Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideki Honda

Koichi Abe

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Hideo Natori

Hiroshi Kai

Masakazu Nomoto

Toshinori Kawaura

Takashi Imoto

When error occurrence in a peripheral is detected, and a setting file of a printer driver of the peripheral contains information corresponding to the detected error, an error message different from an OS message provided by an operating system is displayed without displaying the OS message.

Suppressing a competing error message from an operating system or print driver

An information processing apparatus capable of providing a first user interface (UI) environment and a second UI environment includes a determination unit configured to determine a UI environment that displays a message screen, and a control unit configured to, in a case where a message screen is required to be displayed to a user when a processing request is made to a peripheral device via an application, control a request for displaying the message screen, wherein a message screen adapted for the UI environment determined by the determination unit is displayed according to the request controlled by the control unit after the processing request is input via the application.

Information processing apparatus and method including display control of messages during printing

An application in an image processing apparatus presents information about ink installed in a peripheral device, such as the shape, color, size, arrangement direction, and a remaining ink level of an ink tank, in a visually realistic manner using accurate graphics. The image processing apparatus acquires ink information about, in particular, a remaining ink level, arrangement direction, and the order of the arrangement of the ink tank, and displays the information about the peripheral device in a user interface of the application using the acquired ink information.

Peripheral device control system, printing device, peripheral device control method, and program for providing information regarding an amount of color material

Peripheral device control system, printing device, peripheral device control method, and program

An information processing apparatus connected with a peripheral apparatus via a communication line includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a destination of the peripheral apparatus, and a provision unit configured to provide functions for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus according to the destination information acquired by the acquisition unit. The provision unit is configured to refer to information indicating a function to be provided according to the destination of the peripheral apparatus and to provide a function for at least one of managing and controlling the peripheral apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, method therefor, and computer-readable storage medium

A printing system comprising a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprises a unit configured to transmit a status acquisition request to the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus comprises: a timeout processing unit configured to manage a timeout of a job to be processed; a determination unit configured to determine whether the status acquisition request contains an identifier of the job; and a unit configured not to reset a lapse of the timeout time of the job by the timeout processing unit when the determination unit determines that the status acquisition request does not contain the identifier of the job, and to reset the lapse of the timeout time of the job by the timeout processing unit when the determination unit determines that the status acquisition request contains the identifier of the job.

Printing system including a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus which communicates with the printing apparatus

An information processing apparatus changes a display of management information of a non-print job in a print queue to a completed state without waiting for end-of-processing information from a printing apparatus if it is determined that a job is the non-print job. The information processing apparatus changes a display of management information of a print job in the print queue to a completed state in accordance with receiving the end-of-processing information from the printing apparatus if it is determined that a job is not the non-print job.

Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and control method to display management information for managing a job

When a job is a non-print job, an information processing apparatus writes dummy data to a printing apparatus during job-end processing. Alternatively, when print data is not written to the printing apparatus during the job-end processing, the information processing apparatus directly instructs a print queue to hide the management information of a non-print job.

Information processing apparatus for managing a non-print job in a print queue, recording medium, and control method

Upon receiving a job-end event from a printer, a data transfer unit executes job-end processing for completing processing relating to a print job. A communication control unit monitors the processing status of the data transfer unit notifies the job management unit of end of the print job after it has been determined, as a result of monitoring, that the job-end processing has been completed.

Information processing for controlling a printer

In order to display the more detailed print status of an electronic document having a tree structure, information about the tree structure is added to a print command. Furthermore, for information management, the information about the tree structure is associated with a corresponding page.

Data processing apparatus and data processing method

It is necessary to avoid performing printing which brings about a poor printing result due to a mismatch between a medium fed by a printer and a set medium. For arbitrary paper, a paper type determining process unitdetermines according to the information plural times detected with different timing during the process on the print data whether or not a mismatch occurred between the type of paper set on a printer and paper set by a print setting process unit, and the generation and output of print data by a print data generating process unitis correctly controlled.

Data processing apparatus, print control method, computer-readable storage medium, and program stored therein

Even a simple media sensor obtains a print result of the best print quality by applying a user-set printing condition and the determined media group by performing a print processing using the optimum print profile for any supplied paper. To solve the above-mentioned problem, a print data generating process unit sets a printing condition for print data by selecting a print profile for printing corresponding to any group stored in a print profile storage unit based on a media group determined by a paper type determining process unit and a printing condition set by a print setting process unit in an operation performed by a user according to information obtained from a printer.

An information processing apparatus that is connectable to an external device via a communication network and that supplies information concerning the external device, the information being displayable in accordance with a plurality of expressions. The information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire information concerning a display program, the information being used for identifying an expression to be displayed in the display program; a receiving unit configured to receive the information concerning the external device from the external device; and a generating unit configured to identify the expression of the information concerning the external device, received by the receiving unit, based on the information concerning the display program, acquired by the acquiring unit, to generate display information complying with the identified expression.

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