WO2012172856A1 - Système d'impression, dispositif serveur, procédé d'impression et programme d'ordinateur - Google Patents

Système d'impression, dispositif serveur, procédé d'impression et programme d'ordinateur Download PDF

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WO2012172856A1
WO2012172856A1 PCT/JP2012/059193 JP2012059193W WO2012172856A1 WO 2012172856 A1 WO2012172856 A1 WO 2012172856A1 JP 2012059193 W JP2012059193 W JP 2012059193W WO 2012172856 A1 WO2012172856 A1 WO 2012172856A1
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  • the present invention relates to a printing system, a server device, a printing method, a computer program, and a recording medium that notify a client device of information relating to a usable printing device.
  • a PC personal computer
  • Print data that can be printed by a printer is generated based on the original data that has been generated, and the generated print data is output to the printer.
  • a printing system including a PC having a printer driver, a plurality of printers, and a server has been widely used.
  • a server receives a print job from a PC, selects a usable printer from printers that can communicate with the server, and executes the print job.
  • Patent Document 1 discloses a printing system called “Direct Print” in which original data is transmitted from a portable terminal to a printer capable of analyzing original data, and a printing application is opened on the printer side to perform printing. 1 is disclosed.
  • a printing system it is not necessary to install a printer driver, and it is possible to save time for converting original data into print data by the printer driver.
  • Even a device that does not support a printer driver can be printed by preparing a mechanism for sending document data to the printer using a memory card or communication means such as infrared communication, LAN, or USB. Applies to printing manuscript data from telephone.
  • the printing system based on the “direct printing” has a problem that it takes time to select a printer because the mobile terminal selects a printer to be used by communicating with each printer.
  • An object of the present invention is to easily and quickly select a printing apparatus that is optimal for a printing process to be executed even by a client apparatus that does not include a printer driver.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a printing system, a server device, a printing method, a computer program, and a recording medium capable of executing processing and preventing excessive concentration of jobs on the printing device.
  • a printing system includes a client device that transmits document data, a plurality of printing devices that directly print document data transmitted from the client device, and a server that is connected to the client device and the plurality of printing devices.
  • the client device includes a billing unit that charges the server device with information related to a printing device
  • the server device includes, among the plurality of printing devices, according to a request from the client device, A notification unit configured to notify the client device of information related to a usable printing device, and the client device receives the document data based on the information related to the usable printing device received from the server device; Transmission means for transmitting to any one of the usable printing devices, and each of the plurality of printing devices is an original.
  • a web page for data transmission can be provided, the client device is capable of executing a web browser function, and is configured to display a web page provided from a printing device to be transmitted by a web browser;
  • the transmission means transmits the document data by an operation on a displayed web page.
  • the printing system includes a client device that transmits document data, a plurality of printing devices that directly print document data transmitted from the client device, and a server connected to the client device and the plurality of printing devices.
  • the billing unit charges the server device with information related to the printing device.
  • the plurality of printing apparatuses are printing apparatuses capable of “direct printing” that directly print document data without going through a printer driver.
  • the notifying unit notifies the client device of information related to the printing device that can be used by the client device among the plurality of printing devices in response to a request from the client device.
  • the transmission unit transmits the document data to any one of the usable printing apparatuses based on the information related to the usable printing apparatus received from the server apparatus.
  • Each of the plurality of printing apparatuses can provide a web page for sending document data.
  • the client device can execute a web browser function, and displays a web page provided from a printing device to be transmitted by the web browser.
  • the transmission means transmits the document data by an operation on the displayed web page.
  • the printing system according to the present invention is characterized in that the server device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about the plurality of printing devices at predetermined time intervals.
  • the acquisition unit in the server apparatus acquires information relating to a plurality of printing apparatuses at predetermined time intervals.
  • each of the plurality of printing apparatuses stores identification means for identifying a user who has transmitted the original data by the client apparatus, and the number of printed sheets for each user identified by the identification means.
  • each of the plurality of printing apparatuses includes an identification unit and a storage unit.
  • the identifying means identifies the user who transmitted the document data at the client device.
  • the storage means stores the number of printed sheets for each user identified by the identification means.
  • the server device is an identification unit that identifies the claimed user and the printing device usable by the claimed user
  • the number of sheets printed by the user is small (or large).
  • a determining unit that determines a printing apparatus having a large number (or a small number) of printed sheets.
  • the server device includes an identification unit and a determination unit.
  • the identifying means identifies the user who is billed.
  • the determination unit determines a printing apparatus that can be used by the user according to the claim when the number of printed sheets is small (or large) by the user and that the number of printed sheets is large (or small).
