Printer control system

Claim 1

A printer control system for carrying out print processing and execution of a printer in a job, said printer control system comprising: monitor means for monitoring whether print document data or a print document consisting of a group of the print document data from a client has been received within a given time; schedule attribute judging means for judging whether schedule attribute of the print document data or the print document is a before-complete schedule attribute to execute a scheduling operation in which processings of a job are executed sequentially one by one each time when the print document data is received, or an after-complete schedule attribute to execute a scheduling operation in which processings of the job are executed collectively after the print document is received; print document data processing means, when said monitor means judges in the case of the before-complete schedule attribute that a current piece of the print document data has not been received within the given time, for processing previously received pieces of the print document data down to the last piece of the print document data that has been received just before the unreceived current piece of the print document data; print document processing means, when said monitor means judges in the case of the after-complete schedule attribute that a current piece of the print document has not been received within the given time, for processing previously received pieces of the print document down to the last piece of the print document that has been received just before the unreceived current piece of the print document; and document addition judging means for judging from a print condition of the print document data or the print document whether the job interrupted but received later again can be added to the last piece of the print document data or to the last piece of the print document or not.