Printing apparatus, printing system and program for printing
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinji Ohira
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a communication section to receive print data, a storage section to store an address of another printing apparatus that holds the same print data as the print data, and a first control section to transmit first information, which indicates that the print data is already printed, to the another printing apparatus through the communication section. The first information may be a signal to instruct the another printing apparatus to delete the print data or a signal to notify a user that the print data is already printed.
Claims20
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a communication section to receive print data;
- a storage section to store an address of another printing apparatus that holds the same print data as the print data;
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- a controller to transmit first information, which indicates that the print data is already printed, to the another printing apparatus through the communication section.
A printing system comprising:
- a fist printing apparatus including a first storage section to store first print data;
- a second printing apparatus including a communication section to receive the first print data, a second storage section to store the first print data and an address of the first printing apparatus, and a controller to transmit first information, which indicates that the first print data is already printed, to the first printing apparatus through the communication section;
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- a client terminal to transmit the first print data to the first and the second printing apparatuses.
A program for printing of a printing apparatus to cause a computer to execute processes of:
- printing print data received by a communication section;
- determining whether the received print data is distributed print data transmitted also to another printing apparatus;
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- transmitting first information indicating that printing is completed to the another printing apparatus through the communication section when, the received print data is the distributed print data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.