  • the acquisition unit acquires information related to the power supply interruption of each printing apparatus, and the server apparatus supplies the power supply of the printing apparatus acquired by the acquisition means.
  • determining means for determining a printing apparatus that can be used by the client apparatus.
  • the acquisition means in the server apparatus acquires information relating to the power supply interruption of each printing apparatus.
  • the determining unit determines a printing device that can be used by the client device based on the information related to the power supply interruption of the printing device acquired by the acquiring unit.
  • the printing system according to the present invention is characterized in that the server device includes a determining unit that determines a printing device that can be used by the client device based on a time when the request from the client device is received.
  • the determination unit in the server apparatus determines a printing apparatus that can be used by the client apparatus based on the time when the request from the client apparatus is received.
  • the printing system according to the present invention is characterized in that the server device includes a determining unit that determines a printing device that can be used by the client device based on information related to the position of the client device.
  • the server apparatus determines a printing apparatus that can be used by the client apparatus based on the information related to the position of the client apparatus.
  • the client device includes a unit that determines whether communication is possible for each of the usable printing devices, and the transmission unit is determined to be capable of communication.
  • the document data is transmitted to any one of the printing apparatuses.
  • the client device includes a unit that determines whether communication is possible for each available printing device, and the transmission unit is any one of the printing devices that are determined to be capable of communication. Send the document data to.
  • the server device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about a plurality of printing devices at a predetermined time, and the plurality of printing devices acquired based on the information about the plurality of printing devices acquired by the acquisition unit. And determining means for determining an available printing device among the printing devices.
  • the acquisition unit acquires information relating to a plurality of printing apparatuses at predetermined time intervals.
  • the determining unit determines a usable printing device among the plurality of printing devices based on the information regarding the plurality of printing devices acquired by the acquiring unit.
  • the determining unit determines an available printing device based on a time when the acquisition request is received in response to an acquisition request for information regarding the printing device received by the server device. It is characterized by being.
  • the determining means determines a usable printing device based on the time when the request for acquisition is received in response to the request for acquiring the information related to the printing device received by the server device.
  • the determination unit can use the print based on the information related to the position of the device that transmitted the acquisition request in response to the information acquisition request related to the printing device received by the server device.
  • the apparatus is determined.
  • the determining means determines a usable printing device based on information relating to the position of the device that has transmitted the acquisition request, in response to an acquisition request for information relating to the printing device received by the server device.
  • the server device includes identification means for identifying a user who has requested acquisition of information related to a printing apparatus, and the acquisition means acquires the number of printed sheets for each user and the number of printed sheets for each printing apparatus.
  • the determining means determines a printing apparatus that can be used by the claimed user when the number of printed sheets is small (or large) by the user and that the number of printed sheets is large (or small). It is characterized by the above.
  • the server device includes identification means.
  • the identification unit identifies a user who has requested acquisition of information related to the printing apparatus.
  • the acquisition unit acquires the number of sheets printed for each user and the number of sheets printed by each printing apparatus.
  • the determination unit determines a printing apparatus that can be used by the user according to the claim when the number of printed sheets is small (or large) by the user and that the number of printed sheets is large (or small).
  • the acquisition unit acquires information related to power supply interruption of each printing device, and the determination unit supplies power of the printing device acquired by the acquisition unit. Based on the information relating to the connection, a usable printing apparatus is determined.
  • the acquisition means acquires information related to the power supply interruption of each printing apparatus.
  • the determining unit determines a usable printing device based on the information related to the power supply interruption of the printing device acquired by the acquiring unit.
  • a printing method includes a client device that transmits document data, a plurality of printing devices that directly print document data transmitted from the client device, and a server device connected to the client device and the printing device.
  • a printing method in a printing system comprising: a claim step for requesting acquisition of information relating to a printing device from a client device to a server device; and a request from the server device to the plurality of printing devices according to a request from the client device
  • the transmitting step includes: providing a web page for transmitting original data from a printing apparatus to be transmitted; displaying the provided web page on a web browser at the client apparatus; and client apparatus And transmitting the document data by an operation on the displayed web page.
  • the client device requests the server device to acquire information related to the printing device
  • the server device is a printing device that can be used by the client device among a plurality of printing devices in response to a request from the client device.
  • the client apparatus notifies the client apparatus of the information, and the client apparatus transmits the document data to any one of the usable printing apparatuses based on the information regarding the usable printing apparatus received from the server apparatus.
  • a web page for transmitting original data is provided from a printing apparatus to be transmitted.
  • the provided web page is displayed on the web browser on the client device.
  • the document data is transmitted from the client device by an operation on the displayed web page.
  • the printing method according to the present invention is characterized in that the server device has an acquisition step of acquiring information related to the plurality of printing devices at predetermined time intervals.
