WO2023231347A1

WO2023231347A1 - Network printing management method, apparatus and system, and electronic device, medium and program

Info

Publication number: WO2023231347A1
Application number: PCT/CN2022/135917
Authority: WO
Inventors: 冯凯
Original assignee: 北京京东振世信息技术有限公司
Priority date: 2022-05-30
Filing date: 2022-12-01
Publication date: 2023-12-07
Also published as: CN117193677A

Abstract

A network printing management method, apparatus and system, and an electronic device, a computer storage medium and a computer program product. The method is applied to a client server in a network printing management system. The method comprises: receiving a printing request sent by a client, wherein the printing request comprises a target printing task (100); according to pre-stored printing configuration data, determining target printing configuration data related to the target printing task (101), wherein the target printing configuration data comprises printing device data required for the target printing task; and sending the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to a printing server, so as to make the printing server determine a target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and completing the printing of the target printing task by using the target printing device (102), wherein the target printing device is a printing device required for the target printing task.

Description

Network printing management methods, devices, systems, electronic equipment, media and programs

Cross-references to related applications

This application is based on a Chinese patent application with application number 202210603059.4 and a filing date of May 30, 2022. The applicant is: Beijing Jingdong Zhenshi Information Technology Co., Ltd., and the application name is "Network printing management method, device, system, electronic equipment and storage medium" technical solution, and claims the priority of the Chinese patent application. The entire content of the Chinese patent application is hereby incorporated into this application as a reference.

Technical field

This application relates to the field of Internet technology, and involves but is not limited to a network printing management method, device, system, electronic equipment, computer storage media and computer program products.

Background technique

In the operation of overseas warehouses, you will encounter a large amount of document printing related work. For example, when operating out of the warehouse, you may need to print a variety of documents such as package face sheets, outbound handover orders, delivery orders, return orders, etc. Many users also have There are many types of printing according to your own unique document requirements.

At present, in the actual operation of each warehouse, the printer is usually connected to the computer in the warehouse using a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, the driver of the printer manufacturer is installed, and the print document is clicked in the system related to daily operations, and the browser is used. The printing tool that comes with the machine communicates with the printer driver of the machine to print; because users in different regions may have different requirements for printing formats, they need to use the corresponding manufacturer’s printer for printing; in this way, various different The printer driver makes the configuration complex and operation difficult. In addition, some browsers do not support silent printing. If the local printer driver is called, a pop-up window will pop up for confirmation, which has a great impact on on-site operations. If the pop-up window is closed by default when printing, different printing configurations cannot be set for different documents. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a network printing management method that can uniformly manage various printing behaviors.

Contents of the invention

This application provides a network printing management method, device, system, electronic equipment, computer storage medium and computer program product.

The technical solution of this application is implemented as follows:

The embodiment of the present application provides a network printing management method, which is applied to a client server in a network printing management system. The system further includes: a client and a print server. The method includes:

Receive a print request sent by the client, where the print request includes a target print task;

Determine the target printing configuration data related to the target printing task according to the pre-stored printing configuration data; the target printing configuration data includes the printing device data required by the target printing task;

Send the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to the print server, so that the print server determines a target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and uses the target printing device to complete the target printing task. printing; the target printing device is the printing device required for the target printing task.

In some embodiments, the printing configuration data includes task configuration data and device configuration data, and the method further includes:

Obtain task configuration data for configuring multiple printing tasks, and device configuration data for configuring multiple pre-registered printing devices; the multiple printing tasks are determined according to different business needs of users; the target printing tasks Any print task among the plurality of print tasks;

The task configuration data and the device configuration data are stored in a database.

In some embodiments, the task configuration data includes the number of each print task in the plurality of print tasks, the required printing device name and the print format; the device configuration data includes each print job in the plurality of printing devices. The name of the device, Internet Protocol (IP), and required network protocol type.

In some embodiments, determining target printing configuration data related to the target printing task based on pre-stored printing configuration data includes:

Obtain the number of the target printing task;

According to the number of the target printing task, search the printing device name and printing format required for the target printing task from the task configuration data stored in the database;

According to the printing device name required by the target printing task, the printing device IP and network protocol type required by the target printing task are searched from the device configuration data stored in the database.

