JPH10187384A - Device for controlling printer and method therefor and storage medium for storing program readable by computer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output documents with different printing conditions set by a user at once, and to efficiently attain printing under the printing condition designated for document information by a simple operation. SOLUTION: A setting screen for setting a printing condition for a printer device 56 is displayed on a CRT 55, plural combinations of printing conditions set by the CPU of a system board 52 based on the displayed setting item screen and inputted document information are stored in a hard disk 53. When the document information stored in the hard disk 53 is designated by an inputting part 57, the CPU of the system board 52 calls the plural combinations of printing conditions corresponding to the designated document information from the hard disk 53, and automatically sets it to the printer device 56.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printer control device and a printer for converting predetermined control information and output information via a predetermined communication medium based on a set printing condition, transferring the converted information to a printer, and controlling the printer. The present invention relates to a control method and a storage medium storing a computer-readable program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of an operation screen of a conventional printer driver, and corresponds to, for example, a screen print dialog box in a window system.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a printer designation area.
Specify the printer for printing output. Reference numeral 2 denotes a print copy number designation area for designating the number of print copies. A print page designation area 3 designates a page to be printed, all or a part of the document. A cover print designation area 4 designates a document name, a printing time, and an output position of a page on which other document information is printed. 5 is a paper feed designation area,
Specify whether to feed paper from the paper cassette of the printer or from the manual feeder. A print designation area 6 designates whether printing is performed in black and white or in color / gray scale.

[0004] Incidentally, with respect to each of the designated areas 1 to 6, when the corresponding area is designated by a cursor (not shown), the items which can be designated are displayed in a pull-down menu system. A print button 7 instructs printing. Reference numeral 8 denotes a cancel button. By instructing the cancel button, the print dialog box ends. Reference numeral 9 denotes a detailed setting button. By instructing the button, the screen shifts to a screen for making detailed settings other than the designated areas 1 to 6. Reference numeral 10 denotes a help button. When this button is instructed, a help window for explaining how to set each designated area in the print dialog box is opened. Reference numeral 11 denotes a page designation button. By instructing this, an operation screen for page designation is opened.

FIG. 9 shows a page designation button 1 shown in FIG.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an operation screen opened in 1 and corresponds to, for example, a page designation dialog box of a screen in a window system.

Referring to FIG. 1, a print page designation button 12 designates a page to be printed. A page designation area 13 designates a range of pages to be printed when page designation is selected. Reference numeral 14 denotes an OK button. By instructing this, the end of page designation and registration of settings are performed.
When the OK button 14 is designated, the contents of the page designation dialog box are registered in the printer driver. Fifteen
Is a cancel button, and by instructing this, the page designation setting is canceled. 16 is a help button,
When this is instructed, a help window is opened which explains how to set each designated area of the page designation dialog box.

[0008] As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, each of the selection items has several options, and the user sets the printer by combining them according to the purpose.

As described above, conventionally, in a printer control device such as this type of printer driver, when setting the printing conditions, all the pages are selected, or n pages to n + m pages (n = 1, 2). , 3, ..., m =
0, 1, 2,...) To perform printing.

[0009]

However, in a conventional printer control device such as a printer driver, the print mode, paper type, etc., such as designation of a print page range of a document, are limited to one for each printing. Could not set. Therefore, when it is desired to change the print mode, paper type, and the like in one document, the page, print mode, paper type, and the like are set multiple times for each one mode desired by the user, and each setting is performed. Printing has to be performed a plurality of times for each mode, and there is a problem that it takes time and effort for the user.

[0010] Further, when it is desired to perform a printing operation again by changing a print mode, a paper type, and the like in one document,
Similarly, there is a problem in that the designation operation must be executed many times, and the operation load is heavy for the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the first to ninth inventions according to the present invention to display setting items for setting printing conditions for the printer. The printing conditions of a plurality of combinations set based on the displayed setting items are stored together with the input document information, and the plurality of combinations corresponding to the plurality of combinations are specified based on the instruction of the stored document information. By calling and setting the printing conditions, the documents having different printing conditions set by the user can be output at a time, and the printing under the printing conditions specified in the document information can be efficiently and repeatedly performed by a simple operation. An object of the present invention is to provide a printer control device, a printer control method, and a storage medium storing a computer-readable program.

