Printing system, printing server and information processing device

A printing system comprising an information processing device and a print server, a printing rule registered in advance with said print server being applied to a print job sent from said information processing device and a process defined in the printing rule being performed so that printing process being controlled, wherein

• said information processing device includes:
• a job generating part for generating the print job containing header information and job information in response to a user instruction;
• and
• a job transmitting part for sending the print job generated by said job generating part to said print server, and
• said print server includes:
• an initial determination part for extracting the header information showing settings of the print job in the print job received from said information processing device to make an initial determination to determine the printing rule applied to the print job based on the header information, and sending a result of the initial determination to said information processing device;
• and
• a job controlling part for continuing a process on the print job in response to receiving a continue instruction from said information processing device, and suspending the process on the print job in response to receiving a suspend instruction from said information processing device after the result of the initial determination is sent to said information processing device by said initial determination part.

A print server capable of controlling printing process by applying a printing rule to a print job containing header information and job information and performing process defined in the printing rule, comprising:

• a receiving part for receiving the print job;
• an initial determination part for making an initial determination to determine the printing rule applied to the print job based on the header information showing settings of the print job received by said receiving part and sending a result of the initial determination to a sender of the print job;
• and
• a job controlling part for continuing a process on the print job in response to receiving a continue instruction from said sender, and suspending the process on the print job in response to receiving a suspend instruction from said sender after the result of the initial determination is sent to said sender by said initial determination part.

An information processing device sending a print job to a print server capable of controlling printing process by applying a printing rule to the print job, comprising:

• a job generating part for generating the print job containing header information and job information in response to a user instruction;
• a job transmission part for sending the print job generated by said job generating part to said print server;
• an acquiring part for acquiring from said print server a result of an initial determination through which the printing rule applied to the print job being determined after the process to send the print job is started by said job transmission part;
• a display part on which the result of the initial determination acquired by said acquiring part is displayed;
• and
• an instruction part for sending a continue or suspend instruction in response to the result of the initial determination displayed on said display part to said print server based on the user instruction.