JP2005149154A - Printing controller, printing apparatus, printing control method, printing control program, and computer-readable recording medium having printing control program recorded thereon - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing controller which enables an operator to easily and securely classify printed matter obtained on the basis of a plurality of printing jobs, and to provide a printing apparatus, printing control method, printing control program, and a computer-readable recording medium having the printing control program recorded thereon. <P>SOLUTION: In accordance with information on a delivery date, the processing sequence of the plurality of printing jobs stored on a storage section such as a hard disk and including the information on the delivery date of the printed matter (S102, S103) is rearranged. Alternatively, in accordance with information on a delivery destination, the processing sequence of the plurality of printing jobs including the information on the delivery destination for the printed matter is rearranged. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a print control apparatus, a printing apparatus, a print control method, a print control program, and a computer-readable recording medium on which a print control program is recorded, for obtaining a printed matter based on a print job.

  When printing is continuously performed based on a plurality of print jobs, if the obtained printed materials are sequentially discharged and stacked as they are, operations for sorting and delivery by the operator after printing become extremely complicated.

Therefore, there is an apparatus that can automatically sort the obtained printed matter for each job or for each copy. For example, an apparatus for sorting photographic prints for each job (order) is disclosed (see Patent Documents 1 and 2). In addition, an apparatus for sorting printed materials by shifting the stacking position of the first or last sheet corresponding to one job is disclosed (see Patent Document 3).
JP 07-281396 A Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 09-026660 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 08-277056

  However, for a relatively large-scale printing service provider such as a company that specializes in providing a printing service, it is a common practice to frequently receive multiple print jobs from multiple clients. There was a problem that it hindered the work of delivery and delivery.

  In other words, the delivery destination of the printed matter may differ depending on the print job as well as the delivery destination of the printed matter depending on the client. In such a case, the operator must check all the printed materials obtained based on the plurality of print jobs and manually sort them according to the delivery date and the delivery destination, which may cause an error. Or the work man-hour increases.

  The technologies described in Patent Documents 1 to 3 do not consider the above-described problems for such a relatively large-scale printing service provider, and present a specific method for solving this problem. Not what you want.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to enable an operator to easily and reliably sort printed materials obtained based on a plurality of print jobs. A printing control apparatus, a printing apparatus, a printing control method, and a printing control program are provided.

  The object of the present invention is achieved by the following means.

  (1) A printing control apparatus that controls processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job, the storage unit capable of storing a plurality of print jobs including information on the delivery date of the printed material, and processing of the plurality of print jobs A print control apparatus comprising: a reordering unit that reorders the order according to the delivery date information.

  (2) After sorting by the sorting means, sorting page data is output at the boundary of print data output for two print jobs having different delivery date information. The printing control apparatus according to (1) above.

  (3) The print control apparatus according to (2), wherein the sorting page is set to a size larger than pages other than the sorting page.

  (4) The printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut out of continuous paper, and the sorting page has a longer length in the feeding direction of the cut portion than the non-sorting page. The print control apparatus according to (3), wherein the print control apparatus is set.

  (5) The print job further includes second information different from the delivery date information of the printed matter, and the rearranging unit further determines the processing order of the plurality of print jobs having the same delivery date. The print control apparatus according to (1), wherein rearrangement is performed according to the information.

  (6) After sorting by the sorting means, sorting page data is output at the boundary between print data output for two print jobs having different delivery date information, and the second information is The print control apparatus according to (5), wherein the data for the second sorting page is output at the boundary between the print data output for two different print jobs.

  (7) The sorting page and the second sorting page are larger in size than pages other than the sorting page and the second sorting page, and the sorting page is The print control apparatus according to (6), wherein the print control apparatus is set to a size larger than the second sorting page.

(8) The printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut of continuous paper,
The sorting page and the second sorting page are longer in the feed direction of the cut portion than the pages other than the sorting page and the second sorting page, The printing control according to (7), wherein the sorting page is set to have a longer length in the feeding direction of the cut portion than the second sorting page. apparatus.

  (9) The print control apparatus according to any one of (5) to (8), wherein the second information is information that can identify one print job from another print job. .

  (10) The print control apparatus according to any one of (5) to (8), wherein the second information is information on a delivery destination of the printed matter.

  (11) A print control apparatus that controls processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job, the storage unit capable of storing a plurality of print jobs including information on a delivery destination of the printed material, and a plurality of the print jobs A print control apparatus comprising: a rearranging unit that rearranges the processing order according to the information of the delivery destination.

