JP2002342042A - Print controller and print control program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print controller for preventing the waste of print resources in a pharmacy or the like. SOLUTION: When prescription data are received (Yes in S1), terminal equipment 12 refers to the name of a patient (S2), retrieves history information corresponding to the name of the patient in a customer DB 31 and refers to the number of times of communication reception N (S3). Further, the number of times of medicine dispensation M is referred to (S4) and a ratio M/N is defined as an index R indicating the propriety of printing (S5). A reception history and the number of times of the reception are updated (S6). When the number of times of the reception N is equal to or smaller than a threshold Tn (No in S7), the print of a prescription is suspended. When the number of times of the reception N is larger than the threshold Tn (Yes in S7), the index R and the threshold Tr are compared. When the index R is equal to or smaller than the threshold Tr (No in S8), the print of the prescription is suspended. When the index R is larger than the threshold Tr (Yes in S8), the prescription or the like is printed (S9). Finally, a medicine dispensation history in the history information and the number of times of the medicine dispensation are updated (S19).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a print control apparatus and a print control program for judging the necessity of printing print data and suppressing unnecessary printout, and more particularly to a technique for judging the necessity of printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the progress of the division of medicine, it has been widely practiced to send a prescription prepared by a doctor at a hospital to a pharmacy where a patient will use the product by FAX or the like.
In general, the pharmacy waits for the arrival of a patient and then starts dispensing after preparing preparations necessary for dispensing, such as taking out a drug from a drug store according to a received prescription. In this way, if the prescription received by fax is printed out and the preparations necessary for dispensing are made before the patient arrives in accordance with the contents of the output prescription, the preparations for dispensing after the patient arrives can be compared with the case where the preparation for dispensing is started after the patient arrives. The waiting time of the patient in the pharmacy can be reduced.

[0003] However, for the purpose of shortening the waiting time of the patient and improving the dispensing efficiency, the patient may arbitrarily select the pharmacy requesting the dispensing, even if it is transmitted in advance to the pharmacy that the patient will use. Because it is possible, depending on the individual patient's circumstances and the situation at that time, there is a case where the pharmacy assumed to be used is not requested for dispensing. In such a case, since the pharmacy does not come to the patient despite receiving the prescription, the facsimile required for printing the prescription is used.
Paper, toner and the like are often wasted.

As a technique for saving unnecessary resources by suppressing unnecessary printout, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-24245.
There is a printing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 5 (1993) -205. The printing apparatus disclosed in this publication executes printing only in response to a print request transmitted from a previously specified transmission source, and does not execute printing in response to a request from a transmission source other than the specified transmission source. Thus, printout of unnecessary data is suppressed.

[0005]

However, since it is irrelevant whether or not a patient comes to a pharmacy and to which hospital the prescription is transmitted, whether or not printing can be performed for each transmission source by a conventional printing apparatus is considered. I can't solve the problem just by setting. The above are issues related to medicine and medicine. The following situations can be considered as cases where such issues occur.

In recent years, with the spread of communication means such as the Internet and the spread of terminal devices such as personal computers, not only various messages and news, but also photographic prints, books, and the like, which were once mailed as prints, are distributed through the network. It has become. If a photo or book is converted into electronic data and distributed via a network instead of mailing the printed matter, the delivery cost and labor for delivery can be reduced, and the delivery time can be reduced.

As described above, there are various advantages in distributing electronic data via a network. However, when browsing distributed photos and books, it is still desired to print them, and personal computers and the like are still required. In general, a printout is executed by giving an instruction manually. But,
The operation of displaying the received data on a personal computer or the like each time, confirming the contents, and instructing a printout when necessary is quite troublesome. However, if all of the received data is automatically printed out, unnecessary data is printed, and paper, toner, and the like required for printing are wasted.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has certain advantages such as a reduction in waiting time for a patient and an improvement in operability for printing, and a waste of print resources. It is an object of the present invention to provide a print control device that prevents the above.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, a print control apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a data receiving means for receiving print data; a parameter detecting means for detecting a parameter characterizing the received print data; Print determination means for determining whether to print the received print data in accordance with the print history of the print data characterized by the same parameters as the parameters characterizing the print data.

