Coordinated concurrent printing of print jobs

Details Coordinated concurrent printing of print jobs Coordinated concurrent printing of print jobs

2005-03-29

2005-03-29

Chau, Minh (Department: 2854)

Typewriting machines

Including control of format and selection of type-face by...

C400S062000, C358S001150, C358S001900

Reexamination Certificate

active

06872015

ABSTRACT:
A method, apparatus and program for distributed printing of digital print files in a network system including a print service and a plurality of printers adapted for interactive printing are provided. An interactive printing involves printing a print file only upon selection thereof and entering a print command through the local user interface of the printer. In a first step of the method, the print service receives a print file, stores it and distributes information on the stored print file to a plurality of the printers. In a second step, a print process for the print file is started, locally or remotely, in one of the printers and, while this print process is active, a print process for the same print file is started locally in one or more of the other printers. During the printing, the print service controls the printers to print together the required number of copies.

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