Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium for controlling an image forming apparatus

a technology of image forming apparatus and information processing apparatus, which is applied in the direction of digital output to print units, instruments, visual presentations, etc., can solve the problem that users have not been able to make settings for using the function

Inactive Publication Date: 2021-10-28
CANON KK
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Benefits of technology

This solution allows users to configure and use the sheet feed function in printing systems, enhancing user settings and functionality by determining supported sheet types and generating appropriate print jobs, even if the printing apparatus does not explicitly support 'auto' settings.

Problems solved by technology

However, this conventional technique has the following issue.
However, use cases for printing include not only cases where printing is carried out having designated the type of sheet, but also cases where printing is to be carried out using a sheet fed in the printing apparatus in advance, without designating the type of sheet.
However, past printing apparatuses have only communicated the type of sheet they can handle to the information processing apparatus.
As such, the information processing apparatus cannot know whether or not the printing apparatus has a function for printing onto the sheet fed in the sheet feed unit regardless of the type of the sheet, and thus the user has not been able to make settings for using that function.

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[0033]A first embodiment of the invention will be described hereinafter. First, an example of the configuration of a printing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

[0034]A printing apparatus 101 and an access point (AP) 102 are communicatively connected to each other over a Local Area Network (LAN) 100. Mobile terminals (information processing apparatuses) 103 and 104, which are tablets, laptop computers, or the like and serve as examples of information processing apparatuses, are also communicatively connected to the AP 102. In the following descriptions, the tablet 103, the laptop PC 104, and so on will be referred to generally as information processing apparatuses. The information processing apparatuses can communicate with the printing apparatus 101 over the LAN 100 via the AP 102. Although the present embodiment describes the foregoing exemplary configuration as an example of the printing system, the present in...

second embodiment

[0098]A second embodiment of the present invention will be described below. The foregoing first embodiment describes control in which sheet type options are displayed in the selection screen 8300 for selecting the sheet type, and printing is carried out using the sheets fed in the printing apparatus 101.

[0099]If printing is carried out having selected “automatic” in the printing apparatus 101, the printing will be carried out using the default sheet type set in the printing apparatus 101. However, if the default sheet type is set to something aside from “auto”, a print error may arise due to the mismatch with the type of sheet fed in the cassette. For example, there are situations where the default sheet type is “plain paper” but the type of the sheet fed in the cassette is “thin paper”. The present embodiment will describe processing for handling problems such as this, in which the default value for settings is switched in accordance with the type of sheet fed in the printing appar...

third embodiment

[0106]A third embodiment of the present invention will be described below. Items that are the same as in the foregoing first and second embodiments will not be described. Although the foregoing first embodiment described an example in which options that always include “automatic” are displayed regardless of whether or not the printing apparatus supports “auto”, the present embodiment will describe control in which the option for “automatic” is not displayed when the capability information does not include “auto”. In other words, in the present embodiment, the options are displayed in accordance with the capability information of the printing apparatus. Thus according to the control of the present embodiment, the “automatic” field is not added to 8400 in FIGS. 8 and 1502 and 1503 in FIG. 15.

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[0108]Screen examples according to the present embodiment will be described using FIG. 8. Note that only areas that differ from the first embodiment will be described. The sel...

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Abstract

An information processing apparatus obtains capability information of a printing apparatus, wherein the capability information is including a predetermined text and a sheet type that the printing apparatus can use in printing; displays, in a display unit, a first option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of a selected sheet type, based on the predetermined text included in the capability information, and displays a second option that the printing apparatus carries out printing for a sheet of the sheet type included in the capability information based on the sheet type included in the capability information; generates a print job including the option set through the screen; and sends the generated print job to the printing apparatus.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16 / 749,131, filed on Jan. 22, 2020, which claims the benefit of and priority to Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-009775, filed on Jan. 23, 2019 and Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-169244, filed on Sep. 18, 2019, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a control method thereof, and a storage medium.Description of the Related Art[0003]Printing apparatuses that receive print data from an information processing apparatus over a network and form an image on a sheet based on the received print data have been known for some time. Additionally, an information processing apparatus that generates print data to send to a printing apparatus using a printer driver (or a printing application) designed for using diffe...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06K15/00G06F3/12G06K15/16
CPCG06K15/4065G06K15/16G06K15/002G06F3/1286H04N1/00411H04N1/00639H04N1/00466H04N1/0044H04N2201/0094G06F3/1205G06F3/1228G06F3/1232G06F3/1255G06F3/1254G06F3/1285
InventorKANAI, YASUNORIMATSUI, KENTA
OwnerCANON KK