Print job transmission device, printing system, and print job transmission method
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsTatsuya HIWATARI, Keiji TSUDA, Masafumi SATO
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A device communication portion 35a transmits a print job to an image forming apparatus 20 and obtains information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20. A server communication portion 35b transmits the information having been obtained from the image forming apparatus 20 to a server 40 which manages the information of the image forming apparatus 20. The device communication portion 35a obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20 with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.
Claims7
A print job transmission device comprising:
- a device communication portion which communicates with an image forming apparatus, which executes a print job, to transmit the print job to the image forming apparatus and obtain information of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a server communication portion which transmits the information obtained by the device communication portion to a server which manages the information of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein
- the device communication portion obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.
A printing system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus which executes a print job;
- a print job transmission device which transmits the print job to the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a server which manages information of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein
- the print job transmission device includes
- a device communication portion which communicates with the image forming apparatus to transmit the print job to the image forming apparatus and obtain the information of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a server communication portion which transmits the information having been obtained by the device communication portion to the server, and
- the device communication portion obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.
A print job transmission method executed by a computer, the method comprising:
- a device communication portion which communicates with an image forming apparatus, which executes a print job, to transmit the print job to the image forming apparatus and obtain information of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a server communication portion which transmits the information having been obtained by the device communication portion to a server which manages the information of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein
- the device communication portion obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.