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US 2007/0177176 A1Published application
Printing apparatus and printing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidekazu Morooka
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Abstract
A printing method and apparatus, the method and apparatus including inputting a print job, printing the print job, selecting an output mode in which sheets of the print job are either reversed or not reversed before being output to a stacking unit. When printing is performed based on a second print job subsequent to printing performed based on a first print job, the second print job is output in the same output mode as that of the first print job.
Claims13
A printing apparatus comprising:
- an input unit configured to input a print job including image data for a plurality of pages;
- a printing unit configured to perform printing on a plurality of sheets based on the print job input by the input unit;
- a stacking unit configured to stack the plurality of sheets printed by the printing unit;
- a reversing unit configured to reverse at least one sheet printed by the printing unit before the at least one sheet is placed on the stacking unit;
- and
- a selecting unit configured to select either a first output mode in which at least one sheet printed by the printing unit is reversed by the reversing unit and output to the stacking unit or a second output mode in which at least one sheet printed by the printing unit is output to the stacking unit without being reversed by the reversing unit,
- wherein, when printing is performed based on a second print job subsequent to printing performed based on a first print job, the selecting unit selects an output mode selected for outputting the first print job as an output mode for the second print job.
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A method for printing, the method comprising:
- inputting a print job including image data for a plurality of pages;
- printing on a plurality of sheets based on the print job input in the inputting step;
- selecting either a first output mode in which at least one printed sheet is reversed and output to a stacking unit or a second output mode in which at least one printed sheet is output to the stacking unit without being reversed;
- and
- stacking, on the stacking unit, the plurality of printed sheets output in a selected output mode,
- wherein, when printing is performed based on a second print job subsequent to printing performed based on a first print job, an output mode selected for outputting the first print job is selected as an output mode for the second print job.
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A printing system, the system comprising:
- a printing apparatus;
- and
- a sheet processing apparatus,
- wherein the printing apparatus comprises:
- an input unit configured to input a print job including image data for a plurality of pages;
- a printing unit configured to perform printing on a plurality of sheets based on the print job input by the input unit;
- a stacking unit configured to stack the plurality of sheets printed by the printing unit;
- a reversing unit configured to reverse at least one sheet printed by the printing unit before the at least one sheet is placed on the stacking unit;
- and
- a selecting unit configured to select either a first output mode in which at least one sheet printed by the printing unit is reversed by the reversing unit and output to the stacking unit or a second output mode in which at least one sheet printed by the printing unit is output to the stacking unit without being reversed by the reversing unit,
- wherein, when printing is performed based on a second print job subsequent to printing performed based on a first print job, the selecting unit selects an output mode selected for outputting the first print job as an output mode for the second print job, and
- wherein the sheet processing apparatus performs sheet processing on the plurality of sheets processed by the printing unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.