  • the server apparatus acquires information related to the plurality of printing apparatuses at predetermined time intervals.
  • the printing method according to the present invention includes a step of identifying a user who has transmitted original data from a client device from each of the plurality of printing devices, and storing the number of printed sheets for each identified user. The number of sheets printed by each user and the number printed by each printing apparatus are acquired.
  • the user who transmitted the original data from the plurality of printing apparatuses is identified from the plurality of printing apparatuses, the number of printed sheets is stored for each identified user, and the number of printed sheets and the respective printing apparatuses are stored. Get the number of printed pages.
  • the printing method according to the present invention includes a step of identifying a user who is billed from the server device, and a printing device usable by the user according to the billing when the number of printed sheets by the user is small (or large). It has the step which determines the printing apparatus with many printed sheets (or few).
  • the user who is billed is identified from the server device, and when the number of printed sheets by the user is small (or large) as the printing apparatus usable by the billing user, the number of printed sheets is large (or Decide which (less) printing device.
  • the client apparatus Has a step of determining an available printing device.
  • information related to the power supply interruption of each printing apparatus is acquired, and based on the acquired information related to the power supply interruption of the printing apparatus, a printing apparatus that can be used by the client apparatus is determined.
  • the printing method according to the present invention includes a step of determining a printing device that can be used by the client device based on a time when the request from the client device is received.
  • a printing device that can be used by the client device is determined based on the time when the request from the client device is received.
  • the printing method according to the present invention includes a step of determining a printing apparatus that can be used by the client apparatus based on information on the position of the client apparatus.
  • a printing apparatus that can be used by the client apparatus is determined based on information related to the position of the client apparatus.
  • the client device in the transmission step, can determine whether communication is possible for each of the usable printing devices, and communication is possible in the determination step. And a step of transmitting document data to any one of the printing apparatuses determined to be present.
  • the client apparatus determines whether communication is possible for each of the usable printing apparatuses.
  • the document data is transmitted to any one of the printing apparatuses determined to be able to communicate.
  • the computer program according to the present invention based on information on the plurality of printing devices acquired by the acquisition unit that acquires the information on the plurality of printing devices at a predetermined time, and the plurality of printing devices acquired by the acquisition unit, It is made to function as a determination means which determines the printing apparatus which can be used among these printing apparatuses.
  • a printing device that can be used among a plurality of printing devices based on the information related to the plurality of printing devices that is obtained at a predetermined time and that acquires information related to the plurality of printing devices. To decide.
  • the recording medium according to the present invention is characterized in that the computer program of the above-described invention is recorded.
  • the aforementioned computer program is recorded on the recording medium.
  • the computer reads the computer program from the recording medium, and the above printing system and printing method are realized by the computer.
  • the present invention it is possible to save time for selecting a usable printing device from a plurality of printing devices, and a client device that does not include a printer driver can easily and quickly select a printing device that is optimal for a printing process to be executed. It is possible to execute the printing process by selecting. Further, in the printing system, the use of the printing apparatus in an abnormal state such as busy, paper jam, or out of toner can be easily avoided. Furthermore, excessive concentration of jobs on the printing apparatus can be prevented, and usability in the printing system can be improved.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a printing system according to Embodiment 1.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of a printing system according to Embodiment 1.
  • FIG. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the process sequence in PC.
  • 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure of printer information transmission in a server.
  • 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a printer setting table stored in a server.
  • FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of printer information notified to a PC.
  • 6 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of a printing system according to Embodiment 2.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a printing system according to Embodiment 1.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of a printing system according to Embodiment 1.
  • FIG. It is a flowchart
  • FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of printer information acquisition processing in a server. It is a figure which shows an example of the printer information acquired with the server. It is a figure which shows an example of the result which a server processes based on printer information. It is a figure which shows an example of the printer determination table accumulate
  • 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of printer information acquisition processing in the server. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of processing for transmitting own printer information in a printer.
  • 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure of printer information transmission in the server according to the third embodiment.
  • FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of a printing system according to a fourth embodiment.
  • FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a server configuration in a printing system according to a fifth embodiment.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a printing system 1 according to the first embodiment.
  • reference numeral 1 denotes a printing system.
  • the printing system 1 includes a PC 10 and a mobile phone 40 that are client apparatuses, a server 20 that is a server apparatus, and printers 31 to 36 that are printing apparatuses.
  • the PC 10, the server 20, and the printers 31 to 36 are connected by a wired or wireless LAN network 2, for example.
  • the mobile phone 40 is connected to the network 2 by, for example, a wireless access point 3.
