Print job processing system, output device, program, and storage medium

An output device that receives a print job transmitted from a host computer used by the storing person, comprising:

• folder means consisting of a plurality of folders provided for the output device, and to which various kinds of information outputted by a number of outputting persons are respectively independently registered;
• storage means that stores print jobs transmitted from the host computer used by the storing person corresponding to the storage folders for specified information;
• processing means that stores the storage folders for specified information in predetermined folders of the said folder means, and notifies the host computer used by the outputting person of the storage of the said storage folders for specified information;
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• output means that reads and prints out the print job stored in the said storage means upon receipt of an instruction from the host computer used by the outputting person based on the storage folders for specified information.

A program for causing a computer equipped with a print job processing system that supplies an output device with print jobs stored in a host computer by the storing person in order to carry out the print jobs, comprising:

• a process for independently registering various kinds of information outputted by a number of outputting persons in respective folders;
• a process for generating print jobs and establishing storage folders for specified information that specifies the outputting person to the host computer used by the storing person;
• a process for storing the print job associated with the storage folders for specified information in an external storage apparatus;
• a process for storing the storage folders for specified information in folders corresponding to the predetermined outputting person, and notifying the predetermined outputting person of such storage;
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• a process for of reading and printing out the print jobs stored in the external storage apparatus based on the storage folders for specified information determined by the host computer used by the outputting person.