Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Osamu Hosoda

Masamichi Akashi

Masanori Matsuzaki

Makoto Anno

Masayuki Sakura

Takuto Harada

Yoichi Toyokura

Masami Kashiwazaki

To effectively output a job in which a double-sided page and a single-sided page are mixed by using a double-sided conveying path and a single-sided conveying path or the single-sided conveying path, a method for controlling a printing apparatus comprises: specifying a print prediction time in a case where the job is executed by using a first printing process of printing the double-sided page and the single-sided page in the job by using the double-sided conveying path, and a print prediction time in a case where the job is executed by using a second printing process of printing the double-sided page and the single-sided page in the job by switching between the double-sided conveying path and the single-sided conveying path; and executing the job by using, from either the first printing process or the second printing process, the printing process for which the specified print prediction time is shorter.

Printing apparatus, method and storage medium for executing a job combining double-sided and single-sided pages

It is analyzed whether print data includes first image data common between pages and second image data different between pages. When a specific discharge device is designated as a discharge device for discharging a printing medium printed based on the print data, and it is analyzed that the print data includes the second image data different between pages, print processing is controlled not to print the second image data.

Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and program

An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit, a receiving unit, and a switching unit. The display control unit helps set information on printing product post-processing to be performed. The receiving unit receives a print instruction. If the post-processing apparatus is selected, the switching unit performs distributed transmitting processing on an image forming apparatus and the post-processing apparatus in response to the print instruction such that, print data is transmitted to the image forming apparatus and post-processing data is transmitted to the post-processing apparatus. If the post-processing apparatus is not selected, the switching unit performs the transmitting processing on the image forming apparatus in response to the print instruction such that both the print data and the post-processing data are transmitted to the image forming apparatus. The post-processing apparatus specifies the post-processing data transmitted with identification information in response to identification information being input in the post-processing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and related method, image forming apparatus and related control method, program, and recording medium

This invention provides an image forming apparatus which performs fixing control complying with sheet characteristics in consideration of the productivity of a printing process and the precision of fixing control, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, upon receiving a print job, the image forming apparatus extracts a sheet type used in the print job, and determines whether one set value in fixing control can be used for the extracted sheet type. If one set value can be used for the extracted sheet type, the image forming apparatus decides a common set value. If one set value cannot be used for the extracted sheet type, the image forming apparatus decides a set value for each type. In accordance with the decided set value, the image forming apparatus executes a printing process.

Printing apparatus and control method thereof

A printing apparatus includes a memory used for storing a preset temperature value indicating a preset temperature of a heating portion controlled by a CPU when print processing including transfer processing and fixing processing is performed in association with a plurality of types of sheets that are usable by the printing apparatus. The CPU of the printing apparatus calculates a maintenance temperature value, which is a temperature value to be maintained by the heating portion when the print processing is not performed, based on a plurality of preset temperature values that are set in association with the plurality of types of sheets, and controls the temperature of the heating portion to become equal to the maintenance temperature value.

Printing apparatus and control method wherein a maintenance temperature is determined based on preset temperatures

An image editing apparatus capable of executing an image editing process on image data input from an external apparatus and transmitting edited image data to the external apparatus is provided. The image editing apparatus includes an input unit adapted to input a command of an image editing process to be executed on image data; a determining unit adapted to determine whether the image editing process is to be executed on the image data based on the type of the image editing process specified by the input unit; a generating unit adapted to generate type information indicating the type of the specified image editing process if the determining unit determines that the image editing process specified by the input unit is not to be executed on the image data; and a transmitting unit adapted to transmit the type information generated by the generating unit to the external apparatus.

Image editing apparatus, image editing method, image processing apparatus, and method for controlling image processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus displays a screen for enabling an operator to select settings for controlling a print output from an image forming apparatus and post-processing applied to a printed product by an independent post-processing apparatus. The post-processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain post-processing information from the post-processing apparatus and a display control unit configured to change contents of the setting screen based on obtained function information and display a changed setting screen. The image forming apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine based on obtained function information whether the image forming apparatus can execute a print output accompanied by post-processing using the post-processing apparatus, and control a display unit to display a setting screen for controlling the post-processing function when the image forming apparatus can execute the print output accompanied by post-processing.

An object of the invention is to provide a data input/output method and apparatus which can avoid the transfer of unnecessary data in a double-sided output mode and can reduce a time that is required from an input to an output. To accomplish this object, data inputted to a RAM from a data input unit is stored in auxiliary storage, the data stored in auxiliary storage is transferred to the RAM and outputted to a printer engine when it is ready to output the data in the printer engine, and when the CPU determines that the inputted data is data to be outputted to the reverse side of a print medium, already having printed thereon previously outputted data, the CPU controls the system in such a manner that the data inputted to the RAM from the data input unit is directly outputted to the printer engine without storing it in auxiliary storage.

Data input/output method and apparatus and storage medium

An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of analyzers for analyzing externally input different printer languages, a bit map development memory shared by the plurality of analyzers, and a converting unit for converting the input printer language into a common printer language to cause the development memory to perform bit map development. An information processing apparatus includes the converting unit and an output interface for outputting the common printer language to the image processing apparatus having the bit map development memory.

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Inagi, Japan

Osamu Hosoda