Patent ID: 8228537
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A print managing server which is connected to a plurality of printers through a network and stores print data for printing by the plurality of printers in combination with user information, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive, after an authenticating process, a first command including first user information on a first user from a first printer of the plurality of printers; a determining unit configured to determine whether the first user has logged-in to a second printer of the plurality of printers; a control unit configured to control in such a manner that, if the determining unit determines that the first user has logged-in to the second printer, a second printing process, corresponding to the first user information included in the received first command, for execution for the second printer is canceled and a first printing process corresponding to the first user information included in the received first command is executed for the first printer so that a printing process based on print data which has been processed for the second printer is not executed again.