JP2006139667A - Printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing system for effectively printing while reducing amount of document database in a print server when transmitting document data from a terminal device to a printer device and printing out after temporally storing in a documentdata base of the print server. <P>SOLUTION: A network system 1 is designed to transmit the document data from the terminal device 3 to a printer 4 and print out after temporally storing into the document database 5a of a Web server 5 for printing connected via a network 2. The terminal device 3 is designed to transmit only bibliographic information of a document which is requested for printing to the Web server 5 for printing previously, and to transmit the document data subjected to be printed to the Web server 5 for printing while performing a print document processing operation such as a following selection operation of a print document or a print setting operation etc. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a printing system, and more specifically, the capacity of a document database of a printing server when document data from a terminal device is temporarily stored in a document database of a printing server and then transmitted to the printing device for printing. The present invention relates to a printing system that performs printing efficiently while reducing the amount of printing.

  Recently, with the progress of OA (Office Automation), information processing devices (hereinafter referred to as terminal devices) such as personal computers (hereinafter referred to as personal computers) and word processors share printers via the network. To be done.

  When such a plurality of printers are shared by a plurality of terminal devices, the terminal device and the printer are physically connected. Therefore, any terminal device issues a print request to any printer and prints. It can be carried out.

  However, when the printer receives print requests from a plurality of terminal devices, the print processing is performed in the order in which the print requests are received regardless of the amount of data. Therefore, the print processing is completed for a terminal device with a slower print request order. If there is a print request from another terminal device to the printer that is executing the print process, the print process is not performed until the print process in progress is completed. Even when the amount of document data related to a subsequent print request is as small as about one page, the waiting time increases as the amount of document data related to the previous print request increases.

  Therefore, when a terminal device (workstation or the like), a print server, and a printer are conventionally connected to a network and the terminal device executes print processing on the print server, printing of the terminal device is performed prior to this print processing. A printer sharing method has been proposed in which multiple printing servers defined as printing servers are inquired in advance about the operating status of each printing server, and based on the results of the inquiry, the printing server that executes the printing process is determined. (See Patent Document 1).

  In this case, when printing processing is performed, the document data (print data) and the print setting information are transmitted together from the terminal device to the print server, and the document data and the print setting information are stored in the database of the terminal device. Once stored, the document data selected by the operation of the terminal device among the plurality of document data stored in the database of the printing server is transferred from the printing server to the printer to perform the printing process.

  Conventionally, when registering data of various formats, for example, document data in which text data and image data are mixed in the database, automatically processing image data conversion and keyword registration of all document data, A technique for shortening the processing time has been proposed (see Patent Document 2). This conventional technique can be used when registering document data in a print server.

  Further, the present applicant has previously proposed a technique for searching for a document including a character string designated from a plurality of documents of a plurality of character types using a signature file (see Patent Document 3). This conventional technique can be used to search document data including a designated character string from document data stored in a print server.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-199887 JP 2003-308325 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-110402

  However, as described above, when document data is printed over a network, the document data (print data) from the terminal device is temporarily stored in the database of the printing server and then transferred to the printer. When the printing process is performed, a database having a capacity necessary for storing document data from a plurality of terminal devices connected to the network is required in the printing server, which causes a problem that the cost of the printing system increases.

  In this case, even if the conventional technique described in Patent Document 2 is used, a database having a capacity necessary for storing document data from a plurality of terminal devices is required as described above, and the cost of the printing system is increased. The problem is not solved.

  The prior art described in Patent Document 3 proposed by the present applicant can be used to search for target print document data from the document data stored in the print server. When document data from the apparatus is stored in the print server, a database having a capacity necessary for storing the document data is required, and the problem that the cost of the printing system increases cannot be solved.

  In addition, since document data is transmitted over a network because of the large amount of data, when document data and bibliographic information are transmitted together, it takes a long time to transmit, and there is a need for efficient processing time. .

  Therefore, the present invention temporarily stores the document data from the terminal device in the document database of the printing server, and then transmits the print data to the printing device to print out the terminal device. Only the bibliographic information of the document for which the print request has been made is sent to the print server first, and then the print target document data is printed during the print document processing operation such as the print document selection operation or print setting operation. Provides a printing system that improves the processing time by sending document data in parallel with the print document processing operation while reducing the capacity by effectively using the document database of the print server. The purpose is to do.

