Patent ID: 8294924
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising: an image reading apparatus; a printing apparatus which is network-connected or locally connected to the image reading apparatus; and a storage unit that stores a plurality of print jobs sent from the image reading apparatus in a queue such that the print jobs are extracted and processed sequentially, on a first-in first-out basis, starting from a head of the queue, the storage unit storing multiple print jobs from multiple image reading apparatuses wherein: the image reading apparatus comprises: the printing apparatus comprises: wherein during a period after the print job is deleted from the queue according to the cancel request until a new printing request is received from the image reading apparatus which issued the cancel request as a print requester, the print job specifying unit invalidates any cancel request received subsequent to the issued cancel request from the image reading apparatus as a cancel requester.