Web printing a print request via a list of job tasks

摘要

One embodiment is a method that analyzes a print request that is transmitted over an internet and received at a cloud print system. The method then executes with priorities a list of job tasks to print the print request at a web-enabled printer.

主权项

1. A method executed by a computer, comprising:
receiving, at a cloud server over a web, a print job request to print a document on a specified printer; dividing the received print job request into a list of job tasks that includes preprocessing operations to prepare to print the document, print operations to print the document, and post-processing operations to perform after print job completion, wherein the preprocessing, print, and post-processing operations each pertain to rendering an image of the document as a hardcopy output on a print medium; automatically assigning, by the cloud server, a priority within each of the preprocessing, print, and post-processing operations to each job task in the list of job tasks; and causing the document to be printed on the specified printer independent of any other print job request by executing the job tasks in the list in order of the corresponding assigned priorities.