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US 2017/0253456 A1Published application
Printing control apparatus, binding control apparatus, method for controlling printing control apparatus, and program therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSo Yokomizo
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Abstract
A printing control apparatus configured to control a binding unit configured to perform a binding processing for binding sheets without using a staple includes a control unit that controls the biding unit to divide sheets subjected to printing into sheet groups in units of a number of sheets bindable by the binding unit, and to apply the binding processing to each of sheet groups or controls another binding unit to bind the sheets subjected to printing using a staple.
Claims4
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to print image on a sheet;
- a supporting unit configured to support sheets having image printed by the printing unit;
- a first binder configured to bind sheets on the supporting unit with a staple;
- a second binder, including a first portion and a second portion, configured to bite sheets on the supporting unit by the first portion and the second portion so as to bind the sheets, wherein a number of sheets bindable by the second binder is less than a number of sheets bindable by the first binder;
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- a control unit configured to
- control, in a case where a binding processing by the first binder is specified, the first binder to bind a plurality of sheets subjected to printing by the printing unit,
- control, in a case where a binding processing by the second binder is specified and where a number of sheets subjected to printing by the printing unit is greater than the number of sheets bindable by the second binder, a display unit to display a screen which enables a user to instruct whether or not to divide a plurality of sheets subjected to printing by the printing unit into a plurality of sheet groups,
- divide, in a case where it is instructed by user via the screen to divide the plurality of sheets subjected to printing by the printing unit into the plurality of sheet groups, the plurality of sheets subjected to printing by the printing unit into the plurality of sheet groups,
- control the second binder to bite each sheets of the plurality of sheet groups by the first portion and the second portion so as to bind each sheets in the case where it is instructed by user via the screen to divide the plurality of sheets subjected to printing by the printing unit into the plurality of sheet groups, and
- control the second binder not to bite sheets by the first portion and the second portion in a case where it is instructed by user via the screen not to divide the plurality of sheets subjected to printing by the printing unit into the plurality of sheet groups.
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