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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Ozawa, Tama, JP;
Katsutoshi Sawada, Hino, JP;
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a server that manages a printing system including candidate printing apparatuses, the printing system including a request user detection unit configured to detect that a request user of a printing job enters a range of an authentication distance, and the printing system causing a hardware processor of the server to execute: selecting a route that connects applied printing apparatuses and determining allocation of the printing job; notifying the request user of information of the route; and notifying the applied printing apparatuses of request information, wherein, in the determination, the allocation is determined on the basis of predetermined time at which the request user arrives when the request user moves along the route and sequentially acquires printed matters, and the applied printing apparatuses initiate output of the printed matters, and wherein the authentication distance corresponds to required time taken from initiation to completion of output of the printed matters.