JP4543945B2 - Printing system, control method therefor, and print management program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention analyzes a print job received from a higher-level device, converts the analyzed print job into page data for each page, and outputs the page data output from the print server as a print image image. The present invention relates to a printing system having a printer for developing and printing, a control method thereof, and a print management program, and more specifically, a command (control) for a print image image stored in a storage device inside the printer can be executed from a print server. The present invention relates to a printing system, a control method thereof, and a print management program.

  2. Description of the Related Art Printing systems that convert PDL (Page Description Language) that can use an open printer when printing on a large-scale system such as a backbone system have been developed today.

  Further, improvement of throughput has always been a challenge for users who have an operation mode in which a high-speed printer is connected to a printing system for monthly processing or the like and performs large-scale printing in a short time.

  As described in Patent Document 1, as a print control technique for controlling jobs stored for the purpose of improving throughput, bitmap images managed in units of jobs are stored in a hard disk built in the printer. A technique has been developed in which continuous printing is performed without stopping the printing operation by automatically detecting a job that matches the conditions (number of pages, paper length) and executing printing collectively.

On the other hand, print servers that improve overall throughput by dividing a job and transferring it to a plurality of printers have been developed. However, when continuity is emphasized when a single job is printed by a plurality of printers, an operator work such as rearranging occurs, and work efficiency is reduced.
JP 2003-50682

  By the way, as in the invention of the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, a technique for accumulating bitmap images can store a considerable amount of images as the capacity of a hard disk is increased in recent years.

  However, as the resolution of the printer device is improved and the color is increased, the bitmap image has become higher in definition and higher in image quality, so that the capacity for storing the bitmap image per page has increased.

  Therefore, even if the hard disk has a large capacity, it cannot be said that the capacity is sufficient for storing jobs. That is, there is a problem that the job per unit is not suitable for printing including a large number of pages.

  In addition, the conditions for automatic printing are that the paper sizes match, but in this case, printing in a large-scale system such as a core system is managed for each form. Depending on the paper size, it may be necessary to change the paper to a pre-printed paper or the like, so that the operator submits a job with the paper size alone conscious of the paper.

  Therefore, there is a possibility that an erroneous operation or the like by the operator may occur, and there is a problem that work efficiency is deteriorated.

SUMMARY An advantage of some aspects of the invention is to provide a printing system capable of discharging control in units of pages, a control method thereof, and a print management program.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 analyzes a print job received from a host device, converts the analyzed print job into page data for each page, and outputs the page data. In a printing system having a printer that expands and outputs output page data to a print image, the print server includes a print job management unit that manages a print job to be output to the printer, and a print job management unit. Analyzing the print job to be managed; converting the print job managed by the print job management unit into page data in which paper information is associated in units of pages based on the analysis result by the analysis unit; Output control means for outputting the processed page data to the printer; Control command transmission means for transmitting a control command for instructing print discharge based on page data output by the output control means for each page unit, and the printer prints page data output by the print server. Development means for developing the image image, storage means for storing the print image image developed by the development means, discharge means for printing and discharging the print image image stored in the storage means, and transmission of the control command Control means for causing the discharge means to print and discharge the print image image for each of the predetermined page units based on a control command transmitted by the means .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a print server that analyzes a print job received from a host device, converts the analyzed print job into page data for each page, and outputs the page data. The page data output from the print server In a control method of a printing system having a printer that develops and prints a print image image, the print server manages a print job to be output to the printer by a print job management unit, and an analysis unit performs the print job management unit The output control means converts the print job managed by the print job management means into page data in which paper information is associated with each page based on the analysis result by the analysis means, The converted page data is output to the printer, and a control command transmission means is sent to the printer. Then, a control command for instructing print discharge based on the page data output by the output control unit is transmitted for each predetermined page unit, and the printer outputs the page data output from the print server by the expansion unit to the print image image The storage means stores the print image image developed by the development means, the discharge means prints and discharges the print image image stored in the storage means, and the control means uses the control command transmission means. Based on the transmitted control command, the discharge means prints and discharges the print image image for each predetermined page unit .

The invention of claim 3 analyzes a print job received from a host device for a printer that develops and prints page data into a print image, and converts the analyzed print job into page data for each page. A print management program installed on a print server for output, a print job management step for managing a print job to be output to the printer, and an analysis step for analyzing the print job managed by the print job management step; Output control for converting the print job managed by the print job management step into page data in which paper information is associated with each page based on the analysis result of the analysis step, and outputting the converted page data to the printer Step and the printer for each predetermined page unit. Characterized in that it comprises a control command transmission step of transmitting a control command for printing discharged based on the page data output by the control step.

