JP2008152725A - Print system, print control unit, and print control program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print system, print control unit, and print control program capable of selecting the optimal printer and performing printing under a print environment having a plurality of printers. <P>SOLUTION: A print server 20 accumulates and manages one or a plurality of print jobs transmitted from client terminals 10. In response to print propriety inquiry requests from a print operation terminal 30, the print server 20 compares the attribute information of the accumulated print jobs with information on printer 40 disposed correspondingly to the print operation terminal 30 of a request transmission origin, determines whether printing can be performed by the printer 40 for each print job, and responds to the print operation terminal 30 using the determination result as print propriety information. The print operation terminal 30 displays the job table screen based on this print propriety information. When there is an unprintable print job, the reason for it and a table of printers as substitutes are displayed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a printing system, a printing control apparatus, and a printing control program.

  In offices, schools, open spaces, etc., after printing is suspended on the server, a desired printing device is selected from a plurality of printing devices, and printing is instructed from a terminal attached to the printing device. In addition, a printing environment called an on-demand printing system has been established to prevent unprinted printing.

  In such a printing environment, in order to respond to various printing needs, a plurality of printing devices having different capabilities are often provided, so a print job in which an attribute that can be handled only by a high-capacity printing device is designated. In some cases, it was accidentally sent to a low-capacity printing device. The operation on the printing device side when a print job with an unsupported attribute is sent will differ depending on the device. However, if an error occurs, the unsupported attribute is ignored or changed. Some print directly.

  For this reason, especially when an unsupported attribute is ignored or changed, and a print job in which the unsupported attribute is specified is mistakenly sent to a printing apparatus that performs printing as it is, it is contrary to the user's intention. Printing will be performed.

  Therefore, in order to deal with such a problem, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228620 can perform print settings that are highly convenient for the user in a printing environment such as distributed printing or proxy printing for a plurality of printing apparatuses. A mechanism is proposed. In this method, the resolution corresponding to each printing apparatus is acquired from a plurality of printing apparatuses, and an optimum resolution is determined from the resolutions to perform printing.

For example, Patent Document 2 proposes a technique for displaying a change content and a reason and notifying the user when the attribute of the print job is changed or when the execution of the print job is stopped.
JP2003-162391 JP-A-2005-329624

  An object of the present invention is to provide a printing system, a printing control apparatus, and a printing control program that can perform printing by selecting an optimum printing apparatus in a printing environment in which a plurality of printing apparatuses are arranged.

