Printing system, image reading apparatus and control method therefor
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsKouji Yorimoto, Katsuo Shimizu
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Abstract
In a printing system comprising an image reading apparatus and plural printers, the image reading apparatus holds functional characteristics information of the printers, selects a printer most suitable for printing the information that has been read based on the functional characteristics information of the printers, prepares print data by writing the information that has been read in a page description language which can be interpreted by the selected printer, and sends the print data to the selected printer. On receiving the print data, the selected printer interprets the page description language in the print data, and executes print processing.
Claims8
A printing system comprising:
- an image reading apparatus that reads information from an original document;
- and
- a plurality of printers that performs printing based on the information read by the image reading apparatus, wherein
- the image reading apparatus comprises:
- an image reading unit that reads information from the original document;
- a printer characteristics holding unit that holds functional characteristics information of the printers;
- a selecting unit that selects a printer most suitable for printing the information read by the image reading unit, based on the functional characteristics information of the printers held by the printer characteristics holding unit;
- a print data processing unit that prepares print data by writing the information read by the image reading unit in a page description language which can be interpreted by the selected printer;
- and
- an output control unit that sends the print data prepared by the print data processing unit to the printer selected by the selecting unit, and wherein
- the printer selected by the selecting unit receives the print data sent by the output control unit, interprets the page description language in the print data, and executes print processing.
An image reading apparatus which is connected to a plurality of printers and reads information from an original document, comprising:
- an image reading unit that reads information from the original document;
- a printer characteristics holding unit that holds functional characteristics information of the printers;
- a selecting unit that selects a printer most suitable for printing the information read by the image reading unit based on the functional characteristics information of the printers held by the printer characteristics holding unit;
- a print data processing unit that prepares print data by writing the information read by the image reading unit in a page description language which can be interpreted by the selected printer;
- and
- an output control unit that sends the print data prepared by the print data processing unit to the printer selected by the selecting unit.
A control method for a printing system having an image reading apparatus that reads information from an original document;
- and a plurality of printers that performs printing based on the information read by the image reading apparatus, comprising:
- reading, by an image reading unit, information from the original document;
- holding, a printer characteristics holding unit, functional characteristics information of the printers;
- selecting, by a selecting unit, a printer most suitable for printing the information read by the image reading unit, based on the functional characteristics information of the printers held by the printer characteristics holding unit;
- preparing, by a print data processing unit, print data by writing the information read by the image reading unit in a page description language which can be interpreted by the selected printer;
- sending, by an output control unit, the print data prepared by the print data processing unit to the printer selected by the selecting unit;
- receiving, by the printer selected by the selecting unit, the print data sent by the output control unit;
- interpreting, by the printer, the page description language in the print data;
- and
- executing print processing by the printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.