JP2011197720A - Information processor, print control program, recording medium, printer and printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress consumption of a paper sheet in time of printing by preventing that a blank page is not generated between a document and a document even when designating printing order of a plurality of documents.SOLUTION: The information processor receives selection of the plurality of documents to be printed out together with designation of the printing order of the plurality of documents, generates printing order information indicating order of printing of each of the plurality of selected documents according to the designation, accumulates data on the plurality of selected documents in a storage means together with the generated printing order information (S14), generates one job for printing the plurality of documents in order indicated by the printing order information based on the accumulated data on the plurality of documents and the printing order information (S16), and supplies it to a printer (S17).

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus for printing a designated document on a printing apparatus, a print control program for causing a computer to function as such an information processing apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium storing such a print control program The present invention relates to a printing apparatus that executes printing in accordance with job data supplied from the information processing apparatus, a printing system that includes the printing control program and the printing apparatus, and a printing apparatus that transmits the printing control program.

Conventionally, by using a document creation software such as Word (registered trademark), by specifying the pages to be printed in the order desired by the user, each page can be printed in an arbitrary order rather than in order from the first page. It has been known.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-151867 gives a print instruction after a client PC obtains a document from a document management system and assigns print order attribute information to a plurality of print target documents for the purpose of changing the order of documents to be printed. When this is done, a technique is disclosed in which a print server generates a plurality of print jobs based on the print order attribute information, and sequentially transmits them to a printer for printing.

  By the way, in an application capable of selecting and printing a plurality of documents, the first, second, third, and fourth documents are selected and printed in the order displayed on the screen, for example, in that order. However, for example, when it is desired to print in the second, fourth, first, and third order of the document, if the print order cannot be specified, it must be devised so that the documents are rearranged in that order.

To reorder, simply open each document you want to print, save the documents in the order you want to print, arrange the update times for each document in the order you want to print, and sort in the update order, As a result, it is possible to perform printing in a desired printing order simply by “printing in the displayed order”.
However, this method is limited to documents that can be edited because the document is opened and directly overwritten, and therefore cannot be applied to documents that cannot be edited due to security settings. Further, even if all the documents to be printed can be edited, if the number of documents is large, it takes time to respond, and there is a possibility that errors such as wrong document update order may occur. Furthermore, this correspondence takes time because each document is overwritten and saved one by one, and there is a problem in document maintenance.

Therefore, as a practical avoidance method, there is a method of printing in document units in the order of documents 2, 4, 1, 3 respectively. However, when there are a large number of documents to be printed, it is troublesome to repeat printing execution. In addition, there is a problem that it takes time to deal with this problem.
In this regard, if the conventional technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 is used, the above problem can be solved because the user can specify the printing order in an application capable of selecting and printing a plurality of documents.

  However, the technique described in Patent Document 1 has a problem that blank pages occur between documents because the print server sequentially transmits print jobs to the printer in units of documents based on the print order attribute information. For example, even if the page on the back side of the paper is blank when printing of one document is completed in the duplex printing setting, printing of the subsequent document is instructed as a new print job, so a new paper is used. Printed. Therefore, there is a problem that the paper is consumed correspondingly.

  An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem and suppress the consumption of paper during printing by preventing blank pages from being generated between documents even when the printing order of a plurality of documents is specified. And

  In order to achieve the above-described object, in the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus accepts selection of a plurality of documents to be printed together with designation of the print order of the plurality of documents, and according to the designation accepted by the acceptance means. Order information generating means for generating print order information indicating the order in which each of the selected plurality of documents is printed, and printing in which the order information generating means generates data of the selected plurality of documents Based on the document storage means for storing in the storage means together with the order information, the data of the plurality of documents stored in the storage means and the print order information, the plurality of documents are printed in the order indicated by the print order information 1 A job generation unit that generates one job, and a supply unit that supplies data of the job generated by the job generation unit to the printing apparatus.

In such an information processing apparatus, the order information generation means embeds information indicating the order of printing the document in the data of each of the selected documents as the print order information. Good.
Further, it is preferable that the job generation unit starts generation of the one job after all the data of the plurality of documents are accumulated in the storage unit.

