Print job management system for managing prohibition information

A job management system, comprising a plurality of electric apparatuses and a computer connected to the plurality of electric apparatuses, the computer being capable of ordering one of the electric apparatuses selected by a user from among the plurality of electric apparatuses to execute a job, wherein:

• the computer includes a job reception section for receiving setting of the job composed of a combination of a plurality of functions from the user and a job transmitting section for transmitting the job, the setting of which was received by the job reception section, to the electric apparatus selected by the user from the plurality of electric apparatuses as a job execution destination;
• the electric apparatus includes a job receiving section for receiving a job transmitted from the computer, a prohibition determining section for determining whether or not the combination of a plurality of functions constituting the job received by the job receiving section is a target of a prohibition process stored beforehand, a job executing section for executing the received job, and a prohibition information transmitting section for transmitting prohibition information indicating that the combination of the plurality of functions constituting the job is the target of the prohibition process to the computer when the combination of the plurality of functions constituting the received job is determined to be the target of the prohibition process;
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• the computer further includes a prohibition information receiving section for receiving the prohibition information from the electric apparatus selected by the user as the job execution destination, a prohibition information storage for storing the prohibition information received by the prohibition information receiving section, an instruction reception section for receiving the selection of the electric apparatus as the job execution destination from among the plurality of electric apparatuses, and a display controlling section for causing a display unit of the computer to display a selection screen on which the electric apparatus, as the job execution destination, can be selected from among the plurality of electric apparatuses, for reading the prohibition information of the selected electric apparatus from the prohibition information storage when the selection of the electric apparatus as the job destination has been received by the instruction reception section via the selection screen and causing the display unit to display the prohibition information, whereby, among jobs each composed of a combination of a plurality of functions and whose executions have been ordered by the computer in the past to the selected apparatus, the combination of the plurality of functions that has been determined as the target of the prohibition process is displayed as the prohibition information.

A job management system, comprising a computer and an electric apparatus connected to the computer, wherein:

• the computer includes
• a job reception section for receiving a job execution instruction composed of a combination of a plurality of functions from a user, and
• an inquiry transmitting section for transmitting to the electric apparatus an inquiry request as to whether or not the job received by the job reception section is executable;
• the electric apparatus includes
• a communicating section for receiving the inquiry request,
• a prohibition determining section for determining whether or not the combination of the plurality of functions constituting the job as a target of the inquiry request received by the communicating section is a target of a prohibition process stored beforehand, and
• a prohibition information transmitting section for transmitting prohibition information indicating a determination result by the prohibition determining section to the computer;
• the computer further includes
• a prohibition information receiving section for receiving the prohibition information from the electric apparatus,
• a job transmitting section for transmitting the job received by the job reception section to the electric apparatus when the prohibition information received by the prohibition information receiving section indicates that the combination of the plurality of functions constituting the job as the target of the inquiry request is not the target of the prohibition, and
• a notifying section for notifying that the job is inexecutable when the prohibition information indicates that the combination of the plurality of functions constituting the job as the target of the inquiry request is the target of the prohibition process;
• the prohibition determining section of the electric apparatus, in addition to determining whether or not the combination of the plurality of functions constituting the job as the target of the inquiry request is the target of the prohibition process, detects functions as the target of the prohibition process from the plurality of functions, and the prohibition information transmitting section transmits, as the prohibition information, the functions detected by the prohibition determining section and the determination result to the computer;
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• the notifying section of the computer notifies the combination of the functions that cannot be combined based on the functions indicated by the prohibition information received by the prohibition information receiving section.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a job management program for causing a computer capable of ordering an electric apparatus selected by a user from among a plurality of electric apparatuses to execute a job to function as:

• a first reception section for receiving a generation instruction of the job;
• an instruction reception section for receiving, after the generation instruction of the job has been received by the first reception section, the selection of the electric apparatus that is to execute the job from the plurality of electric apparatuses;
• a setting order inquiring section for requesting, when the selection has been received by the instruction reception section, transmission of setting order information to the selected electric apparatus indicating a setting order of a plurality of functions necessary to execute the job in an order starting from a function that should be set first;
• a setting order receiving section for receiving the setting order transmitted from the selected electric apparatus in response to the inquiry;
• a display controlling section for causing a display unit of the computer to display a setting order guide screen that guides the setting order of the plurality of functions indicated by the setting order received by the setting order receiving section;
• a job reception section for receiving an input of setting a combination of the plurality of functions constituting the job from the user according to the setting order shown by the setting order guide screen in the order starting from the function that should be set first;
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• a job transmitting section for transmitting the job received by the job reception section to the electric apparatus.

A job management system, comprising a plurality of electric apparatuses and a computer connected to the plurality of electric apparatuses, the computer being capable of ordering one of the electric apparatuses selected by a user from among the plurality of electric apparatuses to execute a job, wherein:

• the computer includes a first reception section for receiving a generation instruction for receiving a generation instruction of the job, an instruction reception section for receiving, after the generation instruction of the job has been received by the first reception section, the selection of the electric apparatus that is to execute the job from among the plurality of electric apparatuses, and a setting order inquiring section for requesting, when the selection has been received by the instruction reception section, transmission of setting order information to the selected electric apparatus indicating a setting order of a plurality of functions necessary to execute the job in an order starting from a function that should be set first;
• the electric apparatus includes a communicating section for performing data communication with the computer, a job executing section for executing a job received from the computer by the communicating section, a setting order storage for storing a predetermined setting order when a plurality of functions are combined to constitute each job executable in the electric apparatus, and a setting order transmitting section for reading the setting order for a job indicated by a setting order transmission request received by the communicating section from the setting order storage and transmitting the read setting order to the computer;
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• the computer further includes a setting order receiving section for receiving the setting order transmitted from the selected electric apparatus, a display controlling section for causing a display unit of the computer to display a setting order guide screen that guides the setting order of the plurality of functions indicated by the setting order received by the setting order receiving section, a job reception section for receiving an input of setting a combination of the plurality of functions constituting the job from a user according to the setting order shown by the setting order guide screen in the order starting from the function that should be set first, and a job transmitting section for transmitting the job received by the job reception section to the electric apparatus.