Printer, method of controlling printer, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAyuko Ishii
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Abstract
An object is to provide a printer, a method of controlling a printer, and a storage medium which are capable of keeping a user from unintentionally printing pages more than a higher limit page count. To achieve this, if the warning is given in a case where the printer is offline and is to perform printing, the printing is prohibited.
Claims10
A printer capable of being used under a predetermined contract by communicating with a server, the printer comprising:
- a determination unit that determines whether the printer is in a state of being capable of communicating with the server;
- a management unit that manages information indicating that a warning has been made, the printer being notified of the warning in a case where a remaining printable page count in a particular period determined based on the predetermined contract falls below a predetermined value;
- and
- a decision unit that decides whether to execute or prohibit a print operation corresponding to an input print job, wherein
- the decision unit prohibits the print operation corresponding to the print job in a case where the determination unit determines that the printer is not in the state of being capable of communicating with the server, and the management unit is holding the information indicating that the warning has been made.
A method of controlling a printer capable of being used under a predetermined contract by communicating with a server, the method comprising:
- determining whether the printer is in a state of being capable of communicating with the server;
- confirming whether information indicating that a warning has been made is present, the printer being notified of the warning in a case where a remaining printable page count in a particular period determined based on the predetermined contract falls below a predetermined value;
- and
- prohibiting a print operation corresponding to an input print job in a case of determining that the printer is not in the state of being capable of communicating with the server, and confirming the presence of the information indicating that the warning has been made.
A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a printer capable of being used under a predetermined contract by communicating with a server, the program comprising:
- determining whether the printer is in a state of being capable of communicating with the server;
- confirming whether information indicating that a warning has been made is present, the printer being notified of the warning in a case where a remaining printable page count in a particular period determined based on the predetermined contract falls below a predetermined value;
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- prohibiting a print operation corresponding to an input print job in a case of determining that the printer is not in the state of being capable of communicating with the server, and confirming the presence of the information indicating that the warning has been made.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.