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Abstract

A system for controlling a printing device, capable of letting a specific user temporarily occupy a specific cassette or a specific sheet output position under certain conditions during the process of driving a printing device connected to a plurality of user computers through a network, thus preventing specific contents from being undesirably printed by another user when the specific user prints the specific contents using printing sheets, and a method therefor are provided, including the steps of initializing a printing device controller and a printing device by applying electric power to a manipulation panel, a printing device controller, and a printing device; setting an exclusive use with respect to the cassette and the sheet outputting position of a printing device under predetermined set conditions, in response to an input from the manipulation panel or the host computer; and printing specific contents in the cassette and the sheet outputting position of the printing device which are set to be exclusively used, according to a print command from the host computer. The time or the number of works are set to be exclusive use conditions. According to the print controlling method, since it is not necessary to perform reprinting due to print errors, it is possible to improve working efficiency and to save printing sheets.

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