JP2022160224A - System and control method - Google Patents

Abstract

To appropriately manage a print job on the basis of an installation position of a printer that executes the print job.SOLUTION: A system includes a cloud service and a printer. The cloud service has: first setting means that sets, to print jobs received from an information processing apparatus, first position information indicating a position where a printer executing the print jobs is installed; holding means that holds the print jobs; creation means that creates a print job list from the print jobs held by the holding means by using the first position information set to the print jobs; and first transmission means that transmits the created print job list to the printer. The printer further comprises acquisition means that acquires, from the cloud service, a print job selected in the print job list received from the cloud service.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

Description

The present invention relates to a system and control method for printing using a cloud service.

In recent years, there is a cloud print service that executes printing using a cloud service provided on the Internet. Such a cloud print service can manage a plurality of print jobs submitted by the user and present them to the user as a print job list. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-200002 discloses a method that, when presenting a print job list to a user, displays a first print job list that includes all print jobs and a second print job list that excludes print jobs that include confidential information. technology has been disclosed.

JP 2020-190953 A

In the cloud print service, it is possible to register a plurality of customer's printing devices. In addition, due to the diversification of work styles, more and more printers are being installed in shared spaces such as shared offices and co-working spaces. Therefore, among a plurality of printing devices registered in the cloud print service, one printing device may be installed inside the company and another printing device may be installed in a shared space outside the company. In such a situation, a print job that should be executed by an in-house printing device included in a print job list obtained from an in-house cloud print service is selected and executed by a printing device installed in a shared space. there is a possibility. In the technique described in Patent Document 1, the print job list is simply switched based only on the criteria for determining whether or not confidential information is included. , the print job list cannot be presented to the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and an object of the present invention is to appropriately manage a print job based on where the print job is executed by the printing apparatus installed. .

A system according to the present invention includes a cloud service for receiving a print job from an information processing device, and a printing device registered in the cloud service, wherein the cloud service receives the print job received from the information processing device. a first setting means for setting, for a job, first position information indicating a position where the printing apparatus that executes the print job is installed; and the print job set with the first position information. holding means for holding, and the first information set for each of the print jobs from the print jobs held by the holding means when an acquisition request for a print job list is received from the printing apparatus; generating means for generating the print job list using position information; and first transmitting means for transmitting the generated print job list to the printing apparatus, wherein the printing apparatus The printing apparatus is characterized by comprising: second transmission means for transmitting a job list acquisition request to the cloud service; and control means for controlling display of the print job list received from the cloud service.

According to the present invention, it is possible to appropriately manage a print job based on where the print job is executed by the printing apparatus installed.

It is a figure which shows the whole structural example of a system. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example hardware configuration of a printing apparatus; FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the functional configuration of a printing device; FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of an operation panel. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example hardware configuration of a cloud print service; FIG. FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram showing registration processing of a printing device; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a printer information screen; FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram showing print job registration processing; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a print request screen; FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing print job registration processing. FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram showing print job acquisition processing; 7 is a flowchart showing print job list generation processing. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a print job operation screen; FIG.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the form for implementing this invention is demonstrated using drawing. In addition, the following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the scope of claims. Although multiple features are described in the embodiments, not all of these multiple features are essential to the invention, and multiple features may be combined arbitrarily. Furthermore, in the accompanying drawings, the same or similar configurations are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

<System configuration>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a system according to this embodiment. A system 1 according to this embodiment includes a cloud print service (hereinafter referred to as CPS) 130 , a client terminal 100 , and printers 110 and 120 . Each component described above is communicably connected by a network. The network is, for example, a LAN such as the Internet, a WAN, a telephone line, a dedicated digital line, or an ATM. Alternatively, it is a communication network realized by a combination of these. The client terminal 100 and the printing device 110 are installed inside a specific company. The printing device 120 is installed in a shared space such as a shared office or coworking space that can be used based on a contract with a specific company.

