| 摘要 |
A printing system 30 with at least one printer 4,5 and at least two print servers 1,2,3 for printing a print job 23,27 on a selected printer 5. The print job 23,27 is stored on one of the print 10 servers 1,2,3 and print job information 24a,24b about the stored print job 23,27 on the storing print server 2 is shared between the print servers 1,2,3. In case of a request 25 for print out the print job 23,27 on the selected printer 5, the print job 23,27 is sent 15 from the storing print server 2 to the selected printer 5 based on the print job information 24a,24b. This helps to reduce transmission costs in a big network of print servers. Printers may be managed by a particular print server, and this allows the storing server to transfer the print job information to that printer. The system updates the print job information and shares this update across the network. The print job may be a postscript of printer command language format. |
