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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2010
Takahiro Hirakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaaki Igarashi, Saitama, JP;
Hozumi Yonezawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Gotoh, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yoshizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Kohji Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahiro Hirakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaaki Igarashi, Saitama, JP;
Hozumi Yonezawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Gotoh, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yoshizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Kohji Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing system including a plurality of host devices and a plurality of printing devices connected. The printing system includes: a storage unit; a first storage processing unit for storing, in the storage unit, a print status of a print job; an information updating unit for monitoring the plurality of printing devices and updates the execution status identification information stored in the storage unit; and a job management unit for determining, based on the print status, whether the print job is to be executed on the one printing device. When a processing request for the print job is sent from another host device while the printing process for the print job sent from the one host device is suspended in the one printing device, the job management unit allows the one printing device to execute the print job sent from the another host device.