The client terminal 100 is a terminal device such as a PC (personal computer) or smartphone operated by a user, and transmits a print job input by the user to the CPS 130 . The client terminal 100 is an example of an information processing device. The printing apparatuses 110 and 120 receive print jobs from the CPS 130 and perform print processing based on the received print jobs. The CPS 130 receives print jobs from the client terminal 100 , manages the received print jobs, and transmits print jobs to the printers 110 and 120 in response to requests from the printers 110 and 120 . CPS 130 is managed by a specific company administrator. Where CPS 130 is provided as a tenant feature in a multi-tenant configuration, a particular company administrator is managing the tenants. CPS 130 is an example of a cloud service.
A case will be described below in which the CPS 130 transmits a print job list to the printing apparatus 120 installed outside the company, and the printing apparatus 120 acquires a print job selected from the print job list from the CPS 130 using the system 1. .

<Configuration of printing device>
Configurations of the printing apparatuses 110 and 120 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4. FIG. Note that the printing apparatus 110 and the printing apparatus 120 can be realized with the same configuration, so that the printing apparatus 120 will be explained in FIGS.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration example of the printing apparatus 120 according to this embodiment. The printing device 120 mainly includes a control unit 201 including a CPU 202 , a printer 207 , a scanner 209 and an operation panel 211 .

The control unit 201 includes a CPU 202, a RAM 203, a ROM 204, an HDD 205, a printer I/F 206, a scanner I/F 208, an operation panel I/F 210, and a network I/F 212. These units are connected via a bus 213. . The CPU 202 controls the overall operation of the printing apparatus 120 in cooperation with each unit. The CPU 202 reads the program stored in the ROM 204 or HDD 205 to the RAM 203 and executes it, thereby implementing the processing shown in the sequence diagrams to be described later. A RAM 203 is used as a main memory of the CPU 202 and a temporary storage area such as a work area. The HDD 205 stores various programs and various data.

A printer I/F 206 is an interface for outputting an image signal to a printer 207 (printer engine). A scanner I/F 208 is an interface for inputting read image signals from the scanner 209 (scanner engine). The CPU 202 processes the image signal input from the scanner I/F 208 and outputs it to the printer I/F 206 as a recording image signal.
An operation panel I/F 210 is an interface for exchanging data with the operation panel 211 . The operation panel 211 is provided with a display panel, various buttons, and the like. Details of the operation panel 211 will be described later with reference to FIG.
A network I/F 212 is an interface for network communication with the outside. The printing device 120 transmits and receives various data to and from external devices such as the client terminal 100 and the CPS 130 via the network I/F 212 .

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a functional configuration example of the printing apparatus 120 according to this embodiment. The printer 120 operates as each functional unit shown in FIG. 3 by the CPU 202 executing programs stored in the ROM 204 or the like.
The operation control unit 300 performs input control and display control of the operation panel 211 . Specifically, the operation control unit 300 displays an operation menu on the operation panel 211, waits for an instruction input from the user, notifies other functional units of the received instruction content, and sends the instruction result to the operation panel 211. indicate.
The CPS control unit 301 analyzes the user's instruction content received from the client terminal 100 and the instruction content received by the operation control unit 300, and transmits a processing request to the CPS 130. FIG. This controls the processing of the CPS 130 .

The print control unit 302 controls processing for transferring print data included in a print job received from the CPS 130 to the image processing unit 305 together with a print instruction.
A Web UI control unit 303 controls a Web UI (user interface) used when a user performs setting operations for the printing apparatus 120 from the client terminal 100 .
The storage unit 304 stores specified data in a storage device such as the ROM 204 or the HDD 205, or reads specified data from the storage device according to instructions from other functional units.
The image processing unit 305 renders the print data received from the print control unit 302 into image data for printing.
A print processing unit 306 transmits the image data rendered by the image processing unit 305 as an image signal to the printer 207 via the printer I/F 206 and performs printing.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the operation panel 211 of the printing apparatus 120. As shown in FIG.
The operation panel 211 is provided with a display panel 404 having a touch panel function. A menu screen is displayed on the display panel 404 shown in FIG. 4, and a copy button 401, a FAX button 402, and a scan button 403 are displayed on the menu screen. Various buttons are provided around the display panel 404 . Various buttons include a direction key 405, an OK key 406, a numeric keypad 407, a monochrome copy button 408, a color copy button 409, a stop button 410, a menu button 411, a status confirmation button 412, and the like. A status confirmation button 412 is used to confirm the status of the printing device 120, such as a list of print jobs received by the printing device 120. FIG. In this embodiment, when the user operates the status confirmation button 412 to instruct display of the print job list, processing related to user authentication and authorization is executed to authorize user access to the CPS 130 . If the authentication and authorization are successful, the printing device 120 acquires the print job list from the CPS 130 and the acquired print job list is displayed on the display panel 404 .