In particular, the number of times print data characterized by the same parameter has been received in the past is
If a print history calculation unit is provided that determines the print history of the print data characterized by the parameter based on the ratio of the number of times the print data characterized by the parameter has been printed in the past, the ratio of the number of times is small. The print data can be determined not to be printed. Therefore, it is possible to prevent unnecessary printing of print data that is considered to be unlikely to be printed due to past history, to save printing resources, and to automatically print data that is likely to be printed. It is convenient.

[0011] Further, there is provided a prohibition instruction receiving means for designating print data and receiving a prohibition instruction for prohibiting printing of the print data. When the prohibition instruction is received, the print determination means sets the print data regardless of the print history. The print data according to the prohibition instruction is determined not to be printed. By doing so, printing of highly confidential print data can be prohibited regardless of the print history, so that leakage of confidentiality can be prevented.

If the number of times the print data characterized by the same parameter has been received in the past is less than a predetermined number, the print determining means does not print the print data characterized by the parameter. Is determined. With this configuration, useless printing can be prevented in a case where the acceptability of the print cannot be determined with sufficient accuracy due to a small number of receptions, so that print resources can be saved.

[0013] Also, there is provided print request receiving means for designating print data and receiving a print request for requesting printing of the print data. When the print request is received, the print determination means sets the print data regardless of the print history. It is characterized in that it is decided to print the print data according to the print request. In this way, even if it is determined based on the print history that printing should not be performed, printing can be performed as needed in reality.

Further, the print data is prescription data, and the parameter detection means detects a parameter indicating a patient according to the prescription data. This can prevent unnecessary printing of prescriptions at the pharmacy. The print control program according to the present invention is characterized by a data receiving step of receiving print data, a parameter detecting step of detecting a parameter characterizing the received print data, and the same parameters as those of the received print data. A print determining step of determining whether to print the received print data in accordance with the print history of the received print data. With this configuration, the computer can be used as the print control device according to the present invention, and the effects of the present invention can be achieved.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a print control device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. (First Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a schematic configuration of a medical support system including a print control device according to a first embodiment. In FIG. 1, a medical support system 1 includes devices installed in a hospital 2 and pharmacies 3a, 3b,..., Which are connected to a WAN (Wide Are) via a router or the like (not shown).
a Network) 4 and can communicate with each other to exchange data.

An office 6 in the hospital 2 has a personal computer (hereinafter simply referred to as "PC") 18 and an IC.
Terminal device 1 configured to connect card reader / writer 17
1 is installed. An IC card is issued to each patient who uses the hospital 2, and the staff of the hospital 2 uses the terminal device 11 to write medical data (medical treatment contents, medical treatment history, accounting information related to medical treatment, etc.) on the IC card. Or read them.

In the waiting room 5 in the hospital 2, a terminal device 10 for use by patients and attendants is installed. The terminal device 10 includes a display unit 13, an IC card reader,
The terminal device 10 is provided with a writer 14, a control unit 15, and a printer 16, and a patient or the like can display or print medical data recorded on an IC card using the terminal device 10. Further, the terminal device 10 refers to the prescription data recorded on the IC card, searches for a pharmacy capable of dispensing the prescription data, inquires and displays the congestion status and the like to each pharmacy via the WAN 4, We also provide services to do In addition, these terminal devices 10 and 1 in the hospital 2 are provided.
1 are connected to the router via a LAN (not shown) and can communicate with each other via the LAN.

Each of the pharmacies 3a, 3b,... Is provided with a device constituting the medical support system 1. Here, the basic configuration of the equipment installed in each pharmacy will be described by taking the equipment installed in the pharmacy 3a as an example. Pharmacy 3
a, an IC card reader / writer 19 and a printer 21
Is connected to the WAN 20 via a router (not shown). The terminal device 12 receives the prescription data from the hospital 2 via the WAN, determines whether or not printing is possible as described later, and prints the prescription using the printer 21. The terminal device 12 also prints a medication instruction book. Further, the terminal device 12 receives the inquiry from the terminal device 10 of the hospital 2, and responds as to whether or not dispensing is possible based on the prescription relating to the inquiry, the congestion state, and the like.