  The print control program according to the present invention is based on print order information indicating the order of printing each of the data of a plurality of documents to be printed out and the documents stored in the storage means. A job generation unit that generates one job for printing the plurality of documents in the order indicated by the print order information, and a supply unit that supplies data of the job generated by the job generation unit to the printing apparatus. Is.

In such a print control program, the print order information may be embedded in the data of each of the plurality of documents as information indicating what number the document is to be printed.
Further, it is preferable that the job generation unit starts generation of the one job after all the data of the plurality of documents are accumulated in the storage unit.

The recording medium of the present invention is a computer-readable recording medium storing any one of the above print control programs.
Also, the printing apparatus of the present invention has means for executing printing in accordance with job data supplied from the supply means realized by the print control program.
Furthermore, a printing system according to the present invention includes the printing control program and a printing apparatus.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores any one of the above-described print control programs; and a transmission unit that transmits the print control program to the information processing apparatus.

According to the information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and printing system of the present invention as described above, even when the printing order of a plurality of documents is designated, the blank page is not generated between the documents, and the consumption of paper during printing is performed. Can be suppressed.
Also, according to the print control program and the recording medium of the present invention, by causing the computer to read and execute the program, the computer can function as the information processing apparatus as described above, and similar effects can be obtained. According to another printing apparatus of the present invention, the same effect can be obtained by transmitting the above program to an information processing apparatus capable of executing the received program.

1 is a diagram schematically showing an overall configuration of a printing system for realizing the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the computer terminal shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the software structure of the computer terminal shown in FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a print property screen. FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating processing executed by a CPU of a computer terminal and a CPU of a printer that executes printing when a user presses an OK button on a print property screen. It is a figure which shows the example of the document printed. It is a figure which shows the printing result at the time of printing the document shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a printing result when the document shown in FIG. 6 is printed in the order of document 2 and document 1 by the method of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing the overall configuration of a printing system for realizing the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, this printing system has a computer terminal 10 such as a PC (personal computer), which is an embodiment of the information processing apparatus of the present invention, and a document that is a print instruction target in a database for management. A network 4 connects printers 1, 2, and 3 (hereinafter referred to as “1” representatively) that receive print jobs from a database (DB) server 5 and a computer terminal 10 and print out documents. It is a system configured.

  As the DB server 5, a known DB server having a function of searching for a corresponding document in response to a print target document acquisition request from the computer terminal 10 and sending it to the requesting computer terminal 10 can be employed. As the network 4, any communication path can be adopted regardless of whether it is a wired or wireless network including a LAN (local area network). Furthermore, it goes without saying that the number of computer terminals 10 and printers 1 connected to the network 4 is not limited to the number shown.

Next, the hardware configuration of the computer terminal 10 shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of the computer terminal 10 illustrated in FIG. 1.
The computer terminal 10 includes a CPU 11, ROM 12, RAM 13, I / O port 14, communication I / F 15, HDD (hard disk device) 16, and storage medium drive 17, which are connected by a system bus 19.

The CPU 11 is a central processing unit that manages and controls the entire computer terminal 10.
The ROM 12 is a read-only storage unit that stores a program executed by the CPU 11.
The RAM 13 is a readable / writable storage means used as a work area when the program executed by the CPU 11 is expanded and various processes are performed.

The I / O port 14 is an interface for connecting to external input means such as a keyboard and a mouse and display means such as a display.
The communication I / F 15 is an interface for the computer terminal 10 to communicate with other computer terminals and printers via a network or a USB cable.
Note that an appropriate communication I / F 15 is prepared in accordance with a network standard, a communication protocol to be used, and the like. It is also possible to provide a plurality of communication I / Fs 15 corresponding to a plurality of standards.
The HDD 16 is a mass storage means for storing control programs and various data.

The storage medium drive 17 is a recording / reproduction unit that performs recording or reproduction on the storage medium 18, and an appropriate drive is used according to the type of the storage medium 18.
The storage medium 18 is a computer-readable recording medium such as an optical disk such as a CD or DVD, a magneto-optical disk such as MO, or a flexible disk such as FD. By setting a recording medium on which a program for realizing various functions including a function related to generation and transmission of a print job, which will be described later, is recorded in the recording medium drive 17, the program is read by the computer terminal 10 and the HDD 16. Or can be executed by the CPU 11.

