Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Jun Miyajima

Takeshi Kaneda

Yoshiro Tachibana

Masaki Kashiwagi

Akinori Takeo

Seijiro Imai

Masahito Yamamoto

Katsuhiko Hara

In a case where a type of a feeding standby sheet on a storage unit and a type of a refeeding standby sheet on a reconveyance path are the same, an image forming unit forms an image on one side of a feeding standby sheet on the storage unit, and in a case where a type of a feeding standby sheet on the storage unit and a type of a refeeding standby sheet on the reconveyance path are not the same, the image forming unit forms an image on another side of a refeeding standby sheet on the reconveyance path.

Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus

A printing apparatus selectively executes a first print control in which an image is printed on a sheet for which a single-sided printing is instructed after an image has been printed on a first surface of a last sheet of sheets for which a double-sided printing is instructed and which correspond to pages before a page corresponding to the sheet for which the single-sided printing is instructed, and a second print control in which printing on a first surface of a number of sheets, within a predetermined number of pages after a page corresponding to a sheet for which the single-sided printing is instructed, for which the double-sided printing is instructed and which correspond to pages after the page corresponding to the sheet on which the single-sided printing is instructed, is performed prior to printing of the sheet on which the single-sided printing is instructed.

Printing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

A printing apparatus capable of conveying sheets to a sheet processing apparatus and to control the type of a sheet to be used as a cover sheet in a case where a book bound product is generated by switching back sheets each having an image printed, inverting the sheets and folding the inverted sheets, and to notify an error to a user based on the type of a sheet to be used as the cover sheet in a case where printing an image on the cover sheet is designated.

Printing apparatus and control method for determining a print order of images on sheets based on a binding setting

A printing system includes an image formation apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive conditions of capabilities required for an image formation apparatus to be registered on a virtual printer, and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the conditions received by the reception unit to the information processing apparatus. The image formation apparatus includes a second transmission unit configured to transmit, to the information processing apparatus, capability information indicating a capability of the image formation apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register the image formation apparatus on the virtual printer in a case where the capability indicated in the capability information transmitted by the second transmission unit satisfies the conditions transmitted by the first transmission unit.

Printing system, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium

Printing apparatus, control method for printing apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming system capable of reducing the processing load of a print server. An information processing apparatus generates execution data for causing an image forming process to be executed. The print server holds the execution data acquired from the apparatus. A plurality of printers execute the image forming process based on the execution data. Print settings are set based on capability information of the printers and are transmitted to the apparatus. The information processing apparatus generates the execution data based on the received print settings. History information indicating one of the plurality of printers, which is used for printing, is managed, and the print settings are set based on capability information of one of the printers, which is selected based on the history information.

Image forming system capable of reducing processing load of print server, server system, method of controlling image forming system, and storage medium

A system is operable to save a print job received from an information processing apparatus and transmit the print job to one printing device among a plurality of printing devices that are registered in advance, in response to a request from the one printing device. The system includes a server, that generates capability information for the plurality of printing devices based on capability information indicating a capability of each printing device of the plurality of printing devices, and updates the generated capability information in a case that the capability information indicating the capability of one of the plurality of printing devices changes. The information processing apparatus generates and displays a print setting screen based on the updated capability information obtained from the server.

System, server and method of controlling the system and method of controlling the server

A server system that causes one of a plurality of printers to print an image received from an information processing apparatus. A virtual printer determines whether or not a printer capable of performing printing to which both of a first print setting and a second print setting are applied is included in the plurality of printers. In a case where it is determined that a printer capable of performing printing to which the first and second print settings are applied is not included in the plurality of printers, information indicating that the first print setting and the second print setting conflicting with each other is stored as prohibited settings information. The print settings are controlled based on the prohibited settings information.

Server system that improves availability of a plurality of printers, print controller, information processing apparatus, and print service system

The number of circulatable sheets and the conveying speed of a sheet are decided by referring to a storage unit which stores the number of circulatable sheets and the conveying speed of a sheet in correspondence with the type and size of a sheet, and the resolution of an image to be printed. It is determined whether the conveying speed of the feed surface of a sheet to be fed next to the printing unit and that of a feed surface to be refed next to the printing unit coincide with each other. It is determined whether the conveying speed of the feed surface of the sheet to be fed next to the printing unit and that of the feed surface or the refeed surface of a sheet immediately previously fed to the printing unit differ from each other.

Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus is operable in a first mode, in which a job can be processed at a first printing speed, and a second mode, in which the job can be processed at a second printing speed faster than the first printing speed. The apparatus includes at least one processor that executes instructions to receive a reservation of a period in which the image forming apparatus will operate in the second mode, and to control the image forming apparatus to operate in the second mode, rather than the first mode, in accordance with the reservation. Further, the at least one processor executes the instructions to set a function in which the image forming apparatus operates in the second mode to be one of disabled and enabled, and to enable the reservation to be received based on the set function being changed from disabled to enabled.

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

A printing apparatus has first and second sheet storage units, where a second sheet conveyance path is longer than a first sheet conveyance path, and includes a determining unit and a permitting unit. When a sheet stored in the first sheet storage unit is for printing of a Nth page included in a first job and a sheet stored in the second sheet storage unit is for printing of a N+1th page included in the same first job, the determining unit determines a feeding schedule in which the N+1th page sheet feeding is initiated before the Nth page sheet feeding is initiated. When an issued instruction is issued to perform a second job by interrupting the first job after determining the feeding schedule, the permitting unit permits printing of a page included in the second job before the printing of the N+1th page included in the first job.

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Toride, Japan

Jun Miyajima