  In order to achieve the above object, a printing system according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of printing apparatuses, a printing control apparatus that controls printing, and a plurality of printing operations provided corresponding to the plurality of printing apparatuses, respectively. The print control device includes a storage unit that stores one or a plurality of print jobs, and a print operation stored in the storage unit in response to a print instruction from the print operation device. A print job transmission means for transmitting to a printing apparatus provided corresponding to the apparatus; a print job information holding means for holding information relating to attributes of the print job stored in the storage means; and a plurality of printing apparatuses A printing apparatus information holding means for holding information relating to the capability, and the printing operation apparatus based on the information held in the print job information holding means and the printing apparatus information holding means. A determination unit that determines whether or not printing can be performed on the print job stored in the storage unit in the printing apparatus provided; and a determination result transmission unit that transmits a determination result by the determination unit to the print operation apparatus. The printing operation apparatus includes: a first notification unit that notifies a user of whether printing is possible for each print job based on the determination result transmitted from the determination result transmission unit; and the determination result transmitted from the determination result transmission unit. A second notification means for notifying the user of the reason why the print job cannot be printed on the basis of the print job, and a print destination as an alternative destination for the print job which cannot be printed based on the determination result sent from the determination result transmission means Third notification means for notifying the user of the apparatus, and print instruction means for instructing printing for the print job stored in the storage means.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, a printing apparatus information collecting means for collecting information relating to the current state of the printing apparatus together with information relating to the capability of the printing apparatus from each of the plurality of printing apparatuses. The printing apparatus information holding unit holds the information collected by the printing apparatus information collecting unit.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printing system comprising: a plurality of printing apparatuses; a printing control apparatus that controls printing; and a plurality of printing operation apparatuses provided corresponding to the plurality of printing apparatuses, respectively. The print control apparatus corresponds to a storage unit that stores one or a plurality of print jobs, and a print job that is stored in the storage unit in response to a print instruction from the print operation apparatus. Print job transmission means for sending to the printing apparatus provided, print job information holding means for holding information relating to the attributes of the print job stored in the storage means, and information relating to the capabilities of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses. A printing apparatus information holding unit for holding the printing apparatus, and the printing operation apparatus corresponds to the printing apparatus information holding unit and the printing apparatus information holding unit based on information held in the printing apparatus information holding unit. A determination unit that determines whether or not printing is possible for the print job stored in the storage unit in the printing apparatus provided; and a first notification that notifies a user of whether or not printing is possible for each print job based on a determination result by the determination unit A second notifying unit for notifying the user of the reason why the print job cannot be printed based on the determination result by the determining unit, and a substitute for the print job that cannot be printed based on the determination result by the determining unit Third notification means for notifying the user of the printing apparatus to be used, and print instruction means for instructing printing for the print job stored in the storage means.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a print control apparatus for storing one or more print jobs in the storage means in response to a print instruction from a print operation apparatus provided corresponding to the print apparatus. Print job transmission means for transmitting the accumulated print job to a printing apparatus provided corresponding to the print operation apparatus, and print job information holding means for holding information relating to the attribute of the print job accumulated in the accumulation means A printing apparatus information holding unit that holds information relating to the capabilities of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses, and the print operation information based on the information held in the print job information holding unit and the printing apparatus information holding unit. A determination unit that determines whether or not printing can be performed on the print job stored in the storage unit in the printing apparatus provided, and the determination result by the determination unit is the print operation. ; And a determination result transmitting unit that transmits device.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a print control program that stores a print job stored in the storage unit in response to a print instruction from a print operation device provided in correspondence with the printing device. Print job transmission means for transmitting to the corresponding printing apparatus, print job information holding means for holding information related to the attributes of the print job stored in the storage means, information on the capabilities of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses Is stored in the storage means in the printing apparatus provided corresponding to the printing operation apparatus based on the information held in the printing apparatus information holding means, the print job information holding means, and the printing apparatus information holding means Judgment means for judging whether or not printing is possible for a print job, and judgment result transmission means for sending a judgment result by the judgment means to the print operation device To function.

  According to the present invention, since it is possible to easily grasp a printing apparatus that can perform printing without changing the attribute of a print job, printing is performed by selecting an optimum printing apparatus in a printing environment in which a plurality of printing apparatuses are arranged. It can be performed.

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

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

  This printing system includes one or more client terminals (A to C) 10, a print server 20, one or more printing operation terminals (A to D) 30, and one or more printers (A to D) 40. Are connected via a network constituted by a LAN (Local Area Network), a WAN (Wide Area Network), or the like. The print operation terminal 30 and the printer 40 are provided in a one-to-one correspondence.

  The client terminal 10 is a general-purpose computer or the like handled by a user. When the user performs a predetermined operation from the client terminal 10 to instruct printing, a print job based on the instruction is created and sent to the print server 20. This print job is finally sent to the printer 20 for printing. Note that it is not necessary to individually specify the printer 40 when a print instruction is issued from the client terminal 10. Although details will be described later, the print instructed from the client terminal 10 is once stored and managed in the print server 20. This is because the process is performed by the printer 40 provided corresponding to the terminal based on an instruction from the print operation terminal 30.

  The print server 20 manages and controls printing in this printing system. Specifically, a print job is received from the client terminal 10 and is temporarily stored and managed in a print pending state, and transmitted to any one of a plurality of printers 40 managed by the own apparatus to execute printing.

  The print operation terminal 30 is a computer including a display unit and an input unit, and displays a list of print jobs stored in the print server 20, prints instructions, and deletes them. It should be noted that when a print instruction or deletion is performed on a print job from the print operation terminal 30, user authentication may be performed by requesting the user to input a user ID or password.

