US 12,137,192 B2
Printing system, method for controlling printing system, and information processing apparatus
Tetsuya Horii, Okaya (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/470,266.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-149120 (JP), filed on Sep. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0098202 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/32106 (2013.01) [H04N 2201/3215 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system comprising:
a first terminal apparatus of a first user;
a printing apparatus, which is positioned in a room of a second user; and
an information processing apparatus communicably connected to each of the first terminal apparatus and the printing apparatus,
wherein the information processing apparatus includes a first processor configured to perform functions of:
an acceptance section that accepts from the first terminal apparatus a print completion date and time that is a date and time when printing of a content is to be completed by the printing apparatus,
a determination section that determines a print start date and time that is a date and time to start printing the content based on the print completion date and time, a print turnaround period that is a period required to print the content by the printing apparatus, and a margin period required for the printing apparatus to complete printing of the content by the print completion date and time, and
a print instruction section that transmits a print start instruction that instructs start of the printing of the content at the print start date and time to the printing apparatus, and
the printing apparatus includes a second processor configured to perform functions of a print execution section that starts printing the content at the print start date and time when the printing apparatus receives the print start instruction from the information processing apparatus.