Patent ID: 7027170
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing control method of remotely controlling a printing device to output printing data onto a printing medium, comprising: a print setting step of setting, based on a user input to a paper feed setting screen of a graphical user interface, a separation printing setting and a printing order setting for a print job; a separation printing check step of checking the separation printing setting representing whether a predetermined medium is additionally output over each printed page of the printing data; a printing order check step of checking the printing order setting representing whether the printing data is output from a final page or from a first page; a control step of selectively controlling to (i) output a page of the printing data and then output the predetermined medium before a next page of the printing data is output when the separation printing setting is set to additionally output the predetermined medium and the printing order setting is set to output the printing data from the first page, and (ii) to output the predetermined medium before each printed page of the printing data is output when the separation printing setting is set to additionally output the predetermined medium and the printing order setting is set to output the printing data from the final page; a saving state check step of checking whether the printing device is set to a saving state in which a page having no output data is not output; and a saving function invalidating step of invalidating setting of the saving state when setting of additionally outputting the predetermined medium is detected in the separation printing check step and setting of the saving state is detected in the saving function check step, wherein the print setting step sets the separation printing setting and the printing order setting with respect to individual print jobs.