| 摘要 |
A method is described for managing a print shop system in which a plurality of printers are connected to and managed by a server. To print a document having both color and black and white pages using N-up and/or duplex printing, the server determines whether to print the entire document on a color printer or to split the document into two sub-jobs and print them on a color printer and a black and white printer, respectively. To achieve this, pages of the document are grouped into groups each to be printed on sheet of paper. If different paper attributes are present within any group, the document is not split. If all groups of pages have identical paper attributes within the group, each group is examined to determine its color designation (e.g. color, black and white), so that the sheets can be printed on appropriate printers. |