  The printer 40 receives a print job sent from the print server 20 and performs printing based on the job. As described above, each printer 40 is provided with a corresponding print operation terminal 30. When printing is performed by the printer 40, printing is performed from the print operation terminal 30 provided corresponding to the printer 40. I will tell you.

  Each of the devices such as the client terminal 10, the print server 20, the print operation terminal 30, and the printer 40 described above includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) as a main control unit, a ROM (Read Only Memory) as a storage unit, a RAM (Random Access Memory), HDD (Hard Disk Drive), etc., keyboard, mouse, display, etc. as an input / output interface, network card as a communication interface, etc. are connected by a bus. Control is performed by the program stored in the storage means being executed by the main control means.

  Here, for example, it is assumed that the user instructs printing from the client terminal 10. Then, the client terminal 10 creates a print job based on the instruction and transmits it to the print server 20. The print server 20 accumulates and manages print jobs received from the client terminal 10.

  In order to print the print job stored in the print server 20, it is necessary to instruct printing from the print operation terminal 30, so the user goes to the print operation terminal 30 and performs a predetermined operation from the terminal. Then, the print operation terminal 30 that has received this operation transmits a print permission inquiry request to the print server 20.

  Upon receiving this request, the print server 20 compares the accumulated attribute information of the print job with the information of the printer 40 provided corresponding to the print operation terminal 30 of the request transmission source, and for each print job. It is determined whether or not printing is possible with the printer 40, and the determination result is returned to the print operation terminal 30 as printability information.

  Upon receiving this response, the print operation terminal 30 displays the job list screen shown in FIG. 2 based on the sent print availability information. With this job list screen, the print operation terminal 30 displays a list of print jobs stored in the print server 20. Note that a warning is simultaneously displayed for a print job that cannot be printed by the printer 40 provided corresponding to the print operation terminal 30. For example, in the job list screen of FIG. 2, “reference (specifications) .xdw” cannot be printed.

  Here, in order to confirm the reason why printing cannot be performed, the user instructs display of the reason. That is, the “details” button in the job list screen of FIG. 2 is pressed. Then, the detailed screen shown in FIG. 3 is displayed, and the reason why printing is impossible is displayed. In this case, printing cannot be performed because the printer does not support Z-folding and staples are cut.

  The user who has grasped the reason why printing cannot be performed presses a “display printable printer” button in the detailed screen of FIG. 3 in order to print this print job. Along with this press, the alternative printer list screen shown in FIG. Thus, the user can grasp the printer 40 that can faithfully print the print job without changing the attribute of the print job.

  The above is the description of the overall configuration of the printing system according to the present invention. However, the configuration of the printing system described above is merely an example. For example, even if the print server 20 and the print operation terminal 30 are mounted on the same apparatus. Alternatively, the printing operation terminal 30 may be mounted as a part of the printer 40.

  Here, a part of the functional configuration of the print server 20 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The print server 20 includes, as its functional configuration, a job content analysis unit 21, a job attribute information holding unit 22, a printer information collection unit 23, a printer information holding unit 24, a job printability determination unit 25, and an inquiry request reception. A unit 26, a printability information transmission unit 27, a job storage unit 28, a job transmission unit 29, a job reception unit 51, and a communication unit (print server) 52.

  The job content analysis unit 21 has a function of analyzing the content of a print job sent from the client terminal 10. Here, the job contents are information such as whether the attribute specified for the print job is monochrome or color, whether finishing is specified, double-sided or single-sided.

  The job attribute information holding unit 22 functions to hold information related to print job attributes. The information related to the attributes of the print job is obtained by analysis by the job content analysis unit 21. The job attribute information holding unit 22 holds information related to print job attributes using the job attribute information table shown in FIG. The job attribute information table includes information indicating a print file name, information indicating a user name, information indicating an attribute specified for the job, and information indicating the number of prints corresponding to the job ID assigned to each print job. Etc. are retained. Here, referring to the job attribute information table shown in FIG. 6, for example, the job A is a print job instructed by the user A consisting of 30 pages in which color, double-sided, and punch are designated as print attributes. It turns out that it is.

