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US 11,307,820 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus, printing system, and printing information notification method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYushi Yonezawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a network interface and a processor configured to upon receipt of a print job from an external apparatus via the network interface, determine whether hold printing is instructed for executing the print job, when the hold printing is instructed, determine a state of the image forming apparatus, generate information about execution of the print job according to the determined state, and control the network interface to transmit the generated information to the external apparatus.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a network interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- upon receipt of a print job from an external apparatus via the network interface, determine whether hold printing is instructed for executing the print job, and
- when the hold printing is instructed,
- determine a state of the image forming apparatus,
- generate information about execution of the print job according to the determined state, and
- control the network interface to transmit the generated information to the external apparatus,
- wherein states of the image forming apparatus include:
- a first state in which the image forming apparatus is in a power saving mode and
- a second state in which the print job is ready for execution, and
- wherein, when the determined state of the image forming apparatus is the second state and a remaining time to transition to the power saving mode is less than a predetermined time, the processor generates the information indicating that the image forming apparatus will enter the power saving mode in the remaining time.
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