Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090097060 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROLLING METHOD, STORING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - A printing system which enables to improve its flexibility, convenience, and/or productivity by utilizing a post-processing by a post-processor connected to a printer without printing by a printer. An execution request is received for a specific type of job executing a post-processing by a post-processor connected to a printer without printing by the printer. The post-processor is caused to execute the post-processing for a first printed matter previously generated for the specific type of job without printing by the printer when receiving the execution request. Print data is received which is utilized for generating the first printed matter. The printer is caused to generate a second printed matter corresponding to the first printed matter, by using the print data. | 04-16-2009 |
20100053679 | PRINTING SYSTEM, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing system high in flexibility and/or user-friendliness which make it possible to use only post processing by a post-processing unit connected to a printing unit without requiring printing by the printing unit. An execution request receiving unit receives a request for execution of one of an inline job requiring post processing by the sheet processing unit after execution of printing by the printing unit, and an offline job requiring post processing by the sheet processing unit connected to the printing unit, without requiring printing by the printing unit. A controller performs control such that the offline job is executed by the sheet processing unit prior to an inline job associated with an execution request received earlier by the execution request receiving unit than an execution request associated with the offline job. | 03-04-2010 |
20100302574 | JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When it is judged that a predetermined operation for eliminating a cause for stopping a job is being executed, a following job is restricted from being executed prior to a stopped job. A control method for controlling a job processing apparatus for storing received jobs in a storage unit and sequentially executing the stored jobs includes determining, when a cause for stopping the job to be executed is generated, whether a state in which the cause for stopping the job is not eliminated has continued for a predetermined time, executing, when it is determined that the state in which the cause for stopping the job is not eliminated has continued for the predetermined time, a following job that follows the job is executed prior to the job, judging whether a predetermined operation for eliminating the cause for stopping the job is being executed, and restricting, when it is judged that a predetermined operation for eliminating the cause for stopping the job is being executed, the following job is restricted from being executed prior to the job. | 12-02-2010 |
20110051162 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus including a function of executing printing on a preprint sheet acquires orientation information about an orientation setting method of the preprint sheet when receiving a print job. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit, and when processing according to a setting included in the print job cannot be executed unless the orientation setting method of the preprint sheet is changed even if image data included in the print job is rotated, according to the orientation information and the setting included in the print job, the control unit causes a display unit to display an orientation setting method with which the processing according to the setting included in the print job can be executed on the preprint sheet. | 03-03-2011 |
20110063657 | PRINT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention provides a print apparatus and a method of controlling the print apparatus for receiving and processing a job including a setting for post-processing for printed sheets printed in the print process. The print apparatus determines whether or not there is an unexecutable post-processing in a plurality of types of post-processes set for the received job, and if there is the unexecutable post-processing, information for executing a print process corresponding to the unexecutable post-process and the unexecutable post-process is stored in a holding unit. An executable post-process of the plurality of types of post-processes set for the received job is identified, and a print process corresponding to the executable post-process and the executable post-process are executed prior to a print process corresponding to the unexecutable post-process and the unexecutable post-process. | 03-17-2011 |
20110164282 | PRINTING SYSTEM, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, PRINTING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - A printing system capable of increasing the working efficiency of an operator engaged in a post-process necessary after printing can be provided. For this purpose, the user interface unit can execute a display which allows the operator to explicitly input, for each job, instruction information in consideration of a post-process necessary after a printing process in a job requiring a printing process by a printing apparatus in a printing system capable of stacking, on a stacking unit, printed materials having undergone the printing process. When the job to be processed is a job for which the operator inputs the instruction information via the display, printed materials of the job for which the operator inputs the instruction information are stacked on the stacking unit while the printed materials are classified every printed materials on the basis of the instruction information input by the operator for the job. | 07-07-2011 |
20110228298 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to determine whether each of a plurality of pages where the print data is printed is likely to bring about tint variation; extract a page determined to be likely to bring about the tint variation, as a sample printing page that requires execution of sample printing to check tint on paper, and execute printing of the sample printing page and causes a print paper processing apparatus to output print product of the sample printing. | 09-22-2011 |
20110249283 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - When authentication data input before execution of print processing based on a secure print job is authenticated, a copy is printed based on the secure print job (S | 10-13-2011 |
20120063832 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Processing time for switching discharge destinations can be reduced by providing a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first parameter indicating a number of middle sheets included in one set of carbonless copy paper set in a sheet feed tray, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a second parameter indicating a number of middle sheets included in one target product, and a control unit configured to, if the second parameter is greater than the first parameter, print on a top sheet and a middle sheet needed for printing a print job, discharge a bottom sheet and a top sheet and a middle sheet included in a next set that are not needed for printing the print job to a discharge destination different from a discharge destination of the target product, and to print on a middle sheet and a bottom sheet needed for printing the print job. | 03-15-2012 |
20130322946 | PRINTING APPARATUS FOR USE WITH SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing apparatus that enables printed products to be removed from a sheet processing apparatus at scheduled time. The printing apparatus is configured to discharge printed products to a stacking tray that is provided in the sheet processing apparatus so as to be movable upward and downward. The printing apparatus accepts a setting of scheduled time at which printed products are to be taken out of the stacking tray, and causes the stacking tray to move downward to a removal position when the setting time is reached. | 12-05-2013 |
20140376023 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus, and a method of controlling the same, holds a job for which execution of printing is not instructed and stores a job for which execution of printing unit is instructed in a storage unit. It is determined whether or not a sheet necessary to complete the held job is set in a sheet feed source, and if there is a print job that uses a sheet being to be used by the job for which it is determined that the sheet necessary to complete the job is set in the sheet feed source, it is notified that the print job is stored in the storage unit. | 12-25-2014 |