Printing device for printing a document to be passed to one or more recipients, printing system, control method, and computer-readable storage medium for control program

摘要

A printing device is provided which prints a document, to be passed to one or more recipients, in an output format according to a personal preference of each of the recipients. The printing device includes a receiving portion configured to accept a print job indicating the document and the recipients; a determination portion configured to determine an output format according to a personal preference of each of the recipients indicated in the accepted print job based on a history of print jobs that were executed for each of the recipients, and a print job execution portion configured to, when printing the document indicated in the accepted print job by a plurality of sets corresponding to the number of the recipients, perform the printing in the output format according to the personal preference of each of the recipients determined by the determination portion.

主权项

1. A printing device for printing a document, to be passed to one or more recipients being different from a user who has given a command to perform printing, in an output format for each of the recipients, the printing device comprising:
a receiving portion configured to accept a print job indicating the document and the recipients; a first determination portion configured to determine, for each of the recipients, whether or not a history of print jobs that were executed based on a command by said each of the recipients is present; a second determination portion configured to determine an output format for each of the recipients indicated in the accepted print job; and a print job execution portion configured to, when printing the document indicated in the accepted print job by a plurality of sets corresponding to a number of the recipients, perform the printing in the output format for each of the recipients determined by the second determination portion; wherein: as for the recipient for which the first determination portion determines that a history of print jobs is present, the second determination portion determines the output format for each of the recipients based on the history of print jobs; and as for the recipient for which the first determination portion determines that a history of print jobs is not present, the second determination portion determines that an output format designated by the user who has given a command to execute the print job indicating the recipients to the printing device is the output format for each of the recipients.