Patent ID: 11880617
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to execute:
receiving, at a user terminal computer, a print instruction from a user;
transmitting, from the user terminal computer, print job data to a management server;
receiving, at the management server, the print job data;
storing, at the management server, the print job data as a queue to be printed;
extracting, at the management server, the print job data from the queue in accordance with a priority;
transmitting, from the management server, the print job data to a digital front end (DFE);
receiving, at the DFE, the extracted print job data;
converting, by the DFE, the extracted print job data into image data, wherein the image data comprises data of the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) format;
transmitting, from the DFE, the converted print job data to an image forming apparatus;
receiving, at the image forming apparatus, the converted print job data;
storing, by the image forming apparatus, an identifier for identifying a defective page for each print job and an identifier for identifying a print job that includes the defective page in association with each other;
generating, by the image forming apparatus, a master image by converting the converted print job data from the CMYK format into red, green, and blue (RGB) format;
determining, by the image forming apparatus and based on the stored identifier for identifying a defective page, whether the converted print job data is data of a print job to be reprinted; and
in response to determining that the converted print job data is data of a print job to be reprinted, controlling, by the image forming apparatus, to eject a first conveyance medium including a page not determined to be defective to a first ejection destination, eject a second conveyance medium including the defective page to a second ejection destination, print an image of the defective page on a third conveyance medium, and eject the third conveyance medium on which the image is printed to the first ejection destination.