Printing system, print management apparatus, print control method, and storage medium

摘要

A printing system may include an archive job management apparatus and a print management apparatus. The archive job management apparatus stores job information relating a destination of an archive job, a quantity printing limit for the archive job, and archive job print history and manages the stored job information. The print management apparatus instructs printing of an archive job according to a print request from a client apparatus and includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. Per the print request, the acquisition unit acquires the quantity printing limit and print history of the archive job. The determination unit determines that the archive job is printable if a number of times the archive job has been actually printed is equal to or less than a limiting number of times of printing based on a number of times of restrictive printing and the print history of the print requested archive job.

主权项

1. A printing system comprising:
an archive job management apparatus including a job information management unit configured to store job information relating to an entity or a storage destination of an archive job, which is a print job stored in a storage medium, limiting number of times of printing for the archive job, and print history of the archive job, while associating each stored information with other stored information, in the storage medium, and configured to manage the stored job information; and a print management apparatus configured to instruct an image forming apparatus to perform printing of an archive job according to a print request from a client apparatus, wherein the print management apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a limiting number of times of printing and the print history as information about the archive job according to the print request, and a determination unit configured to determine that the archive job is printable if a number of times the archive job has been actually printed is equal to or less than the limiting number of times of printing based on a number of times of restrictive printing and the print history of the print requested archive job; and wherein the archive job management apparatus further includes: a redirect information generation unit configured to generate redirect information, which includes information that can identify the print requested archive job, and information that can specify the archive job management apparatus, wherein the redirect information is required when the client apparatus redirects a response to the print request, if returned from the archive job management apparatus, to the print management apparatus, and a redirect information transmission unit configured to transmit the redirect information, as a response to the print request, to the client apparatus.