ON-DEMAND PRINT MONITORING SYSTEM, ON-DEMAND PRINT MONITORING METHOD, ON-DEMAND PRINT MONITORING PROGRAM AND ON-DEMAND PRINTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To start monitoring of a printer at appropriate timing even in an on-demand system.;SOLUTION: Triggered by newly input print data by a spooler Q3, a status monitoring program Q5 starts to monitor the print data. Since even print data generated in a server PC10 are necessarily input to the spooler Q3, print timing in a printer 30 can be predicted in advance by allowing a spooler monitoring program Q4 to monitor the status for inputting the print data to the spooler Q3. In short, it is required to start a status monitoring program Q5 only when needed, so that a processing burden for a client PC20 can be reduced.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT