Information processing apparatus, information processing system, print control method, and storage medium storing computer readable program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoichiro Wanda
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Abstract
The object is to print continuously in the specified order by one operation a series of print jobs printed in any timing by a plurality of host computers for the same printer even if a usual print job is spooled together in a print server. In a method for solving the problem, a print server identifies ordered print jobs for which print order is to be specified and non-ordered print jobs out of a plurality of print jobs transmitted in any timing from a client, the print order for each print job identified as such is rearranged and aligned in specified order, and the output order for each print job aligned for a printer based on the state of alignment.
Claims15
A print control method carried out in an information processing apparatus, which controls print data to be printed by a printer, said method comprising:
- a reception step of receiving from clients a group print request for grouping a plurality of print jobs into a single group job and printing the grouped print jobs in succession;
- a print control step of controlling printing of the group job if all of the plurality of print jobs in the group job are ready;
- a recognition step of recognizing whether a print job has a print end status in the printer;
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- a notice control step of determining whether each of print job in the group job has the print end status in response to a recognition in said recognition step, and, if each print job in the group job has the print end status, notifying the clients of the print end status, and, if at least one of print job in the group job does not have the print end status, not notifying the clients of the print end status even for print jobs have the print end status.
A print control method comprising:
- a management step of managing a group job in which a plurality of print jobs are grouped and printed in succession;
- a transmission control step of transmitting the plurality of print jobs in the group job managed in said management step to a printer in a predetermined order;
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- a determination step of determining whether a printer for outputting the group job is a face-up printer or a face-down printer, wherein,
- if said determination step determines that the printer is a face-down printer, said transmission control step starts transmitting the plurality of print jobs from a first print job in a print order, and,
- if said determination step determines that the printer is a face-up printer, said transmission control step starts transmitting the plurality of print jobs from a last print job in the print order.
A print control method carried out in an information processing apparatus, which controls print data to be printed by a printer, said method comprising:
- a reception step of receiving a group print request for grouping a plurality of print jobs into a single group job and printing the grouped print jobs in a predetermined order;
- a print control step of controlling printing of the group job if the plurality of print jobs in the group job are ready;
- a recognition step of recognizing whether each print job has a print end status;
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- a notice control step of, if it is recognized in said recognition step that the last print job in the group job has the print end status, notifying a client of the print end status, and, if it is recognized in said recognition step that at least one print job in the group job does not have the print end status, not notifying the client of the print end status.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.