Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Tamotsu Sakuraba

Toshimi Shinchi

Yukihiko Ichikawa

Michihiro Nakagawa

Koichi Ono

A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable print setting control program operated by a device for instructing an image forming apparatus to print, the print setting control program causing the device to function as an information acquisition unit which obtains information on a function performed by the image forming apparatus, a display control unit which causes a display unit to display a print setting screen where the function performed by the image forming apparatus is set, and a prohibition determining unit which determines whether a previous setting conflicts with a following setting and changes the previous setting to a setting which does not conflict with the following setting when the settings conflict with each other, wherein the display control unit decorates displays at set positions of the previous setting and the following setting when the previous setting is changed due to the conflict between the settings.

Print setting control program and print setting control method

A printing system includes a terminal apparatus and a printing control apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a setting unit for setting a printing condition for a document, a generating unit for generating print data containing data of the document, setting data indicating the printing condition, and instruction information instructing to register the printing condition, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the print data. The printing control apparatus includes a storage unit for storing the printing condition and name information specifying the printing condition, a receiving unit for receiving the print data, a recognizing unit for recognizing that the print data contains the instruction information, and a registering unit for causing the printing condition indicated by the setting data to be stored in the storage unit if it is recognized that the print data contains the instruction information.

Printing system, printing control apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium stored with printing control program

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to establish the register mark printing function easily and securely to print the register mark under the condition in conformity with the page arranging mode. The apparatus includes: a display section that displays a page-arranging function setting screen from which a page arranging mode is settable, and a register-mark printing function setting screen from which a kind and a printing condition of the register mark are settable; a storage section that stores a table in which the page arranging mode and the printing condition are correlated with each other; and a setting control section that specifies the printing condition of the register mark, corresponding to the current page arranging mode, while referring to the table stored in the storage section, to display the printing condition above-specified onto the register-mark printing function setting screen as a default printing condition.

Control program and image forming apparatus

The printing system according to the present invention has a number-of-pages accepting part for accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages; and a control part for controlling a printer output operation of the document in such a way that each of the split documents obtained by splitting the document from the first page sequentially in the splitting unit will undergo printer output process configured via a printing setting screen.

Printing system, printing method, and printing control apparatus for splitting document

There is described a controlling method to be employed in a printing system that includes: a plurality of image forming apparatuses, each of which is capable of assigning a name to setting information in regard to a printing operation and also capable of registering the setting information in association with the name thereof; and a specific apparatus to be coupled to the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The method includes: acquiring plural sets of setting information, each of which is the setting information registered in each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses in association with the name thereof; determining whether or not at least two of the names assigned to the plural sets of setting information are cognominal; and displaying a message, indicating a fact that the same name is assigned to at least two of the plural sets of the setting information, when the names are cognominal.

Controlling program and controlling method

The invention provides the user a first insertion page position setting part that allows a user to designate insertion page positions that respectively indicate pages at which first tab sheets are to be inserted, and a second insertion page position setting part that allows the user to designate insertion page positions that respectively indicate pages at which second tab sheets are to be inserted, when a request for initiating the setting concerning the tab sheets is received. Further, the tab positions in the second tab sheets, which correspond to the insertion page positions designated in said second insertion page position setting part, are set up in accordance with the tab positions in the first tab sheets, which correspond to the insertion page positions designated in said first insertion page position setting part.

Computer readable recording medium stored with control program for controlling image forming apparatus having a tab sheet insertion function, image forming apparatus and method executed in the image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus has a tab sheet supply unit and a control unit. The tab sheet supply unit supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a chapter tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification of a document to be printed, as well as a section tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a second level that is a finer level of classification than the first level of classification. The control unit causes the tab sheet contained in the sheet supply tray to be discharged as an unnecessary tab sheet, if the tab position of the tab sheet to be supplied next from the sheet supply tray does not match with the tab position of the tab sheet to be inserted next during the printing of the document, until both of the tab positions match.

Tab sheet insertion apparatus

A printer, as an image forming apparatus, reverses the front and back sides of tab sheets that became no longer necessary and discharges when a reverse discharge is specified.

Image forming apparatus including tab sheet reversing function, computer readable recording medium stored with control program for controlling image forming apparatus, and its control method

In merging the printing data of the merger source to the printing data of the merger destination, the setting information concerning the tab sheets are identified from the both printing data and the aligning process is executed for aligning the tab setting information of the both printing data. For example, the tab positions are changed and aligned in such a way that the tab positions vary sequentially from the start side of pages.

Data processing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium stored with processing program

The printer as an image forming apparatus supplies a plurality of types of tab sheet, and distinguishably discharges the tab sheets that became no longer necessary according to the type of tab sheets.

Image forming apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium for distinguishably controlling tab sheet discharge

A printer as an image forming apparatus controls to discharge the tab sheets that became no longer necessary when the type of tab sheets supplied is changed. Thus, the printer controls to discharge the tab sheets that became no longer necessary while printing a unit number of copies for a printing job.

Image forming apparatus

A warning is issued to the user when the tab sheet type selected at the first tab sheet type setup section for setting up the insertion of the first tab sheet is identical to the tab sheet type selected at the second tab sheet type setup section for setting up the insertion of the second tab sheet. As described above, a warning will be issued to the user if setup is intended to be made concerning multiple types of tab sheets and the setup is unlikely to be specified by the user. Also, assistance will be provided to the user concerning the setup for tab sheets.

Computer readable recording medium stored with control program for controlling image forming apparatus having tab sheet inserting function

The print controller used as an image processing device analyzes whether any printing setup information is embedded or not in the received PDF file, and sets up the printing condition in accordance with the printing setup information obtained by the analysis.

Device and method for image processing, as well as device and method for file preparation

The invention provides a user with a first tab printing setting part for setting up an item concerning printing on a first tab sheet and a second tab printing setting part for setting up an item concerning printing on a second tab sheet; and setting up, when the value of an item is set up in one of the first tab printing setting part and the second tab printing setting part, a value of the corresponding item in the other one of the first and second tab printing setting parts in dependence upon the value of the item in the aforementioned one of the parts.

Computer readable recording medium stored with control program for controlling image forming apparatus, printing setting apparatus, and printing setting method

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Sagamihara, Japan

Tamotsu Sakuraba