Image forming apparatus having a folder accessible from an external apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiji Kanamoto
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus includes a storage unit having a folder, a setting unit configured to set a printing condition corresponding to the folder, and a printing unit configured to print a printing target file transmitted from the external apparatus and stored in the folder based on the printing condition set by the setting unit.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a display unit configured to display information;
- a storage unit configured to store data, the storage unit being configured to provide a plurality of folders being accessible from an external apparatus;
- and
- at least one controller configured to function as:
- a unit configured to cause the display unit to display a print setting screen on which a print setting to be associated with a folder specified from among the plurality of folders is able to be specified;
- a unit configured to associate a print setting file with the specified folder on a basis of a result of the specification performed on the print setting screen;
- and
- a unit configured to obtain a file requested to be stored into the specified folder from the external apparatus, and cause the image forming unit to perform print processing based on the file by using the print setting file.
The image forming apparatus according to 1, wherein the print setting file is stored in the specified folder.
An image forming method using an image forming apparatus having an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a display unit configured to display information, and a storage unit configured to store data, the storage unit being configured to provide a plurality of folders being accessible from an external apparatus, comprising:
- causing the display unit to display a print setting screen on which a print setting to be associated with a folder specified from among the plurality of folders is able to be specified;
- associating a print setting file with the specified folder on a basis of a result of the specification performed on the print setting screen;
- and
- obtaining a file requested to be stored into the specified folder from the external apparatus, and causing the image forming unit to perform print processing based on the file by using the print setting file.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a display unit configured to display information;
- a storage unit configured to store data, the storage unit being configured to provide a plurality of folders being accessible from an external apparatus;
- and
- at least one controller configured to function as:
- a unit configured to cause the display unit to display a print setting screen on which a print setting to be associated with a folder specified from among the plurality of folders is able to be specified;
- a unit configured to associate a print setting file with the specified folder on a basis of a result of the specification performed on the print setting screen;
- and
- a unit configured to obtain a file requested to be stored into the specified folder from the external folder, register a print job based on the file by using the print setting file, and cause the image forming unit to perform print processing based on the print job in accordance with a print instruction given by a user.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a display unit configured to display information;
- a storage unit configured to store data, the storage unit being configured to provide at least one folder being accessible from an external apparatus;
- and
- at least one controller configured to function as:
- a unit configured to cause the display unit to display a print setting screen on which a print setting to be associated with the folder;
- a unit configured to associate a print setting file with the folder on a basis of a result of the specification performed on the print setting screen;
- and
- a unit configured to obtain a file stored into the folder from the external apparatus, and cause the image forming unit to perform unit processing based on the file by using the print setting file.
The image forming apparatus according to 15, wherein the print setting file is stored in the folder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.