In the medical support system 1, the following databases are connected in addition to the above-described devices installed in the hospital 2, the pharmacy 3a, and the like. That is, hospital 2
Hospital DB7 that stores data such as medical subjects, locations, and consultation times, pharmacy DB8 that stores data such as stocks and locations of each pharmacy, business hours, appearance images of drugs, components,
The medicine DB 9 stores data such as effect indications, side effects, and precautions. Each terminal device such as the hospital 2 and the pharmacy 3a
These databases can be accessed via WAN4. The location of these databases may be the hospital 2 or the pharmacy 3a, or a separate service center may be provided.
It may be installed there. Hospital DB is Hospital 2
, And the pharmacy DB and the medicine DB may be distributed and arranged at a plurality of places, such as in a pharmacy.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of medical data stored in the IC card issued by the hospital 2 to the patient. As shown in FIG. 2, each medical data stored in the IC card is classified into respective storage items of basic information, emergency information, adult information, and medical information. For example, when and what kind of medical treatment was received are recorded in the medical treatment history column and the medical treatment content column of the medical information. The prescription issued at which hospital and at which pharmacy was dispensed is recorded in the medication history column and the medication information column.

Next, the functional configuration of the PC 20 of the pharmacy 3a will be described. FIG. 3 is a functional configuration diagram showing a functional configuration of the PC 20 of the pharmacy 3a. As described above, the PC 20 is connected to the IC card reader / writer 19 and the printer 21. In addition, the PC 20 can access the hospital 2 and the medicine DB 9 via the WAN 4. Now,
The PC 20 includes functional units such as a communication processing unit 30, a customer DB 31, and a print determination unit 32. The communication processing unit 30 is a functional unit that executes communication processing for accessing the hospital 2 and the medicine DB 9. The printer control unit 35
The printer 21 is controlled to execute printing. The IC card reader / writer control unit 36 includes an IC card reader / writer.
By controlling the writer 19, the IC card reader / writer 19
The above-described data is read from the IC card inserted into the IC card.

The business management unit 33 reports the congestion status of the pharmacy 3a and the like in response to a request from the hospital 2 via the WAN 4 and the communication processing unit 30. The business management unit 33 monitors data from the IC card inserted into the IC card reader / writer 19, and receives time information from the clock unit 34,
Ascertain congestion status, etc. The print determining unit 32
Based on the prescription data received from the hospital 2 via the communication processing unit 4 or the communication processing unit 30, the printer control unit 35 causes the printer 21 to print the prescription. The print determination unit 32 refers to the customer DB 31 to determine whether or not to print a prescription, and records a history of dispensing based on the prescription in the customer DB 31.

The customer DB 31 is a database that records, for each customer, a history of receiving prescription data from the hospital 2 and a history of dispensing based on the received prescription data. FIG.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of history information for each customer stored in a customer DB 31. FIG. 4A shows the history information when the prescription data is received from the hospital 2 but the patient (customer) involved in the prescription data does not use the pharmacy 3a very much. Is received, and a reception history and a dispensing history corresponding to the date are recorded. In addition, the number of receptions and the number of dispensations are recorded along with the history information.

In FIG. 4 (a), the number of receptions is 21, whereas the number of dispensing times is 1. For the patient, even if the prescription data is received, it is rare that the patient is dispensed. You can see that. On the other hand, in the history information of FIG. 4B, while the number of receptions is 32,
It is 0 times, and it can be seen that, when the patient's prescription data related to the history information is received, in contrast to the patient in FIG.

