Method and apparatus for executing load distributed printing
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    发明申请
    Method and apparatus for executing load distributed printing 有权
    用于执行负载分布式打印的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20050141023A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-06-30

    申请号:US10999985

    申请日:2004-12-01

    IPC分类号: B41J29/38 G06F3/12 G06F15/00

    摘要: This invention provides a load distributed printing technique which efficiently uses a plurality of printing apparatuses by using small resources. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus, which can transmit a print job to a plurality of printing apparatuses, is provided. The information processing apparatus comprises print queue setting means for setting one of a plurality of print queues corresponding to the plurality of printing apparatuses as a basic print queue and setting remaining print queues other than the basic print queue as backup print queues, print job registration means for registering print job information in the basic print queue, backup job registration means for generating backup job information corresponding to the print job information registered in the basic print queue and registering the backup job information in the backup print queue, and job control means for, when the print job information is registered in each of the basic print queue and the backup print queue, preferentially outputting a print job corresponding to the print job information to a corresponding printing apparatus, and when no print job information is registered, and a print job corresponding to the backup job information can be output, changing the backup job information to print job information and outputting the print job to a corresponding printing apparatus.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供一种通过使用小资源有效地使用多个打印装置的负载分布式打印技术。 为了实现这一点,提供了一种可以将打印作业发送到多个打印装置的信息处理装置。 信息处理装置包括打印队列设置装置,用于将与多个打印装置相对应的多个打印队列中的一个设置为基本打印队列,并将除了基本打印队列之外的剩余打印队列设置为备份打印队列,打印作业登记装置 用于在基本打印队列中登记打印作业信息,备份作业登记装置,用于生成与登记在基本打印队列中的打印作业信息相对应的备份作业信息,并将备份作业信息登记在备份打印队列中;以及作业控制装置, 当打印作业信息被登记在每个基本打印队列和备份打印队列中时,优先地将对应于打印作业信息的打印作业输出到相应的打印装置,并且当没有登记打印作业信息时,打印作业 可以输出对应的备份作业信息,更改备份作业 用于打印作业信息并将打印作业输出到相应的打印装置的信息。