Print Setting History Management for Image Output Apparatus Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing systems fail to efficiently handle cases where an image output apparatus cannot perform print using stored job information, leading to user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that communicates with image output apparatuses, storing print setting information as history information and displaying available options based on matching status information, allowing users to reflect or not reflect setting values depending on the restorable level of history information during re-print commands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If print setting information is stored and reused for re-print operations, then user convenience is improved, but the system fails when the stored job information does not match available image output apparatus
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the reflection of history information based on compatibility assessment. When an image output apparatus becomes unavailable or incompatible with stored job information, the system selectively reflects only compatible setting items while suppressing incompatible ones, allowing the print operation to adapt to current system conditions rather than rigidly enforcing original settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the state of setting information reflection based on compatibility evaluation. Setting items are transformed between two states: reflected (when compatible) and suppressed (when incompatible). This parameter change approach allows the system to maintain user convenience while ensuring reliability by preventing execution with incompatible settings.
2Ease of operation
If all setting values from history information are reflected during re-print, then operability is improved, but errors occur when image output apparatus does not support part of the settings
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by assessing compatibility between stored job information and available image output apparatus before executing re-print. Based on this compatibility feedback, the system automatically determines which setting items to reflect and which to suppress, preventing print errors while maintaining high operability through selective information reflection.
3Reliability
If the system checks compatibility between history information and available apparatus, then print reliability is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments setting information into individual items that can be independently evaluated for compatibility. Rather than treating all settings as a single unit, the system divides them into reflectable and suppressible categories based on apparatus availability, simplifying the compatibility checking process while maintaining reliability.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image output apparatus stores print setting information corresponding to a print job for which print is commanded, as history information in a storage unit thereof, and displays, in a case where print using the history information is commanded, information regarding an image output apparatus that is available for use by the information processing apparatus does not correspond to part of setting values included in the history information, and a print result of print processing to be executed by the image output apparatus using the history information satisfies a predetermined condition, a print setting screen in which the information regarding the image output apparatus is reflected in an item corresponding to the part of the setting values and setting values of the history information are reflected in other items.