  Specifically, according to the first aspect of the present invention, document data from a terminal device is temporarily stored in a document database of a printing server connected via a network, and then transmitted to a printing device to be printed out. In addition, when there is a print request at the terminal device, the terminal device first sends only the bibliographic information of the document for which the print request has been made to the print server, and then performs printing such as a print document selection operation or print setting operation By sending the document data to be printed to the printing server during the document processing operation, the document database of the printing server is effectively used to reduce the capacity, and the document data is transmitted in parallel with the printing document processing operation. Thus, an object of the present invention is to provide a printing system that improves the processing time.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, the terminal device selects the print target document by transmitting the document data related to the selection to the print server during the selection operation of the print target document in the print document processing operation. An object of the present invention is to provide a printing system that transmits the selected document data promptly, effectively uses the document database of the printing server, reduces the capacity, and makes the processing time more efficient. It is said.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the terminal device transmits the document data related to the print setting operation to the print server during the print setting operation of the print document processing operation, so that the print target document is selected and the print setting is performed. To provide a printing system that transmits document data promptly during the process, effectively uses the document database of the printing server, reduces the capacity, and makes the processing time more efficient. It is aimed.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the terminal device creates a preview image of each page of the bibliographic information document to be transmitted, and transmits the preview image together with the bibliographic information to the printing server. By storing the preview image and bibliographic information associated with each other in the document database, a print document processing operation such as selection of a document to be printed can be easily and appropriately performed based on the preview image, and the document database of the print server It is an object of the present invention to provide a printing system with better usability while reducing the capacity of the printer and increasing the efficiency of processing time.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the terminal device acquires a preview image together with the bibliographic information from the printing server in response to the print document processing request operation, and displays and outputs the preview image together with the bibliographic information on the display unit. Thus, it is possible to easily and appropriately select a document to be printed based on the preview image without imposing a burden on the terminal device, while reducing the capacity of the document database of the printing server and improving the processing time. The object is to provide a printing system with even better usability.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the terminal device displays and outputs a preview image and bibliographic information for each page of the document on the display means for a plurality of documents, and the printing server prints according to the display on the terminal device. When the target document and the page to be printed among the pages of the document are specified, bibliographic information of a new document composed of the specified pages of the pages of the specified documents is created, By generating a new document to be printed from the document data transmitted from the terminal device based on the bibliographic information, combining the pages of the existing print document based on the preview image without imposing a burden on the terminal device A new print document can be created easily, reducing the capacity of the document database on the print server and improving the processing time, while providing a printing system with better usability. It is intended to be.

  According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, the terminal device displays and outputs a preview image and bibliographic information for each page of the document on the display means for a plurality of documents, and the printing server prints the print target according to the display on the terminal device. Terminal is created by creating bibliographic information of a new document composed of the specified page among the pages of each specified document The terminal device generates a new print target document from the document data based on the bibliographic information transmitted from the print server, and transmits the generated new print target document data to the print server. As a result, a new print document can be created easily and appropriately by combining the pages of the existing print document based on the preview image, and the document database capacity of the print server can be reduced. And while achieving the efficiency of processing time, and its object is to provide a more favorable printing system availability.

  In the printing system of the first aspect, a terminal device, a printing server having a document database, and a printing device are connected via a network, and document data from the terminal device is temporarily stored in the document database of the printing server. After the accumulation, the printing system transmits the document to the printing apparatus and prints out the document by the printing apparatus. When the print request operation is performed, the terminal device only displays the bibliographic information of the document to be printed. To the printing server, the printing server stores the bibliographic information transmitted from the terminal device in the document database, and the terminal device responds to the print document processing request operation. By referring to the bibliographic information transmitted to the server, at least a print document processing operation for performing a print target document selection operation and a print setting operation is enabled. By transmitting the document data corresponding to the printed document processing operations during the print document processing operations to the print server, it has achieved the above objects.

  In this case, for example, as described in claim 2, the terminal device transmits the document data related to the selection to the printing server during the selection operation of the print target document in the print document processing operation. It may be.

  For example, as described in claim 3, the terminal device transmits document data related to the print setting operation to the print server during the print setting operation of the print document processing operation. May be.