  When the power is turned on, the CPU 11 reads various programs including the OS (operation system), applications, and user interface in the HDD 16 according to the boot loader (boot program) in the ROM 12, develops them in the RAM 13, and then operates according to the various programs. (By selectively executing various programs as necessary), the CPU 11 controls the device including the ROM 12, the I / O port 14, the communication I / F 15, and the HDD 16, so that the functions according to the present invention, that is, the receiving means Various functions including functions as order information generation means, document storage means, job generation means, and supply means can be realized.

  Although not shown in FIG. 2, the computer terminal 10 may be provided with an engine unit for performing physical output other than communication to the outside. For example, the computer terminal 10 can also be configured as a printing apparatus by providing a print engine such as an electrophotographic system or an inkjet system, and controlling the print engine by the CPU 11.

  Next, the software configuration of the computer terminal 10 and the procedure for executing printing will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. Further, processing and control related to each software such as an application and a printer driver, which will be described later, are performed by the CPU operating according to the program of the software. However, for the sake of convenience of explanation, it is assumed that each software executes the processing.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a software configuration example of the computer terminal 10 illustrated in FIG. 1. However, in FIG. 3, the OS (operating system) is not shown.
In the computer terminal 10, an OS, for example, Windows (registered trademark) of Microsoft Corporation is operating. As an operation module related to the features of this embodiment, an application 21, a printer driver 24, and GDI which is a component of the OS are used. The (graphic device interface) 22, the spooler 27, and the port monitor 28 operate. Further, the document holding area 23 is secured in an arbitrary storage unit by the application 21 or the printer driver 24.

  Here, the application 21 is a program for managing documents stored in a document storage DB (database) 20 provided in the DB server 5, and the user can edit and print documents using the application 21. You can give instructions. When printing is instructed, a plurality of documents can be selected at the same time, and printing of the plurality of documents can be instructed by specifying a printing order.

The GDI 22 is a rendering engine provided by the Windows (registered trademark) OS, and is a service that controls drawing in general. If the GDI 22 is used for the output processing of the application, the GDI 22 absorbs the difference between the models and apparatuses, and the appearance and operation feeling of each application can be unified with those provided by Windows (registered trademark).
The document holding area 23 is a storage area used for storing a plurality of documents to be printed when the application 21 receives printing of a plurality of documents together with designation of a printing order.

The printer driver 24 is a module for controlling the printer, and is prepared according to the model of the printer 1, 2, 3. In addition, a UI (user interface) unit 25 and a drawing unit 26 are provided.
Among these, the UI unit 25 provides a GUI (graphical user interface) for accepting settings specific to the printer to be controlled, which cannot be accepted by the application 21.

  The drawing unit 26 draws bitmap data of the image to be formed in the page memory based on the document data indicating the content of the image to be printed output from the application 21 and can be processed by the printer to be controlled. It is converted to print data (print language format print data) described in the format printer language. The drawing unit 26 also has a function of a job generation unit that generates a single job for printing a plurality of documents in the specified order when printing of the plurality of documents is instructed together with the specification of the print order. .

The spooler 27 is a module provided by the OS, and has a function of temporarily storing print data to be transmitted to the printer.
The port monitor 28 is also a module provided by the OS, and monitors a serial port login request (ttymon) and a network service request (listen). When print data to be transmitted to the printer is stored in the spooler 27, the print data is transmitted to the printer that is to execute the job related to the print data.

  In the computer terminal having the above software configuration, a characteristic point is that when a user prints a plurality of documents by the function of the application 21, the printing order of each document can be specified, and the printing of these documents can be performed. The printer 1 can be executed as one job in which each document is arranged in the designated order. Therefore, the operation executed by each software in relation to this point will be described below.

First, the application 21 displays a list of documents stored in the document storage DB according to extraction conditions and alignment conditions designated by the user, and selects each document and gives instructions such as editing and printing regarding the selected document. Accept.
When the user selects one or a plurality of documents and gives an instruction to print those documents, the application 21 displays a print property screen on a display connected to the computer terminal 10 and accepts an instruction for setting related to printing. .