According to the present invention , since the print discharge can be controlled in units of predetermined pages, the capacity of the print image image stored in the printer can be adjusted in units of pages, so that the capacity limit of the storage device of the printer is maximized. For example, a print job exceeding the capacity of the storage device of the printer can be handled.

  Embodiments of a printing system, a control method therefor, and a print management program according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a printing system according to the present invention.

  The printing system includes a client terminal 10, a server terminal 20, a printer 30, and a print server 40, and each device is connected via a LAN (Local Area Network) 50.

  In this embodiment, the case where each device is connected via the LAN 50 will be described. However, if the function of the present invention is executed, the connection may be made in a form other than the LAN. The connection form is not particularly limited.

  The client terminal 10 which is a host device is a personal computer or the like handled by a user, and a plurality of client terminals 10 are connected on the LAN 50. When generating a print job for a document file managed locally or the like, a PDL format print job to which paper information related to the file is added is generated, and the job is transmitted to the print server 40. When the printing process is performed from the client terminal 10, the printing is always performed by the printer 30 via the print server 40.

  The server terminal 20 is a file server that manages document files and the like. For example, a user who handles the client terminal 10 can select a desired document file from the server terminal 20 and can request the print server 30 to print the selected file.

  The printer 30 is a high-speed printer that includes a storage device therein and processes a large amount of printed matter in a short time. The print job received from the print server 40 is developed into a bitmap image (print image image) and temporarily stored in the storage device. The print image image stored here receives a discharge instruction (discharge start) from the print server 40 and is printed out.

  The print server 40 receives a print job from the client terminal 10, temporarily stores the job in a storage device, manages the job, and controls the printer 30 managed by the own device to execute print processing of the job. Specifically, the PDL format print job received from the client terminal 10 is temporarily stored in the storage device, and after the job is analyzed, it is divided into page-unit PDL format print jobs, and the printer 30 managed by the own device. To execute the print processing of the job.

  Also, a print management screen as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the display of the print server 40, and the user can operate a print job from this print management screen. This print management screen displays a list of print jobs managed by the print server 40, and displays the paper name, paper size, number of pages, and job status corresponding to the job name. .

  The job status indicates the status of the print job, and is stored, stored, waiting for storage, suspended, etc. “Accumulated” indicates that the page data accumulated in the printer 30 exists, “Accumulating” indicates transmission to the printer 30 (paper discharge), and “Waiting for accumulation” indicates reception (end of analysis). This indicates that the printer 30 is waiting for transmission, and “hold” indicates that transmission is suspended in the state of being stored in the storage device of the print server 40 (spool complete). For example, when the job 1 is instructed to be ejected, the job status changes during printing.

  When the “job operation” on the upper side of the screen is pressed, a pull-down menu as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed, and settings such as print mode setting, hold, delete, print preview, backup,. In this case, the print mode setting is selected, and the print mode setting screen shown at the bottom of the figure is displayed in a pop-up.

  On this print mode setting screen, the print mode of the print server 40 can be set. As shown in the figure, the print modes of the print server 40 are roughly divided into a normal mode for performing print processing similar to the conventional one and a storage mode.

  The accumulation mode is a mode in which a print image developed based on a print job is temporarily accumulated in the storage device of the printer 30 and print processing is performed. In this case, when the discharge start is received from the print server 40, the printer 40 starts the discharge process of the print image image accumulated in the storage device.

  Further, the accumulation mode is divided into the discharge detection mode and the discharge operation mode. The detailed settings of the discharge detection mode include the job separation setting that separates print jobs that are stored in units of jobs and the page separation that separates print jobs that are stored in units of pages. There is a setting and a paper information change delimiter setting for delimiting a print job for each sheet information, and when the page delimiter is set, the number of pages can be further specified. Each setting provided in the discharge detection mode can be specified by a check box, and a plurality of settings can be specified at the same time. In addition, if all are not specified, a discharge instruction can be manually issued.

  In addition, the detailed settings for the discharge operation mode include post-discharge deletion settings for instructing deletion of the job after completion of the print job discharge processing, and post-discharge storage settings for saving the job as it is after completion of the print job discharge processing. There is. Each setting included in these discharge operation modes can be specified by a radio box, and any one of them can be specified exclusively.

