PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20170329562A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-16

    申请号:US15490150

    申请日:2017-04-18

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12 H04N1/00

    摘要: Provided is a server that manages a printing system including candidate printing apparatuses, the printing system including a request user detection unit configured to detect that a request user of a printing job enters a range of an authentication distance, and the printing system causing a hardware processor of the server to execute: selecting a route that connects applied printing apparatuses and determining allocation of the printing job; notifying the request user of information of the route; and notifying the applied printing apparatuses of request information, wherein, in the determination, the allocation is determined on the basis of predetermined time at which the request user arrives when the request user moves along the route and sequentially acquires printed matters, and the applied printing apparatuses initiate output of the printed matters, and wherein the authentication distance corresponds to required time taken from initiation to completion of output of the printed matters.

    Image Forming Apparatus, and Method and Computer-Readable Medium Therefor

    公开(公告)号:US20170286025A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-05

    申请号:US15470985

    申请日:2017-03-28

    发明人: Mineyuki OTA

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12 H04N1/23 H04N1/21

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a first storing process including storing into a storage first image data received from a first external device via a first communication interface, when a value representing a condition of a wireless connection between the first external device and the first communication interface is less than a threshold, perform a first image forming process including after completion of the first storing process, controlling the image former to perform image formation for the stored first image data, and when the value is less than the threshold, in response to receiving second image data from a second external device via a second communication interface during the first storing process, perform a second image forming process in advance of the first image forming process, the second image forming process including controlling the image former to perform image formation for the second image data.