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US 2022/0091794 A1Published application
Print control server and print control method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsRyosuke KAKIO, Takashi SERA, Yosuke KAWAKAMI, Yuma KITAHARA
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Abstract
A print control server includes a print controller that acquires a print instruction entered by a user belonging to a group chat in a chat system provided by a social networking service (SNS) and causes a printer to execute printing in accordance with the print instruction, a history acquirer that acquires a print history, based on the print instruction, of the printer, and a notifier that notifies the print history in a chat form to an administrator of the group chat via the chat system.
Claims11
A print control server comprising:
- a print controller that acquires a print instruction entered by a user belonging to a group chat in a chat system provided by a social networking service (SNS) and causes a printer to execute printing in accordance with the print instruction;
- a history acquirer that acquires a print history, based on the print instruction, of the printer;
- and
- a notifier that notifies the print history in a chat form to an administrator of the group chat via the chat system.
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A print control method comprising:
- a print control step of acquiring a print instruction entered by a user belonging to a group chat in a chat system provided by a social networking service (SNS) and of causing a printer to execute printing in accordance with the print instruction;
- a history acquisition step of acquiring a print history, based on the print instruction, of the printer;
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- a notification step of notifying the print history in a chat form to an administrator of the group chat via the chat system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.