[0012]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printer control apparatus capable of transferring predetermined control information and output information to a plurality of printers via a predetermined communication medium. Display means for displaying a setting item screen for setting conditions, setting means for setting a plurality of combinations of printing conditions based on the setting item screen displayed on the display means, and a plurality of combinations set by the setting means Storage means for storing the print conditions together with the input document information, instruction means for indicating the document information stored in the storage means, and printing of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the document information specified by the instruction means Control means for calling conditions from the storage means and automatically setting the conditions in the printer.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a deletion means for deleting a part or all of the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the document information specified by the specification means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the document information is a document name.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the setting means can set a combination of printing conditions for different printers for each designated page section.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the setting means can set a different print mode for each designated page section as a combined print condition.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined interface.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined network.

An eighth invention according to the present invention is directed to a printer control method for controlling a plurality of printers by transferring predetermined control information and output information via a predetermined communication medium. A first setting step of setting a plurality of combinations of printing conditions, a registration step of registering the set plurality of combinations of printing conditions in a memory together with input document information, and a document information registered in the memory And a second setting step of setting in the printer the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the specified document information in response to the instruction.

A ninth invention according to the present invention is directed to a storage medium storing a program readable by a computer for controlling a plurality of printers by transferring predetermined control information and output information via a predetermined communication medium. A first setting step of setting a plurality of combinations of printing conditions on the displayed setting item screen, and a registration step of registering the set plurality of combinations of printing conditions in a memory together with input document information. A second setting step of setting, in the printer, the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the specified document information in response to the specification of the document information registered in the memory. A readable program is stored in a storage medium.

[0021]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a printing system to which a printer control device according to an embodiment of the present invention can be applied.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 51 denotes a host computer, which manages the execution state of various application programs by a system program based on a predetermined OS.
A system board 52 includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and the like. A hard disk (HD) 53 stores an application program, a printer control program (as a printer driver), and the like. Reference numeral 54 denotes a floppy disk drive, which is configured to be able to access floppy disks of various media.

Reference numeral 55 denotes a CRT display (CRT).
A predetermined window can be displayed corresponding to various applications. When a printer icon (not shown) in the system is double-clicked by a pointing device (not shown), a printer setup window described later is opened. Is displayed. An input unit 57 includes a keyboard, a pointing device, and the like, and inputs user information and the like.

A printer 56 receives print information (print data and control data) from the host computer 51, executes a predetermined print process, and outputs a visible image to a recording medium. It should be noted that the configuration of the printer device 56 connected to the host computer 51 in a stand-alone state or a configuration connected to a predetermined network does not prevent application of the present invention. .

FIG. 1 shows a case where one printer 56 is connected to the host computer 51, but the host computer 51 is connected to a plurality of printers. However, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied.

Further, the printer controlled by the printer control device according to the present invention may be a laser beam printer, an ink jet printer, or another type of printer.

