Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Junko Sato

Yasuo Mori

Makoto Tomita

Satoshi Nishikawa

Koji Nakagiri

Takuya Miyazato

Junichiro Kizaki

Wataru Kanaya

Takeshi Togano

Takao Takiguchi

Kazuharu Katagiri

Masahiro Terada

Kenji Shinjo

Masataka Yamashita

Hiroyuki Kitayama

Michiko Kanaya, Legal Representative

Osamu Nakamura

Satoshi Tanaka

Masanobu Asaoka

Akio Yoshida

Yuki Kusakabe

Tsuyoshi Itami

Yoshiko Kimura

Takashi Iwaki

Kazuya Ishiwata

Hiroko Yamamoto

An information processing system includes one or more memories, and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to control adjustment of a resource amount of a processing system configured to execute processing requiring access to a database in response to issuance of an event requiring adjustment of the resource amount of the processing system, wherein, in a case where the database is in an inaccessible state, the resource amount of the processing system is not increased even if a first event requiring an increase of the resource amount of the processing system is issued, and wherein, in a case where the database is in an accessible state, the resource amount of the processing system is increased in response to issuance of the first event.

Scaling processing systems based on database accessibility state

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus executes software that obtains and manages information of a printing device, and the information processing apparatus comprises: a requesting unit configured to request a delivery of a cartridge for exchange based on residual amount of recording agent in a cartridge containing the recording agent installed in the printing device, the residual amount being included in first information obtained from the printing device by using the software; and a control unit configured to perform, when initially obtaining a residual amount of recording agent from the printing device after booting the software or the information processing apparatus, controlling to output a message for checking whether the requesting is necessary if the requesting has not been performed in response to detecting a cartridge having an increased residual amount compared to a previously obtained residual amount of recording agent.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus and storage medium

A management server of the management system receives event information related to the replacement of a toner bottle mounted on a printing apparatus. After receiving event information, if the received event information is an alarm indicating the detection of a failure in a memory tag of the toner bottle, the management server generates a preliminary delivery alarm that provides an instruction to deliver the toner bottle.

Management system and control method

Sorting criteria for separating a printing job and a post-processing job included in an input job ticket are registered in a management apparatus that communicates with a specific device. With this configuration, the printing job of an input job ticket is analyzed on a basis of the registered sorting criteria, and separation into the printing job that should be processed by a printing device and the post-processing job that should be processed by a post-processing device is performed.

Management apparatus, control method for the management apparatus, and storage medium

When two or more post-processing devices are designated for a print job, two or more attribute values (finished size, imposition method, finishing, etc.) of each print attributes which can be set for the print job are allowed to set. When two or more finished size attribute values are set, finished pages having a size smaller than a given finished size and register marks are sequentially laid out in a finished page having the given finished size in a nested manner.

Information processing for executing pre-press and press processes

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with printers includes: an application to set printing setting information as a document to be printed; a printer driver to generate printing data by employing the printing setting information specified by the application and the document; a determining unit to determine whether the printing setting information to be set using the printer driver is included in the printing setting information set using the application, using selected printer attributes and printing setting information set using the application; and a display to display information relating to printing settings to be set using the printer driver of the selected printer in a case the determining unit determines that the printing setting information to be set using the printer driver is included. If a printer is selected which cannot be controlled by a binding application, the binding application displays items to be set with a printer driver.

Information processing apparatus and control method, and control program

According to a document processing method for a document processing apparatus which lays out page data that form a document by a plurality of pages on one print medium, and sets the print form of the document, set attribute information is acquired as the print form of the document. When cut edge position designation for cutting, after printing, the print medium on which pages are laid out has been set in the acquired attribute information, layout control is executed in which the head/tail orientation of the second page corresponding to the latter half of the document is reversely rotated with respect to the first page corresponding to the former half of the document and the second page is imposed on the print medium.

Document processing apparatus, document processing method, and document processing program

According to this invention, bookbinding data containing pages created by respective applications can be constructed regardless of the type of application. Even when one or more desired pages contained in bookbinding data are selected, image editing is designated, but a non-image page exists in the selected pages, the non-image page can be excluded from editing targets, and the process can shift to image editing. For this purpose, when a plurality of pages are selected and image editing is designated, whether each selected page is an editable image page is determined. An editable page is temporarily stored. After all the selected pages are determined, an image editing application is activated to edit stored editable image pages.

Document processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer program

An information processing apparatus configured to control an image forming apparatus and a post-processing apparatus configured to execute post-processing on a product output by the image forming apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register a job ticket, a searching unit configured to search for a job ticket that can be used for issuing an instruction to the post-processing apparatus from among the job tickets registered by the registration unit, and an instruction unit configured to issue an instruction to the post-processing apparatus by utilizing the job ticket extracted as a result of the search by the searching unit.

Information processing apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus and post-processing apparatus, and computer program

An information processing apparatus includes a decision unit for deciding whether or not each of physical pages of a document file is unprintable based on whether or not an inserter is designated as a paper feed unit, a determination unit for determining whether or not printing of a document is designated for the physical page that is decided as an unprintable page by the decision unit, and a preview display unit for displaying a preview image that can discriminate the physical page determined that printing of the document is designated by the determination unit from the other pages.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for generating print data according to an instruction

An information processing apparatus generates print data interpretable by a printing apparatus and transmits the generated print data to the printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set information identifying a positional relationship between a tab portion of a first tab sheet and a tab portion of a second tab sheet in a state where the first and second tab sheets are stacked, if usage of the tab sheets is designated, wherein the tab sheet is a tab-attached printing paper to be inserted between printing papers based on print data of document information. The information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a print start position of a character string to be printed on the tab portion of the first tab sheet and the tab portion of the second tab sheet according to the information identifying the positional relationship set by the setting unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program

The claimed invention is directed to an information processing apparatus for adding additional information to each page of a document. The apparatus includes a print setup unit for setting a binding position for a document, an additional information setup unit for setting a position of additional information to be added to each page of the document, and a rendering unit for rendering the additional information at an appropriate position on the basis of the position set by the additional information setup unit. When the additional information setup unit sets a relative position to a binding position, a rendering position of the additional information is determined for each page in accordance with the set relative position and the binding position set by the print setup unit.

Information processing apparatus and method, and print control program

This invention relates to a document processing apparatus. The document processing apparatus capable of editing the output format of document data formed from a document page includes a page repeat layout setting save unit which saves page repeat layout setting information designated by the user, a document generator which, when a page repeat layout is set by the page repeat layout setting information, generates output document data containing a page repeat printing page prepared by laying out a basic page by a plurality of number of times on one print page in accordance with the page repeat layout setting information by defining as the basic page one print page used when no page repeat layout is set, and a display controller which displays the document data in a print form in a display window on the basis of the output document data.

Document processing apparatus and method

This invention relates to a printing control method and apparatus, a computer program product, and the like in which printing data is held in a hierarchical structure and a printing job is issued to a printer to cause the printer to print. In the printing control method according to the present invention, different setting values can be set in the lower and upper layers of the hierarchical structure as printing setting data containing double-sided printing or single-sided printing setting. When a setting value different from that of the upper layer is set in the lower layer of the hierarchical structure, the printer is instructed on a setting in the lower layer for each printing data to which the setting value is applied.

Printing control method and apparatus

Bleed widths are set for finishing pages. Bleed regions including the finishing pages are determined based on the set bleed widths for the finishing pages, and the size of the finishing page. The allocation of manuscript data is determined to align the center of the manuscript data to be allocated to that of each determined bleed region.

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Junko Sato