In some embodiments, the method further includes:

After the print server determines the target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, the print server sends the target printing task to the target according to the printing device IP and network protocol type required by the target printing task. The printing device enables the target printing device to complete printing of the target printing task according to the required printing format.

In some embodiments, the method further includes:

After receiving the print request initiated by the browser web page, the client sends the print request to the client server.

In some embodiments, the client, the client server and the print server are in the same local area network.

The embodiment of the present application also proposes a network printing management device, which is applied to the client server in the network printing management system. The system further includes: a client and a print server, wherein the device includes a receiving module, a determining module and a Print module, where,

A receiving module configured to receive a print request sent by the client, where the print request includes a target print task;

a determining module configured to determine target printing configuration data related to the target printing task according to pre-stored printing configuration data; the target printing configuration data includes printing device data required by the target printing task;

A printing module configured to send the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to the print server, so that the print server determines a target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and uses the target printing device to complete the printing. Printing of the target printing task; the target printing device is the printing device required for the target printing task.

Embodiments of the present application provide an electronic device. The device includes a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor. When the processor executes the program, one or more of the aforementioned technologies are implemented. The network printing management method provided by the solution.

An embodiment of the present application provides a network printing management system, which includes the aforementioned network printing management device or the aforementioned electronic device.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computer storage medium that stores a computer program; after being executed, the computer program can implement the network printing management method provided by one or more of the foregoing technical solutions.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product, including computer readable code. When the computer readable code is run in an electronic device, the processor in the electronic device executes to implement one or more of the foregoing. The network printing management method provided by the technical solution.

The embodiment of the present application proposes a network printing management method, device, system, electronic equipment, computer storage medium and computer program product, which are applied to the client server in the network printing management system. The system also includes: a client and a print server , the method includes: receiving a print request sent by the client, the print request including a target print task; determining target print configuration data related to the target print task according to pre-stored print configuration data; the target print Configuration data includes printing device data required by the target printing task; sending the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to the print server, so that the print server determines the target printing according to the target printing configuration data. A device that uses the target printing device to complete printing of the target printing task; the target printing device is a printing device required by the target printing task.

It can be seen that in the embodiment of the present application, the required printing equipment can be uniformly allocated to each printing task that needs to be printed based on the printing configuration data pre-stored in the client server; in this way, during the actual task printing process, no need to For additional printing configuration, there is no need to confirm the pop-up window. Instead, the printing task is directly sent to the required printing device and printed according to the printing configuration data in the system, reducing the configuration complexity; in addition, this network printing management method There is no need to install third-party software, including local drivers, making it easier for on-site operators to achieve unified management.

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The accompanying drawings herein are incorporated into the specification and constitute a part of the specification. These drawings illustrate embodiments consistent with the present application, and together with the description, are used to explain the technical solutions of the present application.

Figure 1a is a schematic flow chart of a network printing management method in an embodiment of the present application;

Figure 1b is a schematic structural diagram of a network printing management system in an embodiment of the present application;

Figure 2a is a schematic scene diagram of a network printing management method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

Figure 2b is a schematic flow chart of another network printing management method in an embodiment of the present application;

Figure 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a network printing management device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

The present application will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It should be understood that the embodiments provided here are only used to explain the present application and are not used to limit the present application. In addition, the embodiments provided below are part of the embodiments for implementing the present application, rather than providing all the embodiments for implementing the present application. The technical solutions described in the embodiments of the present application can be combined in any way unless there is any conflict. implementation.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, the terms "comprising", "comprises" or any other variations thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that a method or device including a series of elements not only includes the explicitly stated elements, but also other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent to the implementation of the method or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the statement "comprises a..." does not exclude the presence of other related elements (such as steps in the method or devices) in the method or device including the element. A unit in the device, for example, a unit may be part of a circuit, part of a processor, part of a program or software, etc.).

