Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsuyoshi Muto

Shokyo Koh

Hideyuki Ikegami

Tokuharu Kaneko

Keisuke Aizono

Takashi Kuroda

Hideto Kohtani

Tomoaki Osada

A print system prints an image on a sheet according to a print job, stores a reference image in a storage, generates a scanned image by reading a printed sheet, inspects an image on the printed sheet, and detects sheet outage in a paper feeding unit that is a feed source for the print job. In a case the print job is accompanied by inspection, the sheet outage is detected in the paper feeding unit that is the feed source, and the reference image is generated by using print data of the print job, a screen is displayed to select a paper feeding unit that stores sheets whose size matches a sheet size set for the paper feeding unit that is the feed source, regardless of whether a type of the sheets matches a sheet type set for the paper feeding unit that is the feed source.

Print system, printing apparatus and method of controlling the printing apparatus, and storage medium

An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a sheet folding unit, a sheet discharge tray, and a control unit. For the print job in which a first sheet bundle and a second sheet bundle are discharged onto the sheet discharge tray, the control unit is configured to selectively execute a first image forming mode or a second image forming mode. The first image forming mode is a mode in which a page order is controlled in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle. The second image forming mode is a mode in which a page order is controlled in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle.

Image forming system

An image reading apparatus includes a conveying unit configured to convey a document, a reading unit configured to read an image on the conveyed document, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance from an upper portion of a sheet feeding port for the document to an upper surface of the document, and a control unit configured to, according to the distance measured by the measurement unit, suspend the conveyance of the document by the conveying unit. According to a user operation for reading again the document of which the reading is suspended by the control unit, the conveying unit conveys the document and the reading unit reads the image on the document, and while the document of which the conveyance is suspended is conveyed again, the control unit does not suspend the conveyance of the document based on the distance measured by the measurement unit.

Image reading apparatus having sensor for detecting shape of fed documents, control method for controlling image reading apparatus, and storage medium having stored therein control method

A sheet processing apparatus includes, a punch unit configured to perform punching processing on a sheet conveyed from one of a plurality of sheet storing units capable of storing a sheet or a pre-punched sheet, an input unit configured to input a number of holes punched in the pre-punched sheet stored in one of the sheet storing units, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a number of holes that can be punched by the punch unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether the input number of holes coincides with the acquired number of holes that can be punched, and a control unit configured to display a predetermined warning in a case where the determination unit determines that the input number of holes does not coincide with the acquired number of holes that can be punched.

Sheet processing apparatus and method for controlling sheet processing apparatus

One or more printing apparatuses, one or more control methods for same and one or more storage mediums are provided herein. A control method in or for a printing apparatus according to at least one embodiment includes reading an image of an original document and generating image data, storing the generated image data in a storing unit (e.g., of the printing apparatus), reading out the image data stored in the storing unit and printing the image on a sheet on the basis of the image data, and controlling the printing apparatus in a manner that: (i) the reading of the image is started before a storage area for storing the image data generated by the reading is secured by the storing unit, and (ii) the image data generated by the reading is stored in the storing unit after the storage area is secured by the storing unit.

Printing apparatus, control method for the printing apparatus, and storage medium

The image forming apparatus controls feeding of a paper to an image forming unit and re-feeding of a paper to the image forming unit by a re-feeding unit that re-feeds the paper held by a double-sided paper feed path. The apparatus changes a print setting of a paper that is the single-sided printing into a forcible double-sided printing that uses the double-sided paper feed path, if a paper whose print setting is double-sided printing and a paper whose print setting is single-sided printing are mixed in a print job, and if there is no paper held in the double-sided paper feed path and the print setting of a paper to be fed is the forcible double-sided printing, the apparatus changes the print setting of the paper to be fed into single-sided printing.

Image forming apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

The image processing apparatus has a timer transmission function to execute a transmission job for transmitting image data to another apparatus at a designated transmission time of day. The image processing apparatus comprises a setting unit configured to set a restraint period of time indicating a period of time that the execution of the transmission job has to be restrained based on charge information for respective periods of time including unit prices of electricity charges for respective periods of time; and a reservation unit configured to present the restraint period of time, accept the designation of the transmission time of day, and store the designated transmission time of day as reservation information in a storage unit; and a notifying unit configured to perform notification to a user in a case where the designated transmission time of day is included in the restraint period of time.

Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, and program

The execution of an image processing job is limited using a printing amount by an image processing job that has already been executed and a printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by an image processing job that has already been transmitted but not yet executed. To accomplish this, a multi-function peripheral manages a first printing amount that has already been printed by a executed print job and a second printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by a print job that has been transmitted from the multi-function peripheral to a printer and that has not yet been executed in association with a user ID, and determines, before transmitting the print job, whether or not the total of a third printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by the print job, the first printing amount and the second printing amount exceeds an upper limit amount.

Controlling an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus

A procedure through which a device is started up when power is introduced is fixed. Consequently, if there is a job that has been suspended owing to cut-off of power the length of time from re-introduction of power to resumption of the suspended job is too long. In order to solve this problem, an image processing apparatus, which enables execution of a plurality of jobs by starting up a plurality of software modules, is so adapted that in a case where a job being executed is suspended, execution information indicating status of execution of the job at the time of suspension is stored. The suspended job is resumed based on the execution information. Specifically, in resuming the suspended job, a group of software modules relating to the suspended job is started up before other software modules.

Image processing apparatus and method of controlling same

Image processing system including a first image processing apparatus for transmitting a job and a second image processing apparatus for receiving and executing the job

An authentication server, on receipt of a request to delete a user account, determines whether the account exists in a user authentication table. If the account exists, the authentication server deletes the account, and retrieves, from a requesters list in which information of devices from which users have to date requested user authentication is saved, an address of a device from which the user targeted for deletion has previously issued an authentication request, and issues a deletion request to that device together with account information. Similar processing to change a user account is performed in response to a change request.

Authentication server, authentication system and account maintenance method

The present invention can control a logout procedure of each user according to an operation state and provides an information-processing apparatus with enhanced security and excellent usability. A method for controlling an information-processing apparatus capable of maintaining a state in which a plurality of users has been logged in to the information-processing apparatus comprises causing a display unit to switch an operation screen for a user who currently logs in to the information-processing apparatus between an active state and an inactive state where the user can or cannot operate the screen respectively; automatically logging out the user of the information-processing apparatus when a predetermined time has elapsed; and controlling so as not to automatically log out a user whose operation screen is in the inactive state of the information-processing apparatus when the predetermined time has elapsed.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tsuyoshi Muto