Printer Driver Paper Sheet Setting Screen Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional printing systems face errors and poor maneuverability due to the inability to accurately match paper sheet settings with the actual status of the image forming apparatus, requiring users to confirm and set paper sheet information across multiple screens.
Innovation Solution
A printing system and method that acquires and displays apparatus information about paper sheet feeding trays and types on a single screen, allowing users to correlate this information with user-set or default settings using a correlation button, preventing errors and improving user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users set paper sheet information on separate document property screens, then users can configure printing parameters, but users cannot easily confirm whether settings match the actual apparatus status
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the apparatus status display and document property setting into a single integrated screen. The control unit displays both the actual paper sheet information from the image forming apparatus and the user-set document properties simultaneously, allowing users to verify that their settings match the actual apparatus status without navigating between multiple screens.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides real-time feedback by displaying the actual apparatus status (paper sheet information from the image forming apparatus) alongside the user's settings. This immediate feedback allows users to confirm whether their document property settings correctly reflect the actual paper sheets loaded in the apparatus, preventing erroneous settings.
2Measurement precision
If users navigate to device property screens to confirm actual apparatus status, then users can verify paper sheet information, but users must switch between multiple screens reducing maneuverability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the apparatus status display (normally on a separate device property screen) with the document property setting screen. The control unit retrieves and displays actual paper sheet information from the image forming apparatus directly on the document property screen, eliminating the need for users to navigate to a separate device property screen to verify settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary retrieval and display of the apparatus status information before the user finalizes their document property settings. By displaying the actual paper sheet information upfront on the document property screen, users can immediately verify compatibility without subsequent navigation or correction steps.
3Productivity
If users manually configure paper sheet settings without apparatus status display, then users can set printing parameters quickly, but users risk erroneous settings that do not match actual paper sheets
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides immediate feedback by displaying the actual paper sheet information from the image forming apparatus alongside the user's settings on the document property screen. This real-time feedback mechanism allows users to quickly verify that their settings are correct without adding significant time to the printing operation, thus maintaining productivity while ensuring reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit performs preliminary retrieval and display of apparatus status information before the user completes their settings. This preliminary action prevents erroneous settings by showing users the actual paper sheet information upfront, allowing them to correct any mismatches before finalizing the print job, thereby ensuring correctness without significantly delaying the printing operation.
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AI summary
There is described a printing system in which a computer terminal device and an image forming apparatus are coupled to each other through a communication network. The computer terminal device includes: an apparatus information acquiring section to acquire apparatus information that includes information in regard to a kind of paper-sheet feeding tray of the image forming apparatus and a kind of paper sheet corresponding to the paper-sheet feeding tray, from the image forming apparatus; a display section to display a specific screen for setting a print condition; and a print condition setting section to control the display section, so that both the apparatus information and setting information that includes information in regard to a kind of paper-sheet feeding tray and a kind of paper sheet corresponding to the paper-sheet feeding tray, which are established in advance by a user or as default information, are displayed on the specific screen.