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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Kayama, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00724 (2013.01); G06F 3/1207 (2013.01); G06F 3/1259 (2013.01); G06F 3/1287 (2013.01); H04N 1/00689 (2013.01); H04N 1/00692 (2013.01); H04N 1/00694 (2013.01);
Abstract
A post-processing apparatus acquires a status of an image forming apparatus and sheet information of sheet feeders in the image forming apparatus, and when determining that sheets used in a print job that the image forming apparatus is instructed to perform need to be fed on the basis of the acquired status and sheet information, transmits information on the sheet feeding together with an instruction to perform the print job to the image forming apparatus when instructing the image forming apparatus to perform the print job.