Patent ID: 9292232
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising a printing management program, which, when processed by a computer, causes the computer to: schedule sequential processes of a plurality of print jobs with a printer by determining whether or not each received print job is allowed to be queued based on a sheet size of sheets placed in the printer, and when it is determined that the received print job is allowed to be queued, causing the allowed print job to queue in the printer; and control a sheet replacing job to execute an instruction to stop processing the print jobs and an instruction to replace first size sheets placed in the printer with second size sheets after completion of a set of first size print jobs using the first size sheets is specified before the replacement of the sheets, and execution of second size print jobs handling the second size sheets differing from the first size sheets is specified after the replacement of the first size sheets, wherein when the set of first size sheets are placed in the printer, and the set of second size sheets are not placed in the printer, the scheduling includes queuing the set of first size print jobs handling the first size sheets before the sheet replacing job including the instruction to replace the first size sheets placed in the printer with the second size sheets subsequent to the execution of the set of the first size print jobs, and queuing the set of the second size print jobs handling the second size sheets after the sheet replacing job has been queued, and wherein the controlling includes deleting the sheet replacing job from an array of the first size print jobs, the sheet replacing job, and the second size print jobs when the first size sheets placed in the printer are replaced with the second size sheets.