Printing system, printing method, and printing control apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorTamotsu SAKURABA
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Abstract
The printing system according to the present invention has a number-of-pages accepting part for accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages; and a control part for controlling a printer output operation of the document in such a way that each of the split documents obtained by splitting the document from the first page sequentially in the splitting unit will undergo printer output process configured via a printing setting screen.
Claims16
A printing system, comprising:
- a number-of-pages accepting part for accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages;
- and
- a control part for controlling a printer output operation of said document in such a way that each of the split documents obtained by splitting said document from the first page sequentially in said splitting unit will undergo printer output process configured via a printing setting screen.
A printing method, comprising:
- (a) accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages;
- and
- (b) controlling a printer output operation of said document in such a way that each of the split documents obtained by splitting said document from the first page sequentially in said splitting unit will undergo printer output process configured via a printing setting screen.
A printing control apparatus, comprising:
- a receiving part for receiving a print job containing information showing number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages, and information showing printer output process configured via a printing setting screen;
- a recognizing part for recognizing said splitting unit and said printer output process by analyzing said print job received by said receiving part;
- and
- a control part for controlling a printer output operation of said document in such a way that each of the split documents obtained by splitting said document from the first page sequentially in said splitting unit will undergo said printer output process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.