发明授权
- 专利标题： Method and apparatus for controlling a printing operation
- 专利标题（中）： 用于控制打印操作的方法和装置
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申请号： US09126387申请日： 1998-07-30
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公开(公告)号： US06447184B2公开(公告)日： 2002-09-10
- 发明人: Yoshio Kimura , Akihiko Noda
- 申请人： Yoshio Kimura , Akihiko Noda
- 优先权： JP9-204281 19970730
- 主分类号： B41J1300
- IPC分类号： B41J1300
摘要：
A networked printing system has the capability of selecting a particular paper feeding slot of a printer by designating a paper name assigned to that particular paper feeding slot. Thus, an optimum printing operation is performed by the printer assigned that paper name. A controller communicates with the respective printers and produces a paper name information table. A paper name list is then produced according to this paper name information table. In accordance with the paper name list, a list of selectable paper names is displayed on a printing operation control screen. If a particular paper name is selected by a user from this list, then a printer assigned the selected paper name is retrieved from the paper name information table, and the retrieve printer is employed as the destination to which printing information is output.