Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masanobu Inui

Hirohiko Tashiro

Akinobu Nishikata

Shokyo Koh

Keizo Isemura

Nobuaki Miyahara

Nobuo Sekiguchi

Yoshiro Tachibana

Tokuharu Kaneko

Rieko Akiba

Yukari Toda

An image forming apparatus includes a stacker on which an envelope is to be stacked, an image forming device to form an image on the envelope conveyed from the stacker, an operation device to display a screen for prompting a user to set a size of the envelope and an orientation of the envelop to be stacked on the stacker. The orientation of the envelope accepted by the operation device is one of a first orientation, in which the flap and the body portion are aligned in a width direction that is orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the envelope, and a second orientation, in which the flap and the body portion are aligned in the conveyance direction of the envelope. A controller controls the operation device to display a guidance image based on the size of the envelope and the orientation of the envelope accepted by the operation device.

Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium storing a program that set a size and an orientation of an envelope based on a user instruction

A method of controlling an image forming apparatus having a scanner that scans a document to obtain an image of the document as the image and a printer that prints an image on a sheet. The method includes performing an authentication processing for authenticating a user that uses the image forming apparatus, causing the scanner to scan a document in accordance with a copy instruction by the authenticated user, obtaining a month, day, and time on which the image obtained by scanning the document with the scanner is printed by the printer, scrambling identification information of the authenticated user using at least one of the obtained month, day, and time, and causing the printer to print, on a sheet, (i) the image obtained by scanning the document with the scanner, (ii) one or more characters obtained by scrambling the identification information, and (iii) the obtained month, day, and time.

Method of controlling a printing apparatus that scrambles identification information of an authenticated user and causes a printer to print characters obtained by scrambling the identification information, and related printing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

It is determined whether or not an inputted job input includes a setting for bookbinding including an opening orientation of a bookbinding product; and upon determining that the job includes the setting, image data of the job is printed in a layout according to the setting for the bookbinding if the opening orientation of the bookbinding product in the setting is left-open, and the image data of the job is printed in the layout according to the setting for the bookbinding after causing the image data to rotate 180 degrees if the opening orientation of the bookbinding product in the setting is right-open.

Bookbinding system, printing apparatus, method of controlling the same and storage medium

This invention relates to a printing apparatus and control method thereof. In the printing apparatus and control method thereof, an image is input, and an envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction. When the envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction, it is controlled to shift the image by a set offset amount to be used to print an image on an envelope, and print the image on the envelope.

Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium storing program

Provided is a printing apparatus that, if information on sheets held by sheet holding unit for holding sheets is set, prints images based on the set information on sheets, and a method for controlling the printing apparatus. In a case that a job that uses the sheet holding unit has been interrupted when sheets are placed on the sheet holding unit, printing is performed based on information on sheets that was designated by the job.

Printing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

Printing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium for setting information on sheets

A user is unable to confirm whether a sheet for color printing and a sheet for monochromatic printing may be mixed before executing a job.

Image forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium

A system in which when a setting of a certain sheet storing unit of a group of sheet storing units is changed, and the changed setting of the certain sheet storing unit is different from settings of other sheet storing units within the same group as the certain sheet storing unit, a user is notified accordingly, or the changed setting is set to the other sheet storing units.

Printing apparatus, method, and storage medium for changing a sheet attribute set to a sheet holding unit

A user interface which makes it possible to easily and more accurately configure a user mode. The user interface has an application mode configuration screen for configuring settings for an application mode when executing a job and a user mode configuration screen for configuring settings for a user mode before executing the job. When the user mode configuration screen is to be displayed, it is determined whether or not the application mode configuration screen is being displayed. When it is determined that the application mode configuration screen is being displayed, a liquid crystal display displays user mode items related to settings to be configured for the application mode on the application mode configuration screen being displayed.

User interface and method of controlling the same, storage medium, and image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a disclosure information setting unit configured to set disclosure information including information on a disclosure target related to an area of a storage unit and information on a disclosure time, a disclosure information transmission determination unit configured to determine, based on the disclosure time information, whether the disclosure information is transmitted to the disclosure target, and a disclosure information transmission unit configured to transmit the disclosure information to the disclosure target based on the disclosure target information when the disclosure information transmission determination unit determines that the disclosure information is transmitted to the disclosure target.

Image processing apparatus disclosure information transmission method and disclosure information display method

An image processing apparatus executes an image process by using a sheet feeding unit or a sheet discharging unit selected from a plurality of sheet feeding units and sheet discharging units. The image processing apparatus stores attribute information for specifying one of the sheet feeding units or one of the sheet discharging units to correspond to an application generating a print job and controls a selection of one of the sheet feeding units or one of the sheet discharging units so as to execute a print job based on the stored attribute information.

Image processing apparatus, job processing method, storing medium, and program

An image forming apparatus which is capable of feeding paper from a paper feeding unit when paper types set in selected paper feeding units are all the same type even if the selected paper feeding units do not include a paper feeding unit in which a predetermined paper type is set. At least one of paper feeding portions stacking a paper with the designated paper size is selected based on an attribute set to each of a plurality of paper feeding portions. in a case where a selected plurality of paper feeding portions do not include a paper feeding portion set with the predetermined attribute when the attributes set to the selected plurality of paper feeding portions are the same, a paper is fed to the image forming unit from any one of the selected plurality of paper feeding portions.

Image forming apparatus and control method thereof

The invention provides an image outputting apparatus for outputting an image through execution of jobs, a control method for the image outputting apparatus, an image outputting system, and a storage medium product. When a job generated upon an output request is not executable, job information of at least one of other image outputting apparatuses is acquired and the job is transferred to at least one of the other image outputting apparatuses in accordance with the acquired job information.

Image outputting apparatus, control method for the image outputting apparatus, image outputting system, and storage medium product

An image processing apparatus includes a first determination unit for determining the direction of an input image, a second determination unit for determining if the input image is a portrait type or landscape type, and an image rotation unit for rotating the input image in correspondence with the determination results of the first and second determination units. The image rotation unit rotates one of portrait type and landscape type images to adjust the direction of the image in a predetermined direction, and rotates the other one of portrait type and landscape type images to adjust the direction of the image in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Masanobu Inui