US 8,009,300 B2Granted

Information processing apparatus, print data generating method, print control program, and computer-readable recording medium

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorShigeki Kuroda

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Abstract

When an Offset or rotation sort output is designated as an output style, whether document data of one copy is printed to one paper (physical sheet) and outputted or not is discriminated. When it is printed to one paper, it is intended to enable the print such that the Offset or rotation output is not performed. An information processing apparatus has: a finishing command setting unit which can set a finishing command to a printer so as to rotation-sort-output or Offset-output the document data; and a counter for counting the number of physical sheets to which the document data of one copy whose output is desired is allocated. The finishing command setting unit sets the finishing command in a manner such that when the document data of one copy is printed onto one physical sheet as a result of the counting by the counter, the rotation sort output or the Offset output is not performed, and when the document data of one copy is printed onto two or more physical sheets, the rotation sort output or the Offset output is performed.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus provided with a printer driver that generates print data to be sent to a printer, comprising:

a setting unit that sets a finishing attribute which indicates whether a finishing processing is to be performed for printed material and a layout attribute which indicates a number of pages to be arranged on a print sheet, in accordance with an instruction input via a user interface provided by the printer driver;
a receiving unit that receives document data from an application;
a reading unit that reads a page from the document data received by said receiving unit;
a determining unit that determines whether a page number of the page read by said reading unit matches the number of pages to be arranged on a print sheet indicated by the layout attribute set by said setting unit, wherein said reading unit reads a next page from the document data received by said receiving unit until said determining unit determines that the page number of the page read by said reading unit matches the number of pages to be arranged on a print sheet;
an incrementing unit that increments a number of physical sheets constituting a printed matter of one copy when said determining unit determines that the page number of the page read by said reading unit matches the number of pages to be arranged on a print sheet;
a generating unit that generates print data such that the printer does not perform the finishing processing based on the finishing attribute set by said setting unit, without receiving an instruction to disable the finishing attribute from a user, when the number of physical sheets incremented by said incrementing unit is one;
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a sending unit that sends the print data generated by said generating unit to the printer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/749,492Filed 16 May 2007 · division
Priority: JP 2000-39617326 Dec 2000
Published: US 2007/0211297 A113 Sep 2007
Granted: 30 Aug 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06K 15/00
Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data
G06K 2215/0011
Accepting output data; Preparing data for the controlling system: characterised by a particular command or data flow, e.g. Page Description…
G06K 2215/0014
Accepting output data; Preparing data for the controlling system: transforming the printer input data into internal codes
G06K 2215/0088
Architecture adapted for a particular function: collated printing

Family

Application10/014,430Parent of this division · filed 14 Dec 2001
US 2007/0211297 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Sep 2007
US 7,233,411 B2Parent of this division
US 2002/0080405 A1Published application
US 8,009,300 B2This patent

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