Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoichi Matsuyama

Yuji Kojima

Shigeyuki Mitani

Koichiro Tanaka

Hiroshi Yamashita

Satoshi Watanabe

Hiroshi Satomi

Yosato Hitaka

Akihiro Masukawa

Kenji Kasai

Tomonobu Hiraishi

Yoichi Kodama

A print control system is provided. The system comprises an image forming unit to form an image onto a sheet; an image reader to read an image of the sheet; an inspection unit to inspect a quality by comparing the image read by the image reader with a reference image. The system forms an image by the image forming unit using a first print setting defined in advance when registering the reference image, registers, as the reference image, an image read by the reading unit, and forms an image by the image forming unit using a second print setting defined in advance when manufacturing a print product.

Print control system, print control method, print control device, and media

A first information processing apparatus inputs job data and a corresponding file associated with the job data to a hot folder of a second information processing apparatus. When the second information processing apparatus detects the corresponding file input to the hot folder, it determines whether the job data has been copied in the hot folder. If it is determined that the job data has been copied in the hot folder, the job data is processed.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium storing program

A distribution device receives a registration request of setting information relating to distribution of an event occurring in a print device from a client, registers the setting information, acquires print device information including event information relating to an event occurred in the print device from the print device, determines event information which is a distribution target based on the event information included in the acquired print device information and the registered setting information, distributes the determined event information to the client, and confirms the reception of the event information by the client device to which the event information is to be distributed.

Distribution device, control method, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus comprises: a unit which holds information of a plurality of hot folders; a unit which holds a condition for ranking the plurality of hot folders; a unit which generates a list of the plurality of hot folders ranked according to information of the plurality of hot folders, the condition, and information of print data input to a first hot folder of the plurality of hot folders, and to present the list; a unit which receives selection of a second hot folder as a movement destination of the print data input to the first hot folder from the plurality of hot folders indicated in the list; and a unit which moves the print data input to the first hot folder to the second hot folder.

Information processing apparatus having hot folders, method of controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

In a print control apparatus which causes a print apparatus to print via a hot folder, it is monitored whether a file is submitted to the hot folder. Upon submitting the file, it is identified whether the submitted file is a reference information file indicating an external content file, and, upon identifying the reference information file, it is determined whether an acquisition process of acquiring the external content file indicated by the reference information file is to be executed by the print control apparatus or the print apparatus. Upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print control apparatus, print data is generated based on the acquired external content file, and, upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print apparatus, print data including the reference information file indicating the external content file is generated.

Print control apparatus and control method therefor

A memory swap management method that can preferentially place in a primary storage device a process that has a high possibility of being executed next, thereby shortening the time to start executing the next process. A planned execution sequence of jobs is stored when there are a plurality of jobs waiting to be executed. A process as a swap-out candidate and a process as a swap-in candidate are determined based on the execution sequence and types of processes stored in the primary storage device. According to the determination, the process as the swap-out candidate is swapped out from the primary storage device to a secondary storage device, and the process as the swap-in candidate is swapped in from the secondary storage device into an area of the primary storage device freed as a result of the swap-out.

Job-process swapping between multiple storage devices based on the most recently executed type of a process and historical execution count among plural types of processes

A printing system includes an order management server configured to receive printing orders placed from a plurality of order placement location apparatuses via a network and to distribute the received printing orders to the plurality of printing location apparatuses via the network. Each printing location apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a printing order estimated time. The order management server includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of printing orders placed from the order placement location apparatuses, an updating unit configured to update printing order estimated time information from each printing location apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a printing location apparatus or apparatuses to which to distribute the plurality of printing orders according to a content of each printing order and the printing order estimated time information, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the printing orders to the printing location apparatus or apparatuses determined by the determination unit.

Distributed printing system, print control method for determining printing output locations according to content and estimated time information, and program

Upon transferring image data stored in a first information processing apparatus (photo site) to a second information processing apparatus (print site), at least one of information that pertains to whether or not the image data is to be acquired by the second information processing apparatus, information that pertains to whether or not the image data has already been acquired by the second information processing apparatus, and information that pertains to the number of times of acquisition of the image data by the second information processing apparatus is managed, and whether or not unwanted image data is transferred to the second information processing apparatus, and whether or not image data illicitly leaks to the second information processing apparatus are monitored on the basis of the managed information. The first information processing apparatus (photo site) prepares required image data in accordance with the current state of a series of processes to be executed by the second information processing apparatus (print site), and passes it to the second information processing apparatus, thereby preventing the first information processing apparatus that saves image data from passing unwanted image data to the second information processing apparatus that processes image data.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium that stores program for implementing it to be readable by information processing apparatus and that program

The objective of the present invention is a reduction of the communications exchanged by a WWW server and a client computer in order to reduce communication costs and to improve the responses by a user interface. For this, a printing control apparatus comprises means for obtaining print setup information from a WWW server and storing it, and for transmitting print request information to the WWW server via a network. But before that means is used to communicate with the WWW server, the print request information is generated based on the obtained print setup information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable program storage medium

A load on a network image server is reduced during print services via a network. In a print system, images used for editing by a client computer are changed to images of a low resolution, editing information representative of a history of editing and a print order are transmitted to a print controller, and the images are printed by an optimum print server. Images of a high resolution used for printing are not transmitted from the client so that a load on the client can be reduced and a load on data transmission of the network can also be reduced.

IMAGE STORING APPARATUS, IMAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM OF THESE APPARATUSES, PRINT CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM REALIZING PRINT CONTROL

Image storing apparatus, image control apparatus, output control apparatus, information processing apparatus, system of these apparatuses, print control method therefor, and storage medium storing computer readable program realizing print control

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Yoichi Matsuyama