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US 2010/0073705 A1Published application
Print job assignment method allowing user-prioritization
AssigneeKonica Minolta Systems Laboratory, Inc.
InventorShane Matthew Cain
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AssigneeKonica Minolta Systems Laboratory, Inc.
InventorShane Matthew Cain
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An automatic job assignment method implemented in a print job management apparatus for processing print jobs in a multiple-printer print shop environment described. Each print job is processed by comparing the printing requirements of the job with capabilities of the printers to find one or more candidate printers that can satisfy all job requirements. Then, from all such candidate printers, one printer is selected by evaluating real-time conditions of the printers, such as wait time, device status, periodic maintenance (PM) count, operation history, etc., and the print job is submitted to the selected printer. The real-time conditions and the order in which they are evaluated are set by the operator. The process can also be run in an alternative mode where one of the candidate printers is selected based on a pre-defined fixed priority preference.
A method for processing a print job implemented in a print job management apparatus for managing a plurality of printing devices, the method comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable code embodied therein for controlling a data processing apparatus for managing a plurality of printing devices, the computer readable program code being configured to cause the data processing apparatus to execute a process for processing a print job, the process comprising:
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