<Configuration of cloud print service>
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration example of the CPS 130. As shown in FIG.
The CPS 130 is composed of a CPU 501 , a ROM 502 , a RAM 503 , an HDD 504 and a network I/F 505 , which are connected via a bus 506 . The CPU 501 controls the overall operation of the CPS 130 in cooperation with each unit. The CPU 501 executes processing based on programs stored in the ROM 502 or HDD 504 . A RAM 503 is a main memory of the CPU 501 and is used as a work area or a temporary storage area for developing various programs. The HDD 504 stores print data, various programs, various management tables, and the like. A network I/F 505 is an interface for network communication with the outside. The CPS 130 receives processing requests from the client terminal 100 and the printing apparatuses 110 and 120 via the network I/F 505, performs various processes, and transmits and receives various data.

In this embodiment, one CPU 501 uses one memory (RAM 503) to execute a program stored in the ROM 502 or the like, thereby executing processes shown in sequence diagrams and flowcharts to be described later. However, it may be another aspect. For example, a plurality of CPUs, RAMs, ROMs, HDDs, and other storage devices can cooperate to execute each process described later. Further, the CPS 130 is not implemented by one server, but may be configured by a plurality of servers according to functions, or may be configured by a plurality of devices for processing distribution. Also, a server as a real resource may provide CPS 130 in which resource resources are allocated to a plurality of different tenants by using containerization or virtualization technology.

<Printing Device Registration Processing>
A method of registering the printing device 120 in the system 1 according to this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. FIG.
The printing device 120 supports a cloud print function and a WebUI function for operating the printing device 120 . The client terminal 100 supports a cloud print client function and a web UI client for operating the web UI. A Web UI client may be realized by, for example, a Web browser provided in the client terminal 100 .

When the user uses the functions of the CPS 130 from the client terminal 100 and printing device 120, the user is authenticated and authorized by the authentication and authorization process. The CPS 130 manages access tokens issued by authentication and authorization for each user. When the CPS 130 is provided as a tenant function in a multi-tenant configuration, users and printing devices are managed for each tenant.

FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram showing processing for registering the printing device 120 in the system 1 of this embodiment. In the following description, notation of each process (step) is omitted by adding S to the beginning of each process (step).

First, in S<b>610 , when the user uses the Web UI client of the client terminal 100 to instruct registration of a new printing apparatus, the client terminal 100 transmits a printing apparatus registration key request to the CPS 130 . The printer registration key is key information for registering a new printer in the CPS 130 . If the CPS 130 is a tenant function, the printer registration key contains information for identifying the tenant.
In S<b>611 , upon receiving the printer registration key request from the client terminal 100 , the CPS 130 transmits a printer registration key request response including the printer registration key 630 to the client terminal 100 . The client terminal 100 receives the printer registration key 630 from the CPS 130 .

Next, in S612, when the user instructs registration of the printing device 120 using the Web UI client of the client terminal 100, the client terminal 100 sends the printing device registration request including the printing device registration key 630 received in S611 to the printing device 120. Send to The printing device 120 receives the printing device registration key 630 from the client terminal 100 .
Next, in S<b>613 , the printing device 120 transmits a cloud printing device registration request including the received printing device registration key 630 and device ID 631 to the CPS 130 . The device ID 631 is identification information for the CPS 130 to identify the printing device 120 and is generated by the printing device 120 . CPS 130 receives printing device registration key 630 and device ID 631 from printing device 120 .

Next, in S614, the CPS 130 adds the received information (device ID 631) of the printing device 120 to the printing device management table shown in Table 1, which will be described later, as a record. When the CPS 130 is a tenant function, the printer management table is managed for each tenant. CPS 130 then sends a cloud printing device registration request response including access token 632 to printing device 120 . Access token 632 is security identification information that indicates that printing device 120 is authorized to use data from CPS 130 and is generated by CPS 130 . Upon receiving the cloud printing device registration request response from the CPS 130, the printing device 120 holds the access token 632 in the ROM 204 or the like.