FIG. 4 shows an example of this print property screen.
As shown in FIG. 4, the print property screen 100 includes a printer selection unit 101, a setting button 102, a print range designation unit 103, a check box 104, a print order input unit 105, an OK button 106, and a cancel button 107.

  Among these, the printer selection unit 101 is an operation unit for accepting selection of which printers can be used for printing from the computer terminal 10, and the user can select a printer from a pull-down menu. it can.

The setting button 102 is a button for opening a print setting screen (not shown) by the function of the UI unit 25 for performing the above-described printer-specific setting for the printer selected in the printer selection unit 101. On this print setting screen, if the printer supports these functions, it is possible to perform settings for collective printing for printing a plurality of pages on one side of the paper and double-sided printing for printing on both sides of the paper. .
When print settings are made by a user operation on the print setting screen, the setting contents are stored as a setting file in a structure provided by the OS. This structure is called DEVMODE in the Windows (registered trademark) OS. In this way, the user can issue a print instruction based on the state after changing the printer-specific settings.

  The print range designation unit 103 is an operation unit that allows the user to select whether to print all pages of a document to be printed or to print in a desired page range by selecting a radio button. Here, it is assumed that the print range designation unit 103 can be used only when only one document is selected as a print target. If a plurality of documents are selected as print targets, they are invalidated. However, a configuration that can specify a page range to be printed for each of a plurality of documents is not disturbed.

A check box 104 is a check box for enabling / disabling the “set print order of selected documents” function. When the user wants to print a plurality of documents by specifying the order, this check box field is displayed. Check and turn on as shown.
The print order input unit 105 shows an input field for inputting the print order of a document selected as a print target, and is valid when the check box 104 is ON. In this state, the printing order can be designated by inputting to the printing order input unit 105 the order in which each document selected as a printing target is to be printed.

  As an input format, for example, when accepting selection of a document to be printed, it is conceivable to input the printing order of each document to be printed by separating them with a comma in order from the document arranged at the top of the list. FIG. 4 shows an example in which two documents are designated to print the first document second and the next document first. However, other than this, it is also possible to display a list of documents selected as print targets on the print property screen and to specify the order of printing for each.

When the user performs the necessary settings in the above-described units and then presses the OK button 106, the application 21 starts processing for causing the printer 1 to execute printing according to the settings and closes the print property screen 100.
On the other hand, when the user presses the cancel button 107, the application 21 simply closes the print property screen 100.

Next, FIG. 5 shows processing executed by the CPU 11 of the computer terminal 10 and the CPU of the printer 1 that executes printing when the user presses the OK button 106 on the print property screen 100 described above.
In FIG. 5, what is shown on the upper side is processing executed by the CPU 11, and processing performed by each software shown in FIG. 3 in cooperation is shown in one flowchart. Shown below is the processing on the printer 1 side.

  In this process, first, as a process related to the function of the application 21, the CPU 11 determines whether there are a plurality of documents selected as print targets (S11) or is in a state of specifying the print order of the documents (check box 104). (S12), and whether or not the print order is correctly specified in the print order input unit 105 for all the documents selected as print targets (S13) is sequentially determined.

  Note that “correctly” in step S13 means that sufficient information has been input in an appropriate format for setting the printing order of each document to be printed. For example, there is no problem if the same number of orders as the number of documents to be printed are specified without overlapping the order. Alternatively, if it is permitted to specify the order only for a predetermined number of documents from the top, or to specify the order by skipping numbers, it is only necessary to specify according to those rules.

  If all the determinations in steps S11 to S13 are YES, the process proceeds to step S14, and the print order information indicating the print order of the documents (the number to be printed) for all the documents selected as print targets. Is stored in the document holding area 23 together with the document data. If the document holding area 23 has not been secured yet, it may be secured at the time of this processing. Further, the printing order information may be stored in the document holding area 23 by embedding information indicating the printing order of the document for each document data, giving it as an attribute, or the like. The information indicating the printing order may be embedded or given as an attribute. The document data is also stored in a format that allows the printer driver 24 to understand the contents and draw the contents of the document. The storage order of the document data may be arbitrary.

