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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kimio Hayashi, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a processor that acquires a state of a paper feeding stage from an image forming apparatus of interest, and determines, based on the state of the paper feeding stage, whether or not the image forming apparatus of interest has a number of sheets that are to be consumed for a printing job of interest. The processor also determines that the image forming apparatus determined to have the number of sheets, is a transmission destination of the printing job of interest. If one of paper feeding stages of the image forming apparatus of interest has the number of sheets to be consumed for the printing job of interest, the processor sets the printing job of interest so as to preferentially supply sheets from the paper feeding stage determined to have the number of sheets.