  Here, an outline of the discharge process in the printer 30 and the print server 40 at the time of setting a page break, which is a detailed setting of the discharge detection mode, and at the time of setting a paper information change break will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, FIG. 4 shows an outline of the discharge process in the printer 30 and the print server 40 when the page break setting is selected. Here, description will be made assuming that page designation is made so that jobs are divided every 2000 pages.

  In the figure, job 1 including page data of 1 to 1000 pages and job 2 including page data of 1 to 1500 pages are transmitted from the print server 40 to the printer 30, and the accumulation of the jobs is performed by the printer 30. As it is done, it shows how it is discharged.

  In this case, since the job is set to be divided every 2000 pages, job 1 including page data of 1 to 1000 pages and part of page data (1000 pages) of job 2 are virtually processed as one job. The remaining page data (500 pages) of job 2 is discharged as job P3. At this time, when the storage processing of the jobs P1 and P2 is completed in the printer 30, a control command for a discharge instruction (discharge start) is transmitted from the print server 40, and the discharge processing is performed by the printer 30. Even when the accumulation process of the job P3 is completed in the printer 30, the discharge process of the job P3 is performed in the same manner as the jobs P1 and P2 by the discharge instruction (discharge start) from the print server 40. .

  FIG. 5 shows an outline of the discharge process in the printer 30 and the print server 40 when the paper information change delimiter setting is selected.

  Format name 1 including page data of 1 to 3 pages and format name 2 including page data of 4 to 6 pages are transmitted from the print server 40 to the printer 30, and the job is stored in the printer 30 and discharged. The state of being done is shown. The format name 1 and the format name 2 indicate that the format of the document file is different between the first to third pages and the fourth to sixth pages.

  In this case, since the formats are different, the first to third pages and the fourth to sixth pages are stored in the printer 30 as separate jobs and discharged. At this time, when the accumulation process for the first to third pages is completed in the printer 30, a discharge command (discharge start) control command is transmitted from the print server 40, and the discharge process is performed by the printer 30. If the paper size and the like are different when discharging the fourth to sixth pages, the printer waits for loading of the paper, and after the paper necessary for discharging the fourth to sixth pages is loaded by the user, the print server 40 In the same manner as the first to third pages, the fourth to sixth pages are discharged.

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the printer 30 and the print server 40. Here, only the components related to the present invention will be described.

  The printer 30 includes a transmission / reception unit 31, an editing unit 32, a drawing unit 33, a storage unit 34, and a paper discharge unit 34 as various processing function units.

  The transmission / reception unit 31 is an interface device that connects the print server 40 and the printer 30. Specifically, it performs a function of receiving a command (control command) and page data from the print server 40 and transferring them to the editing unit 32 described later. The control commands from the print server 40 include accumulation start, accumulation end, discharge start, job deletion, printer side job list acquisition, etc. for the storage unit 34, which will be described later.

  The editing unit 32 is a processing unit that analyzes data transferred from the transmission / reception unit 31 to form an image of page data and generates a bitmap image (print image image). The print image generated here is transferred to the drawing unit 33 described later. Also, depending on the command, a print image may be read from the storage unit 35 and transferred to the drawing unit 33 described later.

  Further, the editing unit 32 includes a command analysis unit 32a that analyzes the control command sent from the print server 40. The editing unit 32 analyzes the control command by the command analysis unit 32a and analyzes the analyzed control command. The operation of the printer 30 is controlled according to the command. For example, when the received control command is accumulation start, the operation state of the printer 30 is switched to the accumulation mode. Similarly, when the accumulation is completed, a printer job ID for managing the accumulated page data as a job is created and the accumulation mode is canceled. The printer job ID created at this time is transmitted to the print server 40 via the transmission / reception unit 31.

  The drawing unit 33 is a processing unit that accumulates the print image image transferred from the editing unit 32 in the storage unit 35 according to an instruction from the editing unit 32 or transfers the print image image to a paper discharge unit 34 to be described later for printing. is there. That is, when the print mode of the printer 30 is the accumulation mode, the received print image image is accumulated in the storage unit 35, whereas when the print mode is the normal mode, the received print image image is stored in the discharge unit. 34, and the paper discharge unit 34 performs normal printing processing.

  The paper discharge unit 34 is a processing unit that outputs the print image received from the drawing unit 33 to a sheet or the like.

