Reservation of secondary printing devices in a substitute printing system
US7839526B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 8, 2006 |
| Grant date | Nov 23, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 22, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/1261
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A printing system includes printing apparatuses connected to a network. A control apparatus of the printing system may send a print job to each printing apparatus and instruct each printing apparatus to execute the print job. When a first printing apparatus is instructed to execute the print job, the control apparatus makes a substitute printing reservation. The substitute printing reservation is for a second printing apparatus to execute the print job instead of the first printing apparatus. The second printing apparatus is set to a waiting state in which the second printing apparatus waits to execute the print job instead of the first printing apparatus.
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