Patent ID: 11861245
Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a print control program executed in a printing system including a printer configured to perform printing on continuous paper, an autochanger including a plurality of slots each holding a roll paper and a switching mechanism that automatically switches a slot from which a roll paper to be supplied to the printer is drawn, and a print controller configured to control an operation of the printer and an operation of the autochanger, the autochanger being configured to supply a roll paper drawn from any one of the plurality of slots to the printer as the continuous paper, wherein the print control program causes a computer constituting the print controller to execute:
a print job registration step of registering a plurality of print jobs to be executed by the printer in a job list;
a scheduling step of creating a print schedule including a job execution schedule defining an execution order of the plurality of print jobs and a roll paper loading schedule defining a schedule for using a roll paper loaded in each of the plurality of slots and a schedule for loading a roll paper into each of the plurality of slots on a basis of a type and a remaining amount of roll paper loaded in each of the plurality of slots, a type of roll paper necessary for execution of each of the plurality of print jobs, and a print distance of each of the plurality of print jobs; and
a possible loading time calculation step of obtaining, on a basis of the print schedule, a possible loading time that is a time at which a roll paper is loadable into a loading target slot being a slot into which a roll paper is to be loaded during execution of continuous printing based on the plurality of print jobs among the plurality of slots.