摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make efficiently obtainable, printing results in a short time even if plural pieces of print job data are parallelly received from plural data processors. SOLUTION: When plural pieces of print job data are parallelly received from plural host computers 106 and 107 through corresponding interfaces 105 and 108 and plural printers to which the received print job data can be transferred exist, the data processing load information of each printer 110, 112 and 114 is acquired and stored in a printer processing load storage device 115, and the selection candidates of printers to be transferred are optimized by taking the stored data processing load information of each processor, attribute information stored in a printer characteristic storage device 116 and the print job data into consideration.
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