The term "and/or" in this article is just an association relationship describing related objects, indicating that three relationships can exist. For example, I and/or J can mean: I exists alone, I and J exist simultaneously, and they exist alone. J these three situations. In addition, the term "at least one" in this article means any one of a plurality or any combination of at least two of a plurality, for example, including at least one of I, J, R, and can mean including from I, Any one or more elements selected from the set composed of J and R.

For example, the network printing management method provided by the embodiment of the present application includes a series of steps, but the network printing management method provided by the embodiment of the present application is not limited to the recorded steps. Similarly, the network printing management device provided by the embodiment of the present application It includes a series of modules, but the network printing management device provided by the embodiment of the present application is not limited to include the explicitly recorded modules, and may also include modules that need to be set up to obtain relevant time series data or perform processing based on the time series data.

Embodiments of the present application can be applied to computer systems composed of terminal devices and servers, and can operate together with numerous other general or special computing system environments or configurations. Here, the terminal device may be a thin client, a thick client, a handheld or laptop device, a microprocessor-based system, a set-top box, programmable consumer electronics, a networked PC, a small computer system, etc., and the server may be a server Computer systems include small computer systems, large computer systems, and distributed cloud computing technology environments including any of the above systems, etc.

Electronic devices such as terminal devices, servers, etc. may be described in the general context of computer system executable instructions (such as program modules) being executed by a computer system. Generally, program modules may include routines, programs, object programs, components, logic, data structures, etc., that perform specific tasks or implement specific abstract data types. The computer system/server may be implemented in a distributed cloud computing environment where tasks are performed by remote processing devices linked through a communications network. In a distributed cloud computing environment, program modules may be located on local or remote computing system storage media including storage devices.

In related technologies, there are some paid or free client tools that can be installed locally for configuration and adapt printer drivers to files in different formats. However, these tools still have the following problems: First, the support functions are incomplete. For example, some free tools cannot support printing in ZPL and EPL formats; secondly, it is difficult to support specific business documents, such as when you want to print a customer's When issuing a warehouse order, you need to set the page margins to 10cm and use a certain model of Zebra printer to print double copies. This kind of configuration that is specific to a certain document is difficult to support. In addition, the technical implementation of these tools usually requires starting a lightweight server locally, and requesting the server to interact with the printer when printing. In this way, the on-site computer still needs to install and start a client, and cannot print directly through the web page. , and because it is still essentially a stand-alone system, it is difficult to conduct unified management in the face of various multinational warehouses.

It can be seen that in the face of complex printing environments in warehouses in overseas countries, a set of network printing management methods that can uniformly manage various printing behaviors is needed to solve the above-mentioned problems existing in related technologies.

In some embodiments of the present application, the network printing management method can be implemented using a processor in the network printing management device. The processor can be an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) or a Digital Signal Processor (Digital Signal Processor). Processor, DSP), Digital Signal Processing Device (DSPD), Programmable Logic Device (PLD), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Central Processing Unit (Central At least one of Processing Unit (CPU), controller, microcontroller, and microprocessor.

Figure 1a is a schematic flowchart of a network printing management method in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 1a, the method includes the following steps:

Step 100: Receive a print request sent by the client, where the print request includes a target print task.

In the embodiment of the present application, the network printing management method can be applied to the client server in the network printing management system; wherein, in addition to the client server, the network printing management system can also include a client and a print server; here, the print server can Establish connections with multiple printing devices. For example, the network printing management system can be applied to document printing scenarios faced by warehouses in overseas countries, and can also be applied to other scenarios that require unified management of printing behaviors.

In some embodiments, the client, client server and print server included in the network printing management system are in the same local area network; here, each of the multiple printing devices connected to the print server can be connected to Within the local area network and registered in the network printing management system.

For example, the client can be a personal computer (PC) or other device that can send requests; the client corresponds to the client server, and the two run in conjunction with each other, and the server serves the client. Content such as providing resources to the client, saving client data, etc.; the print server can be a Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) server or other types of print servers; among them, the CUPS server can be used to manage printing devices And printing tasks, it can support Internet Printing Protocol (Internet Printing Protocol, IPP), USB, Line Printer Daemon (LPD) and other protocols to connect local and remote printing devices, and it can be used as a server for IPP in the LAN . Here, the bottom layer of IPP is based on the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol, which allows users to remotely operate printing devices, configure printing parameters, etc. through the Internet without installing a printer driver. The printing device may be a printer or other device used for printing operations. The following embodiment uses a printer as an example for description.

