Patent ID: 8860988
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print relay server for transmitting a print job transmitted from a print service system to an image forming apparatus, the print service system being connected to the print relay server and configured to provide a service print setting screen to an information terminal operated by a user, to receive a print setting set by the user via the provided print setting screen, and to generate the print job based on the received print setting and stored settings for the image forming apparatus connected to the print relay server and configured to output image data based on the print job, the print relay server comprising: a screen transmission unit configured to transmit, to the information terminal, a detailed print setting screen, wherein the detailed print setting screen includes a detailed print setting that can be set through the detailed print setting screen provided to the information terminal by the print relay server but cannot be set through the service print setting screen provided to the information terminal by the print service system directly; a receiving unit configured to receive a print job from the print service system, which is transmitted in a case that a print instruction is input by the information terminal to the print service system; a job changing unit configured to receive the detailed print setting set by the user via the detailed print setting screen transmitted by the screen transmission unit and to convert the print job received by the receiving unit from the print service system into a new print job based on the receive detailed print setting; and a job transmission unit configured to transmit the new print job which has been converted by the job changing unit to the image forming apparatus.