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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1998
Atsuhiko Kurachi, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A print managing system has: client apparatuses for generating print data and sending the generated print data to a printing apparatus; and the printing apparatus connected with each of the client apparatuses though a network for receiving the print data from each of the client apparatuses, managing the received print data as a print job, which is an unit corresponding to one print data received from each of the client apparatuses, and printing the received print data for each print job. Each of the client apparatuses generates the print data and sends the print data to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus receives the print data and manages the print data as the print job. Further, the printing apparatus produces the rough image on the basis of the print data. When receiving the request signal sent from each client apparatus, the printing apparatus sends the print job information to each client apparatus. The print job information includes the management information of the print job managed by the printing apparatus and the rough image correlated with the print data corresponding to the print job. When receiving the print job information from the printing apparatus, each client apparatus displays the management information and the rough image included in the received print job information.