| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase a printing speed, and to reduce the costs of hardware and maintenance by distributing a print job to plural printers by a client computer. SOLUTION: In a print job distribution method, a print job 50 generated by the application of a computer is divided into several small print job segments 410, 420, and 430, and transmitted through a network to plural network printers 20, 22, and 24. During a printing operation, a printer inquiring part/printing lapse monitor 110 continues inquiry to a printer by a state request 310, and obtains a printer state and a print job elapse state report 460. Thus, the print job 50 can be decomposed again at the time of the misoperation of a printer.</p> |
