52 results about "Print server" patented technology

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a cloud print server that provides a cloud print service, the information processing apparatus comprising: one or more memory devices that store a set of instructions; and one or more processors that execute the set of instructions to: obtain specific information regarding an image formation of an image forming apparatus capable of communicating with the cloud print server; accept a setting in accordance with the obtained specific information, the setting pertaining to the image formation in the image forming apparatus; and issue an instruction for the image formation in the image forming apparatus, the instruction including the setting.

The objective is to provide a mechanism that allows for the rapid installation of printer drivers. [Solution] The installer 1210 is a program that installs a printer driver, which is already installed on the print server 1000 and has certificate data that proves the legitimacy of the digital signature, onto the client computer 3000. The installer 1210 causes the computer to perform a sharing determination step to determine whether the printer driver is set to be shareable with the client computer 3000, and a data generation step to generate installation data that includes certificate data from the print server 1000 and can be installed on the client computer 3000 if it is determined that the printer driver is set to be shareable.

To enable a plurality of users belonging to different customers to use one image forming apparatus via a print server.SOLUTION: The print server includes a first reception unit configured to receive first user information of login from the terminal, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first customer identification information corresponding to the first user information, a second reception unit configured to receive a registration code of the image forming apparatus input by the terminal, and a second acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information of the image forming apparatus corresponding to the registration code. The information processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to, in a case where second customer identification information different from the first customer identification information is registered, register the first customer identification information and the second customer identification information in the identification information of the image forming apparatus, and a first transmission unit configured to, based on a print instruction from the terminal, transmit a print job to the image forming apparatus corresponding to the identification information of the image forming apparatus in which the first customer identification information is registered.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

A printing apparatus configures a setting for using a hold printing function of obtaining a print job held in a pending state in a printing server and executing printing processing, in a case where the hold printing function is set to be used, provides the printing server with a notification indicating that the printing apparatus is capable of making a cancellation request that requests the printing server to cancel the pending state of the print job, obtains the print job from the printing server after the pending state of the print job is cancelled based on a request from an apparatus different from the printing apparatus, and executes printing in accordance with the obtained print job.

This provides technology for utilizing extended print settings in cloud printing services. [Solution] The information processing device of the present invention, in setting print settings for print data to be fed into a comprehensive logical printer, includes a warning display means that displays a warning on the print settings screen where the print settings are made, indicating that the extended print settings are valid only for a specific physical printer, and the print settings set by the application are sent to the print server that provides the cloud print service.

The image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a cloud print server system including a cloud print service, the image forming apparatus comprising: one or more memory devices that store a set of instructions; and one or more processors that execute the set of instructions to: display a two-dimensional code including identification information by which the image forming apparatus can be identified, and receive information relating to the two-dimensional code set in the cloud print service, wherein control of whether or not to display the two-dimensional code is performed based on the information relating to the two-dimensional code, and the two-dimensional code is used by the cloud print server system to identify the image forming apparatus and transmit a saved print job.

The information processing device described herein aims to enable updating the configuration information stored in the client terminal when the configuration information of a printer registered with the cloud print server changes. [Solution] The information processing device described herein is characterized by comprising: an acquisition means for acquiring configuration information of a printing device from a cloud print server system; a storage means for storing the acquired configuration information; a control means for displaying a print setting screen on a display means based on the configuration information stored in the storage means; a transmission means for transmitting a request to acquire configuration information while the configuration information is stored in the storage means; and an update means for updating the configuration information stored in the storage means using the configuration information acquired based on the transmitted acquisition request.

The invention provides an image forming apparatus, a control method thereof, a storage medium, and a computer program product. An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a cloud print server system including a cloud print service, the image forming apparatus including: one or more storage devices that store an instruction set; and one or more processors that execute the instruction set to: display a two-dimensional code including identification information capable of recognizing the image forming apparatus; and receiving information related to the two-dimensional code set in the cloud print service, in which control of whether to display the two-dimensional code is performed based on the information related to the two-dimensional code, and the cloud print server system recognizes the image forming apparatus using the two-dimensional code and transmits the stored print job.

