Printing apparatus, print processing system and print processing method
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorHideyuki SHIOKAWA
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Abstract
A print processing system includes a plurality of terminal apparatuses and a printing apparatus capable of communicating with the plurality of terminal apparatuses via a network, wherein, to process a print file having a format unprocessable on the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus appropriately specifies a terminal apparatus capable of processing the file format; instructs the terminal apparatus to print the file; and executes the print process using print job data transmitted from the terminal apparatus according to the print instruction.
Claims13
A printing apparatus connected to a plurality of terminal apparatuses, each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses storing file format information, the file format information including a file format that each of the plurality of the terminal apparatuses can process, the printing apparatus comprising:
- a memory configured to store file format information obtained from each of the plurality of the terminal apparatuses;
- an input device configured to input a print file;
- a controller configured to:
- determine whether the printing apparatus can process a file format of the input print file;
- select a terminal apparatus from the plurality of the terminal apparatuses based on the file format information stored in the memory, when it is determined that the printing apparatus cannot process the file format of the input print file, the selected terminal apparatus being able to process the a file format of the input print file;
- instruct the selected terminal apparatus to generate print data from the input print file;
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- obtain the generated print data from the selected terminal apparatus;
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- a printer configured to print the generated print data obtained from the selected terminal apparatus.
A print processing system, comprising:
- a printing apparatus;
- a plurality of terminal apparatuses configured to be connected to the printing apparatus, each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses storing file format information, the file format information including a file format that each of the plurality of the terminal apparatuses can process;
- the printing apparatus comprising:
- a memory configured to store file format information obtained from each of the plurality of the terminal apparatuses;
- an input device to configured to input a print file;
- a controller configured to:
- determine whether the printing apparatus can process a file format of the input print file;
- select a terminal apparatus from the plurality of terminal apparatuses based on the file format information stored in the memory, the selected terminal apparatus being able to process the file format of the input print file, when it is determined that the printing apparatus cannot process the file format of the input print file;
- instruct the selected terminal apparatus to generate print data from the input print file;
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- obtain the generated print data from the selected terminal apparatus;
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- a printer configured to print the generated print data obtained from the one terminal apparatus.
A print processing method for controlling a printer, the printer being connected to a plurality of terminal apparatuses, each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses storing file format information, the file format information including a file format that each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses can process, the print processing method comprising:
- storing file format information obtained from each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses;
- inputting a print file;
- determining whether the printer can process a file format of the input print file;
- selecting a terminal apparatus from the plurality of terminal apparatuses based on the file format information stored in the memory, the selected terminal apparatus being able to process the file format of the input print file, when it is determined that the printer cannot process the file format of the input print file;
- instructing the selected terminal apparatus to generate print data from the input print file;
- obtaining the generated print data from the selected terminal apparatus;
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- printing the generated print data obtained from the selected terminal apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.