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US 7,023,569 B2Granted
Method, apparatus, computer product program and computer readable recording medium for confirming contents of edited file
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorOsamu Kizaki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus, method, and computer program product, in which image data stored in a file can be printed in two printing modes when a sample printing mode is selected. A first page printing mode is a mode in which only a first page of a selected file is printed. A designated page range printing mode is a mode in which a designated page range of the selected file is printed in order of pages. A mismatch between the number of pages of the selected file and a designated page range is judged. When the mismatch arises, a warning is displayed on a display device of the image forming apparatus to give the warning to an operator.
Claims52
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a storage device configured to store input image information;
- a printer configured to print the image information stored in said storage device on a recording medium;
- a management data storage device configured to handle a cluster of the image information stored in said storage device as a file and to store image management data and file management data of the image information;
- a file selector configured to select a plurality of files to be printed;
- a printing mode selector configured to select between (1) a representative page printing mode in which an arbitrary page number is input and image information of the input page of each of the plurality of files selected by said file selector is printed and (2) a sample printing mode in which a starting page number and an ending page number are input and the image information of the input range of pages of each of the plurality of files selected by said file selector is printed;
- a page range designating device configured to designate a range of pages to be printed according to the page number input in the selected printing mode;
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- a controller configured to read image information of a page range designated by said page range designating device in each of the plurality of files selected by said file selector out of image information stored in said storage device based on the management data stored in said management data storage device and to print the read image information by said printer, when a print start instruction is provided with the printing mode selected by said printing mode selector and the page range is designated by said page range designating device.
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A method for controlling an image forming apparatus having a sample printing mode in which image information of a range of pages of a plurality of selected files is printed, the range of pages being designated by inputting a starting page number and an ending page number, comprising:
- reading only image information of a first page of the plurality of selected files out of stored image information and printing the read image information when an instruction to print the first page of the plurality of selected files is provided in the sample printing mode;
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- reading image information of a designated page range of the plurality of selected files out of stored image information and printing the read image information when an instruction to print the designated page range of the plurality of selected files is provided in the sample printing mode when the designated page range is specified by inputting the starting page number and the ending page number.
A computer readable medium storing a program for controlling an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a first computer code for judging whether or not a plurality of files to be printed is selected;
- a second computer code for selecting a representative page printing mode in which an arbitrary page number is input and the image information of the input arbitrary page number of each of the plurality of selected files is printed or a sample printing mode in which a starting page number and an ending page number are input and the image information of the input range of pages of each of the plurality of selected files is printed, when the plurality of files is selected;
- a third computer code for selecting a first page printing mode to print a first page of each of the plurality of selected files or a designated page printing mode to print a designated page range of each of the plurality of selected files in order of page, when the sample printing mode is selected;
- a fourth computer code for designating a page range according to the input of the page numbers when the designated page printing mode is selected;
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- a fifth computer code for reading and printing image information of the designated page range of each of the plurality of selected files when an instruction to print is provided with the page range designated.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- storage means for storing input image information;
- printer means for printing the image information stored in said storage means on a recording medium;
- management data storage means for handling a cluster of the image information stored in said storage means as a file and for storing image management data and file management data of the image information;
- file selector means for selecting a plurality of files to be printed;
- printing mode selector means for selecting between (1) a representative page printing mode in which an arbitrary page number is input and the image information of the input page number of each of the plurality of files selected by said file selector means is printed and (2) a sample printing mode in which a starting page number and an ending page number are input and the image information of the input range of pages of each of the plurality of files selected by said file selector means is printed;
- page range designating means for designating a range of pages to be printed according to the page number input in the selected printing mode;
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- controller means for reading image information of a page range designated by said page range designating means in each of the plurality of files selected by said file selector means out of image information stored in said storage means based on the management data stored in said management data storage means and for printing the read image information by said printer means, when a print start instruction is provided with the printing mode selected by said printing mode selector means and the page range designated by said page range designating means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.