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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ryoichi Yokoohji, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/124 (2013.01); G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1206 (2013.01); G06F 3/1241 (2013.01);
Abstract
A print management method involves a print server using one or more plug-ins to instruct plural output devices to execute child jobs that were split from a single print order. The plug-in can be a group plug-in that enables the print server to communicate with the plural output devices to complete the single print order. The plural output devices can be two printing machines, or one printing machine and one finishing machine.