  When all the necessary document data is stored in step S14, the process proceeds to step S15 to notify the printer driver 24 that the document data has been stored in the document holding area 23. This notification may be realized by calling the GDI 22 by a GDI call, and the GDI 22 receiving the GDI 22 makes a DDI (device driver interface) call to the drawing unit 26 of the printer driver 24. In this case, the contents of DEVMODE are also notified to the printer driver by GDI call and DDI call. Alternatively, if there is an interface that can be directly called between the application 21 and the printer driver 24, it may be used.

In the next step S16, the CPU 11 accesses the document holding area 23 and reads the document data stored in the document holding area 23 in step S14 as a process related to the function of the printer driver 24 (the drawing unit 26 thereof). Data of one print job for causing the printer 1 to print the document indicated by the document data in the order indicated by the print order information stored together with the document data is generated. Here, the drawing process of each page is also performed in step S16, but a configuration in which drawing is performed on the printer 1 side is also conceivable.
The CPU 11 registers this data in the spooler 27, and in step S17, as processing related to the function of the port monitor 26, transmits the print job data generated in step S16 to the printer 1 used for printing, and supplies it. The process ends.

  Upon receiving this data, the printer 1 executes printing in accordance with the received print job data in step S21. Therefore, printing of a plurality of documents is executed as one job so as to print one document.

  If NO in any of steps S11 to S13, the document print order is not rearranged (if NO in step S13, re-input of the print order designation may be obtained as an error). Therefore, the process proceeds to step S18, and the document data of all the documents selected as print targets are transferred to the printer driver 24 one by one.

Then, as a process related to the function of the printer driver 24, the CPU 11 generates print job data for causing the printer 1 to print the document indicated by the document data for each received document data in step S19. The processing after step S17 is the same as that described above. In this case, the printer 1 executes printing of a plurality of documents as a job for each document. Since the processing in the case of going through steps S18 and S19 may be the same processing as conventional printing, detailed description is omitted.
In the above processing, the CPU 11 functions as order information generation means and document storage means in step S14, functions as job generation means in step S16, and functions as supply means in step S17.

Next, the effect of the above processing will be described with reference to FIGS.
Here, as shown in FIG. 6, document 1 consisting of 3 pages 1- (1) to (3) and document 2 consisting of 5 pages 2- (1) to (5) are 2 pages. A case of printing on both sides of aggregation (2 in 1) will be described as an example.

  When these two documents are displayed in the order of document 1 and document 2 on the list, if there is no function for specifying the print order, it is necessary to instruct printing individually in the order of document 2 and document 1 In this case, separate print jobs are generated. Even when the print order can be specified using the technique described in Patent Document 1, a print job is still generated for each document.

Accordingly, the result of printing is as shown in FIG.
That is, when the document 2 is printed first, an image of five pages is arranged using a space up to the first page on the surface of the second sheet of paper, and two sheets of paper are consumed. Since the printing of the document 1 is a separate job, it is printed on another sheet and consumes a total of three sheets.

On the other hand, when the processing described with reference to FIG. 5 is applied, the document 2 and the document 1 are printed as one job in this order, that is, as one document of 8 pages.
Therefore, as shown in FIG. 8, it can be stored on two sheets. Therefore, compared to the case of FIG. 7, it is possible to suppress the generation of blank pages at document breaks and save paper.

In the embodiment described above, since the printer driver 24 is in charge of generating one job for performing printing according to a plurality of document data, a print server is unnecessary.
In addition, if information indicating how many times the document is to be printed is embedded in the document data of each of the plurality of documents selected as print targets, the document data is stored in the document holding area 23. Even when printing of some documents is canceled, the remaining documents can be printed in the designated order by simply skipping the order of the documents.
In addition, if job generation is started after all the document data of a plurality of documents selected as print targets is stored in the document holding area 23, the document data is arranged on the pages in the job in order from the first document data to be printed. be able to.

This is the end of the description of the embodiment. However, in the present invention, the configuration of the apparatus or system, the specific processing content, the content of the screen to be displayed, the format of the document, etc. are limited to those described in the above-described embodiment. Of course not.
For example, the application 21 may be an application having any function (document creation, spreadsheet, image editing, etc.) as long as it can select a plurality of documents and instruct printing of those documents. Absent. Data that has a different format for each document may be used as long as it can be converted into data that can be finally printed.

