PRINTING MANAGING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PRINTING MANAGING PROGRAM

• US 20180113659A1
• Filed: 03/31/2017
• Published: 04/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: MATSUI, Takao
• Granted Patent: US 10,089,048 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1226 Discovery of devices having required properties
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1231 Device related settings, e.g. IP address, Name, Identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1273 Print job history, e.g. logging, accounting, tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

A printing managing apparatus has: a memory that stores pieces of setting information of respective print jobs and pieces of information relating to respective printers; a display control unit that causes a display to display, simultaneously, a print job list that is a list of print jobs and a printer list that is a list of printers; and a receiving unit that receives an input to the print job list displayed on the display, and: if the receiving unit receives an input for selecting a print job that is displayed in the print job list, the display control unit changes the display order of the printers in the printer list using the setting information of the selected print job and the pieces of information relating to the respective printers; and the receiving unit receives an input for selecting a printer as defined herein.

Claims

1. A printing managing apparatus comprising:

a memory that stores pieces of setting information of respective print jobs and pieces of information relating to respective printers;

a display control unit that causes a display to display, simultaneously, a print job list that is a list of print jobs and a printer list that is a list of printers; and

a receiving unit that receives an input to the print job list displayed on the display, wherein;

if the receiving unit receives an input for selecting a print job that is displayed in the print job list, the display control unit changes the display order of the printers in the printer list using the setting information of the selected print job and the pieces of information relating to the respective printers; and

the receiving unit receives an input for selecting a printer as a transmission destination of data of a print job through a picture that is displayed on the display and reflects the change of the display order.

2. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit does not change the display order of the printers in the printer list even if the receiving unit receives an input for selecting the selected print job again, and, if the receiving unit receives an input for selecting another print job that is different from the selected print job, the display control unit changes the display order of the printers in the printer list using the setting information of the other print job and the pieces of information relating to the respective printers

3. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the print job list includes a first printer selection space for selection of a printer as a transmission destination of data of the selected print job and spaces in which setting information other than the transmission destination is displayed;

the other setting information is pieces of information each of which is changed through the print job list in response to reception, by the receiving unit, of an input for changing the piece of information; and

the display control unit does not change the display order of the printers in the printer list even if the receiving unit receives an input for altering the other setting information of the selected print job.

4. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein if the receiving unit receives an input that points to the first printer selection space for the selected print job, the display control unit causes the display to display a list of printers in the first printer selection space and causes the display order of the printers in the first printer selection space to reflect the display order of the printers in the printer list.

5. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein if the receiving unit receives an input that points to the first printer selection space for the selected print job in a case that a transmission destination printer is already selected in the first printer selection space, the display control unit causes the display order of the printers in the first printer selection space to reflect the display order of the printers in the printer list.

6. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit causes the display to display information to the effect the reflection of the display order of the printer has been made.

7. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:

the receiving means receives an input for selecting a transmission destination printer from the list of printers displayed in the first printer selection space; and

if a transmission destination printer is already selected, the display control unit causes the display to display the selected printer and unselected printers differently in the list of printers displayed in the first printer selection space.

8. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

if the receiving unit receives, through the print job list, an input as an instruction to display an edit picture for editing of the setting information of the selected print job, the display control unit causes the display to display the edit picture;

the edit picture includes a second printer selection space for selection of a printer as a transmission destination of data of the selected print job; and

if the receiving unit receives, through the edit picture, an input that points to the second printer selection space, the display control unit causes the display to display a list of printers in the second printer selection space and causes the display order of the printers in the second printer selection space to reflect the display order of the printers in the printer list.

9. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the display control unit does not change the display order of the printers in the second printer selection space that reflects the display order of the printers in the printer list.

10. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein:

the printing managing apparatus further comprises an information update button; and

if the information update button is selected, the display control unit changes the display order of the printers in the second printer selection space.

11. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein if an edit target print job is changed, the display control unit changes the display order of the printers in the second printer selection space according to the changed print job.

12. The printing managing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the setting information of the selected print job is altered, the display control unit changes the display order of the printers in the printer list according to the change of the setting information.

13. A computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as:

a storage control unit that stores pieces of setting information of respective print jobs and pieces of information relating to respective printers in a memory;

a display control unit that causes a display to display, simultaneously, a print job list that is a list of print jobs and a printer list that is a list of printers; and

a receiving unit that receives an input to the print job list displayed on the display, wherein;

if the receiving unit receives an input for selecting a print job that is displayed in the print job list, the display control unit changes the display order of the printers in the printer list using the setting information of the selected print job and the pieces of information relating to the respective printers; and

the receiving unit receives an input for selecting a printer as a transmission destination of data of a print job through a picture that is displayed on the display and reflects the change of the display order.