| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a physical printer to be substantially occupied with respect to an exclusive right acquisition request for a virtual printer. <P>SOLUTION: An exclusive right management part 32, when the exclusive right acquisition request for the virtual printer 18 is sent, ascertains that a corresponding printer 6 is not occupied, because occupation information in not registered in an exclusive right management table 36, and then registers the occupation information included in the exclusive right acquisition request with the exclusive right management table 36, thereby granting a relevant user the exclusive right for the virtual printer 18, in its turn, the printer 6. Then, a print control device 30, even if a print request designating a virtual printer 18 other than the virtual printer 18 of an object to which the exclusive right is made, is sent from a user having the exclusive right, will refuse the print request. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO |
