| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing system capable of preferentially printing a high priority job. <P>SOLUTION: The printing system with a host computer and an image forming apparatus connected through a network comprises a job scheduler function, a task manager, and a broker function for all systems to be clients. The task manager receives a print job, acquires priority information from the received job, and requests the job scheduler through the broker to analyze a resource status. The job is distributed to the broker according to the resource status. The broker receives the job from the task manager, acquires the priority information from the received job, changes a CPU utilization ratio based on the priority information, and performs the job. When the job is completed, the task manager is notified of the completion. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