  The printer information collection unit 23 performs a function of collecting information about capabilities and states from each printer 40. Here, the information related to the capability of the printer 40 is, for example, information such as whether color is supported, what kind of finishing is supported, whether both sides are supported, and what is the printing speed. Further, the information related to the status of the printer 40 is, for example, information indicating whether printing is in progress or the paper is out of paper.

  The printer information holding unit 24 functions to hold information related to the capabilities and states of each printer 40. The information related to the capability and state of each printer 40 is obtained by collecting information by the printer information collecting unit 23. The printer information holding unit 24 uses the printer capability / status information table shown in FIG. 7 to hold information related to the printer capability and status. This printer capability / status information table includes information indicating whether black and white or color is supported corresponding to the printer name assigned to each printer, information indicating what kind of finishing is supported, Information indicating whether or not both sides are supported, information indicating the printing speed, information indicating the current printer status, and the like are stored. Referring to the printer capability / status information table shown in FIG. 7, the printer A supports color, staple, Z-fold, and folder, and has the ability to print 20 sheets per minute. I understand that. In addition, it is possible to know the state of the printer that is currently printing (estimated time: 5 minutes).

  The job printability determination unit 25 functions to determine whether a print job can be printed in each printer 40. This print permission determination is made based on the job attribute information table and the printer capability / state information table. The determination result in the job printability determination unit 25 is, for example, a list of printability information as shown in FIG. 8, and this corresponds to the print availability inquiry request from the print operation terminal 30, and the print operation terminal 30 that is the request transmission source. Is responded to. As shown in FIG. 8, information indicating a print file name and information indicating whether printing is possible are set in the printing propriety information in correspondence with the job ID, and when it is determined that printing is impossible, Further, the reason, the alternative destination printer capable of printing the job, and the status of the printer are set. Note that the print permission / prohibition information shown in FIG. 8 indicates the content of the response to the print operation terminal D, and is based on the capability and state of the printer D.

  The inquiry request receiving unit 26 functions to receive a print permission inquiry request from the print operation terminal 30, and the print permission information transmitting unit 27 prints a determination result by the job print permission determination unit 25 as a print permission inquiry request transmission source. The function to transmit to the operation terminal 30 is fulfilled.

  The job storage unit 28 functions to store one or a plurality of print jobs. The print job sent from the client terminal 10 is temporarily stored in the job storage unit 28.

  The job transmission unit 29 has a function of transmitting the print job stored in the job storage unit 28 to the printer 40. The transmission of the print job to the printer 40 is performed based on a print instruction from the print operation terminal 30. The transmission destination of the print job is the printer 40 provided corresponding to the print operation terminal 30.

  The job receiving unit 51 has a function of receiving a print job sent from the client terminal 10. The print job received by the job reception unit 51 is transferred to the job content analysis unit 21 and stored in the job storage unit 28 after the job content analysis is completed.

  The communication unit (print server) 52 functions as a communication interface that connects the print server 20 and the network. In the print server 20, various information is exchanged with the client terminal 10, the print operation terminal 30, and the printer 40 via the communication unit (print server) 52. This completes the description of the various processing functions that make up the print server 20.

  Next, a part of the functional configuration of the printing operation terminal 30 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The print operation terminal 30 includes a communication unit (print operation terminal) 31, a print availability inquiry unit 32, a print instruction unit 33, a display control unit 34, a display unit 35, and an input unit 36 as its functional configuration. It is provided and configured.

  The communication unit (print operation terminal) 31 functions as a communication interface that connects the print operation terminal 30 and the network. The print operation terminal 30 exchanges various information with the print server 20 and the printer 40 via the communication unit (print operation terminal) 31.

  The print permission / inquiry inquiry unit 32 performs a function of inquiring whether or not printing is possible for one or a plurality of print jobs stored in the print server 20. This inquiry is made by sending a print availability inquiry request from the print availability inquiry unit 32 to the print server 20.

