Patent ID: 7052190

Claim:
A printing processing device configured to control a printing job according to a stage of a printing process and configured to provide a client device with information of the printing job, said printing job being generated corresponding to a printing request from the client device connected to the printing processing device via a network, said printing processing device comprising: a job information providing unit configured to provide the client device, in response to an information providing request from the client device for providing information of the printing job, with first job state identification information and second job state identification information in connection with the first job state identification information, said first job state identification information being used for identifying a state of a first-stage job generated at a first stage of the printing process, said second job state identification information being used for identifying a state of a second-stage job generated at a second stage of the printing process, said second-stage job being generated from the first-stage job and having a job granularity different from the job granularity of the first-stage job; a first job unit configured to execute the first-stage job; and a second job unit, different from the first job unit, configured to execute the second-stage job.