| 摘要 |
<p>There is provided a printing technique that can reduce waiting time of a user. In a print system, in a non-sleep period associated with first printing output by a user (UA) in an MFP, a notification message (MS) is transmitted to a different user (UB) (S15). The notification message (MS) contains an inquiry about whether concurrent printing output (whether or not to perform second printing output subsequently to the first printing output) in the MFP is scheduled. When a reply for informing that the concurrent printing output is scheduled is sent from the user (UB), a transition standby period for transition of the MFP to a sleep state is extended (S17). This enables the user (UB) to print out a print job (JBb) under spooling, subsequently to a print job (JBa) of the user (UA), using a MFP (10a) before the MFP (10a) shifts to a sleep mode. Accordingly, the user (UB) can obtain the authentication printing output by the MFP (10a) without waiting for return from the sleep mode.</p> |