For example, the print request includes a print task; here, the print task can be a print task for a variety of documents, such as an outbound delivery note, a delivery note, a return note, etc.; it can also be a print task for other file types.

For example, when the user sends a print task through the client's browser, the browser web page initiates a print request including the print task. After receiving the print request, the client sends the print request through a network transmission protocol, such as the HTTP protocol. The print request is sent to the client server; at this time, the client server can receive the print request sent by the client.

For example, when a user sends a print task through the client's browser, it can be queried based on the user's pin whether the user has the printing permission. If so, the print request including the print task is forwarded to continue the subsequent printing behavior; conversely, if If not, the printing process ends. Understandably, when a user performs a printing operation through a browser, the security of the printing behavior can be ensured by confirming the user's printing permission.

Step 101: Determine the target printing configuration data related to the target printing task according to the pre-stored printing configuration data.

In the embodiment of this application, before the client server receives the print request sent by the client, it is necessary to pass the relevant personnel, for example, the operator or the personnel with configuration authority, to the multiple pre-registered printing devices on the client's configuration interface. And configure multiple printing tasks to obtain printing configuration data.

In some embodiments, the printing configuration data may include two types of configuration data: task configuration data and device configuration data; here, the task configuration data includes configuration data for configuring multiple printing tasks; and the device configuration data includes configuration data for pre-registered multiple printing tasks. Configuration data configured for each printer; here, the multiple tasks may include various types of print tasks that need to be printed later by the network print management system; the multiple printers may include each printer that can perform printing operations on the above multiple print tasks.

For example, each of the multiple tasks is determined according to the different business needs of the user; for example, assuming that customer 1 requires the use of an A1 model printer to print out the inventory order according to the ZPL print command format, then the corresponding printing task is to use A1 The printer of the model prints out the warehouse order according to the ZPL print command format.

Exemplarily, the above method may further include: obtaining task configuration data for configuring multiple printing tasks and device configuration data for configuring multiple pre-registered printing devices; and storing the task configuration data and device configuration data in a database. middle. Here, the database is the database in the client server.

In one embodiment, if the client detects that relevant personnel have completed configuration operations for multiple print tasks, the client obtains the task configuration data of the multiple print tasks and stores the task configuration data in the database; similarly, if When the client detects that relevant personnel have completed configuration operations on multiple printing devices, the client obtains the device configuration data of the multiple printing devices and stores the device configuration data in the database.

In another embodiment, if the client detects that the relevant personnel have completed the configuration operation for each print task, the task configuration data of each print task is obtained and stored in the database; similarly, if the client detects After the relevant personnel has completed the configuration operation of each printing device, the device configuration data of each printing device is obtained and stored in the database.

In some embodiments, the task configuration data may include the number of each of the plurality of printing tasks, the required printing device name and the printing format; the device configuration data may include the name of each of the plurality of printing devices, IP, type of network protocol required. Here, the number of each print job is uniquely corresponding to it.

For example, the device configuration data may also include the usage rights of the printing device; the usage rights of the printing device can be set according to the actual situation of the business; for example, when the printing task is document printing, it can be set to a warehouse The operators only have permission to use the printing equipment in the warehouse.

For example, the network protocol type may include any one of IPP and LPD; it should be noted that the network protocol type needs to be determined with reference to the specific conditions of each printing device; for example, see Figure 1b, in the printing device ( If the printer 1 in the figure supports IPP, it can be registered for IPP communication, and the client does not need to install the printer driver; if the printing device (printer 2 in the figure) only supports LPD, the corresponding printer driver can be installed and registered as LPD communication; in the above two cases, each printing device can be connected to the client in the LAN through the network port; if the printing device (corresponding to printer 3 in the picture) can only use the USB interface to connect to the client in the LAN, then it can Use the printer driver to publish the IP of the computer you are connected to as the IP of that printing device. Understandably, in a local area network environment, the network printing management system can directly request the system's services through the browser web page to send printing instructions to the remote printing device, realizing a printing method without client software.