  (12) After sorting by the sorting means, sorting page data is output at the boundary of print data output for two print jobs having different delivery destination information. The printing control apparatus according to (11) above.

  (13) The print control apparatus according to (12), wherein the sorting page is set to a larger size than pages other than the sorting page.

  (14) The printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut out of continuous paper, and the sorting page has a longer length in the feeding direction of the cut portion than the non-sorting page. The printing control apparatus according to (13), wherein the printing control apparatus is set.

  (15) The print job further includes second information different from the information on the delivery destination of the printed matter, and the rearrangement unit further determines the processing order of the plurality of print jobs having the same delivery destination. The print control apparatus according to (11), wherein rearrangement is performed according to the information.

  (16) After sorting by the sorting means, sorting page data is output at the boundary of print data output for two print jobs with different delivery destination information, and the second information is The print control apparatus according to (15), wherein the second sort page data is output at a boundary between print data output for two different print jobs.

  (17) The sorting page and the second sorting page are larger in size than pages other than the sorting page and the second sorting page, and the sorting page is The print control apparatus according to (16), wherein the print control apparatus is set to a size larger than the second sorting page.

  (18) The printed matter is a printed matter using a cut portion of continuous paper, and the sorting page and the second sorting page are the sorting page and the second sorting page, respectively. The length of the cut portion in the feeding direction is longer than the pages other than the page, and the sorting page is fed in the feeding direction of the cut portion than the second sorting page. The print control apparatus according to (17), wherein the length of the print control apparatus is set to be long.

  (19) The print control apparatus according to any one of (15) to (18), wherein the second information is information capable of identifying one print job from another print job. .

  (20) The print control apparatus according to any one of (15) to (18), wherein the second information is information on a delivery date of the printed matter.

  (21) A printing apparatus comprising: the printing control apparatus according to any one of (1) to (20) above; and a printing unit that performs printing based on a print job.

  (22) A print control method for controlling processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job, the storage step storing a plurality of print jobs including information on the delivery date of the printed material, and processing of the plurality of print jobs And a rearrangement step of rearranging the order according to the delivery date information.

  (23) A print control method for controlling a process for obtaining a printed material based on a print job, the storage step storing a plurality of print jobs including information on a delivery destination of the printed material, and the processing of the plurality of print jobs And a rearranging step for rearranging the order according to the information of the delivery destination.

  (24) A print control program for controlling processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job, the processing order of a plurality of print jobs stored in the storage means including information on the delivery date of the printed material. A print control program for causing a computer to execute a sorting procedure for sorting according to the delivery date information.

  (25) A print control program for controlling a process for obtaining a printed material based on a print job, wherein the processing order of a plurality of print jobs stored in the storage means and including information on a delivery destination of the printed material is changed. A print control program for causing a computer to execute a rearrangement procedure for rearranging in accordance with the delivery destination information.

  (26) A computer-readable recording medium on which the print control program according to (24) or (25) is recorded.

  According to the present invention, the operator can easily and reliably sort the obtained printed matter. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an error from occurring during sorting and delivery work, and to reduce the number of work steps.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the printing system. The printing system shown in FIG. 1 includes a print server 1 serving as a print control device, a printer 2, and a client PC (personal computer) 3. The print server 1 and the printer 2 are directly connected between devices, The client PC 3 is connected to each other via the network 4 so as to be able to communicate with each other. The print server 1 and the printer 2 may be connected via a network without being directly connected between devices, and the print server 1 and the client PC 3 may be directly connected between devices without via the network 4. It may be connected with. Further, the type and number of devices connected to the network 4 are not limited to the example shown in FIG.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the print server 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the print server 1 is a computer and includes a CPU 11, a ROM 12, a RAM 13, a hard disk 14, a display 15, an input device 16, a network interface 17, and a printer interface 18, which exchange signals. Are connected to each other via a bus 19.

  The CPU 11 performs control of the above parts, various arithmetic processes, and the like according to a program. The ROM 12 stores a control program including BIOS and data. The RAM 13 temporarily stores programs and data as a work area. The hard disk 14 stores various programs and data including an operating system. The hard disk 14 is used for storing a print job including print data.

  The display 15 displays various information. The input device 16 is a pointing device such as a mouse or a keyboard, and is used for performing various inputs.

