Simultaneously printing multiple documents to multiple destinations in cloud printing

摘要

Systems and methods of processing print jobs comprising at least two documents and/or at least two printing devices via a cloud printing service are provided. A network printing server, in a cloud printing environment, can receive instructions to print the documents from any of a plurality of user devices to be printed at printing devices registered to the user device. The network printing server generates a print job for each file-destination pair. For each print job, the network printing server identifies one or more general options that apply to all of the print jobs and one or more detailed options that apply to a portion of the print jobs. The destination printing devices are connected via a public network (e.g., the Internet) to the network printing server that provides a cloud printing service.

主权项

1. A network printing server comprising:
one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory data storage media in the network printing server storing instructions which when processed cause the network printing server to perform:
for a user device logically connected to the network printing server, determining a set of one or more printing devices from a plurality of printing devices available to the network printing server;receiving, via a public network, an instruction to print a plurality of documents at a particular printing device of the set of one or more printing devices from the plurality of the printing devices;generating, for each document of the plurality of documents, an instruction instructing the particular printing device to print the document;transmitting, via the public network, the generated instructions for printing each document of the plurality of documents as a series of print jobs to the particular printing device;receiving print job status data of a first print job of the series of print jobs and a second print job of the series of print jobs from the particular printing device;generating a presentation of the print job status data; andtransmitting the presentation of the print job status data to the user device.