To provide a technology capable of improving an operation rate in a commercial printer.
A plurality of pooled print jobs which include print data and print setting information corresponding to the print data are acquired, information designating the kind of a printing medium for printing the print data is acquired from the print set information, information showing the kind of a printing medium loaded on a printer that can load only one kind of a printing medium is simultaneously acquired, the execution sequence of the spooled print jobs is rearranged so that a print job in which the kind of the printing medium designated by the print set information coincides with the kind of the printing medium loaded on the printer can be printed earlier than a print job in which they are not coincident with each other, and the printer is made to execute printing on the basis of a plurality of print jobs whose execution sequence is rearranged.
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TAKENUKI JUNICHI
Osamu Suzawa
Kazuhiko Miyasaka
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