Moving a portion of a print job from one printer queue to another printer queue
OwnerEustace Prince Isidoreinventor
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Abstract
One or more methods, systems and computer program products enables selectable management and queuing of print jobs across multiple available printers available to a device generating the print job. One or more embodiments present a smart print queue with document level view and printer-level transfer of queued print jobs.
Claims14
In a data processing system having a plurality of installed or available printers for printing of one or more generated print jobs, a computer implemented method comprising:
- in response to receiving a first individual print job with a selection of a first printer for completion, queuing the first individual print job for completion at the first printer, wherein the first individual print job is a single document and the single document is assigned to the first printer for completion, independent of a printer allocation of other single documents;
- visually presenting, within a printer controller window, a selectable menu option having a plurality of printer options, including a printer level view and a document level view in which each of the queued documents are indicated in a primary list, with an associated printer and other associated features provided in adjacent columns next to the document indicators;
- in response to a selection of the document level view within the selectable menu option of the printer controller window to a printer level view, displaying a document-level view within the printer controller window, wherein the document level view provides the listing of queued documents and enables movement and manipulation of the queued documents across the multiple available/installed printers in response to one or more different inputs supported by one or more selectable options enabled within the document-level view, and wherein the document level view of queued print jobs is different from and provided in addition to a printer level view that shows the listing of printers and corresponding printer statuses;
- wherein displaying a document-level view further comprises:
- opening and displaying a drop-down menu option having a selectable option that enables a change from the printer level view to the document level view;
- and
- toggling between respective ones of the document level view and the printer level view based on selections received within the drop down menu option of the printer controller window;
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- in response to receiving a selection to move at least a portion of the first individual print job, while the first individual print job is pending within a first print queue of the first printer and before the first individual print job has completed on the first printer, moving the at least the portion of the first individual print job from the first print queue to a second print queue of a second printer, whereby the at least the portion of the first individual print job is printed on the second printer and any remaining portion of the first individual print job is printed on the first printer.
In a data processing system having a plurality of installed or available printers for printing of one or more generated print jobs, a computer implemented method comprising:
- in response to receiving a first individual print job with a selection of a first printer for completion, queuing the first individual print job for completion at the first printer;
- visually presenting, within a printer controller window, a selectable menu option having a plurality of printer options, including a printer level view and a document level view in which each of the queued documents are indicated in a primary list, with an associated printer and other associated features provided in adjacent columns next to the document indicators;
- in response to a selection of the document level view within the selectable menu option of the printer controller window to a printer level view, displaying a document-level view within the printer controller window, wherein the document level view provides the listing of queued documents and enables movement and manipulation of the queued documents across the multiple available/installed printers in response to one or more different inputs supported by one or more selectable options enabled within the document-level view, and wherein the document level view of queued print jobs is different from and provided in addition to a printer level view that shows the listing of printers and corresponding printer statuses;
- wherein displaying a document-level view further comprises:
- opening and displaying a drop-down menu option having a selectable option that enables a change from the printer level view to the document level view;
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- toggling between respective ones of the document level view and the printer level view based on selections received within the drop down menu option of the printer controller window;
- in response to receiving a selection to move at least a portion of the first individual print job, while the first individual print job is pending within a first print queue of the first printer, moving the at least the portion of the first individual print job from the first print queue to a second print queue of a second printer before the first individual print job has completed on the first printer, whereby the at least the portion of the first individual print job is printed on the second printer;
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- in response to receipt of a request to delete only a portion of a single print job that is queued within a first individual print queue, performing a partial deletion of one or more components of the first individual print job corresponding to the portion, while one or more remaining components of the first individual print job are left within the first print queue for printing, wherein a granular component-level deletion is enabled for separately identifiable portions of the single first print job.
In a data processing system having a plurality of installed or available printers for printing of one or more generated print jobs, a computer implemented method comprising:
- visually presenting, within a printer controller window, a selectable menu option having a plurality of printer options, including a printer level view and a document level view in which each of multiple queued documents are indicated in a primary list, with an associated printer and other associated features provided in adjacent columns next to the document indicators;
- in response to a selection of the document level view within the selectable menu option of the printer controller window to a printer level view, displaying a document- level view within the printer controller window, wherein the document level view provides the listing of queued documents and enables movement and manipulation of the queued documents across the multiple available/installed printers in response to one or more different inputs supported by one or more selectable options enabled within the document-level view, and wherein the document level view of queued print jobs is different from and provided in addition to a printer level view that shows the listing of printers and corresponding printer statuses, wherein displaying a document-level view further comprises:
- opening and displaying a drop-down menu option having a selectable option that enables a change from the printer level view to the document level view;
- and
- toggling between respective ones of the document level view and the printer level view based on selections received within the drop down menu option of the printer controller window;
- in response to receiving a first individual print job with a selection of a first printer for completion, queuing the first individual print job for completion at the first printer;
- in response to receiving a selection to move at least a portion of the first individual print job, while the first individual print job is pending within a first print queue of the first printer, moving the at least the portion of the first individual print job from the first print queue to a second print queue of a second printer before the first individual print job has completed on the first printer, whereby the at least the portion of the first individual print job is printed on the second printer;
- in response to detecting a partial delete request of a queued single job, opening a child window on the display and presenting a listing of the pages of the queued first individual print job to receive a selection of specific pages for deletion;
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- enabling selection from within the child window of one of (a) a partial print to a particular select printer of specific pages selected, and (b) deletion of the specific pages selected of the document from the print job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.