Image processing device
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorNobuo Iwata
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Abstract
When a user wishes to print a document available in a server (E103), the user transmits a document information transmission request (X200) from a computer (E102) to a specified printer (E101) The printer (E101) transfers this request (X200) to the server (E103), and the server (E103) sends document information (X201) including a list of URLs of documents available in itself to the computer (E102) via the printer (E101) When the user specifies the desired document shown in the document information (X201) on the computer (E102), the computer (E102) sends a print URL request (X202) to the printer (E101) requesting a printout of the document specified by its URL. The printer (E101) acquires document data of the specified URL from the server (E103) and prints the pertinent document.
Claims14
A printing device which receives reference information of a desired document from an external device, acquires the document from a server using the reference information and performs a predetermined operation, the printing device comprising:
- receiving means for receiving a reference information request asking for reference information of documents available in the server from the external device;
- reference information acquisition means for acquiring the reference information from the server according to the reference information request received by the receiving means;
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- reference information transmission means for transmitting the reference information acquired by the reference information acquisition means to the external device which has issued the reference information request.
A printing system in which reference information indicating the location of a document requested by an operator is sent from a computer manipulated by the operator to a printer, and the printer which has received the reference information acquires the document corresponding to the reference information from a server according to the reference information;
- wherein the printer comprises reference information acquisition means for acquiring a list of reference information of documents available in the server in response to a request from the computer, and reference information transmission means for transmitting the acquired list of the reference information to the computer;
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- wherein the server sends back the list of the reference information of the documents to the printer in response to a request from the printer.
A method of printing a desired document available in a server by using a printer selected by a user according to a command from a computer which is manipulated by the user, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) causing the computer to send a list acquisition request to the user-selected printer requesting it to acquire a list of reference information of documents available in the server;
- (b) causing the printer to send a list transmission request to the server requesting it to send back the list of the reference information of the documents in accordance with the list acquisition request;
- (c) causing the server to send back the list of the reference information of the documents available in the server to the printer in accordance with the list transmission request;
- (d) causing the printer to send data on the list of the reference information received from the server to the computer;
- (e) causing the computer to present a selection entry display based on the data on the list of the reference information received from the printer, enabling the user to specify the desired document;
- (f) causing the computer to send a print request to the printer, the print request including the reference information of the document specified by the user on the selection entry display;
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- (g) causing the printer to acquire data on the user-specified document from the server based on the reference information included in the print request and print out the document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.