Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Naohiro Yoshikawa

Satoshi Watanabe

Yoshiro Hikida

Yasufumi Takada

Yosato Hitaka

Masaki Sagoh

Hajime Satow

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Hideki Adachi

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Akira Negishi

Kensaku Tanaka

Joji Oki

Hideyuki Fujiwara

Koichi Homma

Shuji Someya

A layout apparatus lays out a document by referencing personal information registered on a per user basis. Even if no particular print setting is input for a print job by a user, excellent prints customized for each user are thus provided.

Layout apparatus, layout method, and program product

The present invention provides a printing system and a printing method that avoids interrupting a printing process in order to execute a calibration process, while stably reproducing colors. A second printer includes a printing engine having a temperature sensor, a density sensor, and a density sensor and a print controller which acquires information from the various sensors in the printing engine to provide calibration process information to a first printer. The print controller includes a density converted characteristic generating section that converts output density values corresponding to density values inputted to the first printer so that the output density values exhibit an ideal characteristic. The density converted characteristic information generating section generates density converted characteristic information. The first printer receives the density converted characteristic information and executes a printing process while carrying out a density conversion.

Printing system and printing method

In performing a printing operation, upon designating the type of paper by inputting it, a paper type table is searched to determine whether the designated type of paper requires a special printing operation, such as reverse feeding and printing. If the above-mentioned operation is required, an appropriate printing operation command is issued. If the above-mentioned operation is not necessary, a normal printing operation command is issued. A determination is also made of whether the designated type of paper requires a special fixing printing, such as cardboard mode fixing. If the above-mentioned operation is required, an appropriate fixing command is issued. If the above-mentioned operation is not necessary, a normal mode fixing command is issued. An image of print data is then formed and printed.

Printer control based on detection of envelope-sized print medium

In an image processing apparatus, the data form of data to be processed by an application program is stored and the data forms of data are stored. Processing by the application program, and the data to be processed are represented by respective peculiar icons, and the correspondence between the icon representing the processing by the application program and the icon representing the data to be processed by the application program is displayed based on the stored&mdash;information. Thus, the user can operate with the data without being aware of the correspondence between data and an application which can process the data.

Method and apparatus for setting a limitation of copy to generated data in a system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected to a network

Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing operations according to type of recording media

In the case where an image exists in text data as a print target, it is an object of the invention to allow a quality of data that is outputted to a printer to be designated as print data corresponding to the image. Image data is stored every different resolution, and in the case where there is the image data in the text whose print has been instructed from an application program, the image data of the resolution according to the designated print quality is selected. The selected image data is outputted to the printer by a predetermined format.

Information processing apparatus, its control method, and memory medium

An information network is disclosed in which information to be made available to each of several information processing apparatuses is stored together with associated periods of accessibility; and the accessibility of the stored information to the information processing apparatuses is controlled according to the stored associated periods of accessability.

Method and apparatus for controlling access of stored data in a system

A print system having a plurality of printers and a plurality of host computers connected to permit communication on a network, comprises a quantifying unit provided in each of the host computers for analyzing print data to be printed to quantify the print data to an index indicating complexity, a transmission unit provided in each of the host computers for adding the index quantified by the quantifying unit to the print data and transmitting the print data to one of the printers through the network, an operation unit provided in each of the printers for converting the index added to the print data transmitted from the transmission unit to a required record time based on a pre-registered conversion value, and a presentation unit provided in each of the printers for presenting the required record time converted by the operation unit.

Print system and method for presenting required record time of print

CCP data as common data, which can be utilized by a plurality of users or applications, are stored in a CCP buffer in units of data types (format IDs). More specifically, the CCP buffer stores one CCP data per format ID. Upon reception of a request for CCP data from an application, the system analyzes this request to acquire the format ID of the CCP data requested by the application. The system searches CCP data having a format ID coinciding with the requested format ID from data management information of CCP data. The system passes the searched CCP data to the application, and ends processing. In this manner, CCP data can be stored in correspondence with a plurality of data types, and required CCP data can be easily selected by using its format ID. Therefore, operability with respect to common data can be improved, and work efficiency of users can be improved.

Data management method and apparatus

Format information, including e.g. color information and a plurality of format elements for permitting output of document information in a desired layout is stored, and the document information is output in accordance with the stored format information.

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Yokohama, Japan

Naohiro Yoshikawa