Hereinafter, the correspondence and operation between the present embodiment and each means of the first to seventh inventions will be described with reference to FIG.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, predetermined control information and output information can be transferred to a plurality of printers via a predetermined communication medium (can be incorporated into the host computer 51 as software or hardware). A) display means for displaying a setting item screen (a page designation dialog box shown in FIG. 2 described later and a print dialog box shown in FIG. 4 described later) for setting printing conditions for the printer (printer device 56) in the printer control device. CRT55)
Setting means for setting a plurality of combinations of printing conditions based on the setting item screen displayed on the display means (an input unit 57 such as a keyboard or a pointing device)
A storage unit (hard disk 53) for storing a plurality of combinations of printing conditions set by the setting unit together with input document information; and an instruction unit (keyboard or pointing device) for indicating the document information stored in the storage unit. An input unit 57 such as a device, etc.) and a control unit (CPU of the system board 52) for retrieving from the storage unit the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the document information specified by the specifying unit,
Performs setting control based on a program stored in the ROM), and displays a setting screen such as a page designation dialog box or a print dialog box for setting printing conditions for the printer device 56 on the CRT 55. CP of the system board 52 based on the setting item screen
The printing conditions of a plurality of combinations set by U are stored in the hard disk 53 together with the input document information, and when the document information stored in the hard disk 53 is instructed by the input unit 57, the CPU of the system board 52 The printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the generated document information are called out from the hard disk 53 and automatically set in the printer device 56, and the user can set various printing conditions once. A document can be output at once, and a document having different printing conditions specified for each document information can be output many times by a simple operation of pointing to registered document information. The printer control device that can be incorporated in the host computer 51 includes a printer driver and software such as a printer control program 12 in the CP of the host computer 51.
U may execute or may be hardware.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the pointing device (input unit 5 such as a keyboard or a pointing device).
7) A deletion unit (CPU of the system board 52) for deleting a part or all of the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the document information specified by 7) is provided, and the CPU of the system board 52 is instructed by the input unit 57. By deleting a part or all of the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the document information, unnecessary printing conditions can be uniformly arranged.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the document information is a document name, and the document is output under a desired printing condition designated for each document by a simple operation of designating the document name. Enable.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the setting means (CPU of the system board 52) sets different combinations of printing conditions for different printers for each specified page section. It is possible to output a document by switching the printer device for each section.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the setting means (the CPU of the system board 52) includes a printing mode (normal mode, color mode, high-speed printing, etc.) different for each designated page section as a combination of printing conditions. Are set respectively, so that it is possible to output a document by switching the print mode for each specified page section.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined interface (an interface connecting the host computer 51 and the printer device 56), and a plurality of combinations stored for each document information. It is possible to transfer output information according to printing conditions to a connected printer.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined network (a network not shown), and output information according to a plurality of combinations of printing conditions stored for each piece of document information on the network. To a printer.

FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of a page designation dialog box which is opened and displayed on the CRT display 55 shown in FIG. The same components as those in FIG. 9 are denoted by the same reference numerals. The dialog box shown in FIG. 2 is opened when a page designation button 11 shown in FIG. 4 described later is designated.

It is assumed that before setting the page designation dialog box shown in FIG. 2, document information (for example, a document name) is previously input or selected on a screen (not shown).

In the drawing, reference numeral 18 denotes a page designation range item area, which displays a range of pages to be designated and printed. When the page designation button 11 shown in FIG. 4 is designated, the range of the designated page is displayed.

Reference numeral 19 denotes a printer designation item area for selecting a paper feeding method of the printer. In this area, output from a plurality of printers can be set for each page specified in the page specification range item area 18. For example,
As shown in the figure, it can be set so as to select paper feeding from the cassette 1 of the printer 1 or manual feeding of the printer 2 or paper feeding from the cassette 2 of the printer 1. Here, the type, size, and the like of the paper set in the cassette or the like are not displayed, but they can be displayed or can be selected.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a print mode designation item area for selecting a print mode of a designated page. In this area,
The print mode can be changed and set for each page section specified in the page specification range item area 18.
For example, as shown in the figure, it can be set so that pages 1 and 2 are output in a monochrome normal mode, pages 3 to 5 are output in a high-definition color mode, and page 6 is output earlier.
Although only the print mode described above is shown here, it is also possible to set all print modes of the printer. The items 19 and 20 are in a pull-down menu format, and can be selected on this screen.

It should be noted that the page designation range item area 18, the printer designation item area 19, and the print mode designation item area 20 are set to a different state from the registered state, and
When the K button 14 is pressed, a page designation dialog box, such as that shown in FIG. 3, for changing the selected item is displayed on the CRT 55.