This invention provides a print system, a printing method, a program, and a print server system for converting data into a printable format for an image forming apparatus that performs printing. [Solution] A print system 100 comprising a print server and one or more image forming apparatuses, wherein the print server includes acquisition means for acquiring data to be printed from an information processing terminal, identification means for identifying one or more formats that can be printed by the image forming apparatus that performs printing among the one or more image forming apparatuses, conversion means for determining whether conversion of the format of the data to be printed is necessary based on the format of the data to be printed and one or more formats, and if conversion is necessary, converting the data to at least one of the one or more formats, and transmission means for transmitting the data that has been converted if conversion is necessary to the image forming apparatus that performs printing, when conversion is not necessary for the data.

A chatbot server (4) or a print server (5): receives a registration code that is unique to an image-forming device (1) and a password that pertains to the registration code, the registration code and the password having been transmitted from any one electronic terminal (2) via a message server (3); and, when it is assessed that the password is a predetermined valid password, sets the image-forming device (1) associated with the registration code as the image-forming device (1) that is to execute a printing operation on print data transmitted by the electronic terminal (2) that is a member of a group.

The present disclosure provides a printing system, a terminal device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a printing server that enable a user to implement settings related to authentication printing on a terminal device without expending labor and time. The printing system includes a terminal device, a printing server that receives printing data from the terminal device, and a printing device that implements printing based on the printing data received by the printing server. The terminal device stores terminal authentication printing setting information that indicates settings of the terminal device related to authentication printing. The printing server stores change authentication printing setting information that is used to change the terminal authentication printing setting information. The terminal device transmits request information that requests the change authentication printing setting information to the printing server. The printing server transmits the change authentication printing setting information to the terminal device when the request information is received. The terminal device changes the terminal authentication printing setting information based on the change authentication printing setting information received from the printing server.

This print server comprises: a management unit that manages a comprehensive logical printer associated with each of a plurality of logical printers associated with a printing device; a setting unit that sets, for the comprehensive logical printer, identification information usable by an information processing device to acquire an application that provides extended print settings; a providing unit that provides the identification information set for the comprehensive logical printer to the information processing device; and an acquisition unit that acquires a print job for the comprehensive logical printer from the information processing device. The setting unit can set, as the identification information, common identification information usable by the information processing device to acquire a common application that provides extended print settings common to a plurality of vendors.

This application program enhances the usability of printers when using them from an information processing device. [Solution] The information processing device 1 comprises a management program 43 and a print server program 44. The management program 43 determines whether or not an incompatible printer 3 is connected to the information processing device 1, and if it is connected, determines whether or not the print server program 44 is running, and if it is not running, starts the print server program 44 and registers the print server configured by the print server program 44 with the OS 41. The server program 44 accepts print jobs that specify the corresponding print server as the output destination, and based on the accepted print jobs, it obtains individual print data that can be printed on the incompatible printer 3, and sends the obtained individual print data to the incompatible printer 3.

The invention provides a cloud printing dynamic configuration method and system suitable for a cloud computer and a medium. The method comprises the steps that cloud computer information is obtained and judged according to a preset threshold value, then a printing server resource library and a printer model driving registry are established, then a thin terminal is logged in to obtain operation system information, printer information and printing demand information, and the cloud computer processes the printer information and the printing demand information to complete printing of the printer. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring optimal sorting printer information, then downloading or updating a driver through a print server resource library after the operating system information and the optimal sorting printer information are matched with a printer model driver registry, acquiring connection state information of a printer, executing a print task according to the connection state information, and monitoring the print state information. And if printing abnormal information appears, correspondingly obtaining printer replacement information according to the optimized sorted printer information, and continuing to execute printing operation, thereby realizing dynamic configuration of cloud printing.

This provides technology for utilizing extended print settings in cloud printing services. [Solution] The print server of the present invention comprises: management means for managing a logical printer associated with a printing device and a comprehensive logical printer associated with the logical printer; storage means for receiving a print job with vendor information attached from an information processing device and storing the print job in the print queue of the comprehensive logical printer; print instruction means for receiving instructions to move the print job stored in the print queue to the printing device; first movement means for moving the print job to the logical printer associated with the printing device when the instruction is received; and second movement means for moving the print job to the comprehensive logical printer when the printing device responds with an error in accepting the print job.

