Subscription Account Selection for Printing Result Recording
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems fail to accurately record printing results in the appropriate subscription account when a user with a home subscription plan prints work-related documents from home, leading to incorrect accounting.
Innovation Solution
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that displays a printing setting user interface allowing users to select account information for subscription services, ensuring that printing results are recorded in the correct subscription account by including a subscription account information selection field in the interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a user with a home subscription plan prints work-related documents from home, then the printing can be performed using the home printer, but the printing result is incorrectly recorded in the home subscription account instead of the corporate subscription account
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identification of the printing apparatus's location (home or company) and automatically determines the appropriate subscription account before the printing operation completes. This preliminary action ensures that the printing result is recorded in the correct account (corporate or home) without requiring manual intervention from the user, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and account recording accuracy.
2Measurement precision
If the system automatically determines the appropriate subscription account based on printing apparatus location, then account recording accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The printing apparatus itself performs the self-service function of identifying its location (home or company) and automatically determining which subscription account should record the printing result. The system uses embedded location identification capabilities and automatic account selection logic within the printing apparatus, eliminating the need for complex external verification systems or manual user input, thus achieving high account recording accuracy without excessive system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A mechanism that allows a printing result to be recorded in an appropriate subscription account is provided. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing an information processing apparatus to execute a process that causes a display unit of the information processing apparatus to display a printing setting user interface for causing a printing apparatus to execute printing, the program comprising software code adapted to perform causing the information processing apparatus to obtain account information for a subscription service available to a user who operates the information processing apparatus, and causing the display unit of the information processing apparatus to display the printing setting user interface including an object for allowing the user to select account information, in which a printing result of printing based on a printing setting set on the printing setting user interface is recorded, from among the account information for the subscription service obtained.