  The network interface 17 is an interface for communicating with other devices via the network 4, and standards such as Ethernet (registered trademark), token ring, and FDDI are used. The printer interface 18 is an interface for communicating with the printer 2, and for example, a dedicated video interface can be used. However, the printer interface 18 may be a serial interface such as RS-232C, IEEE 1394, or USB, or a parallel interface such as IEEE 1284, or may be based on an original standard.

  The print server 1 may include constituent elements other than the above-described constituent elements, or may not include some of the above-described constituent elements.

  The printer 2 includes a printing unit that performs printing based on a print job. Specifically, the printer 2 prints the bitmap format or bitmap compression format data transferred from the print server 1 on a recording material such as paper. In the present embodiment, the printer 2 is a printer that performs printing on continuous paper, and uses a cut portion of the continuous paper as a recording material.

  The client PC 3 is a computer, and application software that gives a print instruction to the print server 1 is installed. Specifically, the client PC 3 has a function of creating print data in a description language format defined by the print server 1 and transmitting the print data to the print server 1 via the network 4 as a print job.

  The network 4 includes a LAN in which computers and network devices are connected according to standards such as Ethernet (registered trademark), token ring, and FDDI, and a WAN in which LANs are connected by a dedicated line.

  Next, an outline of the operation of the printing system in the present embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the procedure of the print control process of the print server 1. The algorithm shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3 is stored as a control program in the ROM 12 or the hard disk 14 of the print server 1 and is read out to the RAM 13 and executed by the CPU 11 when the operation starts.

  First, the print server 1 transmits a job list indicating all printable print jobs stored in the hard disk 14 to the client PC 3 in response to a request from the client PC 3. (S101).

  Here, the client PC 3 displays a job list on a display unit (not shown) of the client PC 3. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a job list. A job list 400 shown in FIG. 6 includes a job sequence 401 indicating a job number (symbol), which is information that can identify one print job as another print job, and a delivery destination column 402 indicating information on a delivery destination of a printed material. And a delivery date column 403 indicating delivery date information of the printed matter.

  The job list 400 is a parameter for specifying a job selection unit 404 including a check box for selecting a print job that the user desires to print, and a sorting desired by the user for the obtained printed matter. A sorting information selection unit 405 including a check box for selecting sorting information. In the present embodiment, either information on the delivery destination of the printed material or information on the delivery date of the printed material can be selected as the sorting information. A job number can be arbitrarily selected as sorting information. Such sorting information is included in the print job. It should be noted that other sorting information such as copy information for sorting a plurality of copies of printed matter obtained for each copy may be selectable.

  The user uses the job selection unit 404 and the sorting information selection unit 405 of the job list 400 to select a desired print job and sorting information. In FIG. 6, the check box of the selected item is displayed in black. In the example of FIG. 6, for example, job numbers “Job 1”, “Job 2”, “Job 3”, “Job 4”, and “Job 7” are displayed as print jobs to be printed. Six print jobs of “Job8” are selected, and delivery destination information is selected as sorting information.

  After selection by the user, when a “decision button” shown on a display unit (not shown) of the client PC 3 is pressed, the job number of the print job to be printed and the sorting information are transmitted to the print server 1.

  In step S102, the print server 1 receives the job number and sort information of the print job to be printed from the client PC 3.

  Subsequently, the print server 1 rearranges the processing order of the plurality of selected print jobs in accordance with the selected sorting information, for example, delivery date information (S103). FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a job list after the processing order is rearranged. In FIG. 7, print jobs are displayed in order from top to bottom according to the processing order.

  Here, the job numbers of the print jobs after the rearrangement, that is, the job numbers arranged in order from the earliest processing order of the print jobs are set in the job number storage table J. J (n) indicates the job number of the nth print job to be processed. For example, in the case of FIG. 7, J (1) = job1, J (2) = job2, J (3) = job8,.

  Further, the print server 1 transmits the job list after the processing order is rearranged to the client PC 3. The client PC 3 displays the job list after the processing order is rearranged on the display unit of the client PC 3. When the user presses a “print button” shown on a display unit (not shown) of the client PC 3, a print instruction is transmitted to the print server 1.

  In step S104, the print server 1 receives a print instruction from the client PC 3.

  Upon receiving the print instruction, the print server 1 outputs index page data that is a sorting page and print data for the print job selected by the user to the printer 2 (S105).

  Next, the data transmission processing in step S105 will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, a table used for comparing sorting information between print jobs and initial setting of variables are performed. That is, Null is set in the sorting information storage table K (S201), and the initial value 1 is set in the variable n indicating the print job processing order (S202).