Next, the operation of the terminal device 12 will be described. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the contents of the processing of the terminal device 12. The terminal device 12 first sets the WAN 4
It is checked whether or not the prescription data has been received from the hospital 2 via the like. If the prescription data has not been received (step S
No at 1), wait for prescription data. When the prescription data is received (Yes in step S1), a patient name which is a parameter characterizing the prescription data in the prescription data is referred to (step S2). Next, the history information corresponding to the patient name is searched with reference to the customer DB 31, and the number of receptions N in the history information is referred to (step S3). Further, the dispensing count M in the history information is referred to (step S4), and the ratio M / N of the dispensing count M to the reception count N is set as an index R indicating whether or not printing is possible (step S5). Here, once, the reception history and the number of receptions in the history information are updated, and the customer DB 31
(Step S6).

Next, the number of receptions N is compared with a predetermined threshold value Tn. If the number of receptions N is equal to or less than the threshold value Tn (step S7)
No), it is determined that the number of samples is too small to determine the possibility of a patient visiting the prescription data, and the printing of the prescription is suspended. If the number of receptions N is larger than the threshold value Tn (Yes in step S7), it is determined that a sufficient number of samples have been obtained, and the index R is compared with the threshold value Tr for determining whether or not printing is possible. . And then
If the index R is equal to or smaller than the threshold Tr (N in step S8)
o), it is determined that there is a high possibility that no patient will come to the pharmacy 3a, and the printing of the prescription is suspended. If the index R is larger than the threshold value Tr (Yes in step S8), it is determined that there is a high possibility that a patient will come, and a prescription for dispensing is given.
A medication instruction book for explaining the dosage and the like to the patient is printed (step S9).

Finally, the dispensing history and the number of dispensing times in the history information are updated and stored in the customer DB 31 (step S1).
0). The pharmacy 3a holds the prescription data received from the hospital 2 in the customer DB for a predetermined period (for example, two weeks), and even if the prescription is not printed as described above, the patient visits the pharmacy 3a. When it is done, a prescription or the like is printed based on the stored prescription data. At the time of this printing, the dispensing history and the dispensing frequency in the history information are updated and stored in the customer DB 31.

As described above, according to the medical support system of the present embodiment, the printing of prescriptions and the like is suppressed based on the possibility of the patient's visit, so that the paper, toner, etc. generated when the patient does not visit the pharmacy. Resources can be saved by eliminating waste. In addition, since the printing of prescriptions and the like is suppressed even when the number of receptions of the prescription data is small, even when it is not possible to ensure sufficient accuracy in predicting the visit of a patient due to the small number of samples, the same applies. Resources can be saved. Furthermore, in the above, it can be said that the applicability of the printing of a prescription or the like is extremely high because the judgment is automatically made without any human intervention and the printing is executed.

Although it has been described above that resources can be saved by implementing the present invention in a pharmacy, the present invention is not limited to a pharmacy, but may be implemented in the following embodiments. (Second Embodiment) In a second embodiment, a print control device that receives print data from a communication network such as the Internet or a telephone network and prints the data will be described.

FIG. 6 is a functional configuration diagram showing a functional configuration of the print control apparatus according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 6, a print control device 40 is a PC 42 to which a printer 43 is connected, and receives print data via a communication network 41 and prints it. Further, the PC 42 includes a communication processing unit 44, a print frequency storage unit 45, a print determination unit 4
6, and each functional element of the printer control unit 47. The communication processing unit 44 connects to the communication network 41 and executes communication processing. The print frequency storage unit 45 records, as a print history, the frequency of printing for each type of print data received in the past via the communication network 41. FIG. 7 shows print history information recorded in the print frequency storage unit 45. In the print history information, a reception date and a print history are recorded for each data type.

Upon receiving the print data from the communication processing unit 44, the print determination unit 46 detects the type of the received print data, which is a parameter characterizing the print data. Next, the detected type is specified, the print frequency is inquired to the print frequency storage unit 45, and it is determined whether or not the print data is to be printed according to the obtained print frequency. Further, when the print determining unit determines to print the print data, it causes the printer 43 to print the print data via the printer control unit 47.

