Patent ID: 7911628
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A print system comprising: an image reading apparatus that reads original document image data from an original document, describes the original document image data thus read in a page description language, and transmits the data described in the page description language as a copy job; and a printing apparatus that receives the copy job transmitted from the image reading apparatus, and prints out an image corresponding to the original document image data based on the copy job, wherein the image reading apparatus comprises: a detector that detects a copy preparing operation that is performed prior to the transmission of the copy job; and an occupancy notification transmitter that transmits an occupancy notification for notifying occupancy of the printing apparatus to the printing apparatus when the copy preparing operation is detected by the detector, and wherein the printing apparatus is shifted to an occupancy mode in which a copy job from the image reading apparatus is accepted in accordance with the occupancy notification transmitted from the occupancy notification transmitter, the printing apparatus in the occupancy mode refuses to receive any job from any image reading apparatus other than the image reading apparatus that is an originating source of the occupancy notification, and if the printing apparatus is printing a job when the occupancy notification is received, the printing apparatus replies to the image reading apparatus that occupancy is not possible, and the image reading apparatus repeatedly transmits the occupancy notification after predetermined intervals of time have passed until the printing apparatus shifts to an occupancy mode.