Patent ID: 6509975
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A printer system including a plurality of client computers and a single network printer connectable to said plurality of client computers via a server computer, said printer system comprising:power supply control means included in said network printer for selectively turning on or turning off a power supply of said network printer in response to remote control effected from any one of the plurality of client computers via the server computer; and conforming means included in said network printer for confirming, in response to a power off command received from any one of the plurality of client computers via the server computer, whether or not client computers other than the one client computer are still operating, wherein said power supply control means turns off the power supply of the network printer to completely shut down the network printer if the confirming means confirms the other client computers are not still operating, wherein said power supply control means turns on said power supply in response to a print job received from any one of the plurality of client computers via the server computer.