Abstract: A printer includes: a print performing unit which can change a structure thereof and in which contents of an executable printing process change depending on the structure; an apparatus name information storing unit which stores a plurality of apparatus name information as identification information of the apparatus coordinated with the structure; and a request responding unit for transmitting the apparatus name information coordinated with the structure at that time when a prescribed request is received among the plurality of apparatus name information to an apparatus transmitting the request.

Abstract: A printer includes: a print performing unit which can change a structure thereof and in which contents of an executable printing process change depending on the structure; an apparatus name information storing unit which stores a plurality of apparatus name information as identification information of the apparatus coordinated with the structure; and a request responding unit for transmitting the apparatus name information coordinated with the structure at that time when a prescribed request is received among the plurality of apparatus name information to an apparatus transmitting the request.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a network print system including a plurality of printers, wherein the communication traffic for collecting information is small and a setting change job of a computer for collecting job information, etc., is also easy to conduct. In the print network system of the present invention, each of printers making up a network print system is an apparatus for transmitting printer state information (error, status, job report) to a specified computer in accordance with a specified schedule (steps S101 to S110). Setting for transmitting the printer state information to the same computer in the network print system is made for each printer.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a network print system including a plurality of printers, wherein the communication traffic for collecting information is small and a setting change job of a computer for collecting job information, etc., is also easy to conduct. The network print system comprises a plurality of printers and a printer management computer. Each of the printers making up a network print system has a function of transmitting a report concerning the state of the own printer and the state of a different printer to a specified computer in accordance with a specified schedule. The printer not printing among the printers transmits the report.

Abstract: A printer includes: a print performing unit which can change a structure thereof and in which contents of an executable printing process change depending on the structure; an apparatus name information storing unit which stores a plurality of apparatus name information as identification information of the apparatus coordinated with the structure; and a request responding unit for transmitting the apparatus name information coordinated with the structure at that time when a prescribed request is received among the plurality of apparatus name information to an apparatus transmitting the request.

Abstract: A digital multiple function processing machine is made up of a scanner, a copy operation unit, and a printer. When the user enters an interrupt copy start command through the copy operation unit, a wait is made until an available storage area required for executing the interrupt copy is provided in the printer before the scanner is started.

Abstract: According to a printing system of the present invention, each host performs a process for creating and storing a preview file when transmitting reserve job data to a printing apparatus, and a process for generating and transmitting reserve job data that includes preview file designation data representing the storage location of the preview file. The printing apparatus manages each set of preview file designation data in correlation with reserve job data, and supplies a preview file correlated with reserve job data, or preview file designation data, to the host that requires the preview file.

Abstract: In a printer having a function of automatically finding out a paper feeder satisfying the condition that the paper size specified in print data and the paper size set in the printer match and then printing, if they match and it is made impossible to find out any paper feeder in which paper remains although print data processing is not complete (paper error state), the user can change the paper size set in the printer and if the paper size is changed to the correct size (print enable state), the printing is continued.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured as an apparatus for accessing an external date and time management apparatus, such as an SNTP server, to adjust the date and time of an internal clock and as an apparatus for calculating the next date and time adjustment execution date and time so that an error of the internal clock falls within the allowance time specified by the user whenever the date and time are adjusted.

Abstract: An apparatus capable of utilizing job data or the like stored in other first printer as a first kind printer which is provided with HDD for storing job data at inside thereof and a second kind printer which is not provided with HDD, in which there is prepared an apparatus of not receiving printing instruction of what cannot be printed by its own printer without informing presence thereof to a user and a data sharing printing system is constituted by connecting the apparatus by LAN.

Abstract: In a printer having a function of automatically finding out a paper feeder satisfying the condition that the paper size specified in print data and the paper size set in the printer match and then printing, if they match and it is made impossible to find out any paper feeder in which paper remains although print data processing is not complete (paper error state), the user can change the paper size set in the printer and if the paper size is changed to the correct size (print enable state), the printing is continued.

Abstract: A model-specific database 27 provided on a print control member 11 of a printer stores setting commands for a plurality of print stations, and menu information to be displayed on an operation panel. A maintenance processing member 25 obtains from the model-specific database 27, a menu corresponding to the model ID 251 of the print station, and displays the menu on the operation panel exposed at the printer housing. A maintenance operator carries out adjustment of the print station by operating the operation panel. Since processes and the like depending on the model of the print station are concentrated in the maintenance processing member 25 and the model-specific database 27, other structures of the print control member 11 can be configured so as not to depend on the model of the print station.

Abstract: A printing apparatus that performs so-called pull printing based on print content defining information specified by a print content defining information name is arranged in such a manner that the user can specify a print condition at the time of printing (the paper size, the resolution, and the number of sets) and that the user can set a pre-selected time for printing.

Abstract: The conventional practice of storing the related information data of format pattern in the hard disk of a computer and storing the image of format pattern in a laser printer has the disadvantage that the one-to-one correspondence between the related information data and the image data is lost if the hard disk of the computer is formatted.