In the embodiment of this application, after the task configuration data and device configuration data configured by relevant personnel, that is, the printing configuration data, are stored in the database, the client server can determine the target printing configuration data related to the target printing task based on the printing configuration data.

Here, the target print task can be any print task among a variety of print tasks; the target print configuration data can include printing device data required by the target print task; exemplarily, the printing device data represents the printing required by the target print task. Device-related data, for example, can be the name, IP, required network protocol type or usage rights of the printing device.

In some embodiments, determining the target printing configuration data related to the target printing task based on the pre-stored printing configuration data may include: obtaining the number of the target printing task; and obtaining the task configuration data stored in the database according to the number of the target printing task. , find the printing device name and printing format required by the target printing task; according to the printing device name required by the target printing task, find the printing device IP and network protocol type required by the target printing task from the device configuration data stored in the database .

In the embodiment of this application, after the client server receives the print request sent by the client, it obtains the target print task from the print request, and can obtain the number of the target print task according to the target print task; then, according to the number of the target print task , from the task configuration data stored in the database, find the printing device name and printing format required by the target printing task; then, according to the printing device name required by the target printing task, find the target printing task from the device configuration data stored in the database The required printing device IP and network protocol type; finally, the printing device name, printing format, printing device IP and network protocol type required for the target printing task can be obtained, and these data are included in the target printing configuration data.

It can be seen that in the embodiment of the present application, the target print task included in the print request can be any of a variety of print tasks; in this way, based on the pre-stored in the database including multiple print tasks and multiple print tasks The printing configuration data of the device can directly obtain the target printing configuration data related to the printing task. In this way, no additional configuration is required during the actual printing process, which is convenient for on-site operators.

Step 102: Send the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to the print server, so that the print server determines the target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and uses the target printing device to complete printing of the target printing task.

In the embodiment of this application, after the client server obtains the target print task and the target print configuration data according to the above steps, it will send the target print task and the target print configuration data to the print server through the network printing protocol supported by the print server; the print server After receiving the target print task and the target configuration data, the printer required for the target print task, that is, the target print device, can be directly determined according to the target configuration data; for example, when the print server is a CUPS server, the network printing protocol can for IPP.

In some embodiments, after the print server determines the target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, the above method may further include: the print server sends the target printing task to the target according to the printing device IP and network protocol type required by the target printing task. The printing device enables the target printing device to complete printing of the target printing task according to the required printing format.

For example, after the print server sends the print task to the target printing device, the target printing device can complete printing of the target print task according to the required printing format. Here, the type of printing format is not limited. For example, the printing instruction format may be ZPL while maintaining a printing margin of 5 cm.

It can be seen that when the printing task is document printing, the embodiment of the present application can realize the unified management of the document printing format and the required printing equipment, avoiding differences in the printed documents due to inconsistent configurations in each warehouse; in addition, , on-site operators will not need to learn how to install and set up printer drivers, which printer to use for each document, what format to print, and what other printing configurations are available. After the operators set the printing configuration of each document in a unified manner, they can print according to the configuration with one click on site, and achieve uniformity in all warehouses around the world; in this way, the network printing management method proposed in the embodiment of this application can be applied to the problems faced by warehouses in various countries at home and abroad. printing environment.

The embodiment of the present application proposes a network printing management method, which is applied to the client server in the network printing management system. The system also includes: a client and a print server. The method includes: receiving a print request sent by the client, and the print request Including a target print task; determining target print configuration data related to the target print task based on pre-stored print configuration data; the target print configuration data includes printing device data required for the target print task; sending the target print task and the target print configuration data To the print server, causing the print server to determine the target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and use the target printing device to complete printing of the target printing task; the target printing device is the printing device required for the target printing task. It can be seen that in the embodiment of the present application, the required printing equipment can be uniformly allocated to each printing task that needs to be printed based on the printing configuration data pre-stored in the client server; in this way, during the actual task printing process, no need to For additional printing configuration, there is no need to confirm the pop-up window. Instead, the printing task is directly sent to the required printing device and printed according to the printing configuration data in the system, reducing the configuration complexity; in addition, this network printing management method There is no need to install third-party software, including local drivers, making it easier for on-site operators to achieve unified management.

