RELAY DEVICE, RELAY METHOD AND RELAY PROGRAM

• Main Authors: SANO YOSHINORI, KATOU YUUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 31.05.2018
• 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 recognition of a printing job with a fault without any modification to a host machine.SOLUTION: A relay device 30 includes: a first specifying part for specifying whether a page of printing data received from a host machine is a separator or not; a second specifying part for specifying identification information of printing job from the printing data specified as a separator; and a recording part for recording the identification information of the printing job and the printing data relayed to a printing device from the host machine while associating them with each other.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】ホスト機の改修なしに障害がある印刷ジョブの認識を実現すること。【解決手段】中継装置３０は、ホスト機から受け取った印刷データのページがセパレータであるか否かを特定する第１の特定部と、セパレータであると特定された印刷データから印刷ジョブの識別情報を特定する第２の特定部と、印刷ジョブの識別情報と、ホスト機からプリンタ装置へ中継する印刷データとを関連付けて記録する記録部とを有する。【選択図】図６