Method for controlling image forming system, displaying select screen, and allowing to change power modes according to instruction
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakuya Uemura
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Abstract
A method of controlling an image forming system, the method including: determining whether or not a connection state enabling communication between an image forming apparatus and a second operation device has been established, in a case where an instruction is issued from a first operation device to the image forming apparatus; and displaying, in a case where it is determined in the determining that the connection state has been established, on a display of the first operation device, a selection screen for selection of whether or not the image forming apparatus is to be allowed to operate according to the instruction.
Claims10
An image forming system comprising:
- a plurality of image forming apparatuses each having an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet;
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- an operating portion that is wirelessly connectable to each of the plurality of image forming units, and that accepts operations by a user, the operating portion providing operation instructions, which are instructions for operations related to image forming, to each of the plurality of image forming units based on the operations by the user,
- wherein the plurality of image forming apparatuses each have a first operation mode and a second operation mode and the operating portion is switchable between the first operation mode and the second operation mode,
- wherein, when the operating portion is in the first operation mode, different operation instructions are given to each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses that are wirelessly connected to the operating portion, and
- wherein, when the operating portion is in the second operation mode, common operation instructions are given to each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses that are wirelessly connected to the operating portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.