Print control system and method for controlling the system in page by page basis
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsTadashi Suzuki, Yukio Tajima, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Junko Watanabe
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Abstract
A print control system managing a print job on a job basis and on a page basis. When a print job is interpreted, a job description file and page data for each page are created. The job description file contains the attribute of the entire job and a job element (content) list. An item of page data is associated with the print attribute of each page including image data. The job control module extracts necessary image data according to the job element list and sends it to a printer. Because a plurality of print jobs share the common data, many job management functions, including print job combination and page addition/deletion, can be implemented easily.
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A print control system comprising:
- a job description file storage module containing job description files each containing a job element list for each print job;
- a page data storage module containing page data of page images, the page images representing actual data of pages;
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- a job control module extracting and sending to a printer a page image, required for printing, according to a job element list in said job description file, wherein a plurality of print jobs are managed on a job basis and on a page basis and the page data is managed independently of said job description files and may be commonly used by the plurality of print jobs.
A print control method comprising the steps of:
- creating a job description file containing a job element list for each print job;
- creating page data of page images, the page images representing actual data of pages;
- extracting and sending a page image to a printer according to the job element list in said job description file;
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- managing a plurality of print jobs on a job basis and on a page basis and managing the page data independently of said job description file so that the page data may be commonly used by the plurality of print jobs.
A recording medium containing a print control program, wherein said print control program comprises the functions of:
- creating a job description file containing a job element list for each print job;
- creating page data of page images, the page images representing actual data of pages;
- extracting and sending a page image to a printer according to the job element list in said job description file;
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- managing a plurality of print jobs on a job basis and on a page basis and managing the page data independently of said job description file so that the page data may be commonly used by the plurality of print jobs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.