Image forming system, image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and method for controlling image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshihiko Iida, Yoshiji Kanamoto, Hiroya Igarashi
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Abstract
A printing system in which a client device utilizing a web browser and a printer, that provides a share folder, are communicably connected, displays a screen on which a print file can be specified by a drop operation on the web browser, transmits the specified print file and share-folder specification information from the client device to the printer, and prints the print file using print settings linked to the share folder.
Claims12
An image forming system in which an information processing apparatus utilizing a web browser and an image forming apparatus that provides a folder accessible from the information processing apparatus are communicably connected
- the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a memory device that stores a set of instructions;
- and
- at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to:
- display a screen that shows folder information provided by the image forming apparatus on a web browser based on screen information received from the image forming apparatus, wherein, in a case where a print setting is not associated with a folder of the folder information displayed on the screen, information indicating that a print setting is not associated is displayed, and
- accept, in a case where a print setting is associated with a folder of the folder information displayed on the screen, specifying of print target data by a predetermined operation on the screen displayed on the web browser, and
- transmit the print target data the specifying of which has been accepted and the folder information to the image forming apparatus,
- the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a memory device that stores a set of instructions;
- and
- at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to:
- receive the print target data and the folder information from the information processing apparatus,
- store the print target data received from the information processing apparatus into a folder which is linked to the received folder information and with which a print setting is associated, and
- start printing out the stored print target data by using the print setting associated with the folder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.