Image forming apparatus and control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoichi Unno
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a scanner, a receiver, and a controller. The scanner scans a document to obtain image data representing the scanned document. The receiver receives faxed image data. The controller includes a processor and a memory, performs processing for reducing usage of a consumable material on the image data obtained by the scanner, and does not perform the processing on image data obtained from an external apparatus.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus connectable to an external apparatus and configured to reduce a consumable material to be used for printing image data, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an operation panel;
- a scanner configured to scan a document to obtain image data representing the scanned document;
- a receiver configured to receive faxed image data from the external apparatus, wherein the faxed image data is different from the scanned image data obtained by the scanner;
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- one or more controllers including one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more controllers configured to perform operations including:
- setting, via the operation panel, reduction of a consumable material to be used for printing,
- setting whether to store the faxed image data so that the faxed image data is reprintable after the faxed image data is printed,
- controlling to reduce density of the faxed image data received from the external apparatus based on the setting of the reduction of the consumable material in a case where it is set, by the setting whether to store, to store the faxed image data in storage so that the faxed image data is reprintable, and
- outputting the faxed image data received from the external apparatus in a case where it is not set, by the setting whether to store, to store the faxed image data in the storage so that the faxed image data is reprintable.
A method for an image forming apparatus connectable to an external apparatus and configured to reduce a consumable material to be used for printing image data, wherein the image forming apparatus includes an operation panel, a scanner configured to scan a document to obtain image data representing the scanned document, and a receiver configured to receive faxed image data from the external apparatus, wherein the faxed image data is different from the scanned image data obtained by the scanner, the method comprising:
- setting, via the operation panel, reduction of a consumable material to be used for printing;
- setting whether to store the faxed image data so that the faxed image data is reprintable after the faxed image data is printed;
- controlling to reduce density of the faxed image data received from the external apparatus based on the setting of the reduction of the consumable material in a case where it is set, by the setting whether to store, to store the faxed image data in storage so that the faxed image data is reprintable;
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- outputting the faxed image data received from the external apparatus in a case where it is not set, by the setting whether to store, to store the faxed image data in the storage so that the faxed image data is reprintable.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to cause a computer to perform a method for an image forming apparatus connectable to an external apparatus and configured to reduce a consumable material to be used for printing image data, wherein the image forming apparatus includes an operation panel, a scanner configured to scan a document to obtain image data representing the scanned document, and a receiver configured to receive faxed image data from the external apparatus, wherein the faxed image data is different from the scanned image data obtained by the scanner, the method comprising:
- setting, via the operation panel, reduction of a consumable material to be used for printing;
- setting whether to store the faxed image data so that the faxed image data is reprintable after the faxed image data is printed;
- controlling to reduce density of the faxed image data received from the external apparatus based on the setting of the reduction of the consumable material in a case where it is set, by the setting whether to store, to store the faxed image data in storage so that the faxed image data is reprintable;
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- outputting the faxed image data received from the external apparatus in a case where it is not set, by the setting whether to store, to store the faxed image data in the storage so that the faxed image data is reprintable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.