By instructing the OK button 14, the page designation is completed and the setting is registered, and the contents of the page designation dialog box are changed to the hard disk (H) shown in FIG.
D) Registered in the printer driver stored in 53.
When the cancel button 15 is instructed, the setting of the page designation is canceled, the contents of the page designation dialog box are not changed, and the hard disk (HD) 5 shown in FIG.
3 operates as it is.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a page designation dialog box opened and displayed on the CRT display 55 shown in FIG. The same components as those in FIGS. 2 and 9 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

The dialog box shown in FIG.
It is opened when the K button 14 is instructed. FIG.
It is assumed that the shaded portion is not selected.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a print dialog box openly displayed on the CRT display 55 shown in FIG. Note that the same components as those in FIG. 8 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

In the figure, reference numeral 24 denotes a printer designation item area for selecting a printer to be output, and the printer has already been set.
The same screen as the printer setting selected in the page specification range item area 18, the printer specification item area 19, and the print mode specification item area 20 selected on the screen of the page specification dialog box shown in FIG. it can.

The operation of page designation printing by the printer control device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of a page designation printing procedure by a printer driver to which the printer control device according to the present invention can be applied. In addition, (1)-
(20) shows each step. It is assumed that the order of each step processing can be freely changed.

First, the print dialog box shown in FIG. 4 is displayed in response to an instruction from the input unit 57 shown in FIG. 1 (1). Next, the cursor instruction for each item area is designated by the printer designation item area 24, the copy designation area 2, the page selection designation area 3, the cover selection designation area 4, or the paper feed selection designation area 5. Or print selection designation area 6 or page designation selection instruction button 1
2 is determined by the CPU of the system board 52 (steps (2) to (7)), and if it is determined that the page designation button 11 is selected, the page designation dialog box shown in FIG. Whether the page designation range item area 18 or the printer designation item area 19 is designated on the page designation dialog box screen
It is determined whether the print mode designation item area 20 has been designated (8) to (10).

Next, when the OK button 14 is instructed (1
1), a process of selecting and registering a page range (not shown), a process of selecting and registering a printer specification, a process of selecting and registering a print mode are performed, and the hard disk (HD) shown in FIG.
53 is registered together with the document information in the printer driver stored in the printer driver 53 (12). If the document driver is new document information, a plurality of combinations of printing conditions are newly registered (1).
3). Thereafter, the display returns to the screen display of the print dialog box (1).

On the other hand, when the cancel button 15 is instructed (14), the print setting is stopped (15). At this time, the contents of the page designation dialog box are not changed, and FIG.
(1), and returns to the screen display of the print dialog box (1).

Next, when the detail button 9 is designated on the screen of the print dialog box shown in FIG. 4, a screen for instructing the selection of another function of the printer is displayed, and the process of selecting and registering the function is performed. (16).

When the print button 7 is selected on the screen of the print dialog box shown in FIG.
7) The printing conditions of a plurality of registered combinations are set in the printer device 56, and printing is performed under the printing conditions (18).

On the other hand, if the cancel button 8 is selected on the screen of the print dialog box shown in FIG. 4 (19), the printing is not executed under the printing conditions of a plurality of registered combinations (20).

Hereinafter, each step of the eighth and ninth aspects of the present invention and the operation thereof will be described with reference to FIG.

An eighth invention relates to a printer control method for controlling a plurality of printers by transferring predetermined control information and output information via a predetermined communication medium. A first setting step (steps (2) to (10) in FIG. 5) for setting the printing conditions of the first step and a registration step of registering the plurality of set printing conditions in a memory together with the input document information. (Steps (12) and (13) in FIG. 5) and in response to the instruction of the document information registered in the memory, the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the instructed document information are changed. A second setting step (step (18)) for setting in the printer, a document having different printing conditions can be output at a time by a simple operation in which the user sets various printing conditions once. Both make it possible to many times outputting different document by the print conditions designated for each document information by a simple operation that instructs the document information registered.

According to a ninth invention, in a printer control method for controlling a plurality of printers by transferring predetermined control information and output information via a predetermined communication medium, a plurality of combination items are displayed on the displayed setting item screen. A first setting step (steps (2) to (10) in FIG. 5) for setting the printing conditions of the first step and a registration step of registering the plurality of set printing conditions in a memory together with the input document information. (Steps (12) and (13) in FIG. 5) and in response to the instruction of the document information registered in the memory, the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the instructed document information are changed. A storage medium storing a computer-readable program including a second setting step (step (18)) for setting in a printer.
That is, a program code corresponding to the process shown in FIG. 5 is stored in a storage medium or an internal storage resource described below,
A mode in which the CPU of the system board 52 reads out and executes the program code from a storage medium storing the program code is also included in the embodiment of the present invention.

