Print system and print apparatus
OwnerKenji Hisatomiinventor
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Abstract
The present invention provides a print system that can avoid the case where a sheet of photo paper is wastefully used in printing. When an instruction from a user includes an instruction specific to photo printing (an instruction to use a sheet of photo paper, for example) (S203), a host apparatus appends a tag indicating “photo printing” to print content to be transmitted to a printer (S206). When the printer receives the print content from the host apparatus (S251) and the image data included in the received print content cannot be used for the printing (S252: Yes), the printer changes the details of the printing operation as appropriate (S254, S255, and S256) on the basis of the presence or absence of the appended tag (S253), thereby avoiding the case where a sheet of photo paper is wasted.
Claims24
A print system comprising:
- a print content generation unit operable to generate or acquire print content that includes a control code and image data;
- an image data determination unit operable to determine whether or not the image data included in the generated or acquired print content can be used for printing;
- a photo printing judgment unit operable to judge whether or not the printing to be performed using the print content is intended for photo printing;
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- a printing control unit operable to change details of printing processing in accordance with a determination result given by said image data determination unit and a judgment result given by said photo printing judgment unit.
A print apparatus comprising:
- a print content reception unit operable to receive print content that includes a control code and image data;
- an image data determination unit operable to determine whether or not the image data included in the received print content can be used for printing;
- a photo printing judgment unit operable to judge whether or not the printing to be performed using the print content is intended for photo printing;
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- a printing control unit operable to change details of printing processing in accordance with a determination result given by said image data determination unit and a judgment result given by said photo printing judgment unit.
A print method comprising:
- a print content reception step of receiving print content that includes a control code and image data;
- an image data determination step of determining whether or not the image data included in the received print content can be used for printing;
- a photo printing judgment step of judging whether or not the printing to be performed using the print content is intended for photo printing;
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- a printing control step of changing details of printing processing in accordance with a determination result given in said image data determination step and a judgment result given in said photo printing judgment step.
A program for a print apparatus, said program being capable of causing a computer to execute:
- a print content reception step of receiving print content that includes a control code and image data;
- an image data determination step of determining whether or not the image data included in the received print content can be used for printing;
- a photo printing judgment step of judging whether or not the printing to be performed using the print content is intended for photo printing;
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- a printing control step of changing details of printing processing in accordance with a determination result given in said image data determination step and a judgment result given in said photo printing judgment step.
A computer-readable recording medium which stores a computer-executable program, said program comprising:
- a print content reception step of receiving print content that includes a control code and image data;
- an image data determination step of determining whether or not the image data included in the received print content can be used for printing;
- a photo printing judgment step of judging whether or not the printing to be performed using the print content is intended for photo printing;
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- a printing control step of changing details of printing processing in accordance with a determination result given in said image data determination step and a judgment result given in said photo printing judgment step.
A print apparatus equipped with a printing unit which performs printing on a print medium using print content, said print apparatus comprising:
- an image data determination unit operable to determine whether or not image data included in the print content can be used for the printing;
- a medium detection unit operable to detect a type of the print medium which is used by said printing unit;
- a photo print media table in which types of print media used for photo printing are described;
- a photo printing judgment unit operable to judge whether or not the photo printing is intended, on the basis of details described in said photo print media table and the type of the print medium detected by said medium detection unit;
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- a printing control unit operable to abort the printing when said image data determination unit judges that the image data cannot be used for the printing and said photo printing judgment unit judges that the photo printing is intended.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.