Image processing equipment

Abstract

When a request for a change in output information and output order of, or cancellation of an output process of, image data obtained from computers 3 is made by a user, a print server apparatus 1 notifies other users of requested change content and obtains from each user an instruction indicating whether to permit a change process based on the notified change content or not. With this image processing apparatus, when a plurality of users make requests for output processes of respective image data and a change in output order of each image data or the like is requested, other users can confirm the change content and get to other work appropriately so as to enhance the work efficiency.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus that receives pieces of image data and pieces of output information related to the image data from one or more communication devices, determines an output order of the image data, and outputs an image based on the output information according to the determined output order. image data. Background technique [0002] Regarding the processing time for various types of processing using a computer, one of the processing is to output the image data stored in the computer onto paper from a printer connected to the computer, and the output time required for this type of output processing is often longer than other processing. The processing time required is longer. [0003] Therefore, the user who has requested the printer to perform output processing cannot accurately grasp the output time required for the output processing, and has to stop his operation to check the instantaneous state of the ou...

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Problems solved by technology

In this case, it is difficult to accurately calculate the output processing completion time for each piece of image data from the output time calculated based on the amount of each image data to be output and the output performance of the printer

Also, since there are multiple users requesting output processing, it is difficult to notify each user of the calculated completion time of each output processing

[0009] Moreover, a problem that may occur is that, by changing the execution order of output processing executed in response to a user request, the end time of output processing requested by other users will be affected, which will cause trouble among users.

[0010] As mentioned above, when the above-constructed printer is shared by multiple computers through the network, it will cause a problem that it is not easy to improve the user's work efficiency

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