Document processing method

A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network,

• wherein the computer comprises:
• a program for preparing the document;
• and a logical printer driver for converting the document into a PDL document,
• the method comprising the steps of:
• directing the printer from the computer to print and store the PDL document prepared by the computer in an arbitrary combination of formats;
• transferring the PDL document from the computer to the printer;
• printing the document according to the instruction from the computer;
• and
• storing the document in an archive of the printer according to the instruction from the computer.

A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network,

• wherein the computer comprises:
• a program for directing the printer to print and store a PDL document in an arbitrary combination of formats,
• the method comprising the steps of:
• transferring the PDL document from the computer to the printer;
• printing the PDL document according to the instruction from the computer;
• and
• storing the PDL document in an archive of the printer according to the instruction from the computer.

A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network, comprising the method of:

• transmitting a document stored in the computer to a storage folder provided in a printer controller through file transfer;
• temporally storing the document in the storage folder;
• ascertaining a normal completion of temporal storage of the document in the storage folder;
• and
• transmitting the document to a target archive in the printer controller from the storage folder.

A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network, wherein storage of a document stored in the computer to an archive within a printer controller is effected according to procedures comprising the steps of:

• requesting an archive management service section provided in the printer controller to store the document while a storage folder name is attached to the start request as an additional parameter from an archive control instruction section provided in the computer;
• preparing a work directory and a name of the work directory for storing a file received by a file transfer receiving section, in which the work directory is named the storage folder name designated by the additional parameter;
• storing the received document file under the storage folder name in the printer controller;
• issuing a document transfer instruction from the archive control instruction section to the file transfer receiving section;
• directing the computer to transfer a document file sequence to the printer controller while a document file name sequence is attached to the document file sequence as an additional parameter;
• issuing a file transmission instruction from a file transfer sending section to the file transfer receiving section,
• transferring the document file sequence to the file transfer receiving section while the document file name sequence is attached to the document file sequence as an additional parameter;
• storing the thus-received document file sequence in a storage folder according to the file transfer receiving section;
• transferring a transfer completion report to the file transfer sending section after the file transfer receiving section has completed storage of all the document files into the storage folder;
• transferring the transfer completion report from the file transfer sending section to a transfer completion checking section provided in the archive control instruction section so as to report that all the document files have been stored in the storage folder within the printer controller;
• issuing a document storage completion request from the archive control instruction section to the archive management service section;
• directing the archive management service section to store the received document sequence into the storage folder while a sequence pair comprising (a) a new storage folder name and (b) a new file name is attached to each of the documents as an additional parameter, so that the names (a) and (b) can be renamed as a new storage folder name and a new document name to each of the document files;
• and
• storing individual documents stored in the storage folder into the archive by reference to the names (a) and (b) according to a storage section of the archive management service section.