| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print controller, a print control method, and a recording medium recording a print control program, efficiently printing a plurality of print jobs including a print completion time designation job and a print completion non-designation job. <P>SOLUTION: A print request is received, a print needed time of the print job is estimated, and indispensable start time required for a start of printing is calculated from designated print completion time and the estimated print needed time when the print completion time is designated in the print job. Next, the indispensable start time and a present time are compared. When the indispensable start time is precedent to the present time, a job input impossible-time process is performed. When the indispensable start time follows the present time, it is confirmed whether a print queue is empty or not. When the print queue is empty, the print job is putted in. When the print queue is not empty, a print completion time non-designation job is taken off the print queue. Next, an in-print-queue insertion position determination process is performed, Next, a print completion time non-designation job process is performed to the taken-off print completion time non-designation job. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
