Image recording apparatus and image recording job grouping method
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasashi Ohhashi
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Abstract
A controller is configured to store a received print job in a RAM or an EEPROM, determine whether to group multiple print jobs in response to receipt of input to an input I/F, obtain device status information in response to determine to grouping the multiple print jobs, generate size information and sheet information matching to the device status information as a group key, group the multiple print jobs including size information and sheet information matching the group key, and display the group, in a selectable manner, as a subject of image recording on a display.
Claims14
An image recording apparatus which is configured to perform recording on a recording medium, comprising:
- an input interface configured to receive inputting operation of a user;
- a display;
- a memory;
- and
- a controller,
- wherein the controller performs:
- receiving an image recording job including an accumulation condition and image recording information and storing the image recording job in the memory;
- determining whether to group multiple image recording jobs stored in the memory in response to receiving inputting operation to the input interface;
- obtaining device status information in response to determining to group the multiple image recording jobs and generating, as a priority group condition, particular image recording information matching the device status information among multiple pieces of image recording information included in the multiple image recording jobs stored in the memory, respectively;
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- displaying, in a selectable manner, the priority group condition as a condition of grouping particular multiple image recording jobs including the particular image recording information and performing the particular multiple image recording jobs.
A grouping method of image recording jobs including:
- receiving an image recording job including an accumulation condition and image recording information and storing the image recording job in a memory;
- determining whether to group multiple image recording jobs stored in the memory in response to receiving inputting operation to an input interface;
- obtaining device status information in response to determining to group the multiple image recording jobs and generating, as a priority group condition, particular image recording information matching the device status information among multiple pieces of image recording information included in the multiple image recording jobs stored in the memory, respectively;
- and
- displaying, in a selectable manner, the priority group condition as a condition of grouping particular multiple image recording jobs including the particular image recording information and performing the particular multiple image recording jobs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.