Table 1 shows an example of a printing device management table managed by CPS 130 . The printer management table is stored in the HDD 504 or the like. As shown in Table 1, the printer management table holds printer information including a device ID 631, device name, and device location attribute for each printer registered in the CPS 130. FIG. The device location attribute is position information indicating the location where the printing device is installed, and corresponds to the printing device location attribute 703 in FIG. 7, which will be described later. Note that Table 1 shows part of the information managed by the printer management table, and in fact, all of the information shown in FIG. 7, which will be described later, is managed by this printer management table.

Next, in S<b>615 , the printing device 120 transmits a printing device registration request response including the device ID 631 to the client terminal 100 . The client terminal 100 receives the printer registration request response. At this stage, the printing device 120 is in a state of being aware of being registered with the CPS 130, and the printing device 120 is ready to use the CPS 130. FIG.

Next, in S616, when the user uses the Web UI client of the client terminal 100 to instruct display of the printer information of the printer 120, the client terminal 100 transmits a printer information request including the device ID 631 to the CPS 130. . The CPS 130 receives a printer information request from the client terminal 100 .
Next, in S617, the CPS 130 acquires printing device information of the printing device 120 from the printing device management table of Table 1 using the device ID 631 as a key. The CPS 130 transmits a printer information request response including the acquired printer information 633 to the client terminal 100 .

FIG. 7 is an example of a printer information screen displayed on the Web UI client of the client terminal 100 that received the printer information request response in S617. The printing device information groups 701 and 702 are information groups added to the printing device, which are added to the printing device management table based on the cloud printing device registration request in S613. The printing device information group 701 is made up of unique information that is not permitted to be changed by the user, and the printing device information group 702 is made up of information that is permitted to be changed by the user. The printing device location attribute 703 is information indicating whether the printing device exists inside the company or outside the company, and is selected by the user. A save button 704 is a button for the user to instruct to save the printing device information.

The user uses the Web UI client of the client terminal 100 to change the printer information included in the printer information screen shown in FIG. 7, and operates the save button 704 . When the save button 704 is operated, the client terminal 100 transmits a printer information setting request including the device ID 631 and the changed printer information 633 to the CPS 130 in S618. The CPS 130 receives a printer information setting request from the client terminal 100 .
Next, in S619, the CPS 130 identifies a record in the printer management table using the device ID 631 included in the received printer information setting request as a key, and updates the identified record with the printer information 633 received from the client terminal 100. do. When the update succeeds, the CPS 130 transmits a printer information setting request response to the client terminal 100 . After that, the series of processes shown in FIG. 6 ends.

According to the sequence of FIG. 6 as described above, when the printing device 120 is registered in the CPS 130, the CPS 130 sets and holds the information indicating the installation location of the printing device 120 in association with the identification information of the printing device 120. can be done.

<Print job registration process>
Next, a method of registering a print job input by a user in the CPS 130 in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 to 10. FIG.
FIG. 8 is a sequence diagram showing processing for registering a print job in the CPS 130 in the system 1 according to this embodiment.

First, in S810, when the user instructs cloud printing using the WebUI client of the client terminal 100, the client terminal 100 transmits a print request including the print data 820 to the CPS 130 via the WebUI. Upon receiving a print request from the client terminal 100, the CPS 130 checks whether a printing device with the device location attribute of "external" is registered based on the printing device management table. , the process proceeds to S811. On the other hand, if it is confirmed that a printing device whose device location attribute is "outside the company" is not registered, the CPS 130 proceeds to the processing of S813.

FIG. 9A is an example of a print request screen displayed on the Web UI client of the client terminal 100 that received the cloud print instruction in S810. A print data designation area 901 in FIG. 9A is a UI for designating print data 820 . The user operates UI components provided in the print data designation area 901 to designate a file to be printed as the print data 820 .

In S<b>811 , the CPS 130 transmits a print job attribute setting request to the client terminal 100 . This prompts the user to select a job location attribute to be added to the print data 820 . The job location attribute is location information indicating the location of the printing device that executes the print job. By assigning a job location attribute to a print job, it is possible to specify where the printing apparatus to be installed performs printing. Upon receiving the print job attribute setting request, the Web UI client of the client terminal 100 changes the print request screen to the state shown in FIG. 9B. A print job location attribute designation area 902 in FIG. 9B is a UI for selecting a job location attribute. The user determines whether the print target file specified in the print data specification area 901 is to be output by an in-house printer or an external printer. According to the determination, the user operates the UI component provided in the print job location attribute designation area 902 to select and determine the job location attribute from either "internal" or "external".

