Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kimio Hayashi

Yoshiji Kanamoto

Toshihiko Iida

Tetsuro Ogaki

An information processing apparatus receives manuscript data associated with order data and acquires the number of manuscript data to be received in association with the order data. In addition, it is determined, based on the number of received manuscript data and the acquired number, whether the manuscript data associated with the order data have been received.

Information processing apparatus and control method

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive order data for a printed product, and content data for the order data, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product. The order data for the printed product and the content data for the order data are received at different timings. The receiving unit further receives finalized information about the content data. The control unit performs control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product based on the order data, the content data and the finalized information.

Information processing apparatus and control method for the same

An information processing apparatus includes a web browser, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a color measurement device, a color measurement result which is a result obtained by performing color measurement of a printed chart using the color measurement device, wherein a screen related to color measurement of a chart for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference is displayed using the web browser, and wherein the color measurement result acquired by the acquisition unit is displayed using the web browser.

Information processing apparatus and control method of the same for color validation

An information processing apparatus is provided, which performs: acquiring an inspection result obtained by inspecting quality of a print product; receiving quality request data including an evaluation criterion; specifying a quality level of the print product based on the evaluation criterion included in the quality request data and the inspection result; creating quality report data including the inspection result and the quality level; and transmitting the quality report data to a predetermined external apparatus.

Workflow system, information processing apparatus, quality report data creation method, and media

A system for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, the system including a first information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus includes a colorimetric setting for performing color validation by comparing a color measurement result of a chart and a color reference, a transmission unit configured to transmit screen information of a screen for receiving a chart printing instruction, a receiving unit configured to receive the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction, and a generation unit configured to generate print data of a chart based on the colorimetric setting and the chart printing instruction.

System, information processing apparatus, and control method of the same preliminary class

Instruction information on quality inspection of a printed matter is acquired, and it is determined whether the instruction information identifies an inspection target by identification information of an object or by coordinate information. An inspection position is identified in accordance with the determination result, and quality inspection of the printed matter is performed by using the identified inspection position.

Information processing apparatus and control method therefor

A workflow control method is provided for processing, by an information processing apparatus, submission data in each process of a workflow to produce a print product. In the method, the submission data is accepted by the information processing apparatus. If new submission data to original submission data is submitted, it is determined whether a current processing step for the original submission data is a specific process or a process after that. If it is determined that the current processing step is the specific process or the process after that, the new submission data is not accepted, and otherwise, the new submission data is accepted.

Workflow control system, workflow control method, and storage medium

Delivery form information on a print product is acquired, position information indicating a position of quality inspection on the print product is generated in accordance with the acquired delivery form information, and quality report data including the position information is generated.

An inspection apparatus that inspects the quality of a printed product printed by a print apparatus receives information indicating a reference image, from an information processing apparatus that transmits a print job to the print apparatus. The inspection apparatus acquires the reference image based on the information indicating the reference image. The inspection apparatus receives from the print apparatus a scanned image of the printed product printed based on the print job received from the information processing apparatus, and inspects the quality of the printed product based on a comparison between the received scanned image and the acquired reference image.

Inspection system, inspection apparatus, and method for controlling the inspection apparatus

An information processing apparatus receives designation of a level of a print quality requirement concerning a print product, identifies a quality level for each of a plurality of print parameters corresponding to the received level of the print quality requirement concerning the print product based on a table in which the level of a print quality requirement is associated with a quality level for each of the plurality of print parameters, and outputs requirement data representing the identified quality level for each of the print parameters.

Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a processor that acquires a state of a paper feeding stage from an image forming apparatus of interest, and determines, based on the state of the paper feeding stage, whether or not the image forming apparatus of interest has a number of sheets that are to be consumed for a printing job of interest. The processor also determines that the image forming apparatus determined to have the number of sheets, is a transmission destination of the printing job of interest. If one of paper feeding stages of the image forming apparatus of interest has the number of sheets to be consumed for the printing job of interest, the processor sets the printing job of interest so as to preferentially supply sheets from the paper feeding stage determined to have the number of sheets.

Information processing apparatus that determines an image forming apparatus to be used for a printing job based on a number of sheets to be used in the printing job, and related image forming apparatus determination method and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate a reference image based on an image of a first object, an image of a second object, and processing information on processes including a process of inserting a second object into the first object. The first object has at least one window portion through which the inserted second object is at least partially visible, a verifying unit configured to verify a captured image with the generated reference image, the captured image being obtained by capturing the first object into which the second object has been inserted, and an outputting unit configured to output a result of the verification.

Information processing apparatus and control method that verify a captured image with a generated reference image

An information processing device extracts a partial area corresponding to a newly placed printed product, from a captured image as a result of capturing an image of a predetermined image capturing area in which a printed product generated based on an order is placed, acquires from the table, slip information corresponding to image data obtained by searching the table for image data representing an image that matches or is similar to an image in the partial area, and generates print data of a slip corresponding to the newly placed printed product based on the acquired slip information.

Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus generates, in a case where first component data and second component data for forming a product are received, one composite job based on the first component data and the second component data, a first component job based on the first component data, and a second component job based on the second component data.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium for on-demand printing of a composite job

An information processing apparatus acquires a job ticket in which print settings are described, reflects the print settings described in the job ticket to a public portion of the settings of the printer driver stored in a storage portion, and issues a print execution instruction to the printer driver to generate a PDL. Then, the information processing apparatus edits print settings of the generated PDL based on the print setting described in the job ticket, and transmits the edited PDL to an image forming apparatus.

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Kimio Hayashi