US 2014/0368866 A1Published application

Printing system and print job state indication method

AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

InventorTakashi KIKUMOTO

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Abstract

A printing system includes a first unit, a second unit, a third unit, and a display. The first unit stores start and end time of a printed job. The second unit stores start time of an in-progress print job and stores predicted end time calculated from attributes of the in-progress print job. The third unit stores predicted start and end time calculated from attributes of a ready-for-print job. The display indicates a mark representing current time, indicates a figure along a time axis on one side of the mark, representing an existence of the printed job from the start to end time, indicates a figure crossing the mark, representing an existence of the in-progress print job from the start to predicted end time, and indicates a figure on the other side of the mark, representing an existence of the ready-for-print job from the predicted start to end time.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A printing system comprising:

a first unit that stores start time and end time of a printed job;
a second unit that stores start time of an in-progress print job and that stores predicted end time that has been calculated on the basis of attributes of the in-progress print job;
a third unit that stores predicted start time and predicted end time that have been calculated on the basis of attributes of a ready-for-print job;
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a display that indicates a mark representing current time, that indicates a predetermined figure along a predetermined time axis on one side of the mark, representing an existence of the printed job from the start time to the end time, that indicates a predetermined figure along the predetermined time axis so as to cross the mark, representing an existence of the in-progress print job from the start time to the predicted end time, and that indicates a predetermined figure along the predetermined time axis on the other side of the mark, representing an existence of the ready-for-print job from the predicted start time to the predicted end time.

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Facts

Application: 14/057,432Filed 18 Oct 2013
Priority: JP 2013-12633317 Jun 2013
Published: 18 Dec 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06K 15/005
Interacting with the operator: only locally
G06F 3/1207
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
G06F 3/1259
Print job management: print job monitoring, e.g. job status
G06F 3/1273
Print job management: print job history, e.g. logging, accounting, tracking