Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuo Kurata

Tadanobu Fujita

Tetsuhide Takasaki

Hiroshi Okubo

Hiroshi Shintoku

Tetsuya Shiohara

Provided is an information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium capable of preventing an unintended print result from being produced. The present executes making a predetermined notification in a case where a spot color printing region set to be printed in a spot color which is a color different from a process color is included in a predetermined region in a region to be printed based on print data, the predetermined region being a region other than a text region in the region to be printed based on the print data.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

A printing apparatus includes a data reception unit configured to receive print data and authentication information from an information processing apparatus outside the printing apparatus, an input reception unit configured to receive input of the authentication information from a user, a printing unit configured to perform printing based on the print data; and a control unit configured to control a cut unit configured to cut a print medium. The printing unit performs predetermined printing based on the print data, based on received authentication information and the input authentication information. The control unit causes the cut unit to cut the print medium including a portion where the predetermined printing has been performed, based on received authentication information and the authentication information input after start of the predetermined printing.

Printing apparatus and storage medium for receiving input authentication information

A printing control method is performed by an information processing apparatus including a predetermined application capable of requesting first software to output a print file and includes an input step of inputting an output size specified by a user, a determination step of determining a file name of the print file, based on the inputted output size, and an instruction step of instructing the predetermined application to request the first software to output the print file which includes data created by the predetermined application and has the determined file name. In addition, printing target data corresponding to the data created by the predetermined application is generated, with a size corresponding to the output size, based on the file name.

Printing control method with printing target data generation, storage medium and information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus obtains a print setting definition file of a printer driver, and an additional function from a printing apparatus. In addition, the apparatus generates print function information in which a setting item, a first additional item, and a second additional item are described. In a case in which one additional function, as the additional function, is obtained, the print function information is generated so that information regarding the one additional function is described in the first additional item, and an attribute indicating non-display is described in the second additional item. In a case in which the first additional function and a second additional function, as the additional function, are obtained, the print function information is generated so that information regarding the first additional function is described in the first additional item, and information regarding the second additional function is described in the second additional item.

Information processing apparatus that generates print function information, and related control method and storage medium storing program

In executing a plug-in program for extending functionality of an application, an information processing device performs a)inputting a width of a sheet, and b) executing a setting based on the input width to a predetermined program, so that the predetermined program scales an object generated by the application to a size corresponding to the input width. Further, a setting screen on which a user is able to designate a scaling process by the predetermined program, is able to be displayed by executing the predetermined program, and in the executing, the setting based on the input width is executed by the plug-in program, to the predetermined program, without displaying the setting screen by the predetermined program.

Plug-in software program, function extension method, and function extension device

An information processing apparatus includes: a retention unit that retains a list of paper information and detailed information associated with the paper information; a first acquisition unit that acquires a list of paper information from a storage unit of a printer; an update unit that updates the list of the paper information retained in the retention unit by using the acquired list of paper information; a second acquisition unit that acquires, based on a difference between the list, of the paper information retained in the retention unit and the acquired list of paper information, part of detailed information associated with paper information stored in the storage unit, from the storage unit; and a generation unit that generates, based on the detailed information acquired by the second acquisition unit, data to be transmitted to the printer. The update unit updates, based on the acquired detailed information, the retained detailed information.

Information processing apparatus for acquiring and updating a retention storage for information stored in a processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

In the present invention, in a plug-in of a general-purpose application, a user is only required to specify the size of a printout to be output in order to calculate a paper size that has the same aspect ratio as an output size that is within the maximum paper size of the application and to set the paper size in the printer driver and the application.

A sheet size of a sheet to be used when data generated by an application is printed is specified. A page size is set of a page in which the data generated by the application is arranged, in a page size setting of the application, so that an aspect ratio of the page size fits to an aspect ratio of the specified sheet size. A setting is set for performing scaling of the page from the page size to the specified sheet size.

Printing in accordance with sheet size

When a printer apparatus is allowed to execute a printing of a document using paper based on a print setting set by the user, the following processes are executed in order to allow the user to recognize a paper saving print setting. Whether or not there is a print setting which can save an amount of paper compared to the print setting set by the user is determined. If it is determined that a paper saving print setting exists, the user is notified of such a paper saving print setting.

Print control apparatus and method utilizing a paper saving print setting

A method for controlling printing for causing a printing apparatus which can print on a sheet of paper having a size other than a predetermined size to print data generated by an application capable of allocating pages corresponding to a sheet of paper having the predetermined size to a printing area includes setting a first paper size to the application in which a predetermined printing area is determined, acquiring a second paper size corresponding to the predetermined printing area and setting the second paper size to the application based on page allocation of the first paper size to the predetermined printing area, and notifying a printer driver of the second paper size. Consequently, printing can be performed by a simple operation so that print data suitably fits into a page width of a sheet of paper, even when a printing area aspect ratio can be arbitrarily determined.

Printing control apparatus, printing control method, and storage medium

A printing system configured to set a segment unit size serving as a unit of a display area for displaying, as images, a list of pages which form the document; acquire a width and a height of each page image from the document data; calculate, when a value of a ratio of the width and the height of the page acquired in the acquiring exceeds a predetermined value, a display area size having a display region larger than the segment unit size; determine, for a page having the value of the ratio exceeding the predetermined value, an enlargement/reduction ratio so as to fit the page into the display area size; and display, a list of pages which form the document, by enlarging or reducing the page based on the enlargement/reduction ratio determined in the determining and displaying the page in a display screen at the display area.

Printing system, printing apparatus, and preview method for printing system

Print data is saved in a hot folder. The hot folder is a storage area for saving print data. Saving of print data in the hot folder is monitored at regular time intervals. Upon detecting saving of print data in the hot folder, the number of pages to be printed included in the print data is detected. If the number of pages to be printed is one page, an output layout is generated in accordance with a width of an output sheet. If the number of pages to be printed is two or more pages, an output layout in which the pages to be printed are arranged is generated. Then, the print data is registered as a print output job.

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