  • the client device will be described by taking the PC 10 as an example, and the mobile phone 40 is operated in the same manner as the PC 10, and thus the description thereof is omitted.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of the printing system 1 according to the first embodiment.
  • the PC 10 includes a CPU 101, a ROM 102, and a RAM 103.
  • the ROM 102 stores a control program executed by the CPU 101.
  • the RAM 103 can temporarily store data generated during execution of the control program.
  • the CPU 101 controls the operation of the entire PC 10 via the bus N by loading a control program stored in advance in the ROM 102 onto the RAM 103 and executing it.
  • the PC 10 requests the acquisition of printer information from the document creating unit 104 that creates document data, the printer information requesting unit 105 that receives the printer information from the server 20, and the received printer information.
  • a server that communicates with the server 20, a printer selection unit 106 that selects any one of the printers according to the printer information, a document data transmission unit 107 that transmits document data to the selected printer, and a server 20 It further includes an I / F 108 and a printer I / F 109 that communicates with the printers 31 to 36.
  • the document creation unit 104 is an application such as MS-Word, for example, and creates document data in response to an instruction from a PC operation unit (not shown).
  • the printer information requesting unit 105 is, for example, an application that runs on the PC 10 and transmits an acquisition request for printer information related to the printers 31 to 36 to the server 20 via the server I / F 108, and at the same time, the user's logon name User information such as the above information is also transmitted, and information related to the printer usable by the user (see FIG. 6) is received from the server 20.
  • the printer selection unit 106 is an application that runs on the PC 10, for example.
  • a printer selection screen is displayed on a PC display unit (not shown). The printer selection is presented to the user, and the printer to be used is selected from the available printers according to the user's instruction.
  • the document data transmission unit 107 is an application that operates on the PC 10, for example, and transmits the document data created by the document creation unit 104 to the printer selected by the printer selection unit 106 via the printer I / F 109. It is.
  • the server 20 includes a CPU 201, a ROM 202, and a RAM 203.
  • the ROM 202 stores a control program executed by the CPU 201.
  • the RAM 203 can temporarily store data generated during execution of the control program.
  • the CPU 201 controls the operation of the entire server 20 via the bus N by loading a control program stored in advance in the ROM 202 onto the RAM 203 and executing it.
  • the server 20 includes an information storage unit 204 that stores information related to the printer, a printer determination unit 205 that determines a usable printer, and a printer information notification unit 206 that notifies the PC 10 of information related to the determined usable printer. And a PC I / F 207 for communicating with the PC 10.
  • the information storage unit 204 is, for example, an HDD, and stores printer information such as a printer setting information table (see FIG. 5) in which printers that can be used by each user are set for each time zone and IP addresses of the printers 31 to 36. It is to be accumulated.
  • printer information such as a printer setting information table (see FIG. 5) in which printers that can be used by each user are set for each time zone and IP addresses of the printers 31 to 36. It is to be accumulated.
  • the printer determination unit 205 identifies the user related to the acquisition request based on the user information received together with the acquisition request, and the information storage unit 204 based on the reception time. According to the printer setting information table stored in the table, a printer usable by the identified user among the printers 31 to 36 is determined.
  • the printer information notification unit 206 notifies the PC 10 of information related to the printer usable by the user (see FIG. 6) determined by the printer determination unit 205 via the PC I / F 207 as printer information. is there.
  • Each of the printers 31 to 36 is a printer that directly prints (direct prints) document data transmitted from a terminal device such as the PC 10 or the mobile phone 40 without going through a printer driver.
  • the ROM 302 stores a control program executed by the CPU 301.
  • the RAM 303 can temporarily store data generated during execution of the control program.
  • the CPU 301 controls the operation of the entire printer via the bus N by loading a control program stored in advance in the ROM 302 onto the RAM 303 and executing it.
  • Each of the printers 31 to 36 further includes a PC I / F 304 that communicates with the PC 10, a document data receiving unit 305 that receives document data from the PC 10, and a printing unit 306 that prints based on the received document data. Prepare.
  • the document data receiving unit 305 is configured to receive document data from the PC 10 via the PC I / F 304.
  • the printing unit 306 prints based on the document data received by the document data receiving unit 305.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of a processing procedure in the PC 10.
  • the document creation unit 104 creates document data in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 101 (step S31).
  • the CPU 101 determines whether or not a print instruction has been received from the user (step S32). When it is determined that the print instruction has not been received from the user (step S32: NO), the CPU 101 repeats such determination until the print instruction is received.
  • the CPU 101 determines that a print instruction has been received from the user (step S32: YES), it instructs the printer information requesting unit 105 to request acquisition of printer information.
