Patent ID: 7855794
Filing Date: 2010-12-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for a proxy printing system that performs processing for, when a print job is transmitted to a printer among a plurality of printers connected over a network and a print failure occurs in the printer, causing a proxy printer among the plurality of printers to perform proxy printing on the print job, the information processing apparatus comprising: failure recognizing means for recognizing failure of the printer; history managing means for managing history information of the printer, the history information including information identifying the proxy printer previously used as a proxy destination for each printer, in association with information identifying an original printer; proxy history detecting means for detecting, at least one proxy printer previously used as the proxy destination for the printer for which failure was recognized by the failure recognizing means, according to the history information managed by the history managing means; selection means for displaying at least one of the proxy printers detected by the proxy history detecting means in a manual instruction screen and for selecting the proxy printer to be used as the proxy destination for the printer for which failure was recognized by the failure recognizing means via the manual instruction screen; proxy print processing controlling means for performing control to perform proxy print processing using one of the at least one of the proxy printers selected by the selection means; and history updating means for updating the history information of the printer managed by the history managing means according to the proxy printer used by the proxy print processing controlling means and the printer for which failure was recognized by the failure recognizing means.