Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and image forming system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYouichi MINEGISHI
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus controls a printing process performed by an image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication controller configured to perform communication with the image forming apparatus; a display controller configured to cause a display to display an operation screen for accepting a setting or an operation relating to the printing process; a data transmitter configured to transmit predetermined data by the communication to the image forming apparatus, while the operation screen is being displayed; and a renderer configured to generate print data to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus by the communication, according to the setting or the operation accepted at the operation screen.
Claims18
An information processing apparatus that controls a printing process performed by an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a communication controller configured to perform communication with the image forming apparatus;
- a display controller configured to cause a display to display an operation screen for accepting a setting or an operation relating to the printing process;
- a data transmitter configured to transmit predetermined data by the communication to the image forming apparatus, while the operation screen is being displayed;
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- a renderer configured to generate print data to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus by the communication, according to the setting or the operation accepted at the operation screen.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process performed in an information processing apparatus that performs communication with an image forming apparatus and that controls a printing process performed by the image forming apparatus, the process comprising:
- causing a display to display an operation screen for accepting a setting or an operation relating to the printing process;
- transmitting predetermined data by the communication to the image forming apparatus, while the operation screen is being displayed;
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- generating print data to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus by the communication, according to the setting or the operation accepted at the operation screen.
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus;
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- an information processing apparatus that controls a printing process performed by the image forming apparatus, wherein
- the information processing apparatus includes:
- a communication controller configured to perform communication with the image forming apparatus;
- a display controller configured to cause a display to display an operation screen for accepting a setting or an operation relating to the printing process;
- a data transmitter configured to transmit predetermined data by the communication to the image forming apparatus, while the operation screen is being displayed;
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- a renderer configured to generate print data to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus by the communication, according to the setting or the operation accepted at the operation screen, and wherein
- the image forming apparatus includes:
- a transmitter/receiver configured to start the communication with the information processing apparatus in response to a request from the information processing apparatus;
- a session controller configured to maintain the communication upon receiving the predetermined data by the communication from the information processing apparatus;
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- an image former configured to execute the printing process with respect to the print data transmitted by the communication from the information processing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.