowadays, a plurality of communication terminal equipment such as personal computers (hereinafter referred to as “PC”), for example, are connected with the same network to share one image forming apparatus (for example, a printer) so that the image forming apparatus may be used as a common output apparatus by a plurality of communication terminal equipment. Such network print systems with various structures have been proposed (for example, Japanese UnExamined Patent Publication (JP-A) No. H06-059951, JP-A Nos. 2000-298568 and 2001-265555).
In the network print system of this kind, a sending client who transmits a print job, for example, acquires print data file from a file server on the network. Then, the sending client prepares the print job by subjecting the print data file to an appropriate print condition configuration, and transmits the print job to a print server or an image forming apparatus having print server functions in a receiving client. Subsequently, the printing device in the print server or the image forming apparatus carries out printing.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic structure of an example of a network print system of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing processing procedures of print processing conducted in a print server apparatus of the invention.
FIG. 3 is an illustration showing an example of a setup screen for print job-forming Web data used for transmitting a print job to a print server apparatus when conducting print processing by using a Web server function in the print server apparatus.
Preferred embodiments of the invention will be explained as follows.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic structure in an example of a network print system of the invention.
The network print systems is composed of sending client (1), receiving client (2) and data server 10, which are connected by a common network each other. As an example, the structure to output a print job to print server apparatus 30 of the receiving client (2) from communication terminal equipment 20 of the sending client (1). In this case, the sending client (1) and the receiving client (2) may be in the relation either of the remote positions or of the local positions.