  The storage unit 35 is a storage device such as an HD (Hard Disk). As described above, the print image generated by the editing unit 32 is stored (stored) here. Further, the print image image stored here can be controlled by a control command from the print server 40. The above is the description of the various processing function units of the printer 30.

  The print server 40 includes, as various processing function units, a reception unit 41, a storage unit 42, a job management unit 43, an analysis unit 44, an output control unit 45, a UI (User Interface) control unit 46, and a display unit. 47 and an operation unit 48.

  The receiving unit 41 is an interface device that performs communication with the client terminal 10. Specifically, the print job received from the client terminal 10 is stored in the storage unit 42, and the print job management unit 43 (to be described later) is instructed to register the job in the job list.

  The job management unit 43 is a processing unit that performs overall control of print job management. Specifically, when a job list registration instruction is received from the receiving unit 41, the job is registered in the job list, and print jobs are managed using the list. At this time, along with registration in the job list, the analysis unit 44 described later is requested to analyze the registered print job. In addition, the job management unit 43 transmits an instruction (control command) in the PJL (Printer Job Language) format to the printer 30 to control the operation of the printer 30.

  The job list holds information for managing the job managed by the print server 40 and the job stored in the printer 30 in association with each other, and is managed by the print server 40 as shown in FIG. The job list holds a server job ID that is an identifier of a job listed on the server side.

  On the other hand, the print image image stored in the printer 30 is managed by the printer 30 in the printer-side job list, and the storage range indicating the page range of the entire job stored in the print server 40 corresponding to the server job ID. Information such as a printer job ID which is an identifier of a job on the printer side, the number of stored pages indicating a page range accumulated in the printer 30, and the like are held.

  Information on the job list managed by the print server 40 and the printer job list managed by the printer 40 is changed from the job management unit 43 to the printer 30 when a job operation is performed on the print server 40. Will be notified and the consistency between the two will be maintained. As a result, the print image stored in the storage unit 35 of the printer 30 can be operated from the print server 40.

  Upon receiving a print job analysis request from the job management unit 43, the analysis unit 44 analyzes a PDL format print job and divides it into pages.

  The output control unit 45 converts the print job stored in the storage unit 42 into data in a PDL (Page Description Language) format that can be interpreted by the printer 30 in units of pages in accordance with an instruction from the job management unit 43, and the converted print A processing unit that transmits a job to the printer 40. As shown in FIG. 8, the print job received from the client terminal 10 includes a plurality of pages of print data for each print job. Each page includes paper information and page data. The print job received by the analysis unit 44 is analyzed and divided into paper information and page data. The data is converted into PDL data in page units as shown and transmitted to the printer 30.

  The display unit 47 is a display device such as a display for displaying various operation screens, and the operation unit 48 is an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse for inputting user instructions. For example, the print mode of the print server 40 described with reference to FIG. 3 can be appropriately changed using these user interfaces.

  The UI control unit 46 is a processing unit that controls user interfaces such as the display unit 47 and the operation unit 48. Specifically, display control for displaying various operation screens on the display unit 47 is performed, and when a user instruction is input from the operation unit 48, the instruction is linked to the job management unit 43. The above is the description of the various processing function units of the print server 40 according to the present invention.

  Here, the operation of the printing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description, it is assumed that the print mode of the print server 40 is the accumulation mode.

  First, the print job reception process will be described with reference to FIG.

  The print server 40 stands by until a print job is received from the client terminal 10 (NO in step S101). When a print job is received from the client terminal 10 (YES in step S101), this process is started. The

  When this processing is started, first, the print server 40 receives data transmitted from the client terminal 10 in units of jobs by the receiving unit 41 and sequentially stores the data as a spool job in the storage unit 42 (step S102).

  When the reception of all print jobs is completed (step S103), the reception unit 41 instructs the job management unit 43 to register in the job list. Upon receiving this job list registration instruction, the job management unit 43 creates job information and registers (adds) to the job list in accordance with the instruction (step S104). Further, the analysis unit 44 is instructed to analyze the print job registered in the job list.

  Upon receiving this print job analysis instruction, the analysis unit 44 divides the paper information and page data used for each page by the job stored in the storage unit 42 and creates information necessary for output (step S105). ). The result of the analysis processing performed here is stored in the storage unit 42 in a format that can be output for each page, and is managed by the job management unit 43 together with the analyzed print job.