More specifically, the print determination unit 46 performs the following processing. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the print determination unit 46. In FIG.
The print determination unit 46 first checks whether print data has been received via the communication network 41. If the print data has not been received (No in step S20), the process waits for the print data. When the print data is received (Yes in step S20), the type of the print data is specified (step S21). Next, it is checked whether the specified type of print data is designated as secret data. If it is designated as secret data (Yes in step S22), printing is not performed and the next print data is awaited. If the print data is not designated as the secret data (No in step S22), the print frequency storage unit 45 is inquired to refer to the print history information corresponding to the type, and the number N of times of receiving the print data of the type is counted ( Step S23). Further, the number of prints M in the print history information is referred to (step S24), and a ratio M / N of the number of prints M to the number of receptions N is set as an index R indicating whether or not printing is possible (step S25). Here, the reception date in the print history information is once updated and recorded in the print frequency storage unit 45 (step S26).

Next, the number of receptions N is compared with a predetermined threshold value Tn. If the number of receptions N is equal to or smaller than the threshold value Tn (step S2)
7), the number of samples is determined to be too small to determine whether print data should be printed, and printing of the print data is suspended. If the number of receptions N is larger than the threshold value Tn (Yes in step S27), it is determined that a sufficient number of samples have been obtained, and the index R and the threshold value Tr for determining whether printing is possible.
Compare. If the index R is equal to or smaller than the threshold Tr (No in step S28), it is determined that there is a high possibility that printing should not be performed, and printing of print data is suspended. If the index R is larger than the threshold value Tr (Yes in step S28), it is determined that there is a high possibility that printing should be performed, and print data is printed (step S29).

Finally, the number of prints in the print history information is updated and recorded in the print frequency storage unit 45 (step S30). Note that the PC 42 holds the received print data in a storage device (not shown), and prints it according to a user's instruction even when printing is not performed as described above. At the time of this printing, the number of times of printing in the print history information is updated.

In the above, the designation of secret data means
The setting is made by the user for each type of print data, and is set when it is not necessary to print the print data without permission. In this manner, the user can automatically check the contents of various data distributed via the network based on the past history without having to check the contents and issue a print instruction. Since the print is executed after the necessity of the print is determined, the labor required for printing the print data can be saved. At the same time, even if the user is absent, the print data that needs to be printed is automatically printed, so that the user need not wait for the printer to complete the printing, which is convenient.

In addition, since data of a type designated in advance can be designated as confidential data, when the user is absent, data that should not be exposed to the public is automatically printed and confidential information is leaked. That situation can be avoided. In the above description, the type of the print data may be received together with the print data, or the format of the print data may be analyzed to determine the type of each format. Furthermore, even if the formats are the same, the type may be determined based on the file name or the like.

Although the present invention has been described based on the embodiments, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and the following modifications can be made. (Modifications) (1) In the first embodiment, the number of hospitals that transmit prescription data is one, but the effects of the present invention can be obtained even if prescription data is received from a plurality of hospitals.
Similarly, in the second embodiment, the effect of the present invention remains unchanged regardless of whether the print data is transmitted from a single location or a plurality of locations.

(2) In the first embodiment, even when the prescription data is not automatically printed, the prescription data is retained and prepared for later necessity. You may do it. That is, the prescription data not printed is immediately discarded, and when it becomes necessary to print a prescription or the like later, the prescription data is read from the IC card or the prescription data is inquired to the hospital 2 via the WAN 4. It is good.

(3) In the second embodiment, whether or not the data is secret data is designated for each type of print data. Instead, designation of whether or not the data is secret data is performed. May be received together with the print data, and whether or not printing is permitted may be determined based on the designation. By doing so, even if the print data is of the same type, the attached secret data allows
Since it is possible to make a different judgment on whether or not printing is possible, it is possible to specify secret data more finely.

(4) In the above embodiment, the reception date and the like are recorded as the history information. Instead, only the number of receptions and the number of prints (the number of dispensing) may be recorded. Also, when recording the date of reception, etc.,
The history before a certain number of times or the history before a certain period may not be taken into consideration when determining whether or not to print. In this way, it is possible to perform print control that meets the recent tendency of patients to visit and needs for data printing.

