Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Keisuke Aizono

Shinichi Kanematsu

Tsuyoshi Muto

Hiroyasu Ide

Naoto Watanabe

Satoshi Seki

Toshiyuki Miyake

Takeshi Kaneda

Masahiro Mutsuno

Kaori Nishiyama

Takuma Yasukawa

Kimito Kasahara

Norihiko Kobayashi

Yuki Suetani

The present invention is directed to an image forming apparatus comprising determining whether printing of a test chart used in adjustment processing related to post processing is necessary in accordance with a predetermined setting status; and executing the adjustment processing using the test chart output as a result of printing and the post processing on the test chart in a case where the printing of the test chart is determined to be necessary, and executing the adjustment processing using a printed material that has already been printed and subjected to the post processing, in a case where the printing of the test chart is determined to be unnecessary.

Image forming apparatus that performs adjustment for post processing on a printed material, control method thereof, and storage medium

An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a sheet folding unit, a sheet discharge tray, and a control unit. For the print job in which a first sheet bundle and a second sheet bundle are discharged onto the sheet discharge tray, the control unit is configured to selectively execute a first image forming mode or a second image forming mode. The first image forming mode is a mode in which a page order is controlled in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle. The second image forming mode is a mode in which a page order is controlled in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle.

Image forming system

An image processing apparatus that performs print processing based on a job includes a reception unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user, a change unit configured to, in response to the reception unit receiving a predetermined operation, change a job on which the print processing is not yet completed to a suspended state, and a job control unit configured to, when detecting a logout event that causes a user who is logged into the image processing apparatus to log out of the image processing apparatus, resume at least one job and cancel a job or jobs that are not resumed by the job control unit selected from jobs changed by the change unit to be in the suspended state.

Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an input unit configured to receive input of folding unit information specifying either one of a first sheet folding unit and a second sheet folding unit, and a control unit configured to selectively perform a first mode and a second mode based on the folding unit information, the first mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the image on the sheet such that an orientation of the image becomes a first direction, the second mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the image on the sheet such that the orientation of the image becomes a second direction inverted from the first direction.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system

An apparatus includes a specifying unit that specifies a color; an input unit that inputs an image; a converting unit that converts a color in the image, which has a hue within a predetermined range with respect to the specified color, into a color of a predetermined hue and converts a color in the image, which has a hue outside the predetermined range with respect to the color, into black; a printing unit that prints the image subjected to the converted color; and a counting unit that separately counts a number of sheets when the printed image includes the color of the predetermined hue and a number of sheets when the printed image does not include the color of the predetermined hue.

Image forming apparatus, method of control, and program product for printing an image on a sheet based on a setting and counting a number of sheets on which scanned images determined to be chromatic or achromatic are printed

The present invention provides an image forming apparatus and a malfunction diagnosis method of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus stores a diagnosis target of a malfunction in association with a diagnostic item corresponding to the diagnosis target, and in a case where an abnormality is detected, the apparatus specifies the diagnosis target corresponding to the abnormality, executes a malfunction diagnosis process in accordance with the stored diagnostic item in association with the specified diagnosis target, and displays information regarding a malfunction parts determined to be a malfunction by the malfunction diagnosis process. The apparatus executes a malfunction diagnosis processes of a different type depending on whether or not a sheet remaining in the image forming apparatus is detected.

Image forming apparatus, malfunction diagnosis method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes sensors for detecting a plurality of types of errors. The information processing apparatus identifies a type of an error detected by one of the sensors, acquires a result of diagnostic processing corresponding to the identified type of the error, and outputs error information indicating the identified type of the error, and diagnostic information about a component corresponding to the result of the diagnostic processing.

Information processing apparatus and control method including a mechanism for identifying a cause of an error in the information processing apparatus

A controlling method for an image forming apparatus which has plural sheet containers and can perform printing by using a sheet contained in the sheet container is provided. When there is no sheet in at least one of the sheet containers, it is set whether to perform a notification in consideration of another sheet container. No sheet in the sheet container is detected. When it is not set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container, it notifies notification information of no sheet to a preset notification destination in accordance with the detection. When it is set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container and there is another sheet container containing a sheet corresponding to the sheet which should be contained in the sheet container in which there is no sheet, it does not notify the notification information in accordance with the detection.

Image forming apparatus, controlling method, and program

In an image forming apparatus having a function of laying out and forming a plurality of identical images on one output sheet, in a case that a setting is done to give different copy numbers to the identical images laid out on the one output sheet, control is performed, in accordance with the setting, to give and form the different copy numbers to the identical images laid out on the one output sheet.

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

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus having a plurality of storage units, capable of staring in any of a plurality of activation modes including a first activation mode and a second activation mode operable with a faster activation time than the first activation mode.

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

Image processing apparatus for executing job control so that copy job is not left in suspended state when user logs out while copy job is suspended by user operation, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus having a plurality of storage units, capable of starting in any of a plurality of activation modes including a first activation mode and a second activation mode operable with a faster activation time than the first activation mode.

A printing apparatus includes a sheet holding unit, a printing unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The printing unit prints an image on types of sheets supplied from the sheet holding unit. The storage unit stores first information indicating a type of sheet placed on the sheet holding unit and second information indicating whether predetermined setting for allowing omission of selection of a sheet type is performed. When the second information indicates that the predetermined setting is performed, a printing operation is executed according to sheet type designated for the first print job. When the second information indicates that the predetermined setting is not performed, a printing operation corresponding to the same sheet type is executed. Where execution of a second print job in which a sheet type is not designated is instructed, a printing operation corresponding to the sheet type indicated by the first information is executed.

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Matsudo, Japan

Keisuke Aizono