Printer control system, printing method, and storage medium

A printer control system comprising:

• spooler for spooling a file including a hierarchy of print ticket attached with remaining fixed document and fixed pages, in response to a print job;
• rendering unit for creating print data from a spooled file;
• monitor for detecting a printing error at a printer;
• modifying unit, using a CPU, for modifying the spooled file by including printing type information and page information where printing error occurred;
• and
• redirecting unit for redirecting the spooled file modified by the modifying step to another printer driver.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores a programmed method for controlling a printer, the method comprising:

• spooling a file including a hierarchy of print ticket attached with remaining fixed document and fixed pages, in response to a print job;
• creating print data from a spooled file;
• detecting a printing error at a printer;
• modifying, using a CPU, the spooled file by including printing type information and page information where printing error occurred;
• and
• redirecting the spooled file modified by the modifying step to another printer driver.

A method for controlling a printer comprising;

• spooling a file including a hierarchy of a print ticket attached with a fixed document and a fixed page, in response to a print job;
• creating print data from a spooled file;
• detecting a printing error at the printer;
• determining, using a CPU, required printing features for the print job based on the print ticket in the spooled file;
• and
• displaying candidate printers to be redirected based on the result of the determining.

A printer control system comprising:

• Spooler for spooling a file including a hierarchy of a print ticket attached with a fixed document and a fixed page, in response to a print job;
• rendering unit for creating print data from a spooled file;
• monitor for detecting a printing error at the printer;
• determining unit for determining required printing features for the print job based on the print ticket in the spooled file;
• and
• displaying unit for displaying candidate printers to be redirected based on the result of the determining.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores a method for controlling a printer, the method comprising:

• spooling a file including a hierarchy of a print ticket attached with a fixed document and a fixed page, in response to a print job;
• creating print data from a spooled file;
• detecting a printing error at a printer;
• determining, using a CPU, required printing features for the print job based on the print ticket in the spooled file;
• and
• displaying candidate printers to be redirected based on the result of the determining.

A method for controlling a printer via a server computer, comprising:

• spooling a file including a hierarchy of a print ticket attached with a fixed document and a fixed page, in response to a print job on a client computer;
• creating print data from a spooled file;
• processing a print job;
• storing, using a CPU, a copy of the spooled file during the processing of the print job;
• receiving a request to redirect;
• and
• sending a modified copy of the spool file to another printer after the request to redirect is received.

A method for controlling a printer via a server computer, comprising:

• spooling a file including a hierarchy of a print ticket attached with a fixed document and a fixed page, in response to a print job on a client computer;
• creating print data from a spooled file;
• processing a print job;
• storing, using a CPU, a copy of the spooled file during the processing of the print job;
• receiving a request to redirect;
• sending a modified copy of the spooled file to another printer after the request to redirect is received;
• and
• deleting the copy of the spooled file if a signal which corresponds to a predetermined redirect printing operation is not received.

A system for controlling a printer via a server computer, comprising:

• a spooler for spooling a file including a hierarchy of a print ticket attached with a fixed document and a fixed page, in response to a print job on a client computer;
• a rendering unit for creating print data from a spooled file;
• a processing unit for processing a print job;
• a storing unit for storing a copy of the spooled file during the processing of the print job;
• a receiving unit for receiving a request to redirect;
• and
• a sending unit for sending a modified copy of the spooled file to another printer in response to the request to redirect.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores a method for controlling a printer via a server computer, the method comprising:

• spooling a file including a hierarchy of a print ticket attached with a fixed document and a fixed page, in response to a print job on a client computer;
• creating print data from a spooled file;
• processing a print job;
• storing, using a CPU, a copy of the spooled file during the processing of the print job;
• receiving a request to redirect;
• and
• sending a modified copy of the spooled file to another printer in response to the request to redirect.