INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• Main Authors: HAGIWARA NOBUKI, OGAWA HIROSHI, KONDO MAKOTO, NAITO KOICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.04.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing apparatus that provides models and functions of printers according to requests from users in an environment where the information processing apparatus outputs print jobs temporarily stored in a server in response to print requests from printers, a program, and an information processing system.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus 2 is connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses 4a to 4c having different functions, and transfers print jobs transmitted from users' terminal devices 3a to 3c to the image forming apparatuses that can be used by the users. The information processing apparatus 2 includes creation means that creates, for every user, a function group of the image forming apparatus 4 that can be used by the user.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】プリンタからの印刷要求に応じて、サーバ等に一時蓄積されていた印刷ジョブを出力する環境下において、各ユーザの要望に応じたプリンタ機種及び機能を提供する情報処理装置、プログラム及び情報処理システムを提供する。【解決手段】情報処理装置２は、機能の異なる複数の画像形成装置４ａ〜４ｃが接続され、ユーザの端末装置３ａ〜３ｃから送信された印刷ジョブをユーザが利用可能な前記画像形成装置に転送する。情報処理装置２は、ユーザごとに、ユーザが利用可能な画像形成装置４の機種群を作成する作成手段を有する。【選択図】図１