US 7,444,109 B2Granted

Printed matter preparation device, printing data transmission method and apparatus, and recording medium

AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

InventorNobuyuki Kimura

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Abstract

A room for selection of a measure is given to a user before execution of printing in a case where an extra tab sheet is generated in preparing a printed matter in which a plurality of tab sheets constituting one set are inserted in designated page positions. For this, insertion information input means 101 inputs insertion information indicating the page positions of the tab sheets to be inserted in the printed matter, and constituting sheet number acquisition means 102 acquires the number of tab sheets constituting one set. Judgment means 104 judges whether or not the extra tab sheets are generated when the printed matter is prepared from the number of tab sheets inserted in a case where the printed matter is printed in accordance with the set insertion information and the number of tab sheets constituting one set, and notification means 105 notifies a user that the extra tab sheets are generated before start of the printing in a case where the extra tab sheets are generated.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A printing data transmission apparatus which transmits printing data to a printed matter preparation device to prepare a printed matter constituted of a plurality of pages while inserting a special sheet, a plurality of the special sheets constituting one set, into a designated page position sheet by sheet, the apparatus comprising:

insertion information input means into which insertion information indicating the page position of the special sheet to be inserted in the printed matter is input;
judgement means which judges whether or not an extra special sheet is generated if the printed matter is prepared in accordance with the insertion information and the number of special sheets constituting one set;
notification means which notifies that the extra special sheet is generated, when the judgment means judges that the extra special sheet is g generated,
the notification means comprises display means, and the display means displays information indicating a request for selection from a plurality of choices including at least one of re-input of the insertion information, re-setting of the number of special sheets constituting one set, automatic addition to add the extra special sheet to the end of the printed matter, and forced execution of the printing, when the judgment means judges that the extra special sheet is generated;
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selection acceptance means which accepts selection from a plurality of choices including at least one of re-input of the insertion information, re-setting of the number of special sheets constituting one set, automatic addition to add the extra special sheet to the end of the printed matter, and forced execution of the printing, when the judgment means judges that the extra special sheet is generated.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/800,205Filed 12 Mar 2004
Priority: JP 2003-18279126 Jun 2003
Published: US 2004/0263869 A130 Dec 2004
Granted: 28 Oct 2008
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Classification8 codes

G06F 3/1253
Print job management: configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client
G06F 3/1205
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings,…
G06F 3/1284
Specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure: local printer device
G06K 15/007
Interacting with the operator: only remotely, e.g. at a host computer