  • the printer information request unit 105 transmits a printer information acquisition request to the server 20 via the server I / F 108 in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 101, and simultaneously transmits the user name of the user as user information (step S33). .
  • the CPU 101 determines whether or not the printer information has been received from the server 20 (step S34). If the CPU 101 determines that the printer information has not been received from the server 20 (step S34: NO), the CPU 101 does not receive the printer information. Repeat this determination.
  • step S34 When it is determined that the printer information has been received from the server 20 (step S34: YES), the CPU 101 performs a test communication with the printer related to the printer information received from the server 20 (step S35). For example, when the printer IP address is received from the server 20 as printer information, the CPU 101 transmits a PING command to each IP address.
  • the CPU 101 determines whether or not communication is possible for each printer, and generates, for example, a list as printers that can use the printer that has determined that communication is possible (step S36).
  • the CPU 101 instructs the printer selection unit 106 to select a printer.
  • the printer selection unit 106 presents a printer selection screen to the user on the display unit of the PC according to the instruction of the CPU 101, displays a list of available printers based on the list generated in step S36, for example, and the user's instruction Accordingly, one of a plurality of usable printers is selected (step S37).
  • the CPU 101 instructs the document data transmission unit 107 to transmit document data.
  • the document data transmission unit 107 transmits document data to the printer selected in step S37 (step S38), and ends the process.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of a processing procedure of printer information transmission in the server 20.
  • the CPU 201 determines whether a printer information acquisition request has been received from the PC 10 (step S ⁇ b> 41), and determines that no printer information acquisition request has been received from the PC 10. If so (step S41: NO), such determination is repeated until a printer information acquisition request is received from the PC 10.
  • step S41 determines that the printer information acquisition request has been received from the PC 10 (step S41: YES)
  • the CPU 201 checks the time when the printer information acquisition request has been received from the PC 10 (step S42), and can be used for the printer determination unit 205. To determine the correct printer.
  • the printer determination unit 205 identifies the user related to the acquisition request based on the user name received together with the acquisition request according to the instruction of the CPU 201, and the user name and the user name in step S ⁇ b> 42 according to the printer setting table stored in the information storage unit 204. Based on the confirmed reception time, a printer that can be used by the identified user is determined (step S43).
  • the CPU 201 instructs the printer information notification unit 206 to notify the printer information.
  • the printer information notification unit 206 notifies the PC 10 of information related to a printer that can be used by the user via the PC IF 207 (step S44), and ends the process.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a printer setting table stored in the server 20.
  • a printer setting table is stored in the information storage unit 204.
  • printers that can be used by each user are set in the printer setting table for each time period.
  • the printer setting table includes five times of 8:00 to 10:00, 10:00 to 12:00, 12:00 to 14:00, 14:00 to 17:00, and after 17:00.
  • printer names of printers that can be used by the users A, B, C, and D are written.
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of printer information notified to the PC 10. As shown in FIG. 6, the printer information notification unit 206 notifies the PC 10 of the printer name and IP address of the printer that can be used by the user as printer information.
  • the printer information requesting unit 105 of the PC 10 transmits the printer information acquisition request and user information such as a user name to the server 20.
  • the server 20 receives a request for acquisition of printer information from the PC 10
  • the reception time of the acquisition request is confirmed
  • the printer determination unit 205 identifies the user related to the acquisition request based on the received user information and stores it in advance.
  • the printer corresponding to the confirmed reception time and received user name is determined as a printer that can be used by the identified user in accordance with the determined printer setting table, and the printer of the printer determined by the printer information notification unit 206 is determined.
  • the name and IP address are notified to the PC 10 as printer information.
  • the printer selection unit 106 selects one of the notified usable printers according to the instruction from the user
  • the document data transmission unit 107 selects the selected printer.
  • the original data is transmitted to the designated printer.
  • the printer information acquisition request is received from the PC 10 at 9:00, the reception time is confirmed to be 9:00, and the user according to the acquisition request is identified as the user A based on the received user name A.
  • the printer setting table shown in FIG. 5 the time zone to which the reception time belongs 8:00 to 10:00 and the printers 31 to 33 corresponding to the user name A are determined as printers that can be used by the user A, and FIG.
  • the printer that can be used by the user can be easily and quickly selected and printed according to the printer setting table stored in the server 20. Processing can be performed.
  • the server 20 in the first embodiment updates the printer setting table every predetermined time.
  • the first embodiment is referred to, and the description thereof is omitted. Note that components similar to those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in the first embodiment.
  • FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of the printing system 1 according to the second embodiment.
  • the server 20 includes a printer information acquisition unit 208 that acquires information about each of the printers 31 to 36 at predetermined time intervals, and a printer 31 to 36.
