Image Forming Apparatus, Charge Server and Image Forming System
- Summary
- Abstract
- Description
- Claims
- Application Information
AI Technical Summary
Benefits of technology
Problems solved by technology
Method used
Image
Examples
embodiment 1
[0099]FIG. 6 shows a schematic block diagram of an image forming system according to Embodiment 1 of this invention.
[0100]M image forming apparatuses 101 to 10m, n clients 201 to 20n, a print server 30, and a management server 31 are connected as nodes to a LAN (Local Area Network) 33. The image forming apparatus 10i (i=1 to m) is a multi function peripheral, a printer, a facsimile machine, or the like.
[0101]The print server 30 has a storage device that stores an OS (Operating System), a server program, and an application program to embody its functions. The OS includes printer drivers of the image forming apparatuses 101 to 10m, a print spooler, and a network interface driver. The network driver communicates with the clients 201 to 20n and the image forming apparatuses 101 to 10m, for example, according to LPR protocol.
[0102]FIG. 6 shows a case that the system has one print server 30, but it is also possible to set up print servers for respective groups of the image forming apparat...
embodiment 2
[0179]Information on charge to printing includes information on whether color printing or not, information on whether duplex printing or not, a page size, and sheet type. Some jobs contain both color printing and monochrome printing, or both duplex printing and simplex printing, or different sheet sizes and types. In these cases, when every page is finished printing, it is determined whether or not charge information of the page is the same as any of the existent information blocks BLK, and if charge information of the page is different from all of the existent information blocks BLK, a new information block BLK is generated of the page. Therefore, processes to be executed when every page is finished printing are complicated.
[0180]In FIG. 6, the image forming apparatuses 101 to 10m sometimes stay in a waiting state due to job concentration. On the other hand, processes in the management server 31 are relatively light, and the management server 31 can perform the charge management in...
embodiment 3
[0205]When the management server 31 can not receive a job log due to a power cut or a program crash in the management server 31 or the image forming apparatus, a problem on a wired / wireless connection, or the like, i.e. when the image forming apparatus does not receive the acknowledgement in Step C30 of FIG. 5, in general, the image forming apparatus repeatedly transmits the job log to the management server 31 until it receives an acknowledgement. Therefore, the image forming apparatus does not start executing a next job until it receives an acknowledgement.
[0206]However, in Embodiment 3, if the image forming apparatus 101 does not receive an acknowledgement within a predetermined time after transmitting a job log to the management server 31, it stores the job log in the PROM 13 temporarily, and transmits the temporarily stored job log (i.e. the unprocessed job log) with a next job log to the management server 31 when a next job is finished.
[0207]FIG. 14 shows a flowchart of detaile...
PUM
Abstract
Description
Claims
Application Information
- R&D Engineer
- R&D Manager
- IP Professional
- Industry Leading Data Capabilities
- Powerful AI technology
- Patent DNA Extraction
Browse by: Latest US Patents, China's latest patents, Technical Efficacy Thesaurus, Application Domain, Technology Topic, Popular Technical Reports.
© 2024 PatSnap. All rights reserved.Legal|Privacy policy|Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement|Sitemap|About US| Contact US: help@patsnap.com