Patent ID: 9146698
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing management apparatus comprising: an assignment unit that assigns respective pages, on a page unit basis, to be interpreted among pages of print data, to a plurality of interpreters that each interpret print data to generate interpretation result data, so as to be interpreted; a failure detector that detects a failure of the interpreters; and a reassignment unit that reassigns pages, among the print data, assigned to a failed interpreter which is detected by the failure detector to a remaining interpreter other than the failed interpreter, among the plurality of interpreters, so as to be interpreted, wherein the plurality of interpreters transmit interpretation result data corresponding to logical pages of the print data obtained by interpreting the respective pages assigned by the assignment unit to one printing control apparatus, and the printing control apparatus causes a printing apparatus to perform printing in accordance with the interpretation result data received from the plurality of interpreters.