Patent ID: 7130068
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A print server apparatus that receives a print job to be printed from an information processing apparatus through a network, said printer server apparatus comprising: reservation job management means for storing, in a memory, both device-independent-format data and device-dependent-format data of the print job as reservation job data, received from the information processing apparatus, and managing the reservation job data even after print data for the print job is output to a printing apparatus, wherein the device-dependent-format data is page description language that is generated from the device-independent-format data; determination means for determining whether attributes are different based on a printer driver name for an output destination for reprint and a printer driver name for the reservation job data managed by said reservation job management means if a reprint request is received from the information processing apparatus; and output control means for outputting the device-independent-format data to the information processing apparatus such that the information processing apparatus generates print data, which is the device-dependent-format data, corresponding to the output destination for reprint based on the device-independent-format data, if said determination means determines that the attributes are different, while outputting the device-dependent-format data to the output destination, if said determination means determines that the attributes are the same, wherein the device-dependent-format data is data generated by a printer driver corresponding to the output destination, and the device-independent-format data is data generated prior to a generation process by a printer driver corresponding to the output destination.