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Image processing system including a first image processing apparatus for transmitting a job and a second image processing apparatus for receiving and executing the job

US8493585B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 19, 2009
Grant dateJul 23, 2013
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Expiry dateMar 4, 2032

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/1207
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The execution of an image processing job is limited using a printing amount by an image processing job that has already been executed and a printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by an image processing job that has already been transmitted but not yet executed. To accomplish this, a multi-function peripheral manages a first printing amount that has already been printed by a executed print job and a second printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by a print job that has been transmitted from the multi-function peripheral to a printer and that has not yet been executed in association with a user ID, and determines, before transmitting the print job, whether or not the total of a third printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by the print job, the first printing amount and the second printing amount exceeds an upper limit amount.

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