In order to better reflect the purpose of the present application, further examples are provided based on the above embodiments of the present application.

Figure 2a is a schematic diagram of a network printing management method provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 2a, the user performs a browser operation on the client, causing the browser web page to initiate a print request. After receiving the request, the client After the print request is made, the print request is sent to the client server through the HTTP protocol; after receiving the print request, the client server obtains the target print task included in the print request and the targets related to the target print task through internal logic processing. Print configuration information, and then use IPP or LPD to send the target print task and related target print configuration information to the remote print server; the print server will determine the corresponding target print device based on the target print configuration information, and send the target print task Print to the corresponding target printing device.

Below, document printing is taken as an example for further explanation; Figure 2b is a schematic flow chart of another network printing management method in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 2b, this method can be applied to a network printing management system. There are two types of users for the system, operation personnel and printing personnel (such as actual warehouse operators, etc.); the process includes: configuration process and printing management process.

Exemplarily, the configuration process includes printer configuration (corresponding to the above-mentioned configuration of multiple printing devices) and document configuration (corresponding to the above-mentioned configuration of multiple printing tasks); wherein the printer configuration includes the name of the printer, the location of the printer in the configuration interface Configure the IP on the network, the network protocol type required by the printer, and the printer usage permissions; here, the printer usage permissions need to be based on the actual situation of the business. For example, operators in a warehouse can only operate the printer in that warehouse; printer configuration The data (corresponding to the above device configuration data) needs to be synchronized to the system database and the CUPS server. By calling the register printer command of the CUPS server, the printer name, IP and required network protocol type are synchronized to the CUPS server. Since warehouses in various countries and regions use dedicated lines to access the LAN, printers in warehouses in different regions can be registered uniformly in the system and on the CUPS server to achieve unified management of printing tasks.

Among them, the document configuration includes the number of each document, the name of the printer used, the printing format, and some other printing configurations. For example, customer B wants to print customer C's packing list at warehouses in the Netherlands and the United States. He uses the desktop printer A1 connected to the warehouse site. The print command format is ZPL while maintaining a 5cm printing margin. After these document printing settings (corresponding to the above task configuration data) are configured in the system, printing users in each warehouse only need to purchase the printer A1 of the required model for the document, register printer A1 into the system, and initiate printing on the client printing page. Specify the name of the document when requesting, and this packing list can be printed uniformly according to the specified configuration.

For example, the print management process includes printer management and print task management; in addition to operating printing, network print management can also manage printing behaviors and can be divided into printer management and print task management. Among them, printer management: After the printer is registered to the system, the system will retain the printer's name, model, location, IP and other printing data. You can also check which printers are used in each warehouse through the printing interface. When feedback is reported that the printer fails, you can The printer is disabled; at the same time, the printer's usage permissions can be controlled. When a user sends a print job through the printing interface of this system, the user's pin can be used to query whether the user has printing permissions. Print task management: Each time a user sends a print task, the print task is recorded, and this print task data is retained in Hbase to facilitate future statistics and query by printing reports. This way, you can know the status of each printer in each warehouse. Usage status, which documents are printed by each printer every day, to facilitate monitoring of on-site business, printer and paper usage.

It can be seen that the printing management system proposed in this application can achieve unified management of document printing configuration and printing tasks for overseas warehouses that need to print a large number of different documents, that is, for different printing formats in each country and region, each overseas warehouse Customers' different document printing requirements can realize unified management of printing configuration and actual printing methods at the document level. After the operation staff completes the document printing configuration, it can take effect in all overseas warehouses at the same time. On-site operators do not need to install driver software or set up complex printing configurations for each document individually. They can complete the printing of each document with one click, reducing on-site training and joint debugging costs. Under the premise of network security in the local area network, the function of printing directly on the browser is realized; operators can effectively control the use of printers and consumables in each warehouse through the system.

