摘要 |
A print apparatus monitoring system is provided that the operation state of a plurality of print apparatuses selected and used by a user can be known by resident display. In the method, prints are made by a plurality of print apparatuses connected through a network according to a print instruction from a terminal apparatus, and the operation states of the plurality of the print apparatuses instructed to make prints are displayed as separate icons respectively corresponding to the print apparatuses on a resident displaying portion of the terminal apparatus. For example, occurrence of an error in the print apparatuses is displayed by changing the display form of the corresponding icon. The display of the icon on the resident displaying portion can be displayed at the start of the printing in each print apparatus and can be erased at the end of the printing in each print apparatus.
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