Print control device, printing system, server device, and print control program for identifying printing device

摘要

The advantage of the invention is to make settings on a printer to be connected with a network easy. A printer driver is connected with a server device for managing a printer A and an e-mail address by linking them through a network, and transmits print job data to the server device. The printer driver receives designation of an e-mail address managed by the server device, identifies printer A based on the designated e-mail address, and converts data as a target of printing into print job data in accordance with the identified printer A.

主权项

1. A print control device, which is connected with a server device through a network and transmits print job data to the server device, the server device managing first and second printing devices different from each other and first and second e-mail addresses different from each other by linking the first printing device with the first e-mail address and linking the second printing device with the second e-mail address, the print control device comprising:
an identifying unit that receives an input of at least one of the first and second e-mail addresses, transmits, to the server device, the first e-mail address when receiving the input of the first e-mail address, and transmits, to the server device, the second e-mail address when receiving the input of the second e-mail address, such that the first e-mail address is used to designate the first printing device as a designated printing device that is a printing destination to perform printing based on the print job data and the second e-mail address is used to designate the second printing device as the designated printing device, the first and second e-mail addresses being uniquely assigned to and uniquely identifying the first and second printing devices, respectively; a user interface screen on which setting is performed to create the print job data including image data; a converting unit that receives a printer information including capability information regarding capability of the designated printing device designated based on one of the first and second e-mail addresses from the server device, reflects the capability information on the user interface screen, and converts a print target data as a target of printing into the print job data including the image data in accordance with the setting on the user interface screen; and a transmitting unit that transmits to the server device, in a format that is different from an e-mail format, the print job data that designates the designated printing device as the printing designation.