Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideaki Ooba

Yusuke Kimura

Nobuhiro Kawamura

Aya Ito

Yuzo Harano

Junichi Yamakawa

A paper management system setting a paper information piece of paper stored in a sheet feeding unit in an image forming apparatus from a list of paper information pieces registers the paper information pieces with a favorite group, displays a list of the paper information pieces for each favorite group, and enables the list of the paper information pieces to be associated with a paper feed unit through the screen displaying the list.

Paper management system, paper management method, and print control apparatus

When sheets having the same surface property and grammage are registered on a size basis, adjustment value registration operations need to be repeated for the respective sheets as many as these sizes. An image forming apparatus that includes a display unit and forms an image on a sheet sets a setting value of adjustment influenced by the characteristics of the image forming apparatus upon forming an image by using a sheet, and then displays a sheet list which displays a list of a plurality of types of sheets on a display unit and reflects the set setting value on at least one sheet selected from the sheet list.

Image forming apparatus and method of setting parameter in image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device having a plurality of sheet feeding units, an opening and closing controlling unit, and a receiving unit. The opening and closing controlling unit controls opening and closing of the sheet feeding unit. Where the receiving unit receives an instruction for assigning a sheet having selected one attribute to designated one sheet feeding unit, the opening and closing controlling unit opens the designated one sheet feeding unit.

Image forming apparatus, printing system, controlling method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium

The present invention relates to a print control apparatus that is connected to a data processing apparatus through a first communication unit and connected to an image forming apparatus through a second communication unit.

Print control apparatus, printing system, method for controlling print control apparatus, and storage medium to send a shutdown instruction from an information processing apparatus to a printer from a print control apparatus, and the print control apparatus executing shutdown processing after receiving a power supply state notification from a printer, sending the power supply notification to the information processing apparatus and receiving a shutdown notification from the printer

Provided are a printing control apparatus, a method of controlling a printing control apparatus, and a storage medium capable of simplifying a process of updating information on a paper sheet for a tray for which update of the information is restricted. In a case where update of information on a print medium stored in association with a tray that is provided in an image forming apparatus and holds a print medium is restricted, a user interface is presented which requests to select whether to update the information stored in association with the tray to received update information. Then, the information stored in association with the tray is updated depending on the selection made via the user interface.

Sheet information changing apparatus, method of controlling sheet information changing apparatus, and storage medium for controlling sheet information and displaying a confirming screen

A sheet management system, in which a print control apparatus and an image forming apparatus are configured to communicate with each other, includes a selection unit, an adjustment unit, a confirmation unit, and a setting unit. The selection unit selects a sheet feeding deck. The adjustment unit adjusts sheet information including setting values for performing print processing on a sheet to be used for printing. The confirmation unit confirms. In a case where there is not a match between selected sheet information set for the sheet feeding deck and the sheet information to be adjusted, the confirmation unit confirms whether the sheet information to be adjusted by the adjustment unit is to be set for the selected sheet feeding deck. The setting unit sets the sheet information adjusted by the adjustment unit for the image forming apparatus in accordance with a result of confirmation by the confirmation unit.

Sheet management system and control method

A print management system having a control apparatus and an image forming apparatus with sheet feeding cassettes includes a sheet data registration unit to register sheet data indicating an attribute of each print sheet, a sheet feeding cassette selection unit to select a sheet feeding cassette, and a sheet data selection unit to select sheet data about at least one type of print sheet from the registered sheet data. An adjustment value setting unit sets adjustment value information during image formation while feeding the selected print sheet and a database setting unit sets, in association with each other, the attribute of the selected sheet feeding cassette, the selected sheet data about the print sheet, and the set adjustment value information. The database setting unit allows setting to one piece of sheet data adjustment value information about each sheet feeding cassette selected by the sheet feeding cassette selection unit.

Print management system to set adjustment value information about sheet feeding cassettes

An image forming system displays warning information representing a state of no printing sheet detected in a first sheet holding unit, and displays information representing a normal state of no sheet printing sheet detected in the second sheet holding unit. In a case where a transition occurs from a state where at least one printing sheet is in the second sheet holding unit to a state where there are no sheets in the second sheet holding unit while the image forming apparatus performs printing using the printing sheets held in the second sheet holding unit, displaying warning information representing a state of no printing sheet in the second sheet holding unit and changes to information representing a normal state in the second sheet holding unit if a predetermined period has passed.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system and control method therefor

A print control apparatus capable of enabling a user to easily set settings of adjustment items. The print control apparatus controls printing by a print engine. The print control apparatus controls the display of a plurality of adjustment items of the print engine. Out of the plurality of adjustment items, the adjustment items of a specific display group registered by a user are displayed.

Print control apparatus capable of easily setting settings of adjustment items, method of controlling same, and storage medium

Sheet management system and control method to determine whether to set information to a sheet holding unit

A print control apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, including a sheet holding unit in which a sheet to be used for printing is held, for printing an image on the sheet held in the sheet holding unit includes storage configured to store a type of a sheet, an image, and a setting value of the printing apparatus in association with each other, selects a type of a sheet to be used for printing by the printing apparatus, selects an image to be printed by the printing apparatus, and sets the setting value stored in the storage in association with the selected type of the sheet and the selected image.

Print control apparatus, image forming apparatus and method to select sheet type and test chart for performing different types of test printing

An image forming apparatus determines whether a network address of a first IP address used in a wireless communication with a first external apparatus conflicts with a network address of a second IP address used in communication with the second external apparatus. A predetermined process is executed at least in a case where it is determined that the network address of the first IP address conflicts with the network address of the second IP address.

Image forming apparatus that carries out communication with multiple external apparatuses, control method for the image forming apparatus, and storage medium

The present invention provides a print control apparatus that controls a print apparatus. The print control apparatus displays pieces of identification information of a plurality of sheet feeders available in the print apparatus, and designates inhibition of sheet feed from sheet feeders other than a sheet feeder selected by a user among the displayed pieces of identification information of the plurality of sheet feeders.

Print control apparatus, print apparatus, methods of controlling the apparatuses, and storage medium storing instructions, that provide feed control to inhibit feeding of sheets from only a selected sheet feeder

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideaki Ooba