Display technique for displaying a layout of a print network system

A method of displaying a layout of a print network system, the print network system comprising a plurality of terminals and a plurality of printers, the method performed by a display terminal which is one of the terminals of the print network system, the method comprising:

• a position storing step of storing a position of each of the terminals and the printers;
• a status storing step of storing a status of each of the printers;
• a connection relationship storing step of storing a connection relationship between each of the terminals and each of the printers;
• and
• a displaying step of displaying the layout of the print network system, the layout comprising a plurality of terminal objects, a plurality of printer objects, and a communication path object, wherein (1) each of the terminal objects and the printer objects is disposed at a corresponding position stored in the position storing step, (2) each of the printer objects is displayed in a manner that represents a status of a corresponding printer stored in the status storing step, and (3) the communication path object is disposed between each of the terminal objects and each of the printer objects based on the connection relationship stored in the connection relationship storing step,
• wherein the printer object includes a printer figure object and a status figure object,
• the communication path object is disposed between each of the terminal objects and each of the printer figure objects,
• the printer object of a printer having a predetermined status is displayed in a manner that includes the printer figure object and the status figure object,
• the predetermined status includes one or both of an in-printing status and a communication trouble status,
• the status figure object includes one or both of an in-printing status figure object and a communication trouble status figure object,
• the printer object of a printer having displayed in a manner includes the in-printing status figure object disposed along the communication path object between the terminal object of a terminal which has output a print instruction and the printer figure object of the printer having the in-printing status, and
• the printer object of a printer having the communication trouble status is displayed in a manner that includes the communication trouble status figure object disposed along the communication path object between the terminal object of a terminal which has output a print instruction and the printer figure object of the printer having the communication trouble status.

A computer storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon, for a display terminal displaying a layout of a print network system, the print network system comprising a plurality of terminals and a plurality of printers, wherein the display terminal is one of the terminals of the print network system, and the computer readable medium comprises instructions for ordering a computer mounted on the display terminal to perform:

• a position storing step of storing a position of each of the terminals and the printers;
• a status storing step of storing a status of each of the printers;
• a connection relationship storing step of storing a connection relationship between each of the terminals and each of the printers;
• and
• a displaying step of displaying the layout of the print network system, the layout comprising a plurality of terminal objects, a plurality of printer objects, and a communication path object, wherein (1) each of the terminal objects and the printer objects is disposed at a corresponding position stored in the position storing step, (2) each of the printer objects is displayed in a manner that represents a status of a corresponding printer stored in the status storing step, and (3) the communication path object is disposed between each of the terminal objects and each of the printer objects based on the connection relationship stored in the connection relationship storing step,
• wherein the printer object includes a printer figure object and a status figure object,
• the communication path object is disposed between each of the terminal objects and each of the printer figure objects,
• the printer object of having a predetermined status is displayed in a manner that
• includes the printer figure object and the status figure object,
• the predetermined status includes one or both of an in-printing status and a communication trouble status,
• the status figure object includes one or both of an in-printing status figure and communication trouble status figure object,
• the printer object of a printer having the in-printing status is displayed in a manner that includes the in-printing status figure object disposed along the communication path object between the terminal object of a terminal which has output a print instruction and the printer figure object of the printer having the in-printing status, and
• the printer object of a printer having the communication trouble status is displayed in a manner that includes the communication trouble status figure object disposed along the communication path object between the terminal object of a terminal which has output a print instruction and the printer figure object of the printer having the communication trouble status.