Patent ID: 11966648
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An industrial printing system for production printing having a plurality of print servers that performs distributed processing of a job, each of the plurality of print servers comprising:
a storage unit that stores capability information indicating capabilities of processability in rasterizing process, printing process, and post-processing process;
a group setting unit configured to set a plurality of groups that each designate an apparatus capable of processing the job based on the capability information stored in the storage unit;
a job collection unit configured to collect the job as corresponding to each of the groups set by the group setting unit by determining from processing requirement of the job; and
a processing management unit configured to transmit the job collected by the job collection unit to the apparatuses designated in the groups and requests processing thereof;
wherein the plurality of groups comprises:
a server group having a print server capable of rasterizing as the apparatus of the server group,
a printing group having a printing apparatus capable of the printing process as the apparatus of the printing group, and
a post-processing group having a post-processing apparatus capable of the post-processing process as the apparatus of the post-processing group.