JPH1049326A - Print data skip printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve total print efficiency by lowering the print priority of print data sent from a host device unless its print conditions meet set conditions of a printer and printing next data meeting the print conditions first. SOLUTION: When the print conditions of the print data sent from the host device do not meet the set conditions of the printer, the data are saved on the printer side, and next data are received or a device connected to the printer saves the data which do not meet the print conditions in response to a report on the printer setting state from the printer; and following data which meet the print conditions are transferred to the printer to lower the priority of the data which do not meet the print conditions and print the data meeting the print conditions first.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing method for printing print data from a higher-level device when a setting condition of a printer does not meet a print condition of the print data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art According to Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-165907, the paper size of each page constituting a document to be printed out is detected in advance, and pages of the same paper size in the same document are collectively output to a printer. When performing print output from a plurality of higher-level devices, if there is a page of a paper size not set in the printer in a document for which print output has been instructed first,
An error occurs in the middle of the document that was first instructed to print out,
The printer stopped and was waiting for the error condition to clear. In this case, if the error is not noticed, the printer remains stopped until the error state is released, and even if another document instructed to print out from another higher-level device is a document of the paper size set in the printer, , Will not print until the previous document is printed. When I go to the printer to get the print result of the print instruction, the printer stops at the page of the document that does not match the paper size, and the document that was instructed to print after the document paper size matches the printer paper size There was a problem that it was not printed.

[0003]

If the printing conditions of the print data sent from the host device do not match the setting conditions of the printer, the priority of printing the data is lowered and the data meeting the next printing condition is reduced. Is to improve the overall printing efficiency by printing first.

[0004]

When the printing conditions of the print data sent from the host device do not meet the setting conditions of the printer, the printer saves the data that does not meet the conditions and receives the next data. Or, based on the report of the printer setting status from the printer, save the data that does not meet the printing conditions in the device connected to the printer, and transfer the data that matches the printing conditions from the next on to the printer. Lower the priority of the missing data and print the data that meets the printing conditions first.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A processing flow according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. If the print condition of the print data does not match the setting condition of the printer, the device that has the operation to lower the priority of printing the data and print the data that meets the next print condition first is stored in the receive buffer. The presence / absence of the print data is checked, and if there is the print data, the print condition of the print data is referred to and a check is made as to whether or not the print condition is satisfied. If the printer setting condition and the print condition of the print data match, the printout is performed and the next data is processed. If the printer setting condition and the print condition of the print data do not match, check the free space in the data save buffer for temporarily saving the data. I do. If the buffer is not empty, an error message is displayed and the changed contents of the printer settings are displayed. However, the data save buffer is a sufficiently large buffer that is not insufficient for the operation for printing normally. It checks the presence or absence of print data, and if there is no more data that meets the setting conditions of the printer, checks for the presence or absence of data saved in the data saving buffer. If there is data, the printer changes the settings of the printer. When data matching the printer setting conditions is received in this display state, the display of the change of the setting contents is returned to the normal display. When the setting conditions of the printer are changed in the setting change content display state, the saved data is moved to the reception buffer, and the process returns to the first processing.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
Reference numeral 1 denotes a higher-level device, which is a device for instructing printing of data such as WS and PC. Reference numeral 2 denotes a device used as a printer server. Reference numeral 3 denotes a printer that prints print data. Reference numeral 4 denotes a data transmission line connecting the host device 1 and the server 2. A data transmission line 5 connects the server 2 and the printer 3. Reference numeral 6 denotes a data receiving unit that receives data when print data is transferred from the host device 1. Reference numeral 8 denotes a data reception buffer for storing data transferred from the host device 1. Reference numeral 7 denotes a print control unit that transfers the print data stored in the data reception buffer 8 to the printer 3. A data save buffer 9 saves data that does not meet the printing conditions.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for lowering the priority of data that does not meet the printing conditions in the server 2 connected to the printer. The data is transferred and received by the data receiving unit 6 of the server 2 to the data receiving buffer 8.
To be stored. Before transferring the print data, the print control unit 7 inquires of the printer 3 about the setting conditions of the printer, and if the print data matches the print data, the print data is transferred to the printer 3 and printed. If the setting conditions of the printer and the printing conditions of the printing data do not match, the printing data is stored in the data saving buffer and the next data in the data receiving buffer 8 is analyzed. If the next data matches the setting conditions of the printer, the print data is transferred to the printer 3 so that the data that matches the printing conditions is printed first.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the present invention, and is a block diagram when the priority of print data that does not meet the printing conditions is lowered on the printer side. In the figure, the same components as those shown in FIG. 2 are denoted by the same symbols. A data receiving unit 10 of the printer 3 receives data from the host device 1. Reference numeral 11 denotes a reception buffer of the printer 3 in which data transferred from the host device 1 is stored. Reference numeral 12 denotes a bitmap data creation unit that analyzes print data in the reception buffer 11 and develops the data into bitmap data. A data saving buffer 13 saves data that does not meet the printing conditions. A print processing unit 14 prints print data. 1
Reference numeral 5 denotes a data transmission line connecting the host device 1 and the printer 3.

When print data is transferred from the host device 1, the data receiving unit 10 of the printer 3 receives the data and stores it in the data receiving buffer 11. The bitmap data creation unit 12 analyzes the print data and, if the print condition of the print data does not match the setting condition of the printer,
The print data is stored in the data save buffer, and the next data is received from the host device 1. The printing condition of the next data is analyzed by the bitmap creation unit 12, and if the printing condition of the printing data matches the setting condition of the printer, the data is printed by the printing processing unit 14. As a result, data whose printing conditions match are printed first.

[0010]

According to the present invention, in the printing method, when the printing conditions of the printing data do not match the setting conditions of the printer, the printing conditions are not stopped and the printing conditions are not changed even if the printing data is instructed later. An advantage is that printing can be started from the one that matches the setting conditions of the printer, and the printing efficiency of the entire print data is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a processing flow according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Host apparatus, 2 ... Server, 3 ... Printer, 4, 5, 1
5: data transmission line, 6: data receiving unit in server,
7: Print control unit in server, 8: Buffer for receiving data in server, 9: Buffer for saving data in server, 10
... Printer data receiving section, 11 Printer data receiving buffer, 12 Printer bitmap creating section, 13 Printer data saving buffer, 14 Printer printing control section.

Claims (2)

[Claims] The print data sent from a host device includes information indicating printing conditions such as a paper size of a printer, a paper feeding position, a paper direction, and the like. If the printer status or settings do not match the printing conditions, the printer does not interrupt the printing as a printer error, but rather has a means to lower the printing priority of data that does not match the printing conditions. A print data skip printing method characterized by printing data that conforms to. 2. While there is no print data that meets the current printer setting conditions, a message to the effect that the printing conditions are changed is displayed, and when there is data that matches the printing conditions, the display is automatically switched so as not to be displayed. A print control device characterized by the above-mentioned.