Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takuto Harada

Atsushi Matsumoto

Ken-ichi Ohta

Shigeo Yamagata

Masamichi Akashi

Joji Oki

Yoichi Toyokura

Masami Kashiwazaki

Osamu Hosoda

A printing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, based on a print side designated for a transparent sheet and a print side on which the printing apparatus is able to execute printing, a print side of an image to be printed on the transparent sheet and sheet feeding timing of the transparent sheet, and a printing unit configured to print the image on the transparent sheet based on a content determined by the determination unit.

Printing apparatus, method for controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium

A printing apparatus according to one aspect of this invention automatically discharges, of sheets remaining on a conveyance path when a sheet being conveyed jams, dischargeable sheets to one of a plurality of sheet retraction units. At this time, the printing apparatus detects the stacked state of sheets discharged to the sheet retraction unit. When the printing apparatus detects that the sheet retraction unit has become a predetermined state, it changes the discharge destination of sheets to be conveyed to the sheet retraction unit, thereby controlling not to further discharge a sheet to that sheet retraction unit. According to this control, when retracting sheets remaining on the conveyance path upon occurrence of a jam in the printing apparatus, occurrence of a new jam can be prevented.

Printing apparatus and control method thereof

There is provided a technique of allowing the user to readily identify a printed material with a stable tint when a plurality of printed materials are output in a printing apparatus. To achieve this, a printing apparatus according to one aspect of the invention executes an adjustment job for printing an image on a plurality of sheets for adjusting the tint of the printed image, and controls to discharge, to a first discharge unit, a predetermined number of sheets among the plurality of sheets on which the image is printed by executing the adjustment job, and to discharge, to a second discharge unit different from the first discharge unit, a remaining sheet subsequent to the predetermined number of sheets.

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

In a printing apparatus, first printing data used for the first printing apparatus to perform a print is associated with second printing data generated from the same print job as the first printing data. A printing apparatus detects an operating state of the apparatus. The printing apparatus, when the detected operating state shows generation of an error and the error is not removed, in a case where it is determined that a job inputted into a printing system and associated is not completed, displays information in regard to a removal method of the error on an I/F. In addition, the printing apparatus notifies the printing apparatus of generation information of the error. The printing apparatus displays the information showing that the error is generated on an I/F.

Printing system, printing method and program for executing printing method

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus and method of controlling same for forming an image on a print medium using a non-transparent recording agent and a transparent recording agent. If the gloss level of an image to be formed is designated, the image is formed upon deciding whether or not image formation using the transparent recording agent is to be carried out, this decision being made based upon the designated gloss level and stored type information of the print medium used in image formation.

Image forming apparatus, method and program for selectively printing with transparent and non-transparent printing agents

A printing apparatus analyzes whether or not each page in form data has been given a designation of blank page printing, carries out a process based on a result of analysis, of invalidating the designation of blank page printing of a page that has been given the designation of blank page printing in the form data, merges form data and print data, and performs printing of merged data that has been obtained by merging.

Printing merged data using an invalidation process

An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive information indicating capability of each image forming apparatus from a plurality of image forming apparatuses via a network, a capability determination unit configured to determine, by using the information received by the receiving unit, whether a number of predetermined capabilities of an image processing apparatus that have been implemented, is equal to or higher than a predetermined ratio to the number of a plurality of image processing apparatuses, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to an image processing apparatus serving as a distribution destination, a combination of information including the predetermined capabilities of the image processing apparatus as a setting, if the capability determination unit determines that the number of the predetermined capabilities of the image processing apparatus that have been implemented, is less than the predetermined ratio.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for registering attributes for printing

An image retrieval method and apparatus for extracting a desired frame as still image data from moving image data is provided, in which when a character search string is input, frames having the character search string are retrieved from moving image data including a plurality of frames, and if retrieved frames having the character search string in an equivalent position are consecutive for a predetermined amount, one of the consecutive frames is extracted as still image data.

Image retrieval apparatus and method thereof

Upon synthesizing objects, information bits indicating the types of objects are lost. To solve this problem, this invention provides an image processing apparatus having discrimination means for discriminating a type of object to be rendered, determination means for determining the presence/absence of synthesis of the discriminated object, synthesis means for synthesizing an object and information of the type of object in accordance with the determination result, and processing means for appending information indicating the type of synthesized object to a rendering result obtained by rendering the object to be rendered in units of pixels.

Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium

When a printing apparatus serving as a print data destination does not have the iPrint function (S), print data is transmitted to a printing apparatus having the iPrint function (S).

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and system for determining a destination for print data

A rasterizer generates bitmap images of RGB on the basis of object data inputted from a printer driver and stores the result in an image memory. The rasterizer brings attribute information representing attributes of the input object data into correspondence with each pixel of the generated bitmap images to store in an attribute map memory. An image processing unit converts RGB bitmap images stored in the image memory into binary bitmap data for each of YMCK colors which can be processed by an image forming unit. The contents of conversion processing such as dither matrix for binarization processing are switched on the basis of the attribute information retained in the attribute map memory.

Image processing method, system and apparatus, and storage medium

In a host computer connected to a printer, a determination is made as to whether data should be transmitted to the printer in a printer language or expanded into bit map image data before transmission, and the data in the printer language, or the expanded bit map image data, is transmitted to the printer. The determination of whether to transmit data in a printer language or expand into a bit map image before transmission is made based on an estimate of the time required for expansion by both the printer and by the host computer. If the printer can expand a first page of data into a bit map image in parallel with expansion by the host computer of a second page of data into bit map data, then the first page of data is transmitted in the printer language and the second page of data is expanded into pit map image data before transmission.

Control method of a host computer

A printer system in which, when print data is provided to be transferred to a printer, the type of print data to be sent to the printer is determined based on information representing the number of currently unprocessed files residing in a print queue of the printer. There is output either data described in a printer language or data representing a bit map image derived from the data described in a printer language, according to the type of print data that was determined.

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Yokohama, Japan

Takuto Harada