  Next, job output processing will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, the job management unit 43 of the print server 40 uses the job list to determine a print job to be transmitted to the printer 30 in the order received (queue management) (step S201).

  When the print job to be transmitted to the printer 30 is determined, the mode information and the job information are added to the print job, and the output control unit 45 is instructed to discharge the job (step S202). In this case, since the print server 40 is operating in the accumulation mode, either the discharge detection mode or the discharge operation mode is set as the mode information.

  In response to the instruction from the job management unit 43, the output control unit 45 acquires job information related to the job in accordance with the instruction from the job management unit 43 (step S203), and then transmits a control command to start accumulation to the printer 30 (step S203). In step S204, the printer 30 is made aware of the accumulation mode.

  Subsequently, the print server 40 reads the paper information and page data of the corresponding job from the storage unit 42, converts them into PDL format data (step S206), and transmits (accumulates) the data to the printer 30 (step S207). Processing is performed by the output control unit 45. This process is performed for each page, and the processes in steps S205 to S213 are repeated until the end of the page.

  In this way, the accumulation process is performed. When the print mode setting of the print server 40 is the page separation setting (YES in step S208), the page data is transmitted from the output control unit 45 to the printer 30. Each time, a determination is made as to whether or not the specified number of pages has been reached (step S210). If the specified number of pages has been reached (YES in step S210), details will be described later, but at the printer 30. The discharge process is once performed (step S211). This is an operation when the check box provided in the page break setting of the print server 40 described in FIG. 3 is selected, and whether the number of pages input in the text box provided on the right side has been reached. The unit of the number of pages on which discharge processing is performed is determined depending on whether or not.

  When the print mode setting of the print server 40 is the paper information change delimiter setting (NO in step S208 and YES in step S209), every time page data is transmitted from the output control unit 45 to the printer 30. Then, it is determined whether or not the paper information has been changed (step S212). If there is a change in the paper information (YES in step S212), the discharge process is once performed by the printer, as will be described in detail later. Step S211). This is the operation when the check box provided in the paper information change delimiter setting of the print server 40 described in FIG. 3 is selected.

  Then, when the processes of S205 to S213 described above are repeatedly performed and the page is completed, the discharge process is performed by the printer 30 (step S211), which will be described in detail later, and this process ends. In the discharge processing performed here, in the case of the page separation setting, the discharge processing of the page data that has not reached the specified number of pages is performed, and in the case of the paper information change separation setting, the undischarged page data A discharge process is performed. Further, when the print mode setting of the print server 40 is the job separation mode, the job is divided here, and the discharge process is performed.

  Here, the operation of the discharging process in step S211 described above will be described with reference to FIG.

  When the discharge process is started, first, a control command for ending accumulation is transmitted from the job management unit 43 of the print server 40 to the printer 30 (step S301). The printer 40 that has received this storage end control command returns a printer job ID corresponding to the stored print image using the printer-side job list.

  In response, the print server 40 that has received the printer job ID from the printer 30 (step S302) transmits a discharge start together with the printer job ID from the job management unit 43 to the printer 30 (step S303). When a plurality of printer job IDs are acquired here, the above-described processing is performed for all the acquired printer job IDs.

  The printer 30 that has received the discharge start performs a print image discharge process based on the instruction, and the print server 40 waits until this process is completed (step S304). When the discharge process is completed, if the post-discharge storage setting is made in the discharge operation mode (NO in step S305), the process ends as it is, while the post-discharge deletion setting is made in the discharge operation mode. If YES in step S305, a job deletion control command is transmitted from the job management unit 43 of the print server 40 to the printer 30 together with the corresponding printer job ID (step S306) and stored in the storage unit 35 of the printer 30. After the deleted print image image is deleted, this process ends.

  As described above, in the present invention, the command (control) for the print image image stored in the printer 30 can be executed by the control command from the print server 40, and in particular, the storage and discharge in the printer 30 can be controlled. Thus, continuous printing can be performed with the throughput maximized without stopping the printing operation of the printer 30. In particular, a high-speed continuous paper printer can make maximum use of its performance. For example, it is possible to eliminate the overhead that occurs at the time of mechanical stop and restart for a job that performs intermittent printing at a transfer neck or the like. Also, even a small job of about several pages can be virtually combined to perform printing processing, thereby eliminating the overhead generated between jobs.