When the job location attribute is determined, the client terminal 100 sets the determined job location attribute as the print job attribute 821 and transmits a print job attribute setting request response including the print job attribute 821 to the CPS 130 in S812. . The CPS 130 receives a print job attribute setting request response from the client terminal 100 .
Next, in S813, the CPS 130 issues a print job ID 822 as identification information for the print data 820, and adds the print job ID 822 and print job attribute 821 to the print job management table as records.
If it is confirmed in the process of S810 that no printing device with the device location attribute of "external" is registered, the CPS 130 determines the job location attribute of the print job to be registered to be "internal." do. After that, when the CPS 130 transmits a print request response including the print job ID 822 to the client terminal 100, the series of processing shown in FIG. 8 ends.

Table 2 shows an example of a print job management table managed by CPS 130 . The print job management table is stored in the HDD 504 or the like. As shown in Table 2, the print job management table holds print job information including a print job ID 822, job name, user ID, and job location attribute for each print job. The user ID held in the print job management table is the user ID of the user who operates the client terminal 100 and instructs cloud printing, and is specified based on the authentication authorization process and a user management table (not shown). . Note that Table 2 shows part of the information managed by the print job management table.

As described above, according to the sequence of FIG. 8, when a print job is registered in the CPS 130, the CPS 130 sets information indicating where the printing apparatus is installed to perform printing in association with the identification information of the print job, can hold.

In some cases, setting the job location attribute to "outside the company" unnecessarily poses a security problem. Therefore, a condition may be provided for determining whether to transmit a print job attribute setting request to the client terminal 100 when the CPS 130 receives a print request from the client terminal 100 . Details of the processing executed by the CPS 130 when the conditions for determination are provided will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 10 .

First, in a process similar to S810, when the CPS 130 receives a print request including the print data 820 from the client terminal 100, in S1001, based on preset conditions, the print data 820 is output by an external printing apparatus. is permitted or not. For example, CPS 130 checks the properties of print data 820 to see if print data 820 is a file downloaded from the Internet. Also, for example, it may be confirmed whether the print data 820 is a file read from the cloud storage. If it is confirmed that the file is as described above, the CPS 130 determines to permit output by a printing device outside the company, and advances to S1002. If it is confirmed that the file is not as described above, the CPS 130 determines not to permit output by a printing apparatus outside the company, and advances to S1004. In addition, the CPS 130 may check whether the print data 820 is a file read from an on-premises shared folder, and if it is confirmed, may decide not to permit output by a printing device outside the company. The determination conditions used in S1001 are set in advance by the administrator of the CPS 130 . Alternatively, if the CPS 130 is provided as a tenant feature in a multi-tenant configuration, it is preset by the tenant's administrator. Depending on the administrator's settings, it is also possible to make a decision to permit output of all the print data 820 to a printing device outside the company. Alternatively, it is also possible to make a decision not to permit output of all the print data 820 to a printing device outside the company.

In S1002, the CPS 130 transmits a print job attribute setting request to the client terminal 100, and receives a print job attribute setting request response from the client terminal 100 in S1003. S1002 and S1003 are the same as S811 and S812 in FIG. That is, in FIG. 10, the CPS 130 sets the job location attribute selected by the user for the print job if the preset conditions are met.

In S1004, the CPS 130 sets the job location attribute of the print job to be registered to "inside company". That is, in FIG. 10, the CPS 130 sets a predetermined job location attribute for the print job if the preset conditions are not satisfied.
Next, in S1005, the CPS 130 adds a record including the job location attribute to the print job management table. After that, in S<b>1006 , the CPS 130 transmits a print request response including the print job ID 822 to the client terminal 100 . S1005 and S1006 are the same as S813 in FIG. After that, the flowchart shown in FIG. 10 ends.

According to the flowchart of FIG. 10 as described above, filtering is performed based on the print job when prompting the user to select a print job for "internal" or a print job for "external". As a result, it is possible to prevent a print job from being unnecessarily set as a print job for "outside the company," thereby avoiding security risks.

