Patent ID: 7256902
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: G03G,G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system including a printer that operates in either a first operating environment or a second operating environment that is different from the first operating environment, the first operating environment being a first time period and the second operating environment being a second time period, the second time period not overlapping with the first time period, the printing system comprising: a print parameter prohibiting means that prohibits use of a printing parameter associated with a print job; an operating environment detector that determines whether the printer operating environment is the first operating environment or the second operating environment; a parameter determiner that receives a print job and determines whether a printing parameter to be used in the print job is prohibited by the print parameter prohibiting means; a controller that, when the parameter determiner determines that a print job has a printing parameter that is prohibited, prohibits processing of the print job having the prohibited print parameter on condition that the operating environment determining means detects that the environment is the first operating environment and the print job is issued when the printer is operating in an on-line mode.