  The print instruction unit 33 has a function of transmitting a print instruction to the print server 20. This print instruction is issued based on a user operation from the input unit 36 described later.

  The display control unit 34 performs a function of controlling display of various types of information on the display unit 35 to be described later, and there is a job list display control unit 34a that controls display of the printability status for each print job, and a print job that cannot be printed. A non-printable reason display control unit 34b for controlling the display of the reason for the non-printing, and a substitute destination printer list display control unit 34c for displaying a list of printers to be substituted when there is a print job that cannot be printed. It has.

  The display unit 35 has a function of displaying various information to the user, and the input unit 36 has a function of inputting a user operation. This completes the description of the various processing functions that make up the print operation terminal 30.

  Here, the operation of the printing system shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. First, the operation on the print server 20 side when a print job sent from the client terminal 10 is received will be described with reference to FIG.

  When a print job is sent from the client terminal 10 to the print server 20, the print server 20 receives this at the job receiving unit 52 (YES in step S101). The print job is analyzed by the job content analysis unit 21 (step S102), and the analysis result is set in the job attribute information table (step S103) and then stored in the job storage unit 28 (step S102). S104).

  When the print job is stored, the printer information collection unit 23 collects the capabilities and states of the printer 40 from each printer 40 (step S105). When this information collection is completed, the collected information is set in the printer capability / state information table (step S106), and this process is terminated.

  In FIG. 10, a case has been described in which the capabilities and status are collected from each printer 40 in response to the reception of the print job, and the result is set in the printer capability / status information table. You may make it implement in.

  Next, an operation on the print server 20 side when an inquiry about whether printing is possible or a print instruction is issued from the print operation terminal 30 side in a state where print jobs are accumulated in the print server 20 will be described with reference to FIG. .

  The print server 20 stands by until either a print permission inquiry request or a print instruction is sent from the print operation terminal 30 (NO in step S201 and NO in step S202).

  If a print permission inquiry request is sent from the print operation terminal 30 during this standby (YES in step S201), the print server 20 receives the request at the inquiry request receiving unit 26, and also receives a job. The print permission determination unit 25 compares the accumulated attribute information of the print job with the information of the printer 40 provided corresponding to the print operation terminal 30 that is the request transmission source, and the printer 40 for each print job. Whether or not printing is possible is determined (step S203). The determination of whether or not printing is possible is performed based on the job attribute information table and the printer capability / status information table as described above.

  When this determination is completed, the printability information transmitting unit 27 responds with the printability information to the print operation terminal 30 that has transmitted the printability inquiry request (step S204), and the process ends.

  When a print instruction is sent from the print operation terminal 30 during the standby in steps S201 and S202 (NO in step S201 and YES in step S202), the job transmission unit 29 of the print server 20 The print job specified by the instruction is taken out from the storage unit 28, and the print job is transmitted to the printer 40 provided corresponding to the print operation terminal 30 that is the instruction transmission source (step S205). Then, this process ends.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 12, an operation when a print instruction is issued from the print operation terminal 30 to a print job stored in the print server 20 will be described.

  In the print operation terminal 30, first, the print availability inquiry unit 32 transmits a print availability inquiry request to the print server 20 side (step S301). Then, print permission information is sent from the print server 20 as a response, and the print operation terminal 30 receives it (step S302).

  Upon receiving this, the job list display control unit 34a controls the display of the job list screen shown in FIG. 2 on the display unit 35 based on the print availability information (step S303). At this time, a warning is simultaneously displayed for print jobs that cannot be printed.

  Along with the display of the job list screen, the print operation terminal 30 waits for a user operation. In other words, the process waits until the user who refers to the job list screen displayed on the display unit 35 gives an instruction to print or displays a reason for the inability to print (NO in step S304, then step S305). NO). The instruction to display the reason for non-printing is performed only when there is a non-printable print job.