When all the settings are registered in the printer control apparatus according to the present embodiment, if the user inputs or selects document information (for example, a document name) on a screen (not shown), the registered information is registered. Settings are reproduced, and the same printing can be performed easily.

Further, it is possible to input or select document information on the screen (not shown) and delete a part or all of the registered settings.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus.

In the above embodiment, the printer driver in the Windows system is taken as an example of the OS. However, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to other OSs (KT7, UNIX (trade name), etc.).

[Other Embodiments] In the above-described embodiment, selection of settings other than page designation is performed in a pull-down menu format. However, a selection screen such as page designation may be provided for all settings. .

In the above embodiment, the settings are made on the screen shown in FIG. 2 and stored. However, as shown in FIG. 6, all the settings can be made on the print dialog box screen. Is also good.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a print dialog box opened and displayed on the CRT display 55 shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 4 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

According to the above-described embodiment, the printer driver allows the user to store a plurality of combinations of print conditions, easily call up the print settings of the stored document information, and to set any one of the page-designated items. It is possible to change only those items with few operation instructions.

Hereinafter, the configuration of a program readable by the printer control device according to the present invention will be described with reference to a memory map shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining a memory map of a storage medium for storing various programs readable by the printer control device according to the present invention.

Although not shown, information for managing a group of programs stored in the storage medium, for example, version information, a creator, etc. are also stored, and information dependent on the OS or the like on the program reading side, for example, a program is stored in the storage medium. An icon or the like for identification display may also be stored.

Further, data dependent on various programs is also managed in the directory. In addition, a program for installing various programs on a computer or a program for decompressing a program to be installed when the program to be installed is compressed may be stored.

The functions shown in FIG. 5 in this embodiment may be executed by the present system by a program installed from the outside. And in that case, CD-
With storage media such as ROM, flash memory and FD,
Alternatively, the present invention is also applied to a case where an information group including a program is provided to the present system from an external storage medium via a network.

As described above, the storage medium storing the program codes of the software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to the system or the apparatus, and the computer (or CPU or MP) of the system or the apparatus is supplied.
It goes without saying that the object of the present invention is also achieved when U) reads out and executes the program code stored in the storage medium.

In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, C
DR, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, RO
M, EEPROM and the like can be used.

When the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also the OS (Operating System) running on the computer based on the instruction of the program code. ) And the like perform part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instruction of the program code, The CPU provided in the function expansion board or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing,
It goes without saying that a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by the processing is also included.

Further, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus. In this case, by reading a storage medium storing a program represented by software for achieving the present invention into the system or the apparatus, the system or the apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention. .

Further, by downloading and reading out a program represented by software for achieving the present invention from a database on a network by a communication program, the system or apparatus can be
It is possible to enjoy the effects of the present invention.

[0078]

As described above, the first embodiment according to the present invention is described.
According to the invention, in a printer control device capable of transferring predetermined control information and output information to a plurality of printers via a predetermined communication medium, a setting item screen for setting printing conditions for the printer is displayed on a display means. A plurality of combinations of printing conditions set by the setting unit based on the displayed setting item screen are stored in the storage unit together with the input document information, and the document information stored in the storage unit is specified by the instruction unit. Then, the control unit retrieves the plurality of combinations of printing conditions corresponding to the specified document information from the storage unit and automatically sets the printing conditions in the printer, so that the user sets various printing conditions once. With a simple operation, documents with different printing conditions can be output at once, and a simple operation of pointing to registered document information The different documents by the print conditions designated for each broadcast can many times the output.

According to the second aspect, the deletion means deletes a part or all of the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the document information designated by the designation means.
Unnecessary printing conditions can be uniformly arranged.

