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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2010
Masaaki Igarashi, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Gotoh, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yoshizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Hozumi Yonezawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Hirakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaaki Igarashi, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Gotoh, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yoshizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Hozumi Yonezawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Hirakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing system includes a storage unit that stores printing status information and host apparatus identification information. The printing status information includes a printing status representing whether a printing processing of the print job is interrupted, and the host apparatus identification information represents the host apparatus as a requestor of the print job. The printing system includes a update unit that updates the printing status information based on a monitoring result of the printing apparatus; a job managing unit that judges whether to execute the print job according to the printing status information when receiving a processing request of the print job from the host apparatus; and a printing status information managing unit that decides printing status information to be stored in the storage unit. The printing status information managing unit first deletes, from the storage unit, printing status information on a print job transmitted from a low-ranked host apparatus.