This system provides a notification system that allows the user of a terminal device to collectively access print log information from multiple image forming machines that perform printing on print data sent from a terminal device to a print server. [Solution] In a notification system 100 according to one aspect of the present invention, the print server 2 outputs log information including the print status of print data to the log collection server 4, and the log collection server 4 stores the output log information. The notification server 5 acquires a plurality of stored log information based on predetermined conditions, converts the acquired log information into notification information, and transmits the converted notification information to the terminal device 1. The terminal device 1 notifies the notification information.

A printing device according to the present invention communicates with a cloud printing server that provides a cloud printing service. The printing device includes a registration means for registering the printing device at the cloud printing server and a transmission means that transmits printer information for the registered printing device to the cloud printing server. The printer information that is transmitted by the transmission means includes information in which information about the remaining amount of a recording material for the printing device is defined in a first format and information in which information about the remaining amount of the recording material for the printing device is defined in a second format.

A print server (i) manages a logical printer associated with a printing apparatus, a comprehensive logical printer associated with the logical printer, and vendor information of the printing apparatus, (ii) receives a print job with vendor information added from an information processing apparatus and stores the print job in a print queue of the comprehensive logical printer, (iii) receives an instruction to execute the print job stored in the print queue of the comprehensive logical printer with the printing apparatus, and (iv) in a case where the instruction is received and vendor information added to the print job and vendor information of the printing apparatus match, moves the print job to a print queue of the logical printer associated with the printing apparatus.

The invention discloses an information processing apparatus and a method for controlling the information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus described in the specification includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire configuration information of a printing apparatus from a cloud print server system, a storage unit configured to store the acquired configuration information, and a processing unit configured to process the configuration information, a control unit configured to display a print setting screen on the display unit based on the configuration information stored in the storage unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit an acquisition request of the configuration information in a state in which the configuration information is stored in the storage unit, and an updating unit configured to update the configuration information stored in the storage unit using the configuration information acquired based on the transmitted acquisition request.

When a message application server (2) receives print data from one electronic terminal 1, among electronic terminals 1 that are registered in a group, via a talk screen of the group (S11) and then receives a print instruction from one of the electronic terminals 1 (S15), a chatbot server (3) transfers the print data received via the message application server (2) to a print server (4) (S21), and the print server (4) transfers the print data received from the chatbot server (3) to an image formation device 5 (S22) to cause printing to be executed (S23).

This printing server comprises: a management unit that manages a comprehensive logical printer associated with each of a plurality of logical printers associated with a printing device; a setting unit that sets identification information, which is usable by an information processing device, in the comprehensive logical printer in order to acquire an application that provides extended print settings; a provision unit that provides the identification information, which has been set in the comprehensive logical printer, to the information processing device; and an acquisition unit that acquires, from the information processing device, a print job for the comprehensive logical printer.

Provided are a print server, a print system, and a program product for reducing an operation burden for print output. A print server according to the present invention is provided with a memory, a communication interface, and a processor. The memory stores first management information that associates printer identification information identifying a printer with an unlock code of the printer. In response to a registration request of a print job sent from a client terminal, the processor sends registration address information of the print job to the client terminal through the communication interface, registers the print job sent from the client terminal to a registration address indicated by the registration address information, and sends an unlocking code to the printer through the communication interface, the printer is identified from the first management information on the basis of an unlock code included in a first release request of a print job transmitted from a client terminal that has read print designation information including the unlock code displayed on the printer, and the identified printer is caused to print an image based on the print job registered at the registration address.

