| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrally manage manufacturing infrastructures such as a copying machine or a printer set in a plurality of stores scattered in a region, and to construct a distributed output collection and delivery environment including the collection and delivery of manufactured products according to the order of a user for providing convenience including delivery to the user. <P>SOLUTION: In a distributed output collection and delivery system, the processing of a user who uses copy or the like in the store is prevented from being interrupted, and the durability circumstances of the periodical exchangeable components of respective manufacturing infrastructures in a store is always grasped so that print scheduling in consideration of the down-time of the manufacturing infrastructure of each store is performed so that the print of the small/middle number of copies desired by a general user can be efficiently prepared at low costs, and that the collection of output print articles can be ended within a user reception time, and that the transfer of merchandise to the user can be attained. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