  Subsequently, the sorting information of the print job to be processed n-th, that is, the print job whose job number is J (n) is substituted for K (n) (S303). Here, K (n) is a part of the sorting information storage table K, and indicates sorting information of the print job to be processed nth.

  Then, the sorting information K (n) of the nth print job is compared with the sorting information K (n−1) of the previous print job, and it is determined whether or not the sorting information is the same (S204). ).

  As a result of the comparison in step S204, if the sorting information is different (NO in S204), an index page creation process is performed (S205), and the created index page data is transmitted to the printer 2. (S206).

  On the other hand, as a result of the comparison in step S204, if the sorting information is the same (YES in S204), the process proceeds to step S207.

  In step S <b> 207, print data for the nth print job to be processed is transmitted to the printer 2.

  After completion of the data output process for the nth job, the variable n is incremented (S208), and it is determined whether there is a print job to be processed next (S209). If there is a next print job (YES in S209), the process is performed again from step S203. If there is no next print job (NO in S209), the process returns to FIG.

In this way, after the processing order is rearranged, sorting page data is output at the boundary of print data output for two print jobs having different sorting information such as delivery date information. Accordingly, the obtained printed matter can be clearly partitioned by index pages. Next, the index page creation processing in step S205 will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, it is determined whether or not the delivery destination or delivery date information is different between the sorting information K (n) of the nth print job and the sorting information K (n-1) of the previous print job. (S301).

  If the delivery information or delivery date information is different between the two sorting information (YES in S301), the data of the delivery destination or delivery date index page, which is a sorting page for each delivery destination or delivery date, is created. (S302).

  On the other hand, when the delivery destination or delivery date information is the same in both sort information (NO in S301), the job numbers that are the sort information other than the delivery destination or the delivery date are different. Data for the job index page, which is the page No. 3, is created (S303).

  In step S304, a blank portion corresponding to one page of print data for the nth print job is added to the index page data. In this case, for example, a feed command (Line Feed) for sending a continuous sheet by the size length of one page of the print data is added. However, blank data corresponding to one page of the print data may be added.

  Thus, the sorting page is set to a size larger than the pages other than the sorting page. Therefore, it is possible to easily separate a bundle of printed materials partitioned by index pages. In this embodiment, the printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut out of continuous paper, and the sorting page has a longer length in the continuous paper feed direction of the cut portion than the non-sorting page. Will be set. Thus, in a printer that uses continuous paper, it is easy to increase the size of a sorting page.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a delivery destination index page. The delivery destination index page 510 shown in FIG. 8 has a blank part 511 and an index part 512 including sorting information. The length of the blank portion 511 in the feed direction is L ₀ , and the length of the index portion 512 in the feed direction is L ₁ . In this case, as shown in FIG. 8, the delivery destination information is preferably displayed larger or thicker in the index portion 512 than the other sorting information.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a delivery date index page. The delivery date index page 520 shown in FIG. 9 has a blank portion 521 and an index portion 522 including sorting information. Feed direction of the length of the blank portion 521 is L _0, the length of the feed direction of the index portion 522 is L _2. In this case, as shown in FIG. 9, the delivery destination information is preferably displayed larger or thicker in the index portion 522 than the other sorting information. In this embodiment, the feed direction length L ₂ of the index part 522 is set equal to the feeding direction of the length L ₁ of the index portion 512.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a job index page. The job index page 530 shown in FIG. 10 has a blank portion 531 and an index portion 532 including sorting information. The length of the blank portion 531 in the feed direction is L ₀ , and the length of the index portion 522 in the feed direction is L ₃ . In this case, as shown in FIG. 10, the job number is preferably displayed larger or thicker in the index portion 532 than other sorting information.

In the present embodiment, the lengths L ₁ and L ₂ in the feed direction of the index portions 512 and 522 are set to be longer than the length L ₃ of the index portion 532 in the feed direction.

  As a result, the delivery destination and delivery date index pages 510 and 520 are set to a size larger than the job index page 530. Thereby, for example, small sorting such as each job can be conveniently performed in large sorting such as each delivery destination. Therefore, the sorting work of the printed matter becomes easier and the efficiency of the delivery work of the printed matter is further improved.

  Note that attribute information such as character color, font, character size, and background color used when creating the index pages 510 and 520 can be specified by the user.

