摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively use plural printers by controlling the printers according to the print processing capability and total workload so that each printer print at least one of images and characters corresponding to the number of prints. SOLUTION: This system consists of a multi-printer controller 1, a monitor display device 40, and five printers 50A to 50E. Then the process capability of the connected printers 50A to 50E and the total workload of prints are detected. According to the detected processing capability and total workload of the printers 50A to 50E, print data are supplied to the respective printers 50A to 50E to print at least one of images and characters. Namely, the multi- printer controller 1 when printing plural images allocates image data representing the images to the printers 50A to 50E and controls their printing operations to speedily print the images.</p> |