Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshihiko Iida

Yoshiji Kanamoto

Kimio Hayashi

Hiroya Igarashi

Koichi Watanabe

Makoto Anno

Hisashi Koike

Yohei Kiuchi

Takeshi Kaneda

Yasunori Kanai

An information processing apparatus receives manuscript data associated with order data and acquires the number of manuscript data to be received in association with the order data. In addition, it is determined, based on the number of received manuscript data and the acquired number, whether the manuscript data associated with the order data have been received.

Information processing apparatus and control method

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive order data for a printed product, and content data for the order data, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product. The order data for the printed product and the content data for the order data are received at different timings. The receiving unit further receives finalized information about the content data. The control unit performs control in such a manner as to perform production of the printed product based on the order data, the content data and the finalized information.

Information processing apparatus and control method for the same

An information processing apparatus is provided, which performs: acquiring an inspection result obtained by inspecting quality of a print product; receiving quality request data including an evaluation criterion; specifying a quality level of the print product based on the evaluation criterion included in the quality request data and the inspection result; creating quality report data including the inspection result and the quality level; and transmitting the quality report data to a predetermined external apparatus.

Workflow system, information processing apparatus, quality report data creation method, and media

An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to receive, from an information processing apparatus, a set of print setting values, an identifier of the set, and a user identifier, register the received set of print setting values in association with the received identifier of the set and the received user identifier, and receive, from an information processing apparatus, a first request for obtaining the registered identifier of the set. The received first request includes the user identifier of a user that operates the information processing apparatus that has transmitted the first request. The controller also transmits, to the information processing apparatus that has transmitted the first request, the identifier of the set registered in association with the user identifier included in the first request, wherein the information processing apparatus that has received the identifier of the set displays a print setting screen using the received identifier of the set.

Image printing apparatus having print setting values, printing system, control method, and storage medium

Instruction information on quality inspection of a printed matter is acquired, and it is determined whether the instruction information identifies an inspection target by identification information of an object or by coordinate information. An inspection position is identified in accordance with the determination result, and quality inspection of the printed matter is performed by using the identified inspection position.

Information processing apparatus and control method therefor

A production control apparatus is provided. The production control apparatus receives a print product production instruction, determines, in accordance with the production instruction, a production apparatus to be used for print product production, determines a first inspection item according to quality requirement data received together with the production instruction and a second inspection item according to the production apparatus respectively, and regarding the print product produced by using the production apparatus, inspects the determined first inspection item and the second inspection item respectively, and obtains an inspection result.

Evaluating print product in consideration of characteristics of printing apparatus

A workflow control method is provided for processing, by an information processing apparatus, submission data in each process of a workflow to produce a print product. In the method, the submission data is accepted by the information processing apparatus. If new submission data to original submission data is submitted, it is determined whether a current processing step for the original submission data is a specific process or a process after that. If it is determined that the current processing step is the specific process or the process after that, the new submission data is not accepted, and otherwise, the new submission data is accepted.

Workflow control system, workflow control method, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus receives a print job. If the print job includes instruction information for giving an instruction on a sheet setting for a sheet feed unit, the image forming apparatus makes the sheet setting for the sheet feed unit based on the instruction information. The image forming apparatus executes printing based on the print job.

Image forming apparatus and method for controlling same

Delivery form information on a print product is acquired, position information indicating a position of quality inspection on the print product is generated in accordance with the acquired delivery form information, and quality report data including the position information is generated.

Quality request data of a printed product including information regarding a print quality request of a printed product, and information regarding a tolerable variation of a print quality request of a plurality of printed products is received, and whether quality of a printed product is satisfied is determined based on information regarding a print quality request of a printed product, and information regarding a tolerable variation of a print quality request of a plurality of printed products that is included in the quality request.

System, information processing apparatus, and control method of the same

A printing apparatus has a sheet holding unit having a detection unit for detecting a size of a sheet which is held and a storage unit configured to store sheet information including at least a size of a sheet as information representing a sheet. The apparatus sets first sheet information selected by a user in association with the sheet holding unit from a plurality of items of sheet information stored in the storage unit and notifies the user of a mismatch in a case where a size of a sheet that the first sheet information set in the setting indicates, and a size of a sheet detected by the detection unit are mismatched.

Printing apparatus that displays sheet information of sheet to notify a status of the sheet, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus configured to, on the basis of submitted data, generate a quality report for a printed material inspected by an inspection apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a first specifying unit that, when the submitted data is a new version and an old version of the submitted data is present, specifies a difference by comparing the new version of the submitted data with the old version of the submitted data; a second specifying unit that, on the basis of the difference, specifies an inspection for which an inspection result will be affected by the difference; and a creation unit that creates a quality report which makes it possible to distinguish, among inspection results received from the inspection apparatus, an inspection result for the inspection that will be affected from another inspection result.

Information processing apparatus, method, and product comparing new and old versions of submitted data to specify inspection affected by difference

Part of a received job ticket is analyzed, and an acquisition request for a print file is transmitted to an external apparatus based on a result of the analysis. The job ticket is analyzed, and printing is controlled based on a result of the analysis and the print file acquired from the external apparatus based on the acquisition request to the external apparatus.

Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium

A printing system in which a client device utilizing a web browser and a printer, that provides a share folder, are communicably connected, displays a screen on which a print file can be specified by a drop operation on the web browser, transmits the specified print file and share-folder specification information from the client device to the printer, and prints the print file using print settings linked to the share folder.

Image forming system, image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and method for controlling image forming apparatus

A system includes an information processing apparatus that requests access to a file system managed by an image forming apparatus, receives a program for determining a transfer order of a plurality of print files designated by a screen and, in a case where a plurality of print files are stored in the folder via the displayed screen, executes the received program to determine a transfer order of the plurality of print files. The image forming apparatus, when the request is accepted, generates the program in accordance with a predetermined condition designated in advance by a user, and transmits the screen information and the generated program to the information processing apparatus, and executes image formation, which is based on a print file transferred in association with the folder and uses the print setting information, in an order in which the print file is transferred.

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