JPH04369022A - Document printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print out a skipped document by a retrial instruction by skipping a document generating an error even when the error is generated during the period of printing, printing out documents by the specified number of documents and then printing out the skipped document. CONSTITUTION:A printing part 1 successively prints out documents based on a document to be printed and a printing instructing list indicating the number of prints, a recording part 2 records the printing process of the printing part 1 and a record output part 3 displays or prints out the contents of the record. When an error is generated during the period of printing, a control part 4 aborts the succeeding printing, instructs the printing of the succeeding document, and after ending the printing, obtains an error document list from the recorded contents of the recording part 2 and retries the printing of the document corresponding to the error document list.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document printing apparatus for printing a plurality of documents designated in advance.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, multi-user document file systems have been used in which a printing device is shared by multiple users. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of such a system. This system includes a document storage storage device 102 such as an optical disk device or a magnetic disk device, and this storage device 1
Search device 104 for searching documents stored in 02
, printing device 103 for printing documents, man-machine
Multiple workstations for interfacing 1
01 Consists of a file controller that connects these devices in a star shape and serves as a center device.

FIG. 3 shows a document management system of such a document file system. A document file consists of a search group n, a search group consists of m disks,
There are k documents on the disk, and the documents consist of j pages.

FIG. 8 shows a document printing procedure of such a document file system. First, when the object to be printed is known, the range of the disk number and document number group is directly designated (S110). Or use a search device to obtain a group of disc numbers and document numbers that match the specified keyword conditions (
S111). Next, select multiple documents to be printed as necessary from the obtained disk number and document number group (S
112). Next, the document information is read from the optical disk or magnetic disk and the specified number of copies of the selected document are printed (S113).
).

[0005]

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] When sequentially printing a designated number of copies of the selected document in this way, there may be cases where printing paper runs out, toner runs out, the printer is being used by another workstation, the printer power is turned off, etc. If an error occurs during printing, an error message is displayed and the printing process is stopped. In such a case, the printer must wait for a trial by the user, which is not preferable for unattended printing, especially when driving at night. Also, if an error occurs and you stop printing mid-way and try again, you will not know which document, how many copies, and how many pages have been printed, so you will have to check the documents that have been printed up to that point, resulting in poor work efficiency. .

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and even if an error occurs during printing, the document is skipped, a specified number of documents are printed, and the skipped documents are printed based on a retry instruction. The purpose is to provide a document printing device.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, there is provided a print section that prints sequentially based on a print instruction list indicating documents to be printed and the number of copies thereof, and a record that records the printing progress of this print section. When an error occurs during printing, the print section stops printing the document in which the error occurred and prints the next document in the print instruction list. and a control unit for controlling printing of documents shown in the print instruction list, and upon receiving a retry instruction after printing of the documents shown in the print instruction list, the control unit extracts the document that was canceled due to an error from the recording unit. A retry list is created, and based on this retry list, the same control as the print instruction list is performed.

[0008]

[Operation] With the above configuration, the printing unit sequentially prints documents according to the print instruction list, but when an error occurs, printing of the subsequent document is stopped, the next document is printed, and the print section prints the documents in the print instruction list. Process everything. During printing, the printing progress is displayed or printed from the recording output unit. This allows you to find out in which document what kind of error occurred. When the processing of the documents in the print instruction list is completed, a print record is output and the document in which the error occurred is displayed or printed, allowing the user to investigate the cause of the error and take measures such as replenishing paper if it runs out. If you then specify a retry, the canceled document will be printed according to the retry list. In this case as well, if an error occurs, subsequent printing of that document is skipped, the next document is printed, and a print record is output. Therefore, investigate the cause of the error and try again.

[0009]

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment operates within the document file system shown in FIG. The document management system of the document file system also uses the system explained in FIG. 3. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a printing unit, which sequentially reads documents from the storage device 102 of FIG. 2 and prints them based on a print instruction list indicating a disc number to be printed, a group of document numbers, and the number of copies of the document to be printed. Reference numeral 2 denotes a recording unit which records the printing process such as documents printed by the printing unit 1, errors that occur, and printers that output the documents. Reference numeral 3 denotes a recording output unit which displays the contents recorded in the recording unit 2 as printing progress data during printing, and displays them on a display or outputs them as printing results after printing is completed. Reference numeral 4 is a control unit that controls when an error occurs, such as when printing unit 1 is printing, runs out of paper, the printer you are trying to use is being used by another device, runs out of toner, or the printer power is turned off, Control is performed to cancel subsequent printing and print the next document on the print instruction list. In addition, when a retry instruction is received from the user after printing a document shown in the print instruction list, the document that was canceled due to an error is extracted from the recording unit 2, a retry list is created, and this retry list is added to the print instruction list. The printing unit 1 is caused to print in the same manner as in the above.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the printing progress displayed by the recording output unit 3. Document title as record matter,
The volume number of the disk on which the document is stored, the document number, the number of pages of the document, the number of copies of the document, the number of the output printer, and the print result are shown. The print result will display whether printing has finished normally, the cause of the error if it was canceled due to an error, or whether printing is currently in progress.