  • the printer 31 further includes a printer I / F 209 that performs communication.
  • Each of the printers 31 to 36 transmits a user identification unit 307 that identifies a user, an information storage unit 308 that stores its own printer information, and printer information to the server 20.
  • a printer information transmission unit 309 and a server I / F 310 are provided.
  • the printer information acquisition unit 208 transmits a printer information acquisition request to each of the printers 31 to 36 and receives the printer information from the printers 31 to 36 via the printer I / F 209 every predetermined time.
  • the printer information is stored in the information storage unit 204.
  • the user identification unit 307 is an application that operates on the printer, and identifies the user who transmitted the original data by the PC 10, and the information storage unit 308 displays the number of sheets printed by itself.
  • Printer information such as the number of sheets printed for each identified user and information relating to the usage status of the user is stored.
  • the printer information transmission unit 309 receives the printer information from the server 20 in response to a request for acquisition of the printer information.
  • the printer information stored in the information storage unit 308 is transmitted via the I / F 310.
  • FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure of printer information acquisition processing in the server 20.
  • the CPU 201 determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the previous printer information was received (step S81).
  • the predetermined time is arbitrarily set as necessary.
  • step S81: NO If the CPU 201 determines that the predetermined time has not elapsed (step S81: NO), the CPU 201 repeats such determination until the predetermined time elapses, and determines that the predetermined time has elapsed (step S81: YES). And instructing the printer information acquisition unit 208 to transmit an acquisition request.
  • the printer information acquisition unit 208 transmits a printer information acquisition request to the printers 31 to 36 in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 201 (step S82).
  • the CPU 201 determines whether or not printer information has been received from the printers 31 to 36 (step S83). If it is determined that printer information has not been received from the printers 31 to 36 (step S83: NO), the printer 31 to Such determination is repeated until printer information is received from 36.
  • step S83 determines that the printer information has been received from the printers 31 to 36 (step S83: YES)
  • the CPU 201 stores the received printer information in the information storage unit 204 (step S84).
  • the CPU 201 determines whether or not an instruction to stop the process has been received (step S85). If the CPU 201 determines that an instruction to stop the process has not been received (step S85: NO), the process proceeds to step S81. return. If it is determined that an instruction to stop the process has been received (step S85: YES), the process is terminated.
  • Printer information acquired by the printer information acquisition unit 208 includes the number of sheets printed by the user and the printer.
  • FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of printer information acquired by the server. In the table shown in FIG. 9, the number printed by each user is written for each printer.
  • FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a result processed by the server 20 based on the printer information.
  • the left figure shows the number of sheets printed by each user and the order of addition according to the number of sheets
  • the right figure shows the number of sheets printed by each printer and the order of attachment according to the number of sheets.
  • the number of printed sheets by users A, B, C, and D is 3511, 3615, 2619, and 3232, respectively.
  • the users are ranked in descending order of the number of printed sheets.
  • the number of sheets printed by each of the printers 31 to 36 is 2717, 1868, 2301, 2399, 1698, and 1994. Therefore, the result of ranking the printers in descending order of the number of printed sheets is 31, printer 34, printer 33, printer 36, printer 32, and printer 35.
  • FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of the printer determination table stored in the server.
  • a user having a high rank in FIG. 10 that is, a large number of printed sheets is set as a printer having a low rank in FIG.
  • a printer with a high ranking in FIG. 10 For a user with a low ranking in FIG. 10, that is, with a small number of printed sheets, a printer with a high ranking in FIG.
  • the printer determination unit 205 determines a printer with a small number of printed sheets for a user with a large number of printed sheets, and a user with a small number of printed sheets. Determine which printer has the most printed pages.
  • printer information acquired by the printer information acquisition unit 208 includes information related to the power supply of the printer.
  • FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of printer information acquisition processing in the server 20.
  • the CPU 201 determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the previous reception of the printer information (step S121), and determines that the predetermined time has not elapsed. (Step S121: NO), such determination is repeated until a predetermined time elapses.
  • step S121 When the CPU 201 determines that the predetermined time has elapsed (step S121: YES), the CPU 201 instructs the printer information acquisition unit 208 to transmit an acquisition request.
  • the printer information acquisition unit 208 transmits a printer information acquisition request to the printers 31 to 36 in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 201 (step S122).
  • the CPU 201 waits for reception of printer information (step S123), and the waiting time is arbitrarily set as necessary.
  • the CPU 201 determines whether or not each printer is powered on (step S124). For example, among the printers 31 to 36, a printer that has not received the printer information is determined to be turned off, and a printer that has received the printer information is determined to be turned on.
  • the CPU 201 accumulates information relating to the determined power-off of each printer in the information accumulation unit 204 (step S125).