  Next, an example of sorting printed materials processed in the printing system will be described using, for example, a job list shown in FIG.

  Here, it is assumed that the user has selected six print jobs whose job numbers are “Job 1”, “Job 2”, “Job 3”, “Job 4”, “Job 7”, and “Job 8”. Here, when only the delivery destination information is selected as the sorting information, as shown in FIG. 11, before the “Job 1” printed material 500, between the “Job 8” and the “Job 3” printed material 500, and “Job 7”. ”And“ Job4 ”printed material 500, the delivery destination index page 510 is inserted.

  When only the delivery date information is selected as the sorting information, as shown in FIG. 12, before the “Job 1” printed material 500, between the “Job 2” and the “Job 3” printed material 500, and “Job 8”. And “Job4” printed material 500, the delivery date index page 520 is inserted.

  When the delivery destination information and the job number are selected as the sorting information, as shown in FIG. 13, before the “Job 1” printed matter 500, between the “Job 8” and “Job 3” printed matter 500, and A delivery destination index page 510 is inserted between the prints 500 of “Job 7” and “Job 4”, and between the prints 500 of “Job 1” and “Job 2”, and between the prints 500 of “Job 2” and “Job 8”. And the job index page 530 is inserted between the prints 500 of “Job3” and “Job7”.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the processing order of a plurality of print jobs including the delivery date information of the printed matter stored in the storage unit such as a hard disk is rearranged according to the delivery date information. Alternatively, the processing order of a plurality of print jobs including information on the delivery destination of the printed material is rearranged according to the information on the delivery destination.

  As a result, the operator can easily and reliably sort the obtained printed matter. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an error from occurring during sorting and delivery work, and to reduce the number of work steps.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the claims.

For example, in the above embodiment, either the information on the delivery destination of the printed matter or the information on the delivery date of the printed matter is selected as the sorting information, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the information on the delivery destination of the printed matter, and Both information on the delivery date of the printed material may be selected. That is, a plurality of print jobs including information on the delivery date of the printed material and information on the delivery destination of the printed material can be stored in a storage unit such as a hard disk of the print server. In this case, the user can select which of the delivery destination information and the delivery date information is to be preferentially sorted. For example, if the print server determines that the delivery destination information is preferentially selected, the print server rearranges the processing order of the entire plurality of print jobs selected to be printed according to the delivery destination information. The processing order of a plurality of print jobs having the same delivery destination is rearranged according to the delivery date information. Here, when the job number is also selected as the sorting information, the processing order of a plurality of print jobs having the same delivery date is further rearranged according to the job number. In this case, it is preferable that index page is output, relationship between the index feed direction of the length _L 1 of the portion _{512,522,532, L 2,} L _3, in order to facilitate the work of the post, _{L 1} ,> L ₂ ,> L ₃ are preferably set.

  A computer such as a workstation may be used instead of the print server, and a printing device such as a copying machine may be used instead of the printer.

  In the above-described embodiment, the print server and the printer are configured separately. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a single printing apparatus having a print control function and a print function, for example, a multi-function A peripheral device (MFP) may be provided.

  The means and method for performing various processes in the printing control apparatus according to the present invention can be realized by either a dedicated hardware circuit or a programmed computer. The program may be provided by a computer-readable recording medium such as a flexible disk or a CD-ROM, or may be provided online via a network such as the Internet. In this case, the program recorded on the computer-readable recording medium is usually transferred to and stored in a storage unit such as a hard disk. The program may be provided as a single application software, or may be incorporated in the software of the apparatus as one function of the print control apparatus.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a printing system. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of a print server. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of print control processing of the print server. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the transmission process of data. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the creation process of an index page. It is a figure which shows an example of a job list. It is a figure which shows an example of the job list after rearranging the processing order. It is a figure which shows an example of the index page for delivery destinations. It is a figure which shows an example of the index page for delivery dates. It is a figure which shows an example of the index page for jobs. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of sorting printed materials when only delivery destination information is selected as sorting information. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of sorting printed materials when only delivery date information is selected as sorting information. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of sorting printed materials when delivery destination information and a job number are selected as sorting information.

Explanation of symbols

1 print server,
14 hard disk,
15 display,
16 input devices,
17 network interface,
18 Printer interface,
19 Bus,
2 printer,
3 Client PC,
4 network,
400 job list,
401 job sequence,
402 destination column,
403 delivery date string,
404 Job selection section,
405 sorting information selection unit,
500 printed matter,
510 delivery page index page,
520 delivery date index page,
530 Job index page.

