| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network printer system for preventing the increase of any unnecessary printer by making it clear that a printer has been already prepared on a personal computer. <P>SOLUTION: This network printer system is constituted of a printer registering part 1 for registering a printer on a personal computer, a sub-net detecting part 2 for obtaining a sub-net from an IP address and a sub-net mask, a table control part 3 for registering the printer registered by the printer registering part 1 and the sub-net obtained by the sub-net detecting part 2, and for retrieving the printer from the sub-net, a table 4 for storing the sub-net and the printer by the table control part 3, a noticing part 5 for noticing whether or not any printer available on the sub-net is present, a printer changing part 6 for changing the printer to be normally used by an OS, a print control part 7 for executing print processing in response to a request from a user, and for noticing the start of print, and a start detecting part 8 for noticing that the personal computer is started. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |
