Minolta Company, Ltd.

Masaya Hirota

Takeshi Morikawa

Hiroshi Murakami

Tomo Tsuboi

A printer server is connected to a plurality of terminals. The printer server includes a terminal status detecting unit that receives a piece of operation information 'key' indicating that a operation has been performed from each terminal, measures an elapsed time since each piece of operation information 'key' was received by referring to a timer, and sets a non-operational status &#x2018;status&#x2019; for each terminal according to the length of the elapsed time, a priority determining unit that determines a priority level from the non-operational status &#x2018;status&#x2019;, and a print job processing unit that has print job processing performed by, when a plurality of print jobs are waiting to be processed, giving preference to print jobs transmitted from terminals with higher priority levels.

Printer controller that has a printer perform print processing on print jobs transmitted from a plurality of terminals, an image forming apparatus for performing print processing on the plurality of print jobs, and a terminal that transmits print jobs to the printer controller

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Toyohashi, Japan

Masaya Hirota