Printing apparatus, printing system, and method of controlling printing apparatus
First Claim
1. A printing apparatusthat performs a printing process related to a print job including one print data item or a plurality of print data items and a series of process commands transmitted from a host apparatus andthat is connected to another printing apparatus via a network,the printing apparatus comprising:
- a status information acquiring unit that acquires status information of the printing apparatus when a status information transmission command is received as the process command transmitted from the host apparatus;
a determining unit that synthetically determines whether the printing process can be continuously performed, on the basis of the status information of the printing apparatus and the status information of another printing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus via the network, when the status information of the printing apparatus acquired by the status information acquiring unit indicates an error; and
a communication processing unit that transmits integrated status information corresponding to the determination result of the determining unit to the host apparatus.
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Abstract
A printing apparatus that performs a printing process related to a print job including one print data item or a plurality of print data items and a series of process commands transmitted from a host apparatus and that is connected to another printing apparatus via a network, the printing apparatus including a status information acquiring unit that acquires status information of the printing apparatus when a status information transmission command is received as the process command transmitted from the host apparatus; a determining unit that synthetically determines whether the printing process can be continuously performed, on the basis of the status information of the printing apparatus and the status information of another printing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus via the network, when the status information of the printing apparatus acquired by the status information acquiring unit indicates an error; and a communication processing unit that transmits integrated status information corresponding to the determination result of the determining unit to the host apparatus.
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8 Claims
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1. A printing apparatus
that performs a printing process related to a print job including one print data item or a plurality of print data items and a series of process commands transmitted from a host apparatus and that is connected to another printing apparatus via a network, the printing apparatus comprising: -
a status information acquiring unit that acquires status information of the printing apparatus when a status information transmission command is received as the process command transmitted from the host apparatus; a determining unit that synthetically determines whether the printing process can be continuously performed, on the basis of the status information of the printing apparatus and the status information of another printing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus via the network, when the status information of the printing apparatus acquired by the status information acquiring unit indicates an error; and a communication processing unit that transmits integrated status information corresponding to the determination result of the determining unit to the host apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A printing system comprising:
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a host apparatus; and two or more printing apparatuses that perform a printing process related to a print job including one print data item or a plurality of print data items and a series of process commands transmitted from the host apparatus, wherein the host apparatus and the two or more printing apparatuses are connected via a network, and the printing apparatus comprises; a status information acquiring unit that acquires status information of the printing apparatus when a status information transmission command is received as the process command transmitted from the host apparatus; a determining unit that synthetically determines whether the printing process can be continuously performed, on the basis of the status information of the printing apparatus and the status information of another printing apparatus connected via the network, when the status information of the printing apparatus acquired by the status information acquiring unit indicates an error; and a communication processing unit that transmits integrated status information corresponding to the determination result of the determining unit to the host apparatus.
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8. A method of controlling a printing apparatus,
the printing apparatus performing a printing process related to a print job including one print data item or a plurality of print data items and a series of process commands transmitted from a host apparatus and connected to another printing apparatus via a network, the method comprising: -
acquiring status information of the printing apparatus when a status information transmission command is received as the process command transmitted from the host apparatus and storing the acquired status information in a storage unit; determining whether the printing process can be continuously performed, on the basis of the status information of the printing apparatus and the status information of another printing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus via the network, when the status information of the printing apparatus acquired in the acquiring of status information indicates an error; and transmitting the status information to the host apparatus according to the determination result in the determining.
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