  Further, for example, as described in claim 4, the terminal device creates a preview image of each page of the document of the bibliographic information to be transmitted, and transmits the preview image together with the bibliographic information to the printing server. The print server may store the transmitted preview image in association with the bibliographic information in the document database.

  Further, for example, as described in claim 5, the terminal device acquires the preview image together with the bibliographic information from the printing server in response to the print document processing request operation, and the preview image is It may be displayed on the display means together with the bibliographic information.

  Further, for example, as described in claim 6, the terminal device displays and outputs a preview image for each page of the document and the bibliographic information on the display unit for a plurality of documents, and the printing server includes the terminal When a document to be printed and a page to be printed among the pages of the document are specified in accordance with the display on the apparatus, a new page constituted by the specified page among the pages of each specified document Bibliographic information of a document may be created, and a new print target document may be generated from document data transmitted from the terminal device based on the bibliographic information.

  For example, as described in claim 7, the terminal device displays and outputs a preview image for each page of the document and the bibliographic information on the display unit for a plurality of documents, and the printing server includes the terminal When a document to be printed and a page to be printed among the pages of the document are specified in accordance with the display on the apparatus, a new page constituted by the specified page among the pages of each specified document Bibliographic information of a document is generated and transmitted to the terminal device, and the terminal device generates a new print target document from the document data based on the bibliographic information transmitted from the printing server, and generates the document The new print target document data may be transmitted to the printing server.

  According to the printing system of the first aspect of the present invention, when document data from a terminal device is temporarily stored in a document database of a printing server connected via a network, the document data is transmitted to a printing device and printed out. In addition, when there is a print request at the terminal device, the terminal device first sends only the bibliographic information of the document for which the print request has been made to the print server, and then performs printing such as a print document selection operation or print setting operation. Since the document data to be printed is transmitted to the printing server during the document processing operation, the capacity can be reduced by effectively using the document database of the printing server, and the document data can be combined with the printing document processing operation. By transmitting, the processing time can be made more efficient.

  According to the printing system of the second aspect of the invention, since the terminal device transmits the document data related to the selection to the printing server during the selection operation of the print target document in the print document processing operation, the print target document is The selected document data can be transmitted promptly at the selected stage, the capacity can be reduced by effectively utilizing the document database of the printing server, and the processing time can be made more efficient. It can be.

  According to the printing system of the invention described in claim 3, since the terminal device transmits the document data related to the print setting operation to the print server during the print setting operation of the print document processing operation, the document to be printed is selected. Document data can be sent promptly while print settings are being made, the document database of the print server can be used effectively to reduce the capacity, and the processing time is more efficient. Can be.

  According to the printing system of the invention described in claim 4, the terminal device creates a preview image of each page of the document of the bibliographic information to be transmitted, transmits the preview image together with the bibliographic information to the printing server, and prints Since the server associates the transmitted preview image and bibliographic information and stores them in the document database, it is possible to easily and appropriately perform a print document processing operation such as selection of a print target document based on the preview image. In addition, the capacity of the document database of the printing server can be reduced and the processing time can be improved, and the usability can be further improved.

  According to the printing system of the fifth aspect of the invention, the terminal device acquires the preview image together with the bibliographic information from the printing server in response to the print document processing request operation, and displays the preview image together with the bibliographic information. Therefore, it is possible to easily and appropriately select a document to be printed based on the preview image without imposing a burden on the terminal device, and to reduce and process the document database capacity of the printing server. The efficiency of time can be achieved and the usability can be further improved.

  According to the printing system of the invention described in claim 6, the terminal device displays and outputs a preview image and bibliographic information for each page of the document on the display means for a plurality of documents, and the printing server When a document to be printed and a page to be printed among the pages of the document are specified according to the display, bibliographic information of a new document composed of the specified pages of the pages of the specified document And a new print target document is generated from the document data transmitted from the terminal device based on the bibliographic information. Therefore, an existing print document can be created based on the preview image without imposing a burden on the terminal device. A new print document can be easily created by combining pages, and the capacity of the document database of the print server can be reduced and the processing time can be improved. , It is possible to further improve the usability.

