PRINTER HAVING A PLURALITY OF LOGICAL PRINTERS THEREIN AND HAVING A CONTROL UNIT WHICH CONTROLS THE LOGICAL PRINTERS SO AS TO PRINT A VIRTUAL PRINTING PROCESS OF ONE PAGE AT A TIME, THUS ACTUALLY PRINTING DATA FOR A SINGLE PAGE

摘要

The present invention relates to a printer that can print effectively print requests from plural terminals. The printer includes a print execution unit and a control unit for controlling the operation of the print execution unit. The control unit controls the operation of the print execution unit in response to an external print request to perform a printing operation. The control unit also includes plural logical printers each which performs a virtual printing process corresponding to plural jobs. The control unit controls the operation of the print execution unit when each of the logical printers has completed a virtual printing operation for the page, and thus prints actually data for one page. The printer is applicable to a remote printer which prints in response to a print request from a terminal via a network such as a LAN.