| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform alternative printing which efficiently achieves the recovery of a printing part by using a plurality of printers.SOLUTION: When a main printer Prm receives an equipment acquisition request for requesting the sub-equipment acquisition of alternative printing from a print server PS and a sub-equipment candidate list, a printing system 1 outputs an equipment search reply request sound including at least equipment specification information which can be received only within a predetermined distance range, and when receiving an equipment search reply sound including the equipment specification information from sub-printers Prs1 to Prsn which have received the equipment search reply request sound, the printing system 1 determines the sub-equipment from the equipment specification information of the equipment search reply sound and the sub-equipment candidate list, and performs the transmission of the equipment acquisition request to the sub-equipment or the transmission of the equipment acquisition reply indicating that the sub-equipment has been acquired to the transmission source of the equipment acquisition request via the intranet IN2, and the sub-printers Prs1 to Prsn which have received the equipment acquisition reply successively transmits the equipment acquisition reply to the transmission source of the equipment acquisition request. |
