| 摘要 |
An information processing apparatus transmits a print job to a server and generates print status information including user identification information and a print condition included in the print job. Each of one or more image forming apparatuses transmits a transmission request, forms an image based on the print job, and generates device information including state information indicating its operating state. The server transmits a print job that includes the same user identification information as the user identification information included in the transmission request, to the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the transmission request. One of the server, the one or more image forming apparatuses, and the portable information device generates usability information indicating usability in a case where the print job is executed in each image forming apparatus, based on the device information and the print status information. The portable information device outputs the generated usability information. |
| 主权项 |
1. A print system comprising a server, an information processing apparatus, one or more image forming apparatuses, and a portable information device,
the information processing apparatus including an operating user determination portion to determine an operating user, a print job transmission portion to transmit a print job including user identification information for identifying the operating user, print data to be subjected to image formation, and a condition for forming an image of the print data, to the server in response to an instruction by the operating user, and a print status information generation portion to generate print status information including the user identification information and the print condition included in the print job, in response to transmission of the print job, each of the one or more image forming apparatuses including an authentication portion to authenticate a user, a transmission request portion to, in response to a user being authenticated by the authentication portion, transmit a transmission request including user identification information for identifying the authenticated user, to the server, an image formation control portion to form an image of print data included in a print job received from the server, based on the print job, in response to transmission of the transmission request, and a device information generation portion to generate device information including state information indicating an operating state of the image forming apparatus itself, the server including a print job storage portion to store the print job in response to the print job being received, and a print job transmission portion to, in response to a transmission request being received from any one of the image forming apparatuses, transmit a print job to the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the transmission request among the one or more image forming apparatuses, if a print job that includes the same user identification information as the user identification information included in the transmission request is stored, wherein a usability information generation device that is one of the server, the one or more image forming apparatuses, and the portable information device includes a usability information generation portion to generate usability information indicating usability in a case where the print job is executed in each of the one or more image forming apparatuses, based on the device information generated by each of the one or more image forming apparatuses and the print status information generated by the information processing apparatus, the portable information device including a usability information output portion to output the generated usability information. |