FIG. 5 shows a state in which printing based on the print instruction list has been completed, and all documents in the print instruction list are displayed in the display format shown in FIG. This allows you to know the cause of the error, how many copies and pages were printed and then canceled, replenish paper or toner if it runs out, and when you try to print a certain document, you can check whether the printer you are using is connected to another device. If this is the case, no processing is performed and a retry instruction is given.

The operation of the embodiment configured as above will be explained below. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of printing operations based on the printing instruction list. First, documents to be printed are searched, target documents are narrowed down (S10), and a print instruction list is created in which a processing printer and number of copies are specified for each document to be printed (S11). It is assumed that the number of documents in the print instruction list is from 1 to n, and i representing the document number number is set to 1 (S12
), the printing unit 1 prints the document number i (S13). At this time, the number of copies to be processed is output to the specified printer. Further, at this time, if the user wishes to stop, he or she can do so, and a list of print results shown in S20, which will be described later, is displayed on the display. It is also possible to restart printing that has been stopped in this way.

Next, it is checked whether an error such as paper out during printing has occurred (S14), the content of the error is displayed on the display (S15), and subsequent printing of the document i is stopped. If no error has occurred, a message indicating that printing of the document i has been completed is displayed (S16). The printing progress shown in FIG. 4 is then displayed on the display (S17). Next, it is checked whether the document number number has reached n (S18), and if it has not reached n, i is incremented (S19), and the process returns to S13. When n has been reached, the print result shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display, and printing ends. Furthermore, if printing is stopped in S13, it can be resumed from S13.

[0014] When the user views such print results, if there is a document whose printing has been canceled due to an error, the user instructs the user to try again. FIG. 7 is an operational flow diagram of retry. First, check the print result (S21), check whether there is an error document (S22), and if there is, determine the number m of skipped documents (S22).
23), set the number of skip documents i to 1 (S24),
Skip document i is printed (S25). At this time, the designated printer is instructed to output the designated number of copies. It is checked whether an error has occurred during printing (S26), and if an error has occurred, the content of the error is displayed (S27), and if no error has occurred, the printed document is displayed (S28). Next, the printing process is shown in Figure 4.
It is displayed on the display as shown in (S29). It is checked whether the total number of skipped documents m has been reached (S30), and if not, i is incremented (S31), and the process returns to S25, and if m has been reached, the print result is displayed (S21). Note that even when retrying, the user can stop printing or
can be restarted.

[0015]

Effects of the Invention As is clear from the above description, the following effects can be obtained according to the present invention. ■Even if an error occurs during printing, printing can be performed without stopping printing, and the printable number of copies of a printable document can be printed on a printable printer. ■By displaying a list of printing progress and print results for each document, you can easily sort out documents that were successfully printed and documents that had errors. - When an error occurs, the details of the error can be displayed, making it easy for the user to perform correction processing and establish a policy for correction processing when retrying printing.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Figure 2
] A diagram showing an example of a system in which this embodiment is used.

[Figure 3
] Diagram showing the document management system of the document file system

[Figure 4
] Diagram showing an example of printing progress display

[Figure 5] Diagram showing an example of print result display

[Figure 6] Operation flow diagram for printing based on the print instruction list

[Figure 7] Retry printing operation flow diagram

[Figure 8] Conventional multiple document printing flow diagram

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Printing department 2 Recording Department 3 Recording output section 4 Control section

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A printing section that prints sequentially based on a print instruction list indicating a document to be printed and the number of copies thereof, a recording section that records the printing progress of this printing section, and outputting the recorded contents of this recording section. a control unit that controls the printing unit to stop printing the document in which the error has occurred and print the next document in the print instruction list when an error occurs during printing; When the control unit receives a retry instruction after printing of the document shown in the print instruction list is completed, the control unit creates a retry list in which documents that have been canceled due to an error are extracted from the recording unit, and A document printing device characterized in that it performs the same control as the print instruction list based on the above-mentioned print instruction list.