Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazuo Wakai

Yoshiji Kanamoto

Kosuke Tsujita

Koichiro Manabe

Shogo Higashi

Teppei Hasegawa

Yasushi Sato

Shigeru Matsuyama

Keisuke Mitani

A printing apparatus operable to perform printing based on print job data, the printing apparatus comprising a determination unit configured to determine a print speed for when the printing is performed, a switching unit configured to switch print speeds during the printing, and an analysis unit configured to analyze the print job data, wherein the analysis unit analyzes whether sheets that are print targets according to the print job data include a plurality of sheet types, and wherein the switching unit switches print speeds during the printing based on a productivity of printing for each sheet type when printing is performed for the sheets and a productivity of printing for a case where print speeds are switched by the switching unit.

Changing printing speeds in an image forming apparatus

The inspection device determines whether or not it is possible to inspect whether or not the imaged image of the surface to be inspected has a defect based on the comparison between the imaged image imaged of the surface to be inspected of the printed matter and the reference image. Whether or not to execute the processing related to printing is controlled according to the determination result of whether or not the inspection device can execute the inspection.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, inspection system and storage medium

A control apparatus analyzes a job used to execute print processing and acquires sheet information of a page included in the job, decides a print speed in the print processing based on the acquired information, and executes the print processing using the decided print speed. The sheet information of each of a plurality of pages included in the job is acquired, the print speed is decided based on the acquired information, and the print processing is executed using the decided print speed. Print processing is not executed during the acquisition of the sheet information of each of the plurality of pages.

Control apparatus having multiple print speeds, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a job including a plurality of pages, and a determining unit that determines a page group constituted by consecutive sheets of a same sheet type, from the plurality of pages included in the job obtained by the obtaining unit. A setting unit sets a transport speed of sheets in the page group determined by the determining unit.

Information processing apparatus, image forming system, method, and non- transitory computer-readable storage medium

An image forming system is provided. The image forming system comprises an image forming unit configured to execute a print job and form an image on a supplied sheet; and an inspection unit configured to inspect quality of the image formed in the sheet, wherein the inspection unit does not set a sheet discharged by the image forming unit without being used for the print job to a target of inspection.

Image forming system, control method thereof, and medium

An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a verification unit, an insertion unit, and a display unit. The printing unit prints an image on a recording sheet. The verification unit verifies the image printed by the printing unit. The insertion unit inserts an insertion sheet, on which an identifier is printed, to partition a plurality of recording sheets, on each of which the image is printed, for each bundle of a predetermined number of sheets. The display unit displays the number of recording sheets on each of which an image associated with the identifier and determined as a normal image by the verification unit is printed.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method to display a number of normal sheets together with a number of defective sheets

An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a reading unit, a verification unit, and a control unit. The printing unit prints an image on a recording sheet. The reading unit reads the image printed by the printing unit. The verification unit verifies the image read by the reading unit. The control unit performs control to cause information, indicating that the image read by the reading unit is not to be verified by the verification unit, to be printed on the recording sheet with the image. When the reading unit reads the information, the control unit performs control so that the image is not to be verified by the verification unit.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method with image verification

A printing apparatus includes a first receiving unit, an obtaining unit, a sending unit, a second receiving unit, and a setting unit. The first receiving unit receives, from a printing control apparatus, an instruction to obtain first attribute information of a sheet held in a sheet holding unit. The obtaining unit obtains the first attribute information in accordance with the instruction received by the first receiving unit. The sending unit sends the first attribute information obtained by the obtaining unit to the printing control apparatus. The second receiving unit receives, from the printing control apparatus, second attribute information based on the first attribute information sent from the sending unit. The setting unit sets the second attribute information, received by the second receiving unit, as attribute information of a sheet held in the sheet holding unit.

Printing apparatus, printing control apparatus, printing system, control method of printing apparatus, and storage medium

The present printing system obtains a transparency of a sheet to be subjected to printing, and based on the obtained transparency of the sheet, restricts execution of post-processing by a discharging portion.

Printing apparatus and post-processing apparatus

To convey a sheet to a sheet processing device among multiple sheet processing devices configured to perform different types of sheet processing on a sheet to be output, a printing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a generation unit, and a printing unit. The acquisition unit acquires information from the multiple sheet processing devices to identify sheet processing. The generation unit generates an adjustment test image containing indications for adjusting respective sheet processing amounts from a shared reference line based on the information on each of the multiple sheet processing devices that is acquired by the acquisition unit. The printing unit prints the adjustment test image generated by the generation unit.

Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium

A control apparatus discharges, into a stacking unit, sheets of a plurality of copies obtained by executing a first job that is set to print a plurality of copies, and discharges sheets of a plurality of copies obtained by executing a second job that is set to print a plurality of copies and follows the first job. The control apparatus carries out control so that a sheet discharge position for copies discharged by executing the first job changes from a first discharge position in the stacking unit to a second discharge position in the stacking unit between copies, and carries out control so that a sheet discharge position for the plurality of copies discharged by executing the second job changes from a third discharge position in the stacking unit to a fourth discharge position in the stacking unit between copies.

Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium

A license management apparatus transfers license information from a transfer source device to a transfer destination device. The license information is required for enabling functions of a program package serving as an integrated product including a plurality of functions. The license management apparatus includes a management unit and a transfer unit. The management unit manages all or part of the plurality of functions as belonging to one group. After license information of functions included in the program package and managed by the management unit as belonging to the same group is acquired from the transfer source device, the transfer unit transfers license information of functions managed as belonging to the same group to the transfer destination device.

License management apparatus, license management method, and storage medium

When printing is to be performed on sheets by switching a plurality of sheet storage units and feeding the sheets, a user confirms, before the designated number of sheets is printed, whether the sheet matches a designated sheet type, and then instructs printing to be continued. Two or more sheet storage units among the plurality of sheet storage units are set as one group, and one sheet is conveyed from each of the two or more sheet storage units set as one group. An image is printed on the conveyed sheets which are then discharged to a sheet discharge unit, and printing is interrupted. If an instruction to continue the interrupted printing is received, control is performed to resume the interrupted printing.

Printing system, control method of printing system, and storage medium

An output control apparatus is interposed between a host computer for generating data and a printer, and controls the printer. The control apparatus includes a plurality of data generators, a discriminator, a controller and a notifying device. The data generators interpret a plurality of printer languages and perform control processing. The discriminator analyzes received data and specifies by which of the plurality of data generators control based upon the received data is to be carried out. The controller, in a case where one data generator is not specified by the discriminator and an error resulting from interpretation failure occurs during the course of processing by one data generator selected under prescribed conditions, causes the discriminator to re-execute processing based upon data in which the interpretation failure occurred. The notifying device notifies of a request for re-transmission of data in a case where one of the data generators is specified anew by the controller.

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Kazuo Wakai