Patent ID: 8564800
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus for connection to a host apparatus and at least one of other printing apparatuses, the printing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein one or more types of print errors that prevent the printing apparatus from printing and time limits for respective types of print errors, each time limit indicating a time from an occurrence of a corresponding type of print error to transmission of a print job corresponding to the printing prevented due to the corresponding type of print error to one of the other printing apparatuses; a detecting unit that detects an occurrence of one of the types of print errors stored in the storage unit while the printing apparatus executes printing corresponding to a print job transmitted from the host apparatus; a determining unit that determines whether the printing apparatus is in a printable state until an elapsed time since the detecting unit detected the occurrence of the one of the types of print errors reaches a time limit stored in the storage unit associated with the one of the types of print errors; and a control unit that causes one of the other printing apparatuses to execute the print job when the determining unit determines that the printing apparatus is not in a printable state.