Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuzo Harano

Yusuke Kimura

Hideaki Ooba

Nobuhiro Kawamura

Aya Ito

Junichi Yamakawa

Yoshinori Ito

Yutaka Tokura

Kiyoshi Tokashiki

Masahiro Takayanagi

Hitoshi Hoshino

A paper management system setting a paper information piece of paper stored in a sheet feeding unit in an image forming apparatus from a list of paper information pieces registers the paper information pieces with a favorite group, displays a list of the paper information pieces for each favorite group, and enables the list of the paper information pieces to be associated with a paper feed unit through the screen displaying the list.

Paper management system, paper management method, and print control apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device having a plurality of sheet feeding units, an opening and closing controlling unit, and a receiving unit. The opening and closing controlling unit controls opening and closing of the sheet feeding unit. Where the receiving unit receives an instruction for assigning a sheet having selected one attribute to designated one sheet feeding unit, the opening and closing controlling unit opens the designated one sheet feeding unit.

Image forming apparatus, printing system, controlling method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium

A print management system having a control apparatus and an image forming apparatus with sheet feeding cassettes includes a sheet data registration unit to register sheet data indicating an attribute of each print sheet, a sheet feeding cassette selection unit to select a sheet feeding cassette, and a sheet data selection unit to select sheet data about at least one type of print sheet from the registered sheet data. An adjustment value setting unit sets adjustment value information during image formation while feeding the selected print sheet and a database setting unit sets, in association with each other, the attribute of the selected sheet feeding cassette, the selected sheet data about the print sheet, and the set adjustment value information. The database setting unit allows setting to one piece of sheet data adjustment value information about each sheet feeding cassette selected by the sheet feeding cassette selection unit.

Print management system to set adjustment value information about sheet feeding cassettes

An image forming system displays warning information representing a state of no printing sheet detected in a first sheet holding unit, and displays information representing a normal state of no sheet printing sheet detected in the second sheet holding unit. In a case where a transition occurs from a state where at least one printing sheet is in the second sheet holding unit to a state where there are no sheets in the second sheet holding unit while the image forming apparatus performs printing using the printing sheets held in the second sheet holding unit, displaying warning information representing a state of no printing sheet in the second sheet holding unit and changes to information representing a normal state in the second sheet holding unit if a predetermined period has passed.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system and control method therefor

A print control apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, including a sheet holding unit in which a sheet to be used for printing is held, for printing an image on the sheet held in the sheet holding unit includes storage configured to store a type of a sheet, an image, and a setting value of the printing apparatus in association with each other, selects a type of a sheet to be used for printing by the printing apparatus, selects an image to be printed by the printing apparatus, and sets the setting value stored in the storage in association with the selected type of the sheet and the selected image.

Print control apparatus, image forming apparatus and method to select sheet type and test chart for performing different types of test printing

The present invention provides a print control apparatus that controls a print apparatus. The print control apparatus displays pieces of identification information of a plurality of sheet feeders available in the print apparatus, and designates inhibition of sheet feed from sheet feeders other than a sheet feeder selected by a user among the displayed pieces of identification information of the plurality of sheet feeders.

Print control apparatus, print apparatus, methods of controlling the apparatuses, and storage medium storing instructions, that provide feed control to inhibit feeding of sheets from only a selected sheet feeder

An image forming system having a printing apparatus including a feeder to be pulled out and an image forming unit. The printing apparatus further includes a reception unit to receive a user instruction for setting sheet information on a sheet in association with the feeder. Based on set sheet information, the image forming unit forms an image on a sheet fed from the feeder. The image forming system further includes a display unit to display feeder information and a detection unit to detect that the feeder in a pulled-out state is closed. The display unit displays the feeder information subjected to the user instruction in a first display form and, based on a detection by the detection unit, changes the display by the display unit including the first display form having the feeder information to a display including a second display form different from the first display form.

Image forming system for processing sheet information, printing apparatus and method for controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium

A print management system includes an image forming apparatus and a control apparatus, and includes a detection unit, a display unit, and a setting unit. The detection unit detects paper information which is set with respect to a print job. The display unit displays the paper information detected by the detection unit on a display device. The setting unit controls processing for displaying a setting screen used to allocate the paper information displayed on the display device to a paper feed stage of the image forming apparatus on a screen of the display device.

Print management system, print management method, and storage medium to refine operability for paper setting operations

A print control apparatus to communicate with a printing apparatus includes storage, display, setting, and selection units. The storage unit stores identification information of a plurality of sheets in association with stored adjustment values of a plurality of adjustment items. The display unit displays the stored identification information of the plurality of sheets. The setting unit sets, based on a user instruction, the adjustment values of the stored adjustment items. The selection unit selects, based on a user instruction, identification information of one sheet from among the identification information of the plurality of sheets displayed on the display unit. Based on a selection, the display unit displays, in addition to the displayed identification information of the plurality of sheets, at least one of the adjustment items of which set adjustment values are stored from among the adjustment values associated with the selected identification information of the one sheet.

Print control apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium

A sheet processing apparatus of an aspect of the present invention includes stack trays provided with alignment members for applying an alignment process to sheets. At the time of discharging sheets, in a case where a sheet is already stacked on a first stack tray that has been decided on as a discharge destination for a sheet to be discharged, the sheet processing apparatus determines whether or not the width of the sheet to be discharged matches the width of the already-stacked sheet. In a case where the widths of the sheets do not match, a discharge destination for the sheet to be discharged is changed to a second stack tray.

Sheet processing apparatus, control method therefor and storage medium

A printing system obtains a print job, analyzes the obtained print job, and imposes print pages to a total of four surfaces of a print target sheet including two surfaces on each of front and back in accordance with a bookbinding format of the analyzed print job. As for an imposition method, if the bookbinding format of the print job is particular two fold bookbinding for which processing of two-folding a sheet and bonding a plurality of two-folded sheets is performed, imposition is performed while reserving a glue surface not to print out of the four surfaces of the print target sheet.

Printing system, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus and a control method is provided. The apparatus and method provides that, when a print job to be re-executed is stored, deletes authentication information required for an authentication function in a printing system from among print attributes included in the print job, and then stores the print job in the printing system.

Image processing apparatus, print processing method, and storage medium

When a printing apparatus starts job processing by acquiring a job in which an execution order is set thereto, the printing apparatus generates printable image data by analyzing the acquired job. In this period, the printing apparatus determines whether an error has occurred in a job processing period. In a case where the printing apparatus determines that the error has occurred in the job processing period, the printing apparatus stops the processing of the started job, and controls the processing of a subsequent job to stop or continue according to an instruction of a user.

Printing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium for receiving print jobs including a command to process subsequent print job

A printing system includes a receiving unit, a printing unit, a grouping unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a job in which a sheet feeding source is designated. The printing unit prints an image on a sheet fed from one of a plurality of sheet storage units. The grouping unit groups some of the sheet storage units as one virtual sheet storage unit. The determining unit determines which of one of the sheet storage units or the virtual sheet storage unit is the sheet feeding source. The control unit controls sheet feeding to continue the printing. When the sheet feeding source is determined to be a sheet storage unit, a sheet is fed from the designated sheet storage unit. When the sheet feeding source is determined to be the virtual sheet storage unit, sheets are respectively fed from the grouped sheet storage units.

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Yuzo Harano