Figure 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a network printing management device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 3, the device includes: a receiving module 300, a determining module 301 and a printing module 302, wherein:

The receiving module 300 is configured to receive a print request sent by the client, where the print request includes a target print task;

The determination module 301 is configured to determine the target printing configuration data related to the target printing task according to the pre-stored printing configuration data; the target printing configuration data includes the printing device data required by the target printing task;

The printing module 302 is configured to send the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to the print server, so that the print server determines the target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and uses the target printing device to complete the task. Printing of the target printing task; the target printing device is a printing device required by the target printing task.

In some embodiments, the printing configuration data includes task configuration data and device configuration data, and the device further includes a storage module, and the storage module is configured as:

In some embodiments, the task configuration data includes the number of each print task in the plurality of print tasks, the required printing device name and the print format; the device configuration data includes each print job in the plurality of printing devices. Name of the device, IP, type of network protocol required.

In some embodiments, the determination module 301 is configured to determine target printing configuration data related to the target printing task based on pre-stored printing configuration data, including:

Obtain the number of the target printing task;

In some embodiments, the printing module 302 is also configured to:

In some embodiments, the receiving module 300 is also configured to:

In practical applications, the above-mentioned receiving module 300, determining module 301, printing module 302 and storage module can all be implemented by a processor located in an electronic device. The processor can be ASIC, DSP, DSPD, PLD, FPGA, CPU, control At least one of a microcontroller, a microcontroller, and a microprocessor.

In addition, each functional module in this embodiment can be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit can exist physically alone, or two or more units can be integrated into one unit. The above integrated units can be implemented in the form of hardware or software function modules.

If the integrated unit is implemented in the form of a software function module and is not sold or used as an independent product, it can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of this embodiment is essentially The part that contributes to the relevant technology or all or part of the technical solution can be embodied in the form of a software product. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium and includes a number of instructions to make a computer device (which can be a personal computer , server, or network equipment, etc.) or processor (processor) executes all or part of the steps of the method of this embodiment. The aforementioned storage media include: U disk, mobile hard disk, Read Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM), magnetic disk or optical disk and other media that can store program code.

Specifically, the computer program instructions corresponding to a network printing management method in this embodiment can be stored on storage media such as optical disks, hard disks, and U disks. When the computer program instructions corresponding to a network printing management method in the storage medium When the program instructions are read or executed by an electronic device, any one of the network printing management methods in the aforementioned embodiments is implemented.

Based on the same technical concept of the previous embodiment, see Figure 4, which shows an electronic device 400 provided by an embodiment of the present application, which may include: a memory 401 and a processor 402; wherein,

Memory 401 configured to store computer programs and data;

The processor 402 is configured to execute the computer program stored in the memory to implement any of the network printing management methods in the aforementioned embodiments.

In practical applications, the above-mentioned memory 401 can be volatile memory (volatile memory), such as RAM; or non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory), such as ROM, flash memory (flash memory), hard disk (Hard Disk) Drive, HDD) or solid-state drive (Solid-State Drive, SSD); or a combination of the above types of memories, and provides instructions and data to the processor 402.

The above-mentioned processor 402 may be at least one of ASIC, DSP, DSPD, PLD, FPGA, CPU, controller, microcontroller, and microprocessor. It can be understood that for different network printing management systems, the electronic device used to implement the above processor function can also be other, which is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product. The computer program product carries program code. The instructions included in the program code can be used to execute the method described in the above method embodiments. For details, please refer to the above method embodiments. This will not be described again.

Among them, the above-mentioned computer program product can be specifically implemented by hardware, software or a combination thereof. In an optional embodiment, the computer program product is embodied as a computer storage medium. In another optional embodiment, the computer program product is embodied as a software product, such as a Software Development Kit (SDK), etc. wait.

In some embodiments, the functions or modules provided by the device provided by the embodiments of the present application can be used to execute the methods described in the above method embodiments. For specific implementation, refer to the description of the above method embodiments. For the sake of brevity, here No longer.

