Image forming apparatus and information processing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshihito Nanaumi
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Abstract
The object of the present invention is to easily select a file when a user prints. In order to achieve this object, according to this invention, an information processing method in an image forming apparatus which stores a printing history in a print process, includes the steps of displaying accessible files stored in a predetermined storage location, selecting one of the displayed files (step S701), extracting, based on the printing history, a file related to the selected file (steps S703 to S706), and printing an arbitrary file of the selected and extracted files (steps S708 and S709).
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a printing history storage unit configured to store a printing history of a print process;
- a first display unit configured to display accessible files stored in a predetermined storage;
- a selection unit configured to select a file to be printed among the files displayed by said first display unit;
- an extraction unit configured to extract, based on the printing history, a file related to the file selected by said selection unit in accordance with the selection of the file;
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- a printing unit configured to print the file selected by said selection unit, and the file extracted by said extraction unit.
An information processing method in an image forming apparatus which stores a printing history in a print process, comprising:
- a first display step of displaying accessible files stored in a predetermined storage;
- a selection step of selecting a file to be printed among the files displayed in the first display step;
- an extraction step of extracting, based on the printing history, a file related to the file selected in the selection step in accordance with selection of the file;
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- a printing step of printing the file selected in the selection step, and the file extracted in the extraction step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.