Patent ID: 9189190
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A print system comprising: a first printing apparatus subjected to color setting using a color sample, and executing printing on a paper; a second printing apparatus not subjected to color setting using a color sample, and executing printing on a paper; and a control apparatus assigning a printing job that involves a print output of a plurality of copies to said first and said second printing apparatuses to cause said first and said second printing apparatuses to execute a number-of-copies dividing printing, said control apparatus, said first printing apparatus and said second printing apparatus being communicably connected to each other, print data included in the printing job containing a page that includes an object needed to be printed by a printing apparatus subjected to color setting using a color sample, wherein said control apparatus comprises a printing setting generation unit that generates a printing setting for causing said first printing apparatus to execute printing of a number of copies assigned to said first printing apparatus and proxy printing of said page included in a number of copies assigned to said second printing apparatus, causing said second printing apparatus to execute printing of the number of copies assigned to said second printing apparatus except for the printing of said page, and merging the proxy printed page into a paper printed in said second printing apparatus, and a communication unit that transmits a number-of-copies dividing printing job including the printing setting and the print data to said first and said second printing apparatuses, said first printing apparatus comprises a printing unit that executes the printing of the assigned number of copies and said proxy printing of said page according to the received number-of-copies dividing printing job, and said second printing apparatus comprises a printing unit that executes the printing of the assigned number of copies except for the printing of said page, and a merging unit that merges said page proxy printed in said first printing apparatus into the printed paper according to the received number-of-copies dividing printing job.