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US 2004/0169876 A1Published application
Image formation system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Takahashi
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Takahashi
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In order to relieve the load for an user and smooth an operation of the user in case of mixing each of sheets, on which images are formed by separating jobs, in predetermined page order of the job, color pages in the job outputted from a computer are printed by a color MFP and black/white pages are printed by a black/white MFP. Thereafter, on the computer, it is displayed that each sheaf of sheets has to be set in which bin of a collator, to the user. The user sets a sheaf of sheets printed by each of the MFP's in the collator. The collator mixes color pages with black/white pages. Further, each MFP prints bar codes representing page information or job information. The user sets a sheaf of sheets printed by each of the MFP's in the collator. The collator reads the bar codes to mix the color pages with the black/white pages. Further, in order to relieve the load for the user and smooth an operation of the user in case of mixing each of sheets corresponding to different plural jobs into one group, images of tiff format outputted from the computer are printed by the MFP and images of pdf format outputted from another computer running on another OS are printed by another MFP. Each MFP also prints out bar codes representing page information or job information used in mixing images of plural different jobs into one group. The user sets the sheaf of sheets printed by each of the MFP's, in the collator. The collator reads the bar codes and mixes sheaves of the image formed sheets of plural different jobs into a sheaf group of the sheets.
An image formation system, which has an image formation apparatus and a collator having plural bins used to set sheets connected to a network, comprising:
A control method of an image formation system, which has an image formation apparatus and a collator having plural bins used to set sheets connected to a network, comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium which stores a program to execute a control method for an image formation system, which has an image formation apparatus and a collator having plural bins used to set sheets connected to a network, said method comprising:
An image formation system composed of plural image formation apparatuses which are connected to a network, comprising:
A control method of an image formation system composed of plural image formation apparatuses which are connected to a network, comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium which stores a program to execute a control method for an image formation system composed of plural image formation apparatuses which are connected to a network, said method comprising:
An image formation system composed of one or plural image formation apparatuses connected to a network, comprising:
A control method of an image formation system composed of one or plural image formation apparatuses connected to a network, said method comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium which stores a program to execute a control method for an image formation system composed of one or plural image formation apparatuses connected to a network, said method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.