Print system, client, control method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroaki Nakata
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Abstract
To decrease workloads caused by printing from a Web application and to provide a method for eliminating limitations of computers that can be used, a Web browser accesses a print management server based on an address transmitted from a Web application server in response to a print instruction, receives a print setting screen of an image forming apparatus that prints document data from a print management server, and displays the print setting screen.
Claims6
A print system including a print management server, a Web application server, a client, and an image forming apparatus comprising:
- an address transmission unit, included by the Web application server, configured to transmit both of a first address indicating an address of the print management server and a second address indicating an address of a storage location of document data stored in the Web application server;
- a Web browser, included by the client, configured to refer to the first address transmitted by the address transmission unit, receive information about a print setting screen corresponding to the image forming apparatus from the print management server, and display the print setting screen based on the received information;
- a transmission unit, included by the client, configured to transmit the second address transmitted by the address transmission unit to the print management server;
- an acquisition unit, included by the print management server, configured to acquire print setting information input via the print setting screen displayed by the Web browser and the document data received from the Web application server based on the second address transmitted by the transmission unit;
- a creation unit, included by the print management server, configured to create print data based on the print setting information and the document data acquired by the acquisition unit;
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- a print unit, included by the image forming apparatus, configured to receive the print data created by the creation unit from the print management server and print the received print data.
A client capable of communicating with a Web application server including a Web application and a print management server, the client comprising:
- a Web browser configured to display an operation screen;
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- a transmission unit configured to transmit a print instruction of document data created by operating the Web application using the operation screen of the Web browser, to the Web application server,
- wherein the Web browser accesses the print management server based on an address transmitted from the Web application server in response to the print instruction transmitted by the transmission unit, receives a print setting screen of an image forming apparatus that prints the document data from the print management server, and displays the received print setting screen.
A control method for controlling a client capable of communicating with a Web application server including a Web application and a print management server, the control method comprising:
- displaying via a Web browser an operation screen;
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- transmitting to the Web application server with a transmission unit a print instruction of document data created by operating the Web application using the operation screen of the Web browser,
- wherein the Web browser accesses the print management server based on an address transmitted from the Web application server in response to the print instruction transmitted by the transmission unit, receives a print setting screen for an image forming apparatus that prints the document data from the print management server, and displays the received print setting screen.
A computer-readable storage medium having a program of a Web browser that, when executed by a processor capable of communicating with a Web application server including a Web application and a print management server, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
- displaying an operation screen;
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- instructing the Web application server to print document data created by operating the Web application using the operation screen,
- wherein the Web browser accesses the print management server based on an address transmitted from the Web application server in response to the given print instruction, receives a print setting screen for an image forming apparatus that prints the document data from the print management server, and displays the received print setting screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.