Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming system control method, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKou HIRAIKE
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive data via a network, a printing unit configured to print an image based on the data received from the receiving unit, and a control unit configured to control the receiving unit to refuse a data reception based on a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) when a toner remaining amount for the printing unit is less than a predetermined value, wherein the printing unit is configured to print, in the case that the receiving unit receives page description language (PDL) data, an image based on the received PDL data even if the toner remaining amount is less than the predetermined value.
Claims11
A system comprising:
- a first image forming apparatus;
- and
- a second image forming apparatus,
- wherein the first image forming apparatus comprises:
- a first control unit;
- a first image forming unit;
- a first receiving unit configured to receive data;
- and
- a transferring unit configured to transfer the data received by the first receiving unit to the second image forming apparatus,
- wherein the second image forming apparatus comprises:
- a second receiving unit configured to receive the data transferred from the first image forming apparatus;
- a second image forming unit configured to perform image forming based on the data received by the second receiving unit;
- and
- a second control unit configured to perform notification to the first image forming apparatus on the basis that it is determined that a remaining amount of toner used by the second image forming unit for performing the image forming is less than a predetermined value, and
- wherein the first control unit controls the first image forming unit to perform the image forming based on the data received by the first receiving unit in response to reception of the notification from the second image forming apparatus.
A first image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first control unit;
- a first image forming unit;
- a first receiving unit configured to receive data;
- and
- a transferring unit configured to transfer the data received by the first receiving unit to a second image forming apparatus,
- wherein the second image forming apparatus comprises:
- a second receiving unit configured to receive the data transferred from the first image forming apparatus;
- a second image forming unit configured to perform image forming based on the data received by the second receiving unit;
- and
- a second control unit configured to perform notification to the first image forming apparatus on the basis that it is determined that a remaining amount of toner used by the second image forming unit for performing the image forming is less than a predetermined value, and
- wherein the first control unit controls the first image forming unit to perform the image forming based on the data received by the first receiving unit in response to reception of the notification from the second image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.