Claims (26)

A print control apparatus for controlling processing for obtaining a printed matter based on a print job,
Storage means capable of storing a plurality of print jobs including information on the delivery date of the printed matter;
Reordering means for reordering the processing order of the plurality of print jobs according to the information on the delivery date;
A printing control apparatus comprising:   2. The page data for sorting is output at the boundary of output of print data for two print jobs having different delivery date information after sorting by the sorting means. The printing control apparatus according to 1.   The print control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the sorting page is set to a size larger than pages other than the sorting page. The printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut of continuous paper,
The print control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the sorting page is set to have a longer length in the feeding direction of the cut portion than a page other than the sorting page. The print job further includes second information different from the delivery date information of the printed matter,
The print control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the rearranging unit further rearranges the processing order of a plurality of print jobs having the same delivery date according to the second information.   After sorting by the sorting means, sorting page data is output at the boundary of print data output for two print jobs having different delivery date information, and the second information is different from each other. The print control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second sort page data is output at a boundary between print data output for two print jobs.   The sorting page and the second sorting page are larger in size than pages other than the sorting page and the second sorting page, and the sorting page is the first page. The printing control apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the printing control apparatus is set to a size larger than the second sorting page. The printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut of continuous paper,
The sorting page and the second sorting page are longer in the feed direction of the cut portion than the pages other than the sorting page and the second sorting page, 8. The printing control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the sorting page is set to have a longer length in the feeding direction of the cut portion than the second sorting page. .   The print control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second information is information that can identify one print job from another print job.   The print control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second information is information on a delivery destination of the printed material. A print control apparatus for controlling processing for obtaining a printed matter based on a print job,
Storage means capable of storing a plurality of print jobs including information on the delivery destination of the printed matter;
Reordering means for reordering the processing order of the plurality of print jobs according to the information of the delivery destination;
A printing control apparatus comprising:   12. After sorting by the sorting means, sorting page data is output at the boundary of print data output for two print jobs having different delivery destination information. The printing control apparatus according to 1.   The printing control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the sorting page is set to a larger size than pages other than the sorting page. The printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut of continuous paper,
14. The print control apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the sorting page is set to have a longer length in the feeding direction of the cut portion than the non-sorting page. The print job further includes second information different from the delivery destination information of the printed matter,
The print control apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the rearranging unit further rearranges the processing order of a plurality of print jobs having the same delivery destination according to the second information.   After sorting by the sorting means, sorting page data is output at the boundary of print data output for two print jobs having different delivery destination information, and the second information is different from each other. The print control apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the second sort page data is output at a boundary between print data output for two print jobs.   The sorting page and the second sorting page are larger in size than pages other than the sorting page and the second sorting page, and the sorting page is the first page. The print control apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the print control apparatus is set to a size larger than the second sorting page. The printed matter is a printed matter using a portion to be cut of continuous paper,
The sorting page and the second sorting page are longer in the feed direction of the cut portion than the pages other than the sorting page and the second sorting page, 18. The printing control apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the sorting page is set to have a longer length in the feeding direction of the cut portion than the second sorting page. .   The print control apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the second information is information that can identify one print job from another print job.   The print control apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the second information is information on a delivery date of the printed matter.   21. A printing apparatus comprising: the printing control apparatus according to claim 1; and a printing unit that performs printing based on a print job. A print control method for controlling processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job,
Storing a plurality of print jobs including information on a delivery date of the printed material;
A reordering step for reordering the processing order of the plurality of print jobs according to the delivery date information;
A printing control method characterized by comprising: A print control method for controlling processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job,
A storage step for storing a plurality of print jobs including information on a delivery destination of the printed matter;
A rearrangement step of rearranging the processing order of the plurality of print jobs according to the information of the delivery destination;
A printing control method characterized by comprising: A print control program for controlling processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job,
A reordering procedure for reordering the processing order of a plurality of print jobs stored in the storage means according to the information on the delivery date, including the delivery date information of the printed matter,
A print control program to be executed by a computer. A print control program for controlling processing for obtaining a printed material based on a print job,
A reordering procedure for reordering the processing order of a plurality of print jobs stored in the storage means according to the information of the delivery destination, including the information on the delivery destination of the printed matter,
A print control program to be executed by a computer.   A computer-readable recording medium on which the print control program according to claim 24 or 25 is recorded.

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