  According to the printing system of the seventh aspect of the invention, the terminal device displays and outputs a preview image and bibliographic information for each page of the document on the display means for a plurality of documents, and the printing server displays the display on the terminal device. If a document to be printed and a page to be printed are specified among the pages of the document, the bibliographic information of a new document composed of the specified pages among the pages of each specified document is displayed. Create and transmit to the terminal device, the terminal device generates a new print target document from the document data based on the bibliographic information transmitted from the printing server, and the generated new print target document data Since it is sent to the print server, a new print document can be created easily and appropriately by combining the pages of the existing print document based on the preview image. It is possible to improve the efficiency of reduction and processing time of the capacity of the book database, it is possible to further improve the usability.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, since the Example described below is a suitable Example of this invention, various technically preferable restrictions are attached | subjected, However, The scope of the present invention limits this invention especially in the following description. As long as there is no description of the effect, it is not restricted to these aspects.

  1 to 3 are diagrams showing an embodiment of a printing system of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a network system 1 to which an embodiment of the printing system of the present invention is applied.

  In FIG. 1, a network system 1 as a printing system includes a plurality of terminal devices 3, a plurality of printers (printing devices) 4, a printing web server (printing server) 5, and the like connected to a network 2. Is a network such as a LAN (Local Area Network) connected to a Web network (WWW (World Wide Web)), a network such as a LAN separated from the Web network itself or the Web network, and the like.

  The terminal device 3 is a personal computer, a word processor, a portable information terminal device, or the like. The terminal device 3 transmits the edited or received document data to the print Web server 5 via the network 2, and the document data is transmitted to the printer 4. Request printing. That is, when the terminal device 3 is, for example, a personal computer, the terminal device 3 includes various applications such as a document editing application, a graphic application, and an image application, and also includes the document print control software of the present embodiment. When a print request is made by specifying document data edited and processed by an application, the document print control software first acquires bibliographic information of the document data from the document edit application, or the document print control software acquires the document. Bibliographic information of data is created, and only the bibliographic information is transmitted to the printing Web server 5 first, and the document data is stored in a storage unit such as a hard disk of the terminal device 3.

  The bibliographic information is, for example, various bibliographic information of the document data such as a document name, a document creator name, a document creation date / time, a modification date / time, a page number, and a character number, as shown in FIG.

  The document print control software of the terminal device 3 transmits only the bibliographic information of the document data to the print Web server 5, and then selects the document and sets the print by referring to the bibliographic information of the print Web server 5 from the terminal device 3. When it is performed, the document data of the bibliographic information is read from the storage unit of the terminal device 3 and transmitted to the printing Web server 5 using the document selection and print setting time.

  The print Web server 5 includes a document database (document DB) 5a. After the document data transmitted from each terminal device 3 and the bibliographic information of the document data are stored in the document database 5a, the print server 5 In response to the instruction, the printer 4 sends the document data to the printer 4 via the network 2 together with a print request including print settings and the like, and causes the printer 4 to print out the document data.

  As the printer 4, an electrophotographic printer, an ink jet printer, or the like is used, and the document data sent from the printing web server 5 via the network 2 is sent together with the print request sent together with the document data. Print on paper based on print settings.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. In the network system 1 of this embodiment, only the bibliographic information of document data to be printed is first transmitted from the terminal device 3 to the print Web server 5 and stored, and then the user selects a document, performs a print setting operation, and the like. The document data is transmitted from the terminal device 3 to the print Web server 5 using the time during which the print document processing operation is performed, and the document data and print settings of the selected document are transmitted from the print Web server 5 to the printer 4. And printing by the printer 4.

  That is, in the network system 1, when a document request or the like is performed using an application in the terminal device 3 and a print request is made, the document print control software installed in the terminal device 3 has received the print request. Only the bibliographic information of the document data (see FIG. 2) is transmitted to the print Web server 5 through the network 2 first.

  The print Web server 5 sequentially stores the bibliographic information sent from the terminal device 3 via the network 2 in the document database 5a. That is, the print Web server 5 can accumulate a plurality of bibliographic information sent from the terminal device 3.

  After that, when the user performs a print document processing request operation to select a document to be printed using the terminal device 3, the terminal device 3 accesses the print Web server 5 to access the document database 5a. Print document processing operations such as a print target document selection operation and a print setting operation by displaying a list of the bibliographic information of the print document on the display of the terminal device 3. Is possible.