According to the third aspect, since the document information is a document name, a simple operation of designating the document name can output a document under desired printing conditions specified for each document.

According to the fourth aspect, the setting means sets different combinations of printing conditions for different printers for each designated page section. Therefore, the setting unit switches the printer device for each designated page section and sets the document. Can be output.

According to the fifth aspect, the setting means sets a different print mode for each designated page section as a combination of print conditions, and switches the print mode for each designated page section to output a document. it can.

According to the sixth aspect, the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined interface, so that output information according to a plurality of combinations of printing conditions specified for each piece of document information is transferred to a connected printer. Can be.

According to the seventh aspect, since the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined network, the output information according to a plurality of combinations of printing conditions specified for each document information is transferred to a printer on the network. Can be.

According to the eighth and ninth aspects, a plurality of combinations of printing conditions are set based on the displayed setting item screen, and the set plurality of combinations of printing conditions are set together with the input document information. Registered in the memory, and in response to the instruction of the document information registered in the memory, the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the instructed document information are set in the printer. Documents with different print conditions can be output at once by a simple operation of setting print conditions, and documents with different print conditions specified for each document information can be output by a simple operation of specifying registered document information. You can output as many times as you want.

Therefore, documents having different printing conditions set by the user can be output at a time, and the printing under the printing conditions specified in the document information can be efficiently and repeatedly performed by simple operations. To play.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a printing system to which a printer control device according to an embodiment of the present invention can be applied.

FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of a page designation dialog box which is opened and displayed on the CRT display shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a page designation dialog box that is opened and displayed on the CRT display shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a view showing an example of a print dialog box opened and displayed on the CRT display shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a page designation printing procedure by a printer driver to which the printer control device according to the present invention can be applied.

FIG. 6 is a view showing an example of a print dialog box opened and displayed on the CRT display shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a memory map of a storage medium that stores various programs that can be read by the printer control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a conventional operation screen of a printer driver.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of an operation screen opened by the page designation button shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 51 Host Computer 52 System Board 53 Hard Disk (HD) 54 Floppy Disk Drive 55 CRT Display (CRT) 56 Printer 57 Input Unit

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A printer control device capable of transferring predetermined control information and output information to a plurality of printers via a predetermined communication medium, a display means for displaying a setting item screen for setting printing conditions for the printer, Setting means for setting a plurality of combinations of printing conditions based on a setting item screen displayed on the display means; and storage means for storing the plurality of combinations of printing conditions set by the setting means together with input document information. Instruction means for instructing the document information stored in the storage means; and the plurality of combinations of printing conditions corresponding to the document information instructed by the instruction means are called from the storage means and automatically set in the printer. A printer control device, comprising: a control unit. 2. The printer control device according to claim 1, further comprising a deletion unit that deletes a part or all of the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the document information designated by the designation unit. . 3. The printer control device according to claim 1, wherein the document information is a document name. 4. The printer control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit is capable of setting a combination of printing conditions for different printers for each designated page section. 5. The printer control device according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit can set a different print mode for each designated page section as a combination of print conditions. 6. The printer control device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined interface. 7. The printer control device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined communication medium is a predetermined network. 8. A printer control method for controlling a plurality of printers by transferring predetermined control information and output information via a predetermined communication medium, wherein a plurality of combinations of printing conditions are displayed on a displayed setting item screen. A first setting step of setting, a registration step of registering the plurality of set printing conditions together with input document information in a memory, and receiving the document information registered in the memory in response to an instruction of the document information. Setting a printing condition of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the specified document information in the printer. 9. A storage medium storing a program which can be read by a computer which controls a plurality of printers by transferring predetermined control information and output information via a predetermined communication medium, wherein: A first setting step of setting a plurality of combinations of printing conditions, a registration step of registering the set plurality of combinations of printing conditions together with input document information in a memory, and a document registered in the memory A second setting step of setting, in the printer, the printing conditions of the plurality of combinations corresponding to the specified document information in response to the instruction of the information, the computer-readable program is stored. A storage medium characterized by the above-mentioned.