  In addition, since printing discharge can be controlled in units of paper types, it is possible to wait for loading, so that it is not necessary for an operator to input a job while paying attention to the paper, and it is possible to prevent erroneous operation of the operator. it can.

  In addition, since the print discharge can be controlled in units of predetermined pages, the capacity of the print image stored in the printer 30 can be adjusted in units of pages, so that the capacity limit of the storage unit 35 of the printer 30 can be maximized. For example, a print job exceeding the capacity of the storage unit 35 of the printer 30 can be handled.

  Furthermore, since the normal mode and the accumulation mode can be specified as the print mode, the more efficient one can be selected depending on the print job.

  In the above embodiment, the case where the control process according to the present invention is performed by the print server 40 has been described. However, this control process may be performed by a print management program installed in a computer.

  In addition, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments shown above and shown in the drawings, and can be implemented with appropriate modifications within a range not changing the gist thereof.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The printing system, the control method thereof, and the print management program according to the present invention can be applied to all printing systems in which a printer having a storage device is provided, and in particular, an office and a department taking an operation form for performing a large amount of printing in a short time Can be used effectively.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of the overall configuration of a printing system according to the present invention. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen layout of a print management screen. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen layout of a printing mode setting screen. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an outline of discharge processing in the printer 30 and the print server 40 (page break setting). FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an outline of discharge processing in the printer 30 and the print server 40 (paper information change delimiter setting). 2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a printer 30 and a print server 40. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of association information of a job between the printer 30 and the print server 40. FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of configuration information of a print job. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a print job reception process according to the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of job output processing according to the present invention. It is a flowchart explaining the operation | movement of the discharge process in step S211 shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Client terminal 20 Server terminal 30 Printer 31 Transmission / reception part 32 Editing part 32a Command analysis part 33 Drawing part 34 Paper discharge part 35 Storage part 40 Print server 41 Reception part 42 Storage part 43 Job management part 44 Analysis part 45 Output control part 46 UI (User Interface) control unit 47 display unit 48 operation unit 50 LAN (Local Area Network)

Claims (3)

A print server that analyzes a print job received from a host device, converts the analyzed print job into page data for each page, and outputs the page data output from the print server as a print image. A printing system having a printer
The print server
Print job management means for managing print jobs to be output to the printer;
Analysis means for analyzing a print job managed by the print job management means;
Output control means for converting a print job managed by the print job management means into page data associated with paper information in units of pages based on the analysis result by the analysis means, and outputting the converted page data to the printer When,
Control command transmission means for transmitting a control command for instructing print discharge based on page data output by the output control means for each predetermined page unit to the printer ;
The printer is
Expanding means for expanding the page data output by the print server into a print image;
Accumulating means for accumulating print image images developed by the developing means ;
Discharging means for printing and discharging the print image image stored in the storage means ;
A control system comprising: control means for causing the discharge means to print and discharge the print image image for each predetermined page unit based on the control command transmitted by the control command transmission means . A print server that analyzes a print job received from a host device, converts the analyzed print job into page data for each page, and outputs the page data output from the print server as a print image. In a control method of a printing system having a printer
The print server manages a print job to be output to the printer by a print job management unit, an analysis unit analyzes the print job managed by the print job management unit, and an output control unit displays an analysis result by the analysis unit. Based on this, the print job managed by the print job management unit is converted into page data in which paper information is associated with each page, the converted page data is output to the printer, and the control command transmission unit sends the page data to the printer. A control command for instructing print discharge based on the page data output by the output control means for each predetermined page unit,
In the printer, the expansion means expands the page data output from the print server into a print image image, the storage means stores the print image image expanded by the expansion means, and the discharge means stores in the storage means. The print image is printed and discharged, and the control unit causes the discharge unit to print and discharge the print image image for each predetermined page unit based on the control command transmitted by the control command transmission unit. And a control method of the printing system. Installed in a print server that analyzes the print job received from the host device and converts the analyzed print job into page data for each page and outputs it to a printer that develops and prints page data into a print image. A print management program,
A print job management step for managing a print job to be output to the printer;
An analysis step of analyzing the print job managed by the print job management step;
An output control step of converting the print job managed by the print job management step into page data in which paper information is associated with each page based on the analysis result of the analysis step, and outputting the converted page data to the printer When,
A control command transmission step for transmitting a control command for instructing the printing and discharging based on the page data output by the output control step for each predetermined page unit to the printer ;
Print management program, which comprises a.

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