Remote Printing Sheet Feeding Stage Setting Value Conversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional remote printing systems fail to correctly reflect changes in sheet feeding stage settings during remote printing, as the control setting values are not consistently maintained across different image forming apparatuses, leading to incorrect printing settings.
Innovation Solution
A printing system comprising a printing apparatus with a sheet feeding cassette and processors that accept user specifications, obtain and transmit the correct setting values for the sheet feeding stage, and a storage apparatus that receives and updates the print job with the appropriate setting values, ensuring accurate reflection of user-defined settings during remote printing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the another image forming apparatus changes the sheet feeding stage setting in the print job, then the user can select the desired sheet feeding stage, but the control setting value is not retained and the change cannot be reflected correctly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a setting value conversion mechanism where the another image forming apparatus converts its internal control setting value to the corresponding setting value of the printing apparatus. This intermediary conversion process enables accurate transmission of sheet feeding stage settings between devices with different internal value systems, resolving the reliability issue while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic parameter transformation by converting control setting values between different image forming apparatuses. When a user selects a sheet feeding stage, the system transforms the local control setting value into the equivalent value for the remote apparatus, ensuring the setting change is correctly reflected despite different internal parameter systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the another image forming apparatus uses its own control setting value for sheet feeding stage, then the apparatus can control its own stages, but it cannot correctly apply the setting value from a different apparatus
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a parameter conversion mechanism that transforms control setting values from the another image forming apparatus to the printing apparatus's corresponding values. This allows the printing apparatus to maintain its own control system while correctly applying settings intended for a different apparatus, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a value conversion intermediary that translates between different apparatus-specific control setting values. This intermediary layer enables the printing apparatus to receive and correctly interpret setting values from another apparatus without losing its own control capabilities, ensuring both adaptability and reliable setting application.
3Productivity
If the print job stores the sheet feeding stage setting value from another apparatus, then the job can be transmitted, but the setting value does not correspond to the printing apparatus's control system
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter transformation during the print job transmission process. The another image forming apparatus converts its control setting value to the corresponding value for the printing apparatus before transmitting the print job. This ensures the transmitted job contains compatible setting values that work correctly with the printing apparatus's control system, maintaining both productivity and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary conversion of control setting values before the print job is transmitted. By converting the another apparatus's control setting value to the printing apparatus's equivalent value in advance, the system ensures compatibility is established before transmission, preventing control system mismatches and ensuring reliable operation.
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AI summary
A printing system that is capable of performing a printing of a print job, in which a change of a setting of a sheet feeding stage is correctly reflected in the remote printing is provided. The printing system includes a printing apparatus and a storage apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a sheet feeding cassette configured to include a plurality of sheet feeding stages, one or more first memories and one or more first processors that execute a set of first instructions to accept specifying of a sheet feeding stage, which is used when the printing apparatus executes a print job stored in the storage apparatus, from a user, obtain a first setting value of the specified sheet feeding stage, transmit identification information, which indicates the print job, and the obtained first setting value of the sheet feeding stage to the storage apparatus, receive the print job, which includes the first setting value of the sheet feeding stage, from the storage apparatus, and execute the received print job according to the first setting value of the sheet feeding stage. The storage apparatus includes one or more second memories, and one or more second processors that execute a set of second instructions to receive a print job, which includes a second setting value of a sheet feeding stage, from an external apparatus, store the received print job, receive the identification information, which indicates the print job, and the first setting value of the sheet feeding stage from the printing apparatus, change a second setting value of a sheet feeding stage included in the print job indicated by the identification information to the received first setting value of the sheet feeding stage, and transmit the print job, which includes the first setting value of the sheet feeding stage, to the printing apparatus.