Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Kai

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Takuya Suzuki

Hideki Honda

Hideo Natori

Masakazu Nomoto

Tsutomu Tamaki

Koichi Matsuo

A data processing apparatus, connected to a printing apparatus, that transfers print data to the printing apparatus and performs a status display of the printing apparatus, the data processing apparatus comprising: a first determination unit adapted to determine a processing status of the print data; a second determination unit adapted to determine the presence/absence of a warning status based on a status notified from the print apparatus; and a message display unit adapted to display a warning based on the determination made by the second determination unit, in accordance with the processing status of the print data as determined by the first determination unit.

Data processing apparatus having an ability to display a status of a printing apparatus

A next generation application issues a status information request for acquiring status information from a print device. A next generation driver executes status information acquisition processing from the print device and generates coupled information by coupling the acquired status information each time the status information is acquired to thereby determine whether or not a specific code was acquired based on the coupled information. When the specific code was not acquired from the image forming device, the next generation driver determines whether or not the number of execution times of status information acquisition processing is within a threshold value. The next generation driver acquires information corresponding to a status designated by the status information request from the coupled information when the next generation driver determines that the number of execution times of the status information acquisition processing exceeds the threshold value and responds the information to a requesting unit.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

To overcome the conventional drawbacks, the present invention comprises the an information processing apparatus which is connected to a printing apparatus that holds unique information functions as message saving means for saving message information in association with each language selectable as a language for use, component ID information saving means for saving component ID information in association with each value of unique information held by the printing apparatus, language selection means for selecting a language for use, acquisition means for acquiring unique information held by the printing apparatus from the printing apparatus, and message creation means for creating a message to be output on the basis of message information associated with a language selected by the language selection means and component ID information associated with a value of the unique information acquired by the acquisition means.

Information processing apparatus and printing control apparatus storing recording material information corresponding to a shipping destination of the printer for respective shipping destination areas

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

The invention seeks to improve the accuracy of management of remaining amount of ink in a printer in which remaining amount of ink is managed based upon amount of ink consumed. If a print job is sent to a printer, first the printer is requested for status information that includes a warning concerning remaining amount of ink. When the status information is received from the printer, it is determined whether the status information indicates the possibility that ink has been replaced. If the information indicates such possibility, then the user is prompted to enter the nature of the ink replacement. If the user makes an entry to the effect that the ink replacement was performed, then the current status information of the printer is acquired again and discriminated. If possibility that ink has been replaced is indicated in this status information as well, then the printer is sent a command for initializing the information relating to remaining amount of ink.

Printer control apparatus and method

Heretofore, a plurality of packages were used in a high frequency module in which a plurality of waveguide terminals were positioned resulting in problems, such as degradation of characteristics in the connection lines between packages, lower ease of assembly when mounting and connecting the connection lines, increased cost, and so forth. To solve these problems, a plurality of cavities having a part or the entire side metallized is formed in a multi-layer dielectric substrate. The multi-layer dielectric substrate is provided with a plurality of waveguide terminals, microstrip line-waveguide converters, RF lines, bias and control signal wiring, and bias and control signal pads. A high frequency circuit is mounted within the cavity and sealed with a seal and cover. This is intended to reduce the number of package, improve performance, improve fabrication, and lower the cost.

High frequency module

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.

Even if the user selects a print mode for executing borderless printing, when the borderless printing is improper for a discriminated sheet type, in order to prevent the occurrence of various faults in a printing unit due to the execution of whole surface printing onto the sheet on which borderless printing is improper by outputting image information with margins on the sheet, a sense result of a media is obtained and whether or not the media type indicates the media which can be borderless-printed is discriminated on the basis of the sensed result. If it is determined that the media is not the media which can be borderless-printed, the print mode is changed to bordered printing.

Data processing apparatus, printing apparatus, print control method, storing medium storing computer-readable program therein, and program

Disclosed are a print control method and a print control apparatus capable of recognizing status information pertaining to a printer, and selecting a time interval at which the transmission of updated status information is to be requested of the printer from among a plurality of preset time intervals, in accordance with the current status information of the printer. This reduces the time lag between a change of status of the printer and the status information of the printer displayed by the print control apparatus, and avoids deterioration of the performance of the print control apparatus and the printer.

Print control method and print control apparatus

In a host computer which controls a peripheral device such as a printer, information is recognized which indicates a status of the peripheral device and a suitable time interval is selected to transmit on an interrogation command to demand the status of the peripheral device to the peripheral device. The time interval is selected based on the status of the peripheral device, and may be selected from among several time intervals set up in advance, for example, in a table.

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Hiroshi Kai