Patent ID: 8120800
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A network print system having plural terminal devices connected to one another through a network, comprising: a first terminal device to create and send print data and a print command to the network; a second terminal device connected to the network; and a first network printer to transmit a message packet regarding a print job of the print data to the second terminal device of a reception of the print data to ask whether to perform additional printouts for the print data if the print data and the print command are received through the network, and to adjust a number of copies to be printed for the print data if additional printouts of the print data are requested from the second terminal device, wherein the message packet comprises at least one of a piece of user information and information on a print data file name, a number of pages of a document to be printed, and a description recorded in a header portion of the print data and if a device designation information designating a certain device of the plural terminal devices is separately sent from the first terminal device, a search unit selects the device designated according to the device designation information as the second terminal device, wherein, if the print command for a certain document is inputted, the first terminal device runs a predetermined printer driver program to display a user interface window capable of activating an operation of notifying a user of the second terminal device of the document printout.