<Displaying the print job list and acquiring print jobs>
Next, a method for the printing apparatus 120 to display a print job list and acquire a print job selected from the print job list in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 11 to 13. FIG.
FIG. 11 is a sequence diagram for the printing device 120 to display a print job list and acquire a print job selected from the print job list from the CPS 130 in the system 1 of this embodiment.

First, in S1110, the user operates the operation panel 211 of the printing apparatus 120 to instruct display of the print job list. Based on the user's instruction, the printing apparatus 120 transmits to the CPS 130 a print job list acquisition request that includes the device ID 631 as identification information of the printing apparatus 120 and the access token 632 held in S614 of FIG. . The CPS 130 receives a print job list acquisition request from the printing device 120 .

Next, in S1111, the CPS 130 extracts print job information from the print job management table based on the print job list acquisition request received in S1110, and generates a print job list. After that, the CPS 130 transmits a print job list request response including the generated print job list to the printing device 120 . Printing device 120 receives the print job list request response from CPS 130 .

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the details of the process of generating a print job list in S1111.
In step S<b>1201 , the CPS 130 identifies the user ID of the user who operates the printing apparatus 120 and instructs display of the print job list based on a predetermined authentication authorization process and a user management table (not shown).
Next, in S1202, the CPS 130 extracts print job information having the user ID identified in S1201 from the print job management table.
Next, in S1203, the CPS 130 identifies the printing apparatus that has sent the acquisition request from the device ID 631 and access token 632 included in the print job list acquisition request received in S1110. After that, the printing device information of the specified printing device is read from the printing device management table. Next, the CPS 130 determines whether or not the device location attribute of the read printer information is "inside the company". If the CPS 130 determines that the device location attribute is "inside the company", the process proceeds to S1204; if it determines that the attribute is "outside the company", the process proceeds to S1205.

In S1204, the CPS 130 generates an in-house print job list using print job information narrowed down based on conditions described later from among the print job information extracted in S1202. After that, the flow chart of FIG. 12 ends.
In S<b>1205 , the CPS 130 generates a print job list for outside the company using print job information narrowed down based on conditions described later from among the print job information extracted in S<b>1202 . After that, the flow chart of FIG. 12 ends.

According to the flowchart of FIG. 12 as described above, a print job list can be generated using the print job information extracted based on the installation location of the printing apparatus that is the source of the print job list acquisition request. As a result, different print job lists can be generated for each installation location of the printing apparatuses 110 and 120 .

Next, return to the description of FIG. In S<b>1112 , the printing device 120 displays the print job list included in the print job list request response on the display panel 404 .
FIG. 13A is an example of a print job operation screen displayed on the display panel 404. FIG. The print job operation screen is provided with a print job list display area 1301 that displays a print job list, and a print job operation area 1302 that includes a group of buttons for instructing the operation of the print job currently selected in the print job list display area 1301 . It is The print job operation area 1302 includes a print instruction button 1303, a print job information change button 1304, and the like.

Table 3 shown below is an example of an in-house print job list displayed in the print job list display area 1301 . The in-house print job list in Table 3 is generated by narrowing down based on the condition that the job location attribute of the print job information extracted in S1202 is "in-house" in S1204. As shown in Table 3, the print job list includes the job name of the print job, black-and-white or color type, number of pages, size, number of copies, and creation date of the job, which are included in the print job information. This in-house print job list is generated when it is determined in S1203 that the device location attribute of the printing device that has sent the print job list acquisition request is "in-house".

Table 4 shown below is an example of an external print job list displayed in the print job list display area 1301 . The external print job list in Table 4 is generated by narrowing down the job location attribute of the print job information extracted in S1202 based on the condition that the job location attribute is "external" in S1205. . This external print job list is generated when it is determined in S1203 that the device location attribute of the printing device that has sent the acquisition request is "outside the company."
In the present embodiment, the printing device 120 transmitting the list acquisition request is installed outside the company, so the display panel 404 of the printing device 120 presents the outside print job list. On the other hand, when the printing device 110 installed in the company transmits a list acquisition request, the print job list for the company is displayed on the display panel 404 of the printing device 110 .

