摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically control the queue operation of an output job and to monitor it by comparing job profiles and selecting a next job which is to be printed from a job list. SOLUTION: An output control server 104 uses a job picker routine 112 which is the element of a printing drive and which selects a next printing job from the list of the job, which is previously regulated. Then, a plane picker routine 110 selecting a next plane which can be obtained in the job that is taken up for printing. In a preferable system design, the operator of tuner GUI which is local for the printing drive and controls the printing drive can independently use a job order judgement unit routine 114 displaying the judged order of the jobs that the job picker sub-routine 112 can transmit to an output device 59 and which can be plotted, namely, the jobs that can be taken up. |