Printing apparatus and control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroki Matsushima
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Abstract
If it is determined that a recording medium is set in a first set portion and a recording medium is not set in a second set portion and a print target image is not included in a first region and a print target image is included in a second region in printing data, the printing data is edited so that the print target image included in the second region is printed onto the first set portion and is not printed onto the second set portion.
Claims7
A printing apparatus configured to print an image onto a recording medium, the printing apparatus comprising:
- a determination unit configured to determine whether the recording medium is set in each of first and second set portions in which the recording medium is to be set;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire printing data including a first region corresponding to the first set portion and a second region corresponding to the second set portion;
- an editing unit configured to edit, in a case where it is determined by the determination unit that the recording medium is set in the first set portion and the recording medium is not set in the second set portion and a print target image is not included in the first region and a print target image is included in the second region in the printing data acquired by the acquisition unit, the printing data so that the print target image included in the second region is printed onto the first set portion and is not printed onto the second set portion;
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- a printing unit configured to perform printing based on the printing data edited by the editing unit.
A control method of a printing apparatus that prints an image onto a recording medium, the control method comprising:
- determining whether the recording medium is set in each of first and second set portions in which the recording medium is to be set;
- acquiring printing data including a first region corresponding to the first set portion and a second region corresponding to the second set portion;
- editing, in a case where it is determined by the determining that the recording medium is set in the first set portion and the recording medium is not set in the second set portion and a print target image is not included in the first region and a print target image is included in the second region in the printing data acquired by the acquiring, the printing data so that the print target image included in the second region is printed onto the first set portion and is not printed onto the second set portion;
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- causing the printing apparatus to perform printing based on the printing data edited by the editing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.