Patent ID: 11966647
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 8:
9. A production base system comprising:
an information processing system configured to produce an ordered product by printing; and
one or more input and output devices,
the information processing system including circuitry configured to:
acquire correspondence information associating, for each image forming apparatus, a jig attached to the image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus;
determine a jig to be attached to an image forming apparatus on standby based on the correspondence information and a jig to be used in printing of the ordered product;
transmit, to at least one of the one or more input and output devices, information indicating a change of the jig attached to the image forming apparatus on standby, and
the at least one input and output device including circuitry configured to output the information indicating the change of the jig received from the information processing system;
wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
register, in job management information, a plurality of print jobs related to the ordered product and a jig to be used for each print job; and
in determining the jig to be attached, determine the jig having the highest frequency of use in the job management information as the jig to be attached to the image forming apparatus;
wherein in a case the jig having the highest frequency of use in the job management information is already attached to the image forming apparatus in operation, the circuitry is further configured to suspend the print job that uses the jig with the highest frequency of use.