Printing system and printer
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorToshihiro Shima
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Abstract
A printer receives job location data showing the location of the job data of each print job and simultaneously sends a request for acquiring attribute data such as a header related to the job data to host computers which the job location data shows. The printer analyzes attribute data sent earliest, demands job data related to the attribute data from the host computer which sends the attribute data and processes the print job. Another printer provided with plural output bins receives job data for the number of the output bins, allocates the job data to each output bin, processes the print jobs of the job data in parallel and outputs the printed result generated by the processing to the allocated output bin in the generated order.
Claims21
A printing system comprising:
- at least one host computer for generating job data of a print job;
- and
- a printer for receiving said job data from said host computer and printing it, said printer comprising:
- a job request section for making a job request to said host computer for said job data;
- and
- a printing section for receiving said job data sent from said host computer in response to the job request from said job request section and printing it,
- wherein said printing section processes and prints from job data received earliest.
A printing system comprising:
- at least one host computer for generating job data of a print job;
- and
- a printer for receiving said job data from said host computer and printing it, said printer comprising:
- a job request section for making a job request to said host computer for said job data;
- and
- a printing section for receiving said job data sent from said host computer in response to the request from said job request section and printing it,
- wherein said job request section makes a request for attribute data related to said job data, receives said attribute data sent from said host computer in response to the request for said attribute data from said job request section, selects a print job to be processed based upon said received attribute data and makes the job request for said job data of said selected print job from the host computer having said job data, and
- wherein said job request section selects a print job related to attribute data received earliest in response to the request for the attribute data as a print job to be processed.
A printer comprising:
- a job request section for making a job request to a host computer having job data of a print job for said job data;
- and
- a printing section for receiving said job data sent in response to the job request from said job request section and printing it,
- wherein said printing section processes and prints from job data received earliest.
A printer comprising:
- a job request section for making a job request to a host computer having job data of a print job for said job data;
- and
- a printing section for receiving said job data sent in response to the job request from said job request section and printing it,
- wherein said job request section makes a request for attribute data related to said job data, receives said attribute data sent from said host computer in response to the request for the attribute data from said job request section, selects a print job to be processed based upon said received attribute data and makes the job request for said job data of said selected print job from the host computer having said job data, and
- wherein said job request section selects the print job related to attribute data received earliest in response to the request for the attribute data as a print job to be processed.
A method of operating a printer, comprising steps of:
- making a job request for job data from a host computer having the job data of a print job;
- receiving said job data sent from the host computer;
- and
- earliest printing job data received earliest.
A method of operating a printer, comprising steps of:
- making a request for attribute data related to job data from a host computer;
- receiving said attribute data sent from said host computer;
- selecting a print job related to said attribute data received earliest as a print job to be processed;
- making a job request for job data of said selected print job from said host computer having said job data;
- receiving said job data sent from said host computer;
- and
- earliest printing job data received earliest.
A host computer comprising:
- a storage for storing job data of a print job;
- and
- a transmitter for sending attribute data related to said stored job data to a printer in response to a request for attribute data related to said job data from said printer and sending said job data to said printer in response to a job request for job data related to said sent attribute data from said printer.
A method of operating a host computer, comprising steps of:
- storing job data of a print job;
- sending attribute data related to said stored job data to a printer in response to a request for attribute data related to said job data from said printer;
- and
- sending said job data to said printer in response to a job request for job data related to said sent attribute data from said printer.
A record medium readable by a computer on which a program for instructing a computer to execute the following steps is recorded, said steps comprising steps of:
- making a request for attribute data related to job data from a host computer having the job data of a print job;
- receiving said attribute data sent in response to the request;
- selecting a print job to be processed based upon attribute data received earliest;
- and
- making a job request for job data of said selected print job.
A record medium readable by a computer on which a program for instructing a computer to execute the following steps is recorded, said steps comprising steps of:
- receiving job data of a print job generated by a host computer up to a number of output bins provided to a printer;
- allocating said output bin to said received job data;
- executing plural printing processing in parallel;
- and
- outputting a result of printing generated in said printing processing every said job data to said allocated output bin.
A record medium readable by a computer on which a program for instructing a computer to execute the following steps is recorded, said steps comprising steps of:
- storing job data of a print job;
- sending attribute data related to said stored job data to a printer in response to a request for attribute data related to said job data from a printer;
- and
- sending said job data to said printer in response to a job request from said printer for job data related to attribute data received earliest by said printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.