Information processing apparatus and recording medium
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorToshiki Tsukano
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus of the present invention determines whether or not there is a bias in jobs distributed to a plurality of printers to be used in a distributed printing system. In addition, in a case where there is a bias in distributed jobs, the information processing apparatus decides a color correction target to be applied to a printer having a small number of distributed jobs and resulting in an unused state, applies the decided color correction target to the printer having a small number of jobs, to thereby decide a timing of performing color adjustment on the printer having a small number of jobs. The printer having a small number of jobs and resulting in an unused state is subjected to color adjustment at the decided timing.
Claims8
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a hardware processor configured to:
- determine whether or not there is a bias in numbers of output-reserved jobs to be distributed to a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- decide a color correction target to be applied to an image forming apparatus having a small number of jobs, in a case where the hardware processor has determined that there is a bias in numbers of jobs;
- and
- apply the color correction target decided by the hardware processor to the image forming apparatus having a small number of jobs, to thereby decide a timing of performing color adjustment on the image forming apparatus having a small number of jobs.
A nontransitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information processing program that causes a computer to execute processing steps comprising:
- bias determination processing of determining, by an information processing apparatus that distributes output-reserved jobs to the plurality of image forming apparatuses, whether or not there is a bias in numbers of jobs to be distributed to the plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- color correction target decision processing of deciding, by the information processing apparatus, a color correction target to be applied to an image forming apparatus having a small number of jobs, in a case where the information processing apparatus has determined in the bias determination processing that there is a bias in numbers of jobs;
- and
- color adjustment timing decision processing of applying, by the information processing apparatus, the color correction target decided in the color correction target determination processing to the image forming apparatus having a small number of jobs, to thereby decide a timing of performing color adjustment on the image forming apparatus having a small number of jobs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.