(5) In the first embodiment, it is assumed that the patient can receive the service of searching for a dispensable pharmacy using the terminal device 10, but in addition, the following may be performed. That is, the patient sends the prescription data and an indication that the patient has instructed to send the prescription data to the pharmacy found as a result of the search. The terminal device 12 of the pharmacy that has received the prescription data always prints a prescription or the like when the display is attached. If the pharmacy used by the patient is specified in this way, the pharmacy will almost certainly print the prescription and so on. Service can be improved.

It is also possible that only a doctor or the like sends prescription data to a pharmacy, and that a patient notifies only whether or not to use a pharmacy. In this way, the same prescription data can be avoided from being sent in duplicate, so that resources such as paper and toner can be saved. (6) In the second embodiment, the communication processing unit 4
4 may receive print data attached to the e-mail. In this case, the print determination unit 46 determines the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Connection) corresponding to the print data.
t Mail Extension) header and refer to the string “filena
The type may be specified based on the file name of the print data following “me =”. Also, the string "Conten
The type of print data may be specified by the application name shown in the character string following “t-Type: application /”.

When the communication processing unit 44 receives print data sent by a method other than attaching the print data to an electronic mail, the type assigned to the header of the print data is specified. The code may be detected to specify the type of the print data. The present invention is not limited to these methods, and if the print determination unit 46 can specify the type of print data, the effects of the present invention can be achieved.

[0044]

As described above, the print control apparatus according to the present invention determines whether or not printing is possible based on the past print history and executes printing, so that unnecessary printing is performed. Resources can be prevented from being wasted.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a medical support system including a print control device according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of medical data stored in an IC card issued to a patient by a hospital 2.

FIG. 3 is a functional configuration diagram showing a functional configuration of a PC 20 of the pharmacy 3a.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of history information for each customer stored in a customer DB 31;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the content of processing of the terminal device 12;

FIG. 6 is a functional configuration diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a print control apparatus according to a second embodiment;

FIG. 7 is print history information recorded in a print frequency storage unit 45;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of a print determination unit 46;

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 1 medical support system 2 hospital 3a, 3b pharmacy 4 WAN 5 waiting room 6 office 7 hospital DB 8 pharmacy DB 9 drug DB 10, 11, 12 terminal device 13 display unit 14, 17, 19 IC card reader / writer 15 control unit 16 , 21, 43 printer 18, 20, 42 personal computer 30, 44 communication processing unit 31 customer DB 32, 46 print determination unit 33 business management unit 34 clock unit 35, 47 printer control unit 36 IC card reader / writer control unit 40 Print control device 41 Communication network 45 Print frequency storage unit

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A data receiving means for receiving print data, a parameter detecting means for detecting a parameter characterizing the received print data, and a print history of print data characterized by the same parameters as the parameters characterizing the received print data. And a print determination unit for determining whether to print the received print data in accordance with the print control. 2. A printing method characterized by the ratio of the number of times the print data characterized by the parameter has been printed in the past to the number of times the print data characterized by the same parameter has been received in the past. The print control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a print history calculating unit that sets a print history of the data. And a prohibition instruction receiving means for specifying print data and receiving a prohibition instruction for prohibiting printing of the print data. When the prohibition instruction is received, the print determination means sets the print data regardless of a print history. 3. The print control device according to claim 1, wherein the print control unit determines not to print the print data according to the prohibition instruction. 4. When the number of times print data characterized by the same parameter has been received in the past is less than a predetermined number, the print determination unit does not print the print data characterized by the parameter. The print control device according to claim 1, wherein the print control device determines: 5. A print request receiving unit for designating print data and receiving a print request for requesting printing of the print data, wherein when the print request is received, the print determining unit outputs 5. The print control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein it is determined that print data relating to the print request is printed. 6. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the print data is prescription data, and the parameter detection unit detects a parameter indicating a patient according to the prescription data. Print control device. 7. A data receiving step for receiving print data, a parameter detecting step for detecting a parameter characterizing the received print data, and a print history of the print data characterized by the same parameter as the parameter characterizing the received print data. And a print determination step of determining whether to print the received print data in accordance with the print control program.