US 12,267,473 B2
Industrial printing system, print server, and processing management method that print peer-to-peer according to attribute of printing apparatus at distributed destination in production printing
Taku Matsuo, Concord, CA (US)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/461,277.
Prior Publication US 2025/0080677 A1, Mar. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. H04N 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/32545 (2013.01) [H04N 1/32523 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An industrial printing system for production printing having a plurality of print servers for distributed processing of a job, each of the plurality of print servers comprising:
an attribute acquisition unit configured to acquire other attribute information supported by another printing apparatus controlled by another print server, wherein the other attribute information indicates a supported attribute and a corresponding instructing specification;
a table generation unit configured to compare the other attribute information acquired by the attribute acquisition unit with own attribute information supported by own printing apparatus to generate a conversion table that is set with a conversion rule when a mismatch exists between the other attribute information and the own attribute information; and
a processing management unit configured to send the job to the other print server to request for processing based on the conversion table generated by the table generation unit so that the job is to be printed by the other printing apparatus; wherein
the table generation unit is configured to map the supported attribute and the instructing specification of the other attribute information to the conversion table on an attribute-by-attribute basis and sets the conversion rule if the mismatch exists and does not set the conversion rule if the mismatch does not exist;
the table generation unit is configured to generate the conversion table based on another conversion rule that has already been set when the other conversion rule that has already been set is for another other printing apparatus of the same manufacturer and not the same model relative to the other printing apparatus; and
the table generation unit is configured to generate a conversion rule from a second model to a third model from: a conversion rule from a first model to the second model and a conversion rule from the first model to the third model.