Changing order of print jobs in a print queue

摘要

A print job storage portion configured to store a received print job and to store its reception time and a print job execution portion configured to determine whether or not the print job stored in the print job storage portion is executable, and if the print job is inexecutable, set a printing order of the inexecutable print job to after an unprinted print job which is executable and in standby are provided, and when the print job determined to be inexecutable and in standby is changed to an executable state, a print job execution control portion rearranges the printing order of the print job changed to the executable state and the print job which is executable and in standby on the basis of their reception times and develops them into image data in a development memory and has them printed by a printing portion.

主权项

1. An image forming device which receives a print job including print setting information via a network interface, a development memory connected to the network interface that receives the print job and develops the print job into image data, and a printer connected to the development memory that performs printing, the image forming device comprising:
a random access memory or hard disk drive data storage connected to the network interface, the random access memory or hard disk drive data storage stores the print job and stores its reception time; and a processor connected to the network interface, the processor performs control so as to:
determine whether or not the print job is executable on the basis of the print setting information of the print job stored in the random access memory or hard disk drive data storage;set a printing order so that the print job which is executable and has an earlier reception time is printed earlier and so that a print job which is inexecutable and in a standby state comes after a print job which is executable and in a standby state on the basis of the determination result and the reception time of the print job; anddevelop a print job with an earlier printing order in the development memory and perform printing, wherein the processor, when a print job determined to be inexecutable and in a standby state is changed to be executable, rearranges the printing order of the print job changed to be executable and a print job which is executable and in a standby state on the basis of their reception times, when a print job with the printing order earlier than a print job which has been developed in the development memory and is executable and in a standby state is changed to be executable, the processor determines whether or not there is a free space required for developing the print job in the development memory, and if there is no free space in the development memory, the processor discards image data of a print job with a later reception time among the print jobs which have been developed in the development memory and are executable and in standby and develops the print job with the earlier printing order which has been changed to be executable in the development memory.