Image outputting apparatus, and archive system including that image outputting apparatus and its control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinichi Kanematsu
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Abstract
When data is output from an archive-function incompatible driver to an archive-function incompatible device, that data is omitted from those to be archived. To this end, an image outputting apparatus of this invention determines whether or not received data has already been archived. When it is determined that the received data has already been archived, an image is outputted based on that received data. When it is determined that the received data has not been archived yet, image outputting of the received data is inhibited. Furthermore, the image outputting apparatus instructs a PC that transmitted the data to install an archive-function compatible driver.
Claims24
An image outputting apparatus for outputting an image based on data received from an external device, comprising:
- a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the received data has already been archived by an external apparatus;
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- a control unit configured to control to output an image based on the received data when said determination unit determines that the received data has already been archived, and to inhibit image outputting operation of the received data when said determination unit determines that the received data has not been archived yet.
An archive system in which at least one information processing apparatus, an image outputting apparatus, and an archive server are connected via a network, comprising:
- a unit configured to control the information processing apparatus to transfer job data to the archive server to archive the job data;
- a unit configured to control the information processing apparatus to transmit the job data, which is appended with information indicating that the job data has already been archived, to the image outputting apparatus;
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- a unit configured to control the image outputting apparatus, which received the job data including the information indicating that the job data has already been archived, to execute image outputting based on the job data without archiving the job data by the archive server.
An archive system in which at least one information processing apparatus, an image outputting apparatus, and an archive server are connected via a network, comprising:
- a unit configured to control the information processing apparatus to transfer job data to the image outputting apparatus;
- a determination unit configured to determine, in the image outputting apparatus, whether or not information indicating that the job data has already been archived is appended to the job data;
- a unit configured to control the archive server to archive the job data when said determination unit determines that the information indicating that the job data has already been archived is not appended to the job data;
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- a sending unit configured to send a message that prompts to install an archive function from the image outputting apparatus to the information processing apparatus, when said determination unit determines that the information indicating that the job data has already been archived is not appended to the job data.
A method of controlling an image outputting apparatus for outputting an image based on data received from an external device, comprising:
- a determination step of determining whether or not the received data has already been archived;
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- a control step of controlling to output an image based on the received data when it is determined in the determination step that the received data has already been archived, and to inhibit image outputting of the received data when it is determined in the determination step that the received data has not been archived yet.
A method of controlling an archive system in which at least one information processing apparatus, an image outputting apparatus, and an archive server are connected via a network, comprising:
- a step of controlling the information processing apparatus to transfer job data to the archive server to archive the job data;
- a step of controlling the information processing apparatus to transmit the job data, which is appended with information indicating that the job data has already been archived, to the image outputting apparatus;
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- a step of controlling the image outputting apparatus, which received the job data including the information indicating that the job data has already been archived, to execute image outputting based on the job data without archiving the job data by the archive server.
A method of controlling an archive system in which at least one information processing apparatus, an image outputting apparatus, and an archive server are connected via a network, comprising:
- a step of controlling the information processing apparatus to transfer job data to the image outputting apparatus;
- a determination step of determining, in the image outputting apparatus, whether or not information indicating that the job data has already been archived is appended to the job data;
- a step of controlling the archive server to archive the job data when it is determined in the determination step that the information indicating that the job data has already been archived is not appended to the job data:
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- a sending step of sending a message that prompts to install an archive function from the image outputting apparatus to the information processing apparatus, when it is determined in the determination step that the information indicating that the job data has already been archived is not appended to the job data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.