Further, the present invention can obtain an effect even when the application 21 or the printer driver 24 is implemented as a single unit in an environment that can be combined with an appropriate partner.
These programs may be stored in a storage means such as a ROM or HDD provided in the computer from the beginning, but a non-volatile recording medium such as a CD-ROM or flexible disk, SRAM, EEPROM, or memory card as a recording medium. (Memory) can also be recorded and provided. Each procedure described above can be executed by installing a program recorded in the memory in a computer and causing the CPU to execute the program, or causing the CPU to read and execute the program from the memory.
Furthermore, it is also possible to download and execute an external device that is connected to a network and includes a recording medium that records the program, or an external device that stores the program in the storage unit.

  In particular, when such a print control program is stored in a nonvolatile storage means such as NVRAM of the printer 1 and it is detected that communication with a computer terminal 10 in which the print control program is not installed is possible. It is conceivable that the CPU of the printer 1 can transmit the print control program to the computer terminal 10 automatically or in response to a user instruction so that the computer terminal 10 can install it.

The present invention can also be implemented as the printer 1 that executes printing in accordance with job data generated by the printer driver 24 and supplied from the computer terminal 10. In this case, the present invention can also be implemented assuming that a printing system is formed by the print control program for realizing the function of the printer driver 24 and the printer 1 controlled by the printer driver 24.
In addition, the embodiments and modifications described above can be combined as appropriate within a consistent range.

As described above, according to the information processing apparatus, print control program, recording medium, printing apparatus, and printing system of the present invention, blank pages do not occur between documents even when the printing order of a plurality of documents is specified. In this way, consumption of paper during printing can be suppressed.
Therefore, by applying this invention, a printing system capable of saving resources can be provided.

1, 2, 3: Printer 4: Network 5: DB server 10: Computer terminal 11: CPU 12: ROM 13: RAM
14: I / O port 15: Communication I / F 16: HDD
17: Storage medium drive 18: Storage medium 19: System bus 20: Document storage DB 21: Application 22: GDI
23: Document holding area 24: Printer driver 25: UI unit 26: Drawing unit 27: Spooler 28: Port monitor 100: Print property screen 101: Printer selection unit 102: Setting button 103: Print range specification unit 104: Check box 105: Printing order input unit 106: OK button 107: Cancel button

JP-A-2005-202668

Claims (10)

Accepting means for accepting selection of a plurality of documents to be printed out together with designation of a print order of the plurality of documents;
Order information generating means for generating print order information indicating what number each of the selected documents is printed in accordance with the specification received by the receiving means;
Document storage means for storing data of the selected documents in the storage means together with the print order information generated by the order information generation means;
Job generating means for generating one job for printing the plurality of documents in the order indicated by the printing order information based on the data of the plurality of documents stored in the storage means and the printing order information;
An information processing apparatus comprising supply means for supplying job data generated by the job generation means to a printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The information processing apparatus, wherein the order information generation unit embeds information indicating how many times the document is printed into the data of each of the selected documents as the print order information. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
The information processing apparatus, wherein the job generation unit starts generating the one job after all the data of the plurality of documents are accumulated in the storage unit. Computer
Based on the data of a plurality of documents to be printed and stored in the storage means and the print order information indicating the order of printing each of the plurality of documents, the order indicated by the print order information Job generation means for generating one job to be printed with,
A print control program for causing job data generated by the job generation unit to function as a supply unit that supplies data to a printing apparatus. The print control program according to claim 4,
The print control program, wherein the print order information is embedded in the data of each of the plurality of documents as information indicating what number the document is to be printed. A print control program according to claim 4 or 5,
The print control program, wherein the job generation unit starts generation of the one job after all the data of the plurality of documents are accumulated in the storage unit.   A computer-readable recording medium storing the print control program according to any one of claims 4 to 6.   A printing apparatus comprising: means for executing printing according to job data supplied from supply means realized by the print control program according to claim 4.   A printing system comprising the printing control program according to any one of claims 4 to 6 and the printing apparatus according to claim 8. Storage means for storing the print control program according to any one of claims 4 to 6,
A printing apparatus comprising: a transmission unit that transmits the print control program to an information processing apparatus.

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