Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yousuke Ito

Yoshihisa Tadokoro

Yuji Kojima

An information processing apparatus including a hot folder, comprises: a first determination unit configured to determine whether print processing of the job data stored in the hot folder is executable; a printing unit configured to print the job data determined to be executable; a second determination unit configured to determine whether the printing unit has normally ended the print processing of the job data; a specifying unit configured to specify outline information of a status of the print processing of the job data; an acquisition unit configured to acquire detailed information of the status of the print processing of the job data; and a creation unit configured to create a printing status notification file including the outline information of the status of the print processing of the job data specified and the detailed information of the status of the print processing of the job data acquired.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium for instructing printing to a printing apparatus

If it is determined that a quality of a print product produced by printing a second variable drawing object, which is generated by combining a fixed drawing object and a first variable drawing object, by using a digital printing machine is within an allowable range, an information processing apparatus generates the second variable drawing object by combining the fixed drawing object and the first variable drawing object.

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

A client personal computer having a hierarchical structure and processing a variable data printing (VDP) document to which metadata can be added includes a UI unit for receiving an instruction to mutually associate a layer of a template corresponding to the VDP document, a print setting editing unit for setting a print setting to the layer of the template according to the instruction, a job ticket output unit for outputting a job ticket including a correspondence relation between the print setting and the VDP document and the print setting, and a VDP job output unit for adding, to the print data, metadata for mutually associating the print setting described in the output job ticket and the layer of the VDP document corresponding to the layer of the template to which the print setting has been set.

Information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus control method, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a changing unit configured to change content data arranged in a predetermined region to other content data in response to a user request, a counting unit configured to count a remaining number of metadata added to content data remaining unchanged by the changing unit among a plurality of pieces of content data arranged in the predetermined region, and a ranking information generation unit configured to generate ranking information representing a degree of popularity of metadata based on the remaining number of metadata counted by the counting unit.

Image ranking based on popularity of associated metadata

In determining whether to use RIP completed data, a print control apparatus determines whether objects constituting a processing target page are all reusable objects. As a result of this determination, if it is not determined that the objects constituting the processing target page are all reusable objects, the print control apparatus performs RIP on the processing target page data without using the RIP completed data. On the other hand, if the objects constituting the processing target page are all reusable objects, it is then determined whether a registered common page matching the processing target page is present in a common page table. As a result of this determination, if the registered common page is present, the print control apparatus reuses the RIP completed data. If the registered common page is not present, the print control apparatus performs the RIP on the processing target page without using the RIP completed data.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Yousuke Ito