  While the document selection operation is performed, the terminal device 3 reads out the document data of the document related to the selection from the storage unit and transfers it to the print Web server 5.

  Further, when the user performs an operation for selecting a document to be printed using the terminal device 3, the user performs a print setting operation for the document.

  When a print document processing operation such as a document selection operation and a print setting operation is performed, the terminal device 3 transmits the print document selection information and print setting information to the print Web server 5 via the network 2 together with the print request. To do.

  In the above description, the terminal device 3 transmits the document data to the print Web server 5 during the selection operation of the document to be printed. However, the document data transmission timing is the document data transmission operation. The document data of the document to be printed previously selected during the print setting operation may be read from the storage unit and transmitted to the print Web server 5.

  When the print document selection information and print setting information are transmitted along with the print request via the network 2, the print Web server 5 reads out the document data selected by the document selection information from the document database 5a. The print setting information and the document data are transmitted to the printer 4 to make a print request.

  The printer 4 prints out the transmitted document data according to the print setting information.

  As described above, the network system 1 according to the present embodiment temporarily stores the document data from the terminal device 3 in the document database 5a of the print Web server 5 connected via the network 2, and then transmits the document data to the printer 4. When a print request is made at the terminal device 3 at the time of printing, the terminal device 3 first transmits only the bibliographic information of the document for which the print request has been made to the print Web server 5, and the subsequent print document The print target document data is transmitted to the print Web server 5 during a print document processing operation such as a selection operation or a print setting operation.

  Therefore, the capacity can be reduced by effectively using the document database 5a of the print Web server 5, and the processing time can be improved by transmitting the document data in parallel with the print document processing operation. it can.

  Further, in the network system 1 of the present embodiment, the terminal device 3 transmits the document data related to the selection to the printing Web server 5 during the selection operation of the print target document in the print document processing operation.

  Accordingly, the selected document data can be transmitted promptly at the stage when the document to be printed is selected, the capacity can be reduced by effectively using the document database 5a of the printing Web server 5, and The processing time can be made even more efficient.

  Further, in the network system 1 of the present embodiment, the terminal device 3 transmits the document data related to the print setting operation to the print Web server 5 during the print setting operation of the print document processing operation.

  Accordingly, document data can be transmitted promptly while a document to be printed is selected and print settings are made, and the capacity can be reduced by effectively utilizing the document database 5a of the print Web server 5. At the same time, the processing time can be made even more efficient.

  In the above description, when there is a print request at the terminal device 3, only the bibliographic information of the document relating to the print request is transmitted from the terminal device 3 to the printing web server 5. When this bibliographic information is transmitted, In addition, preview image (thumbnail image) data of the document may be transmitted together.

  In this case, the print Web server 5 registers the preview image of the document together with the bibliographic information of the document in the document database 5 in association with the bibliographic information, and when there is a request for selecting a document to be printed from the terminal device 3, A preview image is transmitted to the terminal device 3 together with the bibliographic information of the document.

  When there is a print document processing request operation, the terminal device 3 displays a preview image together with the bibliographic information of the print Web server 5 on the display on the display of the terminal device 3, and selects a document based on the preview image and the bibliographic information. And print setting operation.

  Accordingly, it is possible to easily and appropriately perform a print document processing operation such as selection of a print target document based on the preview image, and to reduce the capacity of the document database 5a of the print Web server 5 and to increase the processing time efficiency. In addition, the usability can be further improved.

  Further, the terminal device 3 permits not only selecting a document to be printed on a document basis but also selecting a page from a plurality of documents to construct a new print document when selecting a document. To do.

  That is, when an appropriate page is selected from a plurality of document pages and the order of the selected pages is designated, the terminal device 3 arranges the selected pages in the designated order. Build a new print document.

  In this case, as described above, the terminal device 3 transmits the preview image together with the bibliographic information of the document to the print Web server 5, and the preview image is transmitted from the print Web server 5 together with the bibliographic information when the document is selected. Then, for example, as shown as a preview screen 3a in FIG. 3A, the preview screen 3a is displayed on the display, and preview images of a plurality of documents to be selected are displayed on the preview screen 3a.

  Therefore, the user of the terminal device 3 can appropriately and easily specify the document and the page selection with reference to the document preview image displayed on the preview screen 3a, as shown in FIG. As described above, the print setting for specifying the print order and the print method from the designated document and the selected designated page can be performed easily and efficiently.

