Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Junichi Yamakawa

Yoshihiro Ishida

Akihiro Katayama

Nobuhiro Kawamura

Yusuke Kimura

Hideaki Ooba

Aya Ito

Yuzo Harano

Yushi Matsukubo

Masahiro Funada

Ken-ichi Ohta

Kunihiro Yamamoto

Hideaki Kurihara

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

An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus, and a second information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus periodically acquires information from the first information processing apparatus, and stops periodically acquiring information if there is a factor for shifting a power state of the first information processing apparatus into a power saving state. The second information processing apparatus transmits information to the first information processing apparatus in a case where periodically acquiring information from the first information processing apparatus is stopped. The first information processing apparatus shifts into the second power state if the information is received.

Shifting a power state of an image processing apparatus based on a command from an information processing apparatus

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

A print management system includes an image forming apparatus and a control apparatus, and includes a detection unit, a display unit, and a setting unit. The detection unit detects paper information which is set with respect to a print job. The display unit displays the paper information detected by the detection unit on a display device. The setting unit controls processing for displaying a setting screen used to allocate the paper information displayed on the display device to a paper feed stage of the image forming apparatus on a screen of the display device.

Print management system, print management method, and storage medium to refine operability for paper setting operations

An information processing apparatus that transmits a print job to an image forming apparatus configured to start print processing upon receiving a print job even in a state where a post-processing device corresponding to post-processing designated in the print job is not mounted on a post-processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus is configured to receive information about the post-processing device from the image forming apparatus, transmit based on the received information the print job to the image forming apparatus when determining that the post-processing device corresponding to the post-processing designated in the print job is mounted on the post-processing apparatus, and not to transmit the print job to the image forming apparatus when determining that the post-processing device corresponding to the post-processing designated in the print job is not mounted on the post-processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus for controlling execution of print job in which post-processing is designated

A print control apparatus to communicate with a printing apparatus includes storage, display, setting, and selection units. The storage unit stores identification information of a plurality of sheets in association with stored adjustment values of a plurality of adjustment items. The display unit displays the stored identification information of the plurality of sheets. The setting unit sets, based on a user instruction, the adjustment values of the stored adjustment items. The selection unit selects, based on a user instruction, identification information of one sheet from among the identification information of the plurality of sheets displayed on the display unit. Based on a selection, the display unit displays, in addition to the displayed identification information of the plurality of sheets, at least one of the adjustment items of which set adjustment values are stored from among the adjustment values associated with the selected identification information of the one sheet.

Print control apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium

A print control apparatus includes a storage unit, a reception unit, a change unit to change sheet information, and an instruction unit and communicates with a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus has a plurality of sheet holding units to hold sheets that can be conveyed and used for printing. The storage unit stores sheet information of the sheets held in a different one of the plurality of sheet holding units. The reception unit receives sheet information of a sheet held in a sheet holding unit of the plurality of sheet holding units. If the stored sheet information of the sheet held in the selected sheet holding unit is changed to the received sheet information, the instruction unit instructs the printing apparatus not to use the sheet held in the selected sheet holding unit for printing.

Print control apparatus, control method for controlling print control apparatus, and recording medium

An image forming apparatus capable of receiving a raster image from an image processing controller includes: a transmitting unit transmitting device information of the image forming apparatus to an external device via the image processing controller; a determining unit determining whether the image processing controller is in a first power condition or in a second power condition consuming lower power than the first power condition; and a control unit allowing the transmitting unit to transmit the device information to the external device in a case where the determining unit determines that the image processing controller is in the first power condition, and in a case where the determining unit determines that the image processing controller is in the second power condition, restrict the transmitting unit to transmit the device information to the external device until the image processing controller returns to the first power condition from the second power condition.

Imaging forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and recording medium

An image forming apparatus which makes a web page of peripheral equipment such as a print controller connected to the image forming apparatus available without the need to manually register the web page of the peripheral equipment as a favorite or the like in a web browser installed in the image forming apparatus. A determination unit determines whether the print controller is connected to the image forming apparatus via an interface. A generation unit generates a URL including an IP address or a host name of the print controller. A display unit displays an icon for accessing a web page corresponding to the URL in a case where the determination unit determines that the print controller is connected to the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus having web browser, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium

To promptly perform printing even if authentication information for printing by a printing apparatus is not set to a print job, a printing system which includes an image processing apparatus and the printing apparatus is provided. In the printing system, the image processing apparatus comprises; a setting unit configured to set authentication information of the image processing apparatus to the print job stored in the image processing apparatus, as authentication information of the printing apparatus; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job to which the authentication information has been set, to the printing apparatus: and the printing apparatus comprises; an authenticating unit configured to perform authentication based on the authentication information set to the print job; and a performing unit configured to perform printing of the print job in a case where the authentication by the authenticating unit is successful.

Printing system, image processing apparatus, information processing method and storage medium

A data processing system includes a thin-client machine, a management server configured to manage the thin-client machine, an image processing apparatus configured to process job information, and a job management apparatus configured to manage a processing result of the job information. In the data processing system, when the job information is processed according to an instruction from the thin-client machine, the job management apparatus receives the processing result of the job information and information for identifying image data related to the job information from the management server and manages the received processing result and the information for identifying the image data related to the job information as a job log.

Image processing apparatus and data processing method for managing log information related to a job processing request

A problem of the present invention is to provide a control apparatus, a controlling method, a program, and a recording medium which can print by using at least one or more special colors in addition to four colors of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. To solve the above problem, the control apparatus according to the present invention includes analyzing unit that provides command analysis for a CMYK plate and a clear toner plate, generating unit that generates image data of the CMYK plate based on a result of the command analysis by the analyzing unit, and embedding unit that embeds a clear toner attribute obtained by analyzing the clear toner plate in an attribute flag accompanying each of pixels of the image data of the CMYK plate, which is generated by the generating unit.

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Junichi Yamakawa