Patent ID: 7054018

Claim:
A printing control method in a printing apparatus which has a plurality of paper feed inlets and a plurality of paper discharge outlets, establishes a plurality of logical printers, each of which is used exclusively by a corresponding one of a plurality of devices, and prints using one of the plurality of logical printers in accordance with a print request from the corresponding one of the plurality of devices, comprising: establishing a relevant logical printer selected from the plurality of logical printers corresponding to the print requesting device; specifying a paper feed inlet and a paper discharge outlet for each of the logical printers, respectively, and storing specified paper feed inlets and paper discharge outlets in a table; assigning a paper feed inlet and a paper discharge outlet for each of the established logical printers based on the contents stored in the table; and receiving a print request from one of the plurality of devices independently of receiving a print request from another of the plurality of devices, and processing the print requests from each of the plurality of devices independently.