  Then, when the document designation, page selection, and print setting designation are performed, the terminal device 3 constructs a new print document based on the selection / designation result, and sets the new print document data together with the print settings. The data is transmitted to the printer 4 via the network 2 and the printer 4 prints out the new print document.

  Therefore, it is possible to easily and appropriately create a new print document by combining the pages of the existing print document based on the preview image, and to reduce the capacity of the document database 5a of the print Web server 5 and to increase the processing time efficiency. In addition, the usability can be further improved.

  In the above description, when there is a print document processing request operation, bibliographic information and a preview image on the document database 5a of the print Web server 5 can be referred to. However, after the preview image is created by the terminal device 3, Alternatively, it may be stored in the storage unit of the terminal device 3 and only the bibliographic information may be transmitted to the print Web server 5.

  In this case, the terminal device 3 reads out a preview image corresponding to the bibliographic information transmitted from the print Web server 5 when selecting the document from the storage unit and displays it on the preview screen 3a in association with the document as in FIG. You may do it.

  In this way, the document database 5a of the print Web server 5 can be used more effectively, and the capacity of the document database 5a can be saved.

  Further, the bibliographic information and the preview image are stored in the storage unit of the terminal device 3, and the bibliographic information and the preview image of the storage unit are displayed on the display of the terminal device 3 when a print document processing request operation is performed. It may be.

  The invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the preferred embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to the above, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Needless to say.

  The present invention can be applied to a general printing system that transmits document data from a terminal device to a printer via a document database of a printing server and prints it out.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a network system to which an embodiment of a printing system of the present invention is applied. The figure which shows an example of the bibliographic information transmitted to the web server for printing from the terminal device of FIG. The figure which shows an example (a) of a preview screen displayed on the display of a terminal device at the time of print document selection, and an example (b) of print setting.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Network system 2 Network 3 Terminal device 3a Preview screen 4 Printer 5 Web server for printing 5a Document database

Claims (7)

  A terminal device, a printing server having a document database, and a printing device are connected via a network, and document data from the terminal device is temporarily stored in the document database of the printing server, and then transmitted to the printing device. In the printing system for printing out the document by the printing device, the terminal device transmits only the bibliographic information of the document to be printed to the printing server when the print request operation is performed, and the printing device The server stores the bibliographic information transmitted from the terminal device in the document database, and the terminal device refers to the bibliographic information transmitted to the printing server in response to a print document processing request operation. At least a print document processing operation for performing a print target document selection operation and a print setting operation, and during the print document processing operation, Printing system and transmits to the printing server document data corresponding to the operation.   2. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device transmits document data related to the selection to the printing server during the selection operation of the print target document in the print document processing operation.   The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device transmits document data related to the print setting operation to the print server during the print setting operation of the print document processing operation.   The terminal device creates a preview image of each page of the document of the bibliographic information to be transmitted, and transmits the preview image together with the bibliographic information to the printing server, and the printing server has received the transmission The printing system according to claim 1, wherein a preview image and the bibliographic information are associated and stored in the document database.   The terminal device acquires the preview image together with the bibliographic information from the printing server in response to the print document processing request operation, and displays and outputs the preview image together with the bibliographic information on a display unit. The printing system according to claim 5.   The terminal device displays and outputs a preview image for each page of the document and the bibliographic information on the display unit for a plurality of documents, and the printing server selects a document to be printed according to the display on the terminal device. When a page to be printed is specified among the pages of the document, bibliographic information of a new document composed of the specified page among the pages of each specified document is created, and the bibliographic information is created. 6. The printing system according to claim 5, wherein a new print target document is generated from the document data transmitted from the terminal device. The terminal device displays and outputs a preview image for each page of the document and the bibliographic information on the display unit for a plurality of documents, and the printing server selects a document to be printed according to the display on the terminal device. When a page to be printed is specified from among the pages of the document, bibliographic information of a new document composed of the specified page among the pages of each specified document is created and transmitted to the terminal device Then, the terminal device generates a new print target document from the document data based on the bibliographic information transmitted from the print server, and sends the generated new print target document data to the print server. 6. The printing system according to claim 5, wherein the printing system transmits the information.

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