System and a program product
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuki Hatakeyama
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Abstract
A system controls at least one of a printer and a binder to perform processing for a case-binding job. The binder performs a case binding by attaching a cover to a bundle of sheets. The printer is used to print the cover which includes a spine region between a front-cover region and a back-cover region. A size of the spine region is selected based on a setting input by an operator via a user interface. The system inhibits the processing for the case-binding job by at least one of the printer and the binder, when a mismatch between the size of the spine region and thickness of the bundle of sheets is determined. On the other hand, when no mismatch is determined, the system permits the processing for the case-binding job by at least one of the printer and the binder.
Claims15
A system configured to control at least one of a printer and a binder to perform processing for a case-binding job, the binder being adapted to perform a case binding by using a bundle of sheets and a cover, the cover having a spine region between a front-cover region and a back-cover region on the same face, the printer being adapted to print front-cover data on the front-cover region and to print back-cover data on the back-cover region, a size of the spine region being based on a setting selected by an operator via a user interface, the system comprising:
- an inhibiter adapted to inhibit the processing for the case-binding job by at least one of the printer and the binder, when a mismatch between the size of the spine region and thickness of the bundle of sheets is determined;
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- a permitter adapted to permit the processing for the case-binding job by at least one of the printer and the binder, when no mismatch between the size of the spine region and thickness of the bundle sheets is determined.
A program product stored in a computer usable storage medium, the program product including a program code for causing a computer system to perform a method for enabling a printer and/or a binder to perform processing for a case-binding job, the binder being adapted to perform case binding using a bundle of sheets and a cover, the cover having a spine region between a front-cover region and a back-cover region on the same face, the printer being adapted to print front-cover data on the front-cover region and to print back-cover data on the back-cover region, the size of the spine region being based on a setting of an operator by a user interface, the method comprising:
- inhibiting the processing for the case-binding job by the printer and/or the binder, when a mismatch between the size of the spine region and thickness of the bundle of sheets occurs;
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- permitting the processing for the case-binding job by the printer and/or the binder, when the mismatch does not occur.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.