  Here, when the user instructs display of the reason why printing is not possible via the input unit 36 (NO in step S304, YES in step S305), the printing impossible reason display control unit 34b that has received this instruction is shown in FIG. The detailed screen is displayed on the display unit 35 (step S306). Here, when the user further instructs display of the replacement destination printer via the input unit 36 in the state where the detailed screen shown in FIG. 3 is displayed (YES in step S307), a list of replacement destination printers which has received this instruction. The display control unit 34c controls to display the alternative destination printer list screen shown in FIG. 4 on the display unit 35 (step S308). Thereafter, the print operation terminal 30 stands by again until the user gives an instruction to print or an instruction to display the reason for non-printing.

  When the user designates a print job from the print job list screen via the input unit 36 and instructs printing for the job during the standby in steps S304 and S305 (YES in step S304), this is changed. The received print instruction unit 33 transmits a print instruction to the print server 20 (step S309). Then, this process ends.

  Although the above is an example of typical embodiment of this invention, this invention is not limited to the Example shown to the said and drawing, It can implement suitably deform | transforming within the range which does not change the summary. .

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the print server 20 is provided with the job printability determination unit 25, and the print server 20 is configured to determine whether the print job can be printed. The operation terminal 30 may be provided, and the print operation terminal 30 may determine whether the print job can be printed. In this case, the print operation terminal 30 receives information set in the job attribute information table and the printer capability / state information table from the print server 20 when determining whether or not printing is possible, and determines whether or not printing is possible based on this information. It will be.

  In the above-described embodiment, the print availability inquiry unit 32 is provided in the print operation terminal 30 and the print server 20 is inquired about the print availability information. However, the print availability inquiry unit 32 is omitted, and the print server The print enable / disable information may be transmitted from the 20 side to the print operation terminal 30 at a predetermined timing. Examples of the predetermined timing include a time point when a print job is newly accumulated and every predetermined time interval.

  In the above embodiment, a printer capability / status information table is arranged in the printer information holding unit 24 so as to hold the printer capability and status information. The information held here is the printer capability information. It may be only. In this case, the printer information collection unit 23 may be omitted because there is no need to acquire the printer status.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which the user is notified of whether or not a print job can be printed by controlling the display of a screen (job list screen or the like) on the display unit based on the printability information. However, the present invention is not limited, and the user may be notified by voice or the like.

  Further, the processes in the print server 20 and the print operation terminal 30 described in the above embodiments may be implemented by programs installed in a computer. This program can be provided not only by a communication means such as a network but also by storing it in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM.

  The printing system, the printing control apparatus, and the printing control program of the present invention can be applied to a printing system that includes a printing control apparatus, a printing control apparatus, and a printing control program that causes a computer to execute processing in the printing control apparatus. .

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of the overall configuration of a printing system according to the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen layout of a job list screen. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen layout of a detailed screen (reason which cannot be printed). 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen layout of an alternative printer list screen. FIG. It is a figure which shows a part of functional structure of the print server 20 shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the table layout of a job attribute information table. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a table layout of a printer capability / state information table. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the printing permission judgment information. It is a figure which shows a part of functional structure of the printing operation terminal 30 shown in FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation on the print server 20 side when a print job sent from the client terminal 10 is received. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation on the print server 20 side when an inquiry about whether printing is possible or a print instruction is issued from the print operation terminal 30 side in a state where a print job is accumulated in the print server 20. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation when a print instruction is issued from the print operation terminal 30 to a print job stored in the print server 20.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Client terminal 20 Print server 21 Job content analysis part 22 Job attribute information holding part 23 Printer information collection part 24 Printer information holding part 25 Job print availability judgment part 26 Inquiry request reception part 27 Print availability information transmission part 28 Job accumulation part 29 Job Transmission unit 51 Job reception unit 52 Communication unit (print server)
30 Print operation terminal 31 Communication unit (print operation terminal)
32 Print availability inquiry section 33 Print instruction section 34 Display control section 34a Job list display control section 34b Unprintable reason display control section 34c Alternative destination printer list display control section 35 Display section 36 Input section 40 Printer

