摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing automatic control device that determines an appropriate printing layout for each user.SOLUTION: A layout determination unit 6 is configured to determine which a plurality of time periods a time period of receiving a print request corresponds in responce to at least one of print object information contained in an input print request, a period of time of receiving the print request, and cumulative total of the number of printings of the print object information contained in the print request; when information on a user contained in the print request, and a print history containing the print object information and determined time period do not exist in a storage unit 7, determine a predetermined printing layout with respect to the determined time period and the print object information; and when the information on the user contained in the print request, and the print history containing the print object information and determined time period exist in the storage unit, determine a printing layout to be determined based on a printing layout contained in the information on the user contained in the print request, and the print history containing the print object information and determined time period.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7 |