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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1995
Masaki Unishi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Nagata, Tama, JP;
Yoshifumi Okamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuya Morita, Yokohama, JP;
Akihiro Shimura, Tokyo, JP;
Shunya Mitsuhashi, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiko Sato, Yokohama, JP;
Takanori Nishijima, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus and a printing processing method are provided in which content of print information is discriminated. A variable is initialized if the result of discrimination indicates the start of a printing job, and the variable is counted up of the result of discrimination indicates start of the next page. In a case where trouble such as jamming occurs during processing of this print information, at which page from the start of printing this trouble occurred is calculated from the variable, and the page number obtained is outputted upon being incorporated in information indicative of the fact that trouble has occurred. As a result, it is possible to output information indicating at which page, from the start of a printing job, trouble such as jamming occurred.