Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Akihiko Noda

Akihito Mori

Yoshio Kimura

This invention discloses a printing control apparatus capable of allowing even an inexperienced operator to execute a printing process by properly and efficiently using a plurality of printing devices in accordance with the contents of each job, printing conditions, and the like. A printing control apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of this invention determines device combinations suitable for the attributes of a printing job from performance information of the devices and the attributes of the printing job. The printing control apparatus presents the combinations so as to be able to select one of them, and displays an explanation of printing process steps using the selected combination.

Printing control apparatus and printing control method

This invention aims at conducting a scheduling work of print processing efficiently. A device scheduler refers to print job composition information registered in step control information of the step 'printer reservation' of other print job (other order) in a workflow information table, and a schedule information table. The device scheduler searches both other print jobs (proof print jobs and regular print jobs) that a to-be-registered proof print job having a processing time of the proof print job described above affects and other print jobs (proof print jobs and regular print jobs) that affect the to-be-registered proof print job. The device scheduler determines whether the to-be-registered proof print job can be registered in a schedule (there is no search result in Stepdescribed above). When the registration is not possible, the device scheduler informs an operator of the result that automatic scheduling is impossible.

Print schedule control equipment, print schedule control method, and program therefor

This invention can provide an information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and a program, which can efficiently execute processing associated with font settings. To accomplish this, font information of a first character and font information of a second character, which are located before and after the position of an input character are acquired. When the acquired font information of the first character and the acquired font information of the second character include the same font type, the font type is set as font type information used for the input character. When the acquired font information of the first character and the acquired font information of the second character include different font types, parsing is executed for the character string including the input character, and font type information used for the input character is set based on the parsing result.

Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and program

A print system which can improve searching performance and operability at the time of using boxes of a printing apparatus is provided. In a host, as a box dialog for designating the box serving as an input destination of a print job in accordance with the operation of the user, one of a box dialog including a list of box information regarding a plurality of boxes of a printer and a box dialog including a list of box information regarding the box used as an input destination of the print job is selected and displayed onto a display unit. The box serving as an input destination of the print job is designated on the displayed box dialog in accordance with the operation of the user.

Print system, information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, printing method, and program

The invention aims to provide a document administration apparatus for processing input original data, which comprises: a first memory for storing the original data; a mask data generator for generating mask data capable of masking at least one predetermined area of the original data; a second memory for storing the mask data generated by the mask data generator; a selector enabling to select the original data stored in the first memory and the mask data stored in the second memory; a display enabling to display the mask data selected by the selector in a state that the mask data is superposed on the original data, without changing the original data selected by the selector; and a mask data editor enabling to edit the mask data displayed on the display in the state that the mask data is superposed on the original data.

Document administration apparatus, document administration method, storage medium storing computer-readable program, and program

A print output apparatus, etc., designed to effectively increase the speed of printing started when the apparatus is in a sleep state. Before print data is transferred to the print output apparatus, a first command for making the print output apparatus to execute processing for shifting from the sleep state to a standby state and a second command to stop calibration processing are sent to the print output apparatus.

Information processor, printing apparatus, information processing system, printing method and printing program

When canceling a print job in process of transfer, the user's load in accordance with a process for canceling the print job is reduced, and processes for actually deleting the print data in a printer and stopping a process for printing the print data are executed speedily. According to the present invention, the print data is received, it is analyzed whether or not predetermined information is included in the received print data, and the print job constructed by print data is canceled when the predetermined information is included as the analyzed result.

Print control apparatus and print control method capable of canceling print job

To perform control so as to acquire a list of print style information stored in an output device, specify a particular piece of print style information in the acquired list, generate print data associated with the specified piece of print style information, and store the generated print data in the output device or output the generated print data from the output device.

Information processing method, information processing apparatus, program for information processing apparatus, and storage medium

An object of the invention is to provide a printing method whereby a function for retreating print data in the case where the print data cannot be printed is provided, and the printing of other print data is preferentially performed or a printing is enabled to be executed when an apparatus enters a printable status of the print data, thereby improving a print working efficiency. To accomplish this object, there is provided a printing method of using a host which can set an auto retreat of print data and a print output apparatus which is connected so that it can bidirectionally communicate with the host and is equipped with a memory device which can perform a retreat processing of the data in response to a request from the host, wherein the host sends the print data to the print output apparatus, the print output apparatus receives the print data sent from the host and checks whether the data can be normally printed or not on the basis of print attributes of the received print data and a status of the print output apparatus, when it is decided that the data can be normally printed, the printing is executed, and when it is decided that the data cannot be normally printed, the print data is retreated to the memory device in accordance with the setting of the auto retreat, thereby enabling the printing of other print data to be executed.

Printing method having auto retreat function of print data and medium for storing program for executing the printing method

The printer driver, a program to be executed by the host, upon receiving a print request, requests the printer to send the calibration information, stores the calibration information transferred from the printer and generates a correction table based on the calibration information stored. By referring the correction table the printer driver corrects the print data to generate a print job of binary data and sends the print job to the printer. In a configuration in which the host corrects the print data and sends the corrected print data to the printer, efficient and precise calibration can be carried out without the user taking much time and trouble.

Information processing apparatus and printing control method

A printing apparatus prints a plurality of data sets, each being composed of a plurality of pages, to a plurality of paper discharging device. The printing apparatus includes: a plurality of paper discharging device; a determining device that determines whether or not the load of a currently using paper discharging outlet exceeds the maximum permissible load (Smax), if another set of paper sheets following the currently being printed set is discharged to the paper discharging device during the printing operation of a plurality of sets of paper to be outputted, by comparing the maximum permissible load (Smax) and the result of the (Bnow&plus;1) X Pdata, wherein Bnow indicates the number of data sets currently being printed out and Pdata indicates how many pages one data consists of; a control device that, when the first determining device determines that the load of a currently using paper discharging outlet exceeds the maximum permissible load, discharges the next set to another loadable paper discharging device, and stops the currently performing printing operation when it is judged that there is no other loadable paper discharging device.

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