Self-service print system for realizing cross-segment communication between printer and print server

Abstract

The invention discloses a self-service print system for realizing cross-segment communication between a printer and a print server. The self-service print system structurally comprises a registration center, a print gateway, a print format conversion module and the print server, wherein the registration center is used for managing and storing registration information of the printer and the print gateway; the registration information comprises identification names of printer equipment and the print gateway; the print gateway is used for realizing a network communication function, accessing the Internet and realizing a print format conversion function, printer connection, transmission of a print task to a printer task queue and acquisition of the state of the printer; the print format conversion module is used for converting a print material to a language in a print format supported by the printer; the print server is used for receiving a print task of a user and allocating the print task to a corresponding printer according to a print requirement of the user. The self-service print system achieves the support for printers in different brands and the cross-segment access to the print server.

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technical field [0001] The invention discloses a self-service printing system for realizing communication between a printer and a print server across network segments, and belongs to the field of network protocol design. Background technique [0002] After the cloud printing technology was proposed, several companies such as HP, Google and Baidu successively launched their so-called cloud printing systems. Google Cloud Print implements any application that can run on Chrome OS and supports the Cloud Print technology standard through an application programming interface (API). In this way, Chrome OS users can execute print commands directly through the application. This function not only makes remote wireless printing a reality, but also solves the problem of inconvenient printing on handheld devices. HP, on the other hand, named its cloud printing concept HP ePrint, and defined the concept as a service provided by HP that allows direct printing by sending an email to a clo...

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Problems solved by technology

Therefore, the first problem is to convert the print file into a format supported by the printer according to the different printers specified by the print task; the print server and the printer are not in the same network, especially one is in a public network and the other is in a private network. There is no connection between them. For direct access, to share the printers in the private network, the communication problem between them must be solved

[0004] Since the printing task is finally carried out by the printing device and executed by the printing device, how to realize the cross-segment communication between the printer device and the print server and the compatibility of heterogeneous printing devices are the key technologies to realize cloud printing, and the two companies There is no mention of related technical solutions

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