  • the CPU 201 determines whether or not an instruction to stop the process has been received (step S126). If the CPU 201 determines that an instruction to stop the process has not been received (step S126: NO), the process proceeds to step S121. return. If it is determined that an instruction to stop the process has been received (step S126: YES), the process ends.
  • the information storage unit 204 stores printer information related to the power supply of each printer.
  • the printer determination unit 205 determines a part of the printer to be turned on as a printer that can be used by the printer determination unit 205. Notice. In the PC 10, based on the notified printer information, one of the printers that can be used by the user is selected, and the document data is transmitted to the printer selected by the user. Further, when the number of printers that are turned on is small, all printers that are turned on may be determined as printers that can be used by the printer determination unit 205.
  • the server 20 acquires information related to the printer at predetermined time intervals, updates the accumulated printer information, acquires reliable printer information, and selects an optimum printer easily and quickly.
  • the printing process can be performed. Also, by determining the printers that can be used based on the number of printed sheets, it is possible to prevent excessive concentration of jobs on the printing apparatus. Furthermore, by determining a printer that can be used based on the use state of the printer, it is possible to reliably avoid using the printer in an abnormal state.
  • the server 20 transmits the printer information acquisition request to the printers 31 to 36 every predetermined time.
  • the present invention is not limited to this. Each time, the printer information may be transmitted to the server 20.
  • FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure for transmitting the printer information of the printers 31 to 36.
  • the CPU 301 determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the previous transmission of printer information (step S131), and determines that the predetermined time has elapsed.
  • the server 20 is notified of its own status by, for example, HTTP (step S133).
  • step S131 determines whether the predetermined time has not elapsed (step S131: NO)
  • step S132 determines whether the status of the printer itself has changed (step S132), and determines that the status of the printer itself has not changed. If so (step S132: NO), the process returns to step S131.
  • step S132 If the CPU 301 determines that the status of the printer itself has changed (step S132: YES), the CPU 301 notifies the server 20 of the status of the printer, for example, by HTTP (step S133).
  • the CPU 301 determines whether or not an instruction to stop the process has been received (step S134). If the CPU 301 determines that an instruction to stop the process has not been received (step S134: NO), the process proceeds to step S131. return. If it is determined that an instruction to stop the process has been received (step S134: YES), the process ends.
  • the server 20 When the server 20 receives information related to the printer transmitted from the printers 31 to 36, the server 20 updates the accumulated printer information. Thereby, even if the server 20 is outside the firewall, the printer status can be managed.
  • the server 20 in the first embodiment determines a printer that can be used based on information related to the position of the PC 10.
  • the first embodiment is referred to, and the description thereof is omitted. Note that components similar to those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in the first embodiment.
  • FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure of printer information transmission in the server 20 according to the third embodiment.
  • the CPU 201 determines whether or not a printer information acquisition request has been received from the PC 10 (step S ⁇ b> 141), and determines that no printer information acquisition request has been received from the PC 10. In such a case (step S141: NO), such determination is repeated until a printer information acquisition request is received from the PC 10.
  • the CPU 201 determines that the printer information acquisition request has been received from the PC 10 (step S141: YES)
  • the CPU 201 detects the IP address of the PC 10 that has transmitted the printer information acquisition request (step S142), and uses it for the printer determination unit 205. Instruct the determination of possible printers.
  • the printer determination unit 205 determines a printer that can be used by the user based on the printer IP address stored in the information storage unit 204 and the IP address of the PC 10 detected in step S42B (step S143). ). For example, a printer having the same IP address as that of the PC 10 is determined as a printer usable by the user.
  • the CPU 201 instructs the printer information notification unit 206 to notify the printer information.
  • the printer information notification unit 206 notifies the PC 10 of information related to the printer that can be used by the user via the PC IF 207 (step S144), and ends the process.
  • a printer closest to the user can be selected.
  • the printer is determined based on the IP address, but the actual position of each printer is stored in the information storage unit 204 in advance, and the printer is determined based on the information relating to the actual position of the PC 10 and each printer. You may do that.
  • the PC 10 transmits the document data to the printer 31 among the printers 31 to 36 by the web page in the first embodiment.
  • the first embodiment is referred to, and the description thereof is omitted. Note that components similar to those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in the first embodiment.
  • FIG. 15 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of the printing system 1 according to the fourth embodiment.
  • the PC 10 has a web browser 110 and can implement a web browser function
  • the server 20 includes a web server 210 that can provide a web page.
  • the printers 31 to 36 each include a web server 311 that can provide web pages.
  • the server 20 acquires printer information at predetermined time intervals as shown in FIG. 8, for example.
