Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasunori Kanai
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus acquires a type of consumable material possessed by the image forming apparatus using a library provided in an application platform, displays forms capable of printing using the type of consumable material acquired, and forms an image using one or more forms designated from among the displayed forms.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus including a form application and an application platform installed in an operating system, the application platform being a control program that allows the form application to operate, and the apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit adapted to acquire a type of consumable material possessed by the image forming apparatus using a library provided in the application platform;
- a display control unit adapted to display forms capable of printing using the type of consumable material acquired by the acquisition unit;
- a designation unit adapted to designate one or more forms from among the forms displayed by the display control unit;
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- an image forming unit adapted to form an image using the one or more forms designated by the designation unit.
A method for an image forming apparatus including a form application and an application platform installed in an operating system, the application platform being a control program that allows the form application to operate, and the method comprising:
- acquiring a type of consumable material possessed by the image forming apparatus using a library provided in the application platform;
- displaying forms capable of printing using the type of consumable material acquired in the acquiring step;
- designating one or more forms from among the forms displayed in the displaying step;
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- forming an image using the one or more forms designated in the designating step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.