Abstract: In a print control method, a print request is made designating a physical or logical printer which is to perform printing, and when the designated physical or logical printer is printing, the print request is automatically switched to a physical or logical printer other than the designated printer. A system includes a printer, a data processing apparatus, a data transmitting apparatus and a print control apparatus for implementing the print control method, a printing system using these apparatues, and a recording medium which stores a program for causing a computer to execute such print control. For printing, a table showing whether physical or logical printers which can accept a print request are operating or not, is referred to in order to judge operating statuses of the printer, and a print request is made automatically selecting a physical or logical printer which is “unoccupied.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires both model information of a first device and identification information specific to the first device from the first device, and acquires configuration information of the first device. Then, the information processing apparatus stores the acquired configuration information in a status correlated with the model information and the identification information. On the other hand, in such a case that both the model information and the identification information are transmitted from a second device, the information processing apparatus determines whether the stored model information is made coincident with the transmitted model information. When the transmitted model information is made coincident with the stored model information, the information processing apparatus transmits the stored configuration information to the second device. The second device receives the configuration information and configures in accordance with the transmitted configuration information.

Abstract: On the side of a microcomputer for creating image data, a unique code for showing the page alignment is added to the created image data, and on the printer device side, the unique code is detected independently from the ordinary data analysis. The unique code is constituted by a sequence of a predetermined number or more of identical data of one or more bytes. Based on the results of detection of the unique code, page control and recovery process are executed.

Abstract: The invention provides a print control method in which a print request is made designating a physical or logical printer which is to perform printing, and when the designated printer is printing, the print request is automatically switched to other printer than the designated printer. The invention also provides a printer, a data processing apparatus, a data transmitting apparatus and a print control apparatus for implementing the print control method, a printing system using these apparatuses, and a recording medium which stores a program for causing a computer to execute such print control.