Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenta Matsui
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus that analyzes and prints a job including a plurality of documents, comprises: a management unit configured to obtain information of a page to be printed, which is designated in the job, and manage the information as a print range; and an analysis unit configured to analyze each of the plurality of documents included in the job, wherein the analysis unit calculates the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents, and based on the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents, specifies the page to be printed indicated by the print range out of the plurality of documents.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus that analyzes and prints a job including a plurality of documents, comprising:
- a management unit configured to obtain information of a page to be printed, which is designated in the job, and manage the information as a print range;
- and
- an analysis unit configured to analyze each of the plurality of documents included in the job,
- wherein said analysis unit calculates the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents, and based on the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents, specifies the page to be printed indicated by the print range out of the plurality of documents.
A control method of an image forming apparatus that analyzes and prints a job including a plurality of documents, comprising:
- a management step of obtaining information of a page to be printed, which is designated in the job, and managing the information in a storage unit as a print range;
- and
- an analysis step of analyzing, by an analysis unit, each of the plurality of documents included in the job,
- wherein in the analysis step, the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents is calculated, and the page to be printed indicated by the print range out of the plurality of documents is specified based on the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as:
- a management unit configured to obtain information of a page to be printed, which is designated in a job including a plurality of documents, and manage the information as a print range;
- and
- an analysis unit configured to analyze each of the plurality of documents included in the job,
- wherein said analysis unit calculates the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents, and based on the number of pages of each of the plurality of documents, specifies the page to be printed indicated by the print range out of the plurality of documents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.