When the print job list is displayed on the display panel 404 of the printing apparatus 120, the user selects a print job in the print job list display area 1301 and operates the print instruction button 1303 to instruct printing in S1112. Based on the user's instruction, the printing device 120 transmits to the CPS 130 a print job request including the device ID 631, the access token 632, and the print job ID 822 associated with the print job selected by the user. CPS 130 receives print job requests from printing device 120 .

In S<b>1113 , the CPS 130 identifies the print job based on the print job ID 822 included in the received print job request, and transmits a print job request response including the identified print data 820 to the printing apparatus 120 . The printing device 120 that has received the print data 820 performs print processing using the print data 820 . After that, the series of processes shown in FIG. 11 ends.

In the sequence of FIG. 11 as described above, the CPS 130 generates a print job list using the job location attribute of the print job information held in the print job management table. In this embodiment, the print job list is narrowed down and generated based on whether the job location attribute is "inside the company" or "outside the company." Whether to use "inside the company" or "outside the company" as the condition is determined based on the device location attribute set for the printing device that is the source of the print job list acquisition request. When the generated print job list is sent to the printing device 120 , the printing device 120 can display the print job list and obtain from the CPS 130 the print jobs selected in the print job list.

According to the system 1 of the present embodiment as described above, a CPS managed by a specific company sends an internal print job or an external print job to a user who operates a printing device registered in the CPS. To provide a print job list generated by taking into consideration whether a job is That is, the print job can be appropriately managed based on where the print job is executed by the printing apparatus installed. As a result, it is possible to avoid the risk of a print job that should be executed by an in-house printer being executed by an external printer.

As a modification of the present embodiment, a modification of the print job list displayed on the display panel 404 by the printing apparatus 120 in S1112 of FIG. 11 will be described below.
As a first modified example of the present embodiment, the external printing device 120 displays the external print job list and the internal print job list on the display panel 404 in a switchable manner. In the first modification, the print job list display area 1301 in the print job operation screen of FIG. 13(a) is replaced with the print job list display area shown in FIG. 13(b). The print job list display area in FIG. 13B is provided with a switching tab 1305 for switching the print job list display. In a first modification, the CPS 130 separately generates an internal print job list and an external print job list, and transmits each print job list to the printing apparatus 120 in a print job list request response. The printing apparatus 120 displays either the internal print job list or the external print job list in the print job list display area according to the user's operation of the switching tab 1305 . As a result, for example, the user can check a print job intended for the company even on the printing device 120 outside the company. Note that in the first modification, the in-house printing device 110 may switchably display the external print job list and the internal print job list on the display panel 404 .

As a second modification of the present embodiment, the external printing apparatus 120 displays on the display panel 404 a print job list including print jobs with the job location attribute of "internal". Table 5 shown below is an example of a print job list displayed in the print job list display area 1301 . As shown in Table 5, the listed print job information includes a job location attribute. Accordingly, the user can select the print jobs displayed in the list after recognizing whether the print jobs are for internal use or external use.

In the second modification, in S1205 of FIG. 12, the CPS 130 generates a print job list using the print job information extracted in S1202, and transmits it to the printing apparatus 120. FIG. In the second modification, when a print job having a job location attribute of "internal" is selected in the received print job list, the printing apparatus 120 controls so that the selected print job cannot be obtained. do. For example, processing such as hiding the print instruction button 1303 or making it inoperable is executed. Such processing is executed when it is determined in S1203 that the device location attribute of the printing device that has sent the acquisition request is "outside the company."

Further, the user selects a print job whose job location attribute is "internal" and operates the change button 804 to instruct to change the job location attribute of the selected print job from "internal" to "external". It can be performed. The printing apparatus 120 that has received the job location attribute change instruction transmits to the CPS 130 a print job attribute change request that includes the device ID 631, the access token 632, and the print job ID 822 associated with the print job selected by the user. The CPS 130 changes the job location attribute held in the print job management table based on the print job attribute change request received from the printing device 120 . This enables a print instruction operation for the print job.

