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Abstract

An image processing system and method where a printer receives a print request from a printer driver which is not exclusively used for the printer. Before the printer starts printing in accordance with the print request, print mode items such as the size of a print sheet, the number of pages and a paper tray to be used, set by the printer driver, can be changed. Additional print mode setting characteristics of the printer such as execution/non-execution of sorting, execution/non-execution of stapling and execution/non-execution of punching, which cannot be made by the printer driver, can be made, from an operation panel of the printer or a printer server, without changing the position of the print job in the printing order. In a network, a digital copying machine (printer) receives a print job from on of multiple client computers connected to the network via a printer server. The print job is stored in the digital copying machine or a memory of the printer server, and managed with a job management table of the memory. An operator can change and/or perform addition with respect to a print mode by rewriting the job management table from an operation panel or the like.

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