Provided is an industrial printing system that efficiently performs peer-to-peer production printing distributed processing through grouping. Each of the plurality of print servers includes a difference information calculating unit, a rule setting unit, a group dividing unit, and a processing management unit. The difference information calculating unit acquires a plurality of capability information indicating support capabilities, and it calculates capability difference information regarding the difference between the plurality of capability information. The rule setting unit sets a grouping rule for generating a group of the other print servers of distribution destination to request to process a job based on the capability difference information. The group dividing unit divides the plurality of jobs into groups based on the grouping rule. The processing management unit sends the jobs of the groups to the other print server specified by the grouping rule and requests processing.

The printing system includes a printing apparatus and a print server. The print server stores print jobs submitted by users along with their identification information, associating them with a comprehensive logical printer. The printing apparatus displays a two-dimensional code that encodes the identification information allocated to the logical printer. A mobile communication device reads this two-dimensional code and sends a print request to the print server. The print server receives the print request, which includes identification information for the logical printer and the user, and moves the associated print job to the logical printer. The printing apparatus then receives the print job from the logical printer.

The application discloses a debugging information printing method and an electronic device, and relates to the technical field of servers.The method comprises the following steps: when it is detected that a server is started, the number of starting times of the server is determined; according to the number of starting times, a level identifier reading mode corresponding to a printing level of debugging information of the server is determined; a target level identifier corresponding to the printing level is read according to the level identifier reading mode; and before an intelligent platform management interface of a baseboard management controller of the server is ready, debugging information of the server is printed according to a printing level corresponding to the target level identifier. The application can solve the problem that debugging information cannot be printed before the intelligent platform management interface is ready, and achieves the printing of debugging information according to a printing level obtained from hardware. The debugging information can be used to obtain a bottom fault in an initial starting period, avoids the trouble of troubleshooting caused by the failure to print debugging information, and greatly shortens the fault positioning time.

When a message server (3) receives printing data from one of electronic terminals (2) registered in a group via a talk screen of the group and then receives a printing instruction from said one of the electronic terminals (2), a chatbot server (4) transfers the printing data received via the message server (3) to a print server (5), and the print server (5) transfers the printing data received from the chatbot server (4) to an image-forming device (1) to cause the same to execute a printing operation. Furthermore, when an error occurs in the image-forming device (1), printing based on the printing data is not normally completed in the image-forming device (1), and a predetermined fixed time has elapsed from the time of occurrence of the error without resolving the error, the chatbot server (4) or the print server (5) executes processing for stopping execution of the printing by the image-forming device (1).

A printing apparatus includes a remote printing unit for executing printing in accordance with a print job transmitted from a print server, a local printing means for executing printing in accordance with a print job transmitted from an information processing apparatus connected to a same network as the printing apparatus, and a transmission means for transmitting, to the print server, support information indicating that the printing apparatus supports a standard print function included as standard in an operating system of the information processing apparatus.

A print server manages a logical printer associated with a printing apparatus and a comprehensive logical printer associated with the logical printer, receives a print job with vendor information added from an information processing apparatus and stores the print job in a print queue of the comprehensive logical printer, receives an instruction to move the print job stored in the print queue to the printing apparatus, and in a case where the instruction is received, move the print job to a logical printer associated with the printing apparatus, and when there is an error response for reception of the print job from the printing apparatus, moves the print job to the comprehensive logical printer.

A print server that provides a cloud print service manages a comprehensive logical printer. The print server registers both a second print server providing a second cloud print service and a physical printer having a pull printing service license as pull-print-capable printing apparatuses associated with the comprehensive logical printer. A print job submitted to the comprehensive logical printer is stored in association with it. Upon receiving an instruction to execute the print job from an associated printing apparatus, the print server determines if the instructing apparatus is a pull-print-capable apparatus. If it is, the stored print job is transmitted to that pull-print-capable apparatus for execution.

Provided are a server apparatus, a print distribution system, a print distribution method, and a program that can motivate a user to perform printing. A server apparatus includes: a first processor; and a memory that stores a first image that is an image for printing, in which the server apparatus communicates with a user terminal and distributes the first image, and the first processor is configured to: transmit a second image that is an incomplete display form of the first image to the user terminal; receive a distribution request for the first image associated with the second image from the user terminal; and distribute the first image to the user terminal as the image for printing in a case where the distribution request is received.