As a third modified example of this embodiment, the in-house printing device 110 displays a print job list similar to Table 5 on the display panel 404 . That is, the in-house printing device 110 displays a print job list including print jobs with the job location attribute of "external". In the third modification, in S1204 of FIG. 12, the CPS 130 generates a print job list using the print job information extracted in S1202 and transmits it to the printing apparatus 110. FIG. In the third modification, when a print job having a job location attribute of "outside the company" is selected in the received print job list and the print instruction button 1303 is operated, the printing apparatus 110 issues a warning. to control. For example, it executes processing such as displaying a warning message (not shown) on the display panel 404 . Accordingly, after confirming the warning message, the user can perform the print instruction operation after acknowledging that the job location attribute of the print job is "outside the company". Such processing is executed when it is determined in S1203 that the device location attribute of the printing device that has sent the acquisition request is "inside the company."

The modified example shown above is realized by setting in advance by the administrator of the CPS 130 . Also, when the CPS 130 is provided as a tenant function in a multi-tenant configuration, it is set in advance by the tenant administrator.

Further, as a further modified example of this embodiment, a part of the processing executed by the CPS 130 may be executed by the printing apparatuses 110 and 120. FIG. For example, the printing devices 110 and 120 receive from the CPS 130 a print job list generated using the print job information extracted in S1202, and the device location attribute is inside the company or outside the company, as in S1203 of FIG. determine whether Based on the determination results, the printing apparatuses 110 and 120 generate an in-house print job list or an external print job list and display the generated print job list on the display panel 404 in the same manner as S1204 and S1205 in FIG. In this case, the device location attribute used as a condition for determination may be received from the CPS 130 or stored in advance on the printing device 110 or 120 side. When the device location attribute is held on the printing device 110 or 120 side, the printing device 110 or 120 sets the device location attribute indicating the installation location of the device by the user's operation and stores it in the HDD 205 or the like.

As described above, the present invention has been described together with the respective embodiments, but the above-described embodiments merely show specific examples of implementation of the present invention, and the technical scope of the present invention is not limitedly interpreted by these. should not be done. That is, the present invention can be embodied in various forms without departing from its technical concept or main features.

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The present invention supplies a program that implements one or more functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or device via a network or a storage medium, and one or more processors in the computer of the system or device reads and executes the program. It can also be realized by processing to It can also be implemented by a circuit (for example, ASIC) that implements one or more functions.

1: System, 100: Client Terminal, 110, 120: Printing Device, 130: Cloud Print Service

Claims (6)

A system comprising a cloud service for receiving a print job from an information processing device and a printing device registered with the cloud service,
the cloud service
a first setting unit for setting, for the print job received from the information processing apparatus, first position information indicating a position where the printing apparatus that executes the print job is installed;
holding means for holding the print job set with the first position information;
when receiving a print job list acquisition request from the printing device, using the first position information set for each of the print jobs from the print jobs held in the holding means, generating means for generating the print job list;
a first transmission unit that transmits the generated print job list to the printing device;
has
The printing device
a second transmission means for transmitting a print job list acquisition request to the cloud service;
control means for controlling display of the print job list received from the cloud service;
A system characterized by comprising: the cloud service
further comprising second setting means for setting second position information indicating a position where the printing device is installed for the printing device;
The generating means sets the first position information set for each of the print jobs from the print jobs held in the first holding means for the printing apparatus. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein a print job list is generated by extracting the second position information as a condition. 2. The second positional information used as the condition is the second positional information set for the printing device that is the source of the print job list acquisition request. The system described in . 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said generating means generates said print job list including said first position information set for said print job. The setting unit sets the first position information selected by the user for the print job when the print job satisfies the preset condition, and the print job satisfies the preset condition. 5. The system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein if not satisfied, it sets the predetermined first position information for the print job. A control method for a system comprising a cloud service for receiving a print job from an information processing device and a printing device registered in the cloud service,
The cloud service has holding means for holding the print job received from the information processing device,
a first setting step in which the cloud service sets, for the print job, first location information indicating a location where the printing device that executes the print job is installed;
a first transmission step in which the printing device transmits a print job list acquisition request to the cloud service;
When the cloud service receives an acquisition request for the print job list from the printing device, the first print job set for each of the print jobs is selected from the print jobs held in the holding means. a generating step of generating the print job list using location information;
a second transmission step in which the cloud service transmits the generated print job list to the printing device;
a control step of controlling the printing device to display the print job list received from the cloud service;
A control method comprising:

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