The above description of various embodiments tends to emphasize the differences between the various embodiments, and the similarities or similarities can be referred to each other. For the sake of brevity, they will not be described again here.

The methods disclosed in each method embodiment provided in this application can be combined arbitrarily to obtain a new method embodiment if there is no conflict.

The features disclosed in each product embodiment provided in this application can be arbitrarily combined to obtain a new product embodiment if there is no conflict.

The features disclosed in each method or device embodiment provided in this application can be combined arbitrarily without conflict to obtain a new method embodiment or device embodiment.

Those skilled in the art should understand that embodiments of the present application may be provided as methods, devices, systems, or computer program products. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of a hardware embodiment, a software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product implemented on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, magnetic disk storage and optical storage, etc.) embodying computer-usable program code therein.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each process and/or block in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of processes and/or blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine, such that the instructions executed by the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing device produce a use A device for implementing the functions specified in one process or processes of the flowchart and/or one block or blocks of the block diagram.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing device, causing a series of operating steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable device to produce computer-implemented processing, thereby executing on the computer or other programmable device. Instructions provide steps for implementing the functions specified in a process or processes of a flowchart diagram and/or a block or blocks of a block diagram.

The above are only preferred embodiments of the present application and are not used to limit the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

A network printing management method, applied to a client server in a network printing management system. The system further includes: a client and a print server. The method includes:

Receive a print request sent by the client, where the print request includes a target print task;

Determine the target printing configuration data related to the target printing task according to the pre-stored printing configuration data; the target printing configuration data includes the printing device data required by the target printing task;

Send the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to the print server, so that the print server determines a target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and uses the target printing device to complete the target printing task. printing; the target printing device is the printing device required for the target printing task.
The method of claim 1, wherein the printing configuration data includes task configuration data and device configuration data, the method further comprising:

Obtain task configuration data for configuring multiple printing tasks, and device configuration data for configuring multiple pre-registered printing devices; the multiple printing tasks are determined according to different business needs of users; the target printing tasks Any print task among the plurality of print tasks;

The task configuration data and the device configuration data are stored in a database.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the task configuration data includes the number of each print task in the plurality of print tasks, the required printing device name and the printing format; the device configuration data includes a plurality of The name, Internet protocol IP, and required network protocol type of each of the printing devices.
The method according to claim 3, wherein determining the target printing configuration data related to the target printing task according to the pre-stored printing configuration data includes:

Obtain the number of the target printing task;

According to the number of the target printing task, search the printing device name and printing format required for the target printing task from the task configuration data stored in the database;

According to the printing device name required by the target printing task, the printing device IP and network protocol type required by the target printing task are searched from the device configuration data stored in the database.
The method of claim 4, further comprising:

After the print server determines the target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, the print server sends the target printing task to the target according to the printing device IP and network protocol type required by the target printing task. The printing device enables the target printing device to complete printing of the target printing task according to the required printing format.
The method of claim 1, further comprising:

After receiving the print request initiated by the browser web page, the client sends the print request to the client server.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 2, 4 to 6, wherein the client, the client server and the print server are in the same local area network.
A network printing management device, applied to a client server in a network printing management system. The system further includes: a client and a print server, wherein the device includes:

A receiving module configured to receive a print request sent by the client, where the print request includes a target print task;

a determining module configured to determine target printing configuration data related to the target printing task according to pre-stored printing configuration data; the target printing configuration data includes printing device data required by the target printing task;

A printing module configured to send the target printing task and the target printing configuration data to the print server, so that the print server determines a target printing device according to the target printing configuration data, and uses the target printing device to complete the printing. Printing of the target printing task; the target printing device is the printing device required for the target printing task.
An electronic device, the device includes a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor. When the processor executes the program, the method of any one of claims 1 to 7 is implemented. method.
A network printing management system, the network printing management system includes the device according to claim 8 or the electronic device according to claim 9.
A computer storage medium on which a computer program is stored. When the computer program is executed by a processor, the method of any one of claims 1 to 7 is implemented.
A computer program product includes computer readable code. When the computer readable code is run in an electronic device, a processor in the electronic device executes the method of any one of claims 1 to 7.