Printing method, device and equipment

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a printing method, device and equipment. The printing method comprises the following steps: firstly, receiving a print task sent by a task receiving interfacewhich is provided by a virtual printer by calling a print task scheduling service by the print task scheduling service, wherein the print task is used for printing print data sent by an application toa print queue of the virtual printer, and the virtual printer is set to be corresponding to a target printer cluster containing several printers; secondly, dividing the print task into a plurality ofsub-tasks by the print task scheduling service according to a preset task segmentation rule; and finally, allocating the plurality of sub-tasks to printers belonging to the target printer cluster bythe print task scheduling service, so that the printers print the respectively allocated sub-tasks.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of printing, in particular to a printing method, device and equipment. Background technique [0002] Printing documents, images and other data is a very common function in computer application software. Its realization principle is generally that the content to be printed by the application software is assembled into the format required by the printer, or first assembled into the operating system printing API or other printing services , the format required by the component, and then call the printer driver to assemble it into the format required by the printer, and finally, transmit it to the printer through serial port, parallel port, Bluetooth, NFC (Near Field Communication, near field communication), Internet and other communication methods. It finishes printing. [0003] In the related art, a printing task initiated by a user is usually sent to a specified printer and the printing is completed ...

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[0003] In related technologies, a printing task initiated by a user is usually sent to a designated printer and the printing is completed by it independently. Due to the limited printing speed of a single printer, the execution efficiency of the entire printing task is low.

In addition, due to the incompatibility of technical solutions, the existing applications that use ordinary printers cannot directly use the cloud printers that have emerged in recent years. They need to modify the program to call the printing interface provided by the cloud printer before they can be used, which limits the promotion of cloud printers

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