Claims (5)

A plurality of printing devices;
A print control device for controlling printing;
A plurality of printing operation devices provided corresponding to the plurality of printing devices, respectively,
The print control device includes:
Storage means for storing one or more print jobs;
Print job transmission means for transmitting a print job stored in the storage means in response to a print instruction from the print operation apparatus to a printing apparatus provided for the print operation apparatus;
Print job information holding means for holding information relating to attributes of the print job stored in the storage means;
Printing device information holding means for holding information related to the capabilities of each of the plurality of printing devices;
Based on the information held in the print job information holding means and the printing apparatus information holding means, it is determined whether or not printing is possible for the print job stored in the storage means in a printing apparatus provided corresponding to the printing operation apparatus. Judgment means,
A determination result transmission means for transmitting a determination result by the determination means to the print operation device;
The printing operation device includes:
First notification means for notifying the user of whether printing is possible for each print job based on the determination result sent from the determination result transmission means;
Second notification means for notifying the user of the reason why printing of the print job is not possible based on the determination result sent from the determination result transmission means;
Third notification means for notifying a user of a printing apparatus that is an alternative destination of a print job that cannot be printed based on the determination result sent from the determination result transmission means;
A print instructing unit for instructing printing of the print job stored in the storage unit. Printing device information collecting means for collecting information on the current state of the printing device together with information on the capability of the printing device from each of the plurality of printing devices;
The printing apparatus information holding means is
The printing system according to claim 1, wherein information collected by the printing apparatus information collecting unit is held. A plurality of printing devices;
A print control device for controlling printing;
A plurality of printing operation devices provided corresponding to the plurality of printing devices, respectively,
The print control device includes:
Storage means for storing one or more print jobs;
Print job transmission means for transmitting a print job stored in the storage means in response to a print instruction from the print operation apparatus to a printing apparatus provided for the print operation apparatus;
Print job information holding means for holding information relating to attributes of the print job stored in the storage means;
Printing device information holding means for holding information relating to the capabilities of each of the plurality of printing devices,
The printing operation device includes:
Judgment means for judging whether or not printing is possible for the print job stored in the storage means in a printing apparatus provided corresponding to the own apparatus based on the information held in the print job information holding means and the printing apparatus information holding means When,
First notification means for notifying the user of whether or not printing is possible for each print job based on a determination result by the determination means;
Second notification means for notifying the user of the reason why printing of the print job is impossible based on the determination result by the determination means;
Third notification means for notifying a user of a printing apparatus that is an alternative destination of a print job that cannot be printed based on a determination result by the determination means;
A print instructing unit for instructing printing of the print job stored in the storage unit. Storage means for storing one or more print jobs;
Print job transmission means for transmitting a print job stored in the storage means in response to a print instruction from a print operation apparatus provided for the printing apparatus to a printing apparatus provided for the print operation apparatus When,
Print job information holding means for holding information relating to attributes of the print job stored in the storage means;
Printing device information holding means for holding information related to the capabilities of each of the plurality of printing devices;
Based on the information held in the print job information holding means and the printing apparatus information holding means, it is determined whether or not printing is possible for the print job stored in the storage means in a printing apparatus provided corresponding to the printing operation apparatus. Judgment means,
And a determination result transmitting unit configured to transmit a determination result by the determination unit to the print operation device. Computer
Print job transmission means for transmitting a print job stored in the storage means in response to a print instruction from a print operation apparatus provided in correspondence with the printing apparatus to a printing apparatus provided in correspondence with the print operation apparatus;
Print job information holding means for holding information relating to attributes of the print job stored in the storage means;
Printing device information holding means for holding information related to the capabilities of each of the plurality of printing devices;
Based on the information held in the print job information holding means and the printing apparatus information holding means, it is determined whether or not printing is possible for the print job stored in the storage means in a printing apparatus provided corresponding to the printing operation apparatus. Judgment means,
The printing control program for functioning as a judgment result transmission means which transmits the judgment result by the said judgment means to the said printing operation apparatus.

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