Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Yutaka Tamada

Takashi Saitoh

Masato Sekine

A printing system according to an embodiment includes: plural printers connected to a network; a user terminal connected to the network; and a print server which receives and saves a print job from the user terminal, and which determines plural printer candidates suitable for executing the print job from among the plural printers connected to the network, monitors an operation mode of the plural printer candidates that are determined, and when plural printer candidates include a printer in a sleep mode, shifts the printer from the sleep mode to an normal operating mode via the network.

Printing system

There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of displaying a screen so that the contents of print jobs can be grasped immediately. The image forming apparatus includes an information acquisition section that acquires job information at least including information for identifying target print jobs to be displayed in a list and setting information for designating settings of print processes included in the target print jobs in order to display a list of print jobs output from terminals connected to the image forming apparatus so as be able to perform data communication on a screen; a display controller that displays a list of print jobs on the screen based on the job information acquired by the information acquisition section, in which the settings of the print processes designated by the setting information are displayed on a list screen as graphics representing the content of the setting for each setting item; and a print controller that controls execution of print jobs selected by an operation input from among the print jobs displayed in the list.

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Yutaka Tamada