  • the server 20 searches for a printer capable of direct printing with a searchable printer in the network 2 and has a web server, and obtains an IP address or URL corresponding to a function such as a color function or a post-processing function. Get printer information.
  • the server 20 stores the acquired IP address or URL corresponding to the printer function in the information storage unit 204 as printer information.
  • the server 20 When the server 20 receives a request for obtaining printer information from the PC 10, the server 20 notifies the PC 10 of an IP address or URL corresponding to the printer function stored in advance.
  • FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web page provided by the server 20.
  • the IP address or URL notified from the server 20 for example, “http: directprintsearch / index” is input to the web browser 110
  • the search result web page shown in FIG. 16 is received from the web server 210 of the server 20.
  • FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web page provided by the printer 31.
  • the IP address “192.168.1.10” of the printer 31 is input to the web browser of the PC 10 by the link, and the web page shown in FIG. 17 is displayed by the web server 311 of the printer 31.
  • the provided web browser of the PC 10 jumps to the web page shown in FIG. 17 provided by the web server 311. The user can operate the web page on the PC 10 and transmit a file to be printed to the printer 31.
  • the manuscript data can be transmitted by a familiar web browser, and the operability can be improved.
  • the printing system 1 may be configured such that each computer program for performing the operation can be provided on a portable recording medium such as a CD-ROM. You may comprise so that it can also download from an external device.
  • FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the server 20 in the printing system according to the fifth embodiment, and the server 20 further includes a recording medium reading device 211 as shown in FIG.
  • the server 20 acquires information related to a plurality of printers at a predetermined time, and records a program for determining a usable printer among the plurality of printers based on the acquired information related to the plurality of printers.
  • the portable recording medium A is inserted into the recording medium reader 211, and the CPU 201 installs the program in the ROM 202, for example.
  • Such a program is loaded into the RAM 203 and executed. Thereby, it functions as a server device of the present invention.
  • the recording medium may be a so-called program medium, a tape system such as a magnetic tape and a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a flexible disk and a hard disk, and a disk system of an optical disk such as a CD-ROM / MO / MD / DVD, It may be a medium carrying a fixed program code including a card system such as an IC card (including a memory card) / optical card or a semiconductor memory such as a mask ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash ROM or the like.
  • a card system such as an IC card (including a memory card) / optical card or a semiconductor memory such as a mask ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash ROM or the like.
  • It may be a medium that dynamically carries the program code so as to download the program code from the network.
  • the download program may be stored in the main device in advance or may be installed from another recording medium.
  • the present invention can also be realized in the form of a computer data signal embedded in a carrier wave in which the program code is embodied by electronic transmission.
  • the client device only needs to have a communication function, and may be another client device such as a digital camera or a portable terminal.
  • the printers 31 to 36 may have a printing function and a communication function, and may further include other functions such as a copying function, a facsimile function, and a scanner function.
  • Printing system 10 PC (client device) 20 servers (server equipment) 31-36 Printer (printing device) 101, 201, 301 CPU 105 Printer Information Requesting Unit (Requesting Unit) 106 Printer selection unit 107 Document data transmission unit (transmission means) 110 Web browser 204 Information storage unit 205 Printer determination unit (identification unit, determination unit) 206 Printer information notification unit (notification means) 208 Printer information acquisition unit (acquisition means) 210, 311 Web server 305 Document data receiving unit 306 Printing unit 307 User identification unit (identification means) 308 Information storage unit (storage means) 309 Printer information transmission unit

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L'invention concerne un système d'impression, un dispositif serveur, un procédé d'impression, un programme d'ordinateur et un support d'enregistrement avec lesquels il est possible de sélectionner le dispositif d'impression optimal simplement et rapidement, et d'effectuer un processus d'impression, même avec un dispositif client qui n'est pas équipé d'un pilote d'imprimante. Le système d'impression (1) est équipé d'un PC (10) qui émet des données de document, de plusieurs imprimantes (31 à 36) qui impriment directement les données de document émises par le PC (10) et d'un serveur (20). Le PC (10) est équipé d'une unité de demande d'informations d'imprimante (105) qui demande au serveur (20) les informations relatives à l'imprimante. Le serveur (20) est équipé d'une unité de signalisation d'informations d'imprimante (206) qui, en réponse à la demande émise par le PC (10), donne au PC (10) les informations relatives aux imprimantes qui peuvent être utilisées parmi l'ensemble des imprimantes (31 à 36). Le PC (10) est équipé d'une unité d'émission de données de document (107) qui, en se basant sur les informations relatives aux imprimantes utilisables reçues du serveur (20), envoie les données de document à l'une des imprimantes utilisables.
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