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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2005
Hideaki Takayama, Saitama, JP;
Hideaki Takayama, Saitama, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing system having an image reading apparatus and a printing apparatus which is network-connected or locally connected to the image reading apparatus, and which stores print jobs sent from the image reading apparatus or other apparatus in a queue, and implements printing processing sequentially from a print job existing at a head of the queue, in which the image reading apparatus comprises a print job cancel request unit that issues a cancel request for a print job to the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus comprises: a cancel request reception unit that receives the cancel request sent by the print job cancel request unit; a cancel requester identifying unit that identifies a cancel requester from the cancel request received by the cancel request reception unit; a print job specifying unit that specifies, as a canceled print job, a print job which has been first searched out by searching for the print job from the cancel requester identified by the cancel requester identifying unit in a direction from a tail of the queue to the head thereof; and a print job cancel unit that deletes from the queue the canceled print job specified by the print job specifying unit.