Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Haruhisa Suzuki

Eiichi Takagi

Tsutomu Inose

Masahiko Takaku

Shinji Fukunaga

Toru Kimura

An information processor and method enable a user to perform printing by using a printing instruction button in a simple easily-understandable process in a case where a link to printing contents is included in service contents.

Communication terminal for accessing and printing page data from links

An online print system including a server and a print apparatus capable of communicating with the server via the Internet is provided. The print apparatus receives display page data from the server, analyzes the display page data and requests the server to print the display page data in accordance with link information included in the display page data. The server obtains the print page data using the link information, forms an index file including information indicating outlines of respective pages of the print page data, and transmits the index file to the print apparatus. The print apparatus receives the index file together with the print page data from the server apparatus and displays the index file. A page to be subjected to printing is designated on the basis of the displayed index file and the designated page is printed on the basis of the print page data.

Information processing apparatus and method for processing externally transmitted data, and information processing program

There is provided a print system in which a print instruction is received from an information appliance (IA), a print request is issued to a server in response to the print instruction from the IA, and print data formed by the server is received in accordance with the print request, thereby enabling the print data to be printed from the IA.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Haruhisa Suzuki