Image forming apparatus, control method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium, with improved techniques for printing stored image data when other image data is received
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMiho Higano
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus that prints a plurality of pieces of image data by placing the plurality of pieces of image data in a main scanning direction of a sheet includes a storage unit configured to store image data, and a control unit configured to control, in a case where a color mode of received image data and a color mode of image data stored in the storage unit are different from each other, whether to start printing the stored image data according to a print mode of the image forming apparatus.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus that prints a plurality of pieces of image data by placing the plurality of pieces of image data in a main scanning direction of a sheet, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store image data;
- and
- a control unit configured to control, in a case where a color mode of received image data and a color mode of image data stored in the storage unit are different from each other, whether to start printing the stored image data according to a print mode of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein in a case where the print mode is a first mode, the control unit performs control to store the received image data in the storage unit without starting printing the stored image data, and wherein in a case where the print mode is a second mode different from the first mode, the control unit performs control to start printing the stored image data.
A control method for an image forming apparatus that prints a plurality of pieces of image data by placing the plurality of pieces of image data in a main scanning direction of a sheet, the control method comprising:
- storing image data in a storage unit;
- and
- in a case where a color mode of received image data and a color mode of image data stored in the storage unit are different from each other, controlling whether to start printing the stored image data according to a print mode of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein in a case where the print mode is a first mode, performing control to store the received image data in the storage unit without starting printing the stored image data, and wherein in a case where the print mode is a second mode different from the first mode, performing control to start printing the stored image data.
A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions for causing an image forming apparatus to execute a control process, wherein the image forming apparatus prints a plurality of pieces of image data by placing the plurality of pieces of image data in a main scanning direction of a sheet, the control process comprising:
- storing image data in a storage unit;
- and
- in a case where a color mode of received image data and a color mode of image data stored in the storage unit are different from each other, controlling whether to start printing the stored image data according to a print mode of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein in a case where the print mode is a first mode, the control unit performs control to store the received image data in the storage unit without starting printing the stored image data, and wherein in a case where the print mode is a second mode different from the first mode, the control unit performs control to start printing the stored image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.