# US 8,270,019 B2 · Print output apparatus and print output system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,270,019 B2 - Document ID: US8270019B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 12/453,049 - Filed: 2009-04-28 - Published: 2009-10-29 - Granted: 2012-09-18 - Earliest claimed: 2008-04-28 - Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Hiroyuki Ataka - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8270019B2 ## CPC - G03G 15/50: {Machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern, e.g. regulating differents parts of the machine, multimode copiers, microprocessor control (sequencing control G03G21/14)} - B65H 33/08: Displacing whole batches, e.g. forming stepped piles - G03G 15/6547: {Shifting sets of sheets in the discharge tray} - G03G 15/6582: {Special processing for irreversibly adding or changing the sheet copy material characteristics or its appearance, e.g. stamping, annotation printing, punching} - G03G 2215/00797: Printing device, i.e. annotation - G03G 2215/0089: Shifting jobs - G03G 2215/00902: Sorting marks of jobs, e.g. on the sheet edges - G03G: ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY - B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES ## Abstract The present invention includes an offset processing section that performs offset processing for shifting a sheet to be outputted in a sheet width direction, a banner output section that prints a job attribute of a print job on a sheet, a job attribute determination section that determines the job attribute of the print job, and a control section that sets offset processing or banner output in the unit of a job attribute or in the unit of a job. When a job attribute of a preceding print job and a job attribute of a subsequent print job are different, offset processing and banner output are executed. When the job attribute of the preceding print job and the job attribute of the subsequent print job are the same, any one of offset processing and banner output is executed. Thereby, printed sheets can be easily obtained in the unit of a job attribute such as in the unit of a user. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A print output apparatus that prints and outputs an image of an inputted print job on a sheet, comprising: an offset processing section that performs offset processing for shifting the sheet to be outputted in a sheet width direction; a banner output section that prints a job attribute of a print job on the sheet; a job attribute determination section that determines the job attribute of the print job; and a control section that sets offset processing and banner output in the unit of a job attribute and in the unit of a job, wherein the control section causes offset processing and banner output to be executed, when a job attribute of a preceding print job and a job attribute of a subsequent print job are different. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the control section causes any one of offset processing and banner output to be executed, when the job attribute of the preceding print job and the job attribute of the subsequent print job are the same. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the control section causes offset processing to be executed in the unit of a job as well as causes banner output to be executed in the unit of a job attribute. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the control section causes banner output to be executed in the unit of a job as well as causes offset processing to be executed in the unit of a job attribute. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the control section causes offset processing and banner output not to be executed, when the job attribute of the preceding print job and the job attribute of the subsequent print job are the same. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: banner output is executed before a first page of the print job is outputted, or executed after a last page of the print job is outputted. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The print output apparatus according to claim 5, wherein: the control section sets whether to execute banner output before outputting the first page of a print job or after outputting the last page of a print job. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the sheet subjected to banner output is ejected either face-up or face-down. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The print output apparatus according to claim 8, wherein: the control section sets whether to eject the sheet face-up or face-down. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the sheet subjected to banner output is different in kind from the sheet on which the image of the print job is printed. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the control section sets whether banner output is executed on a single sheet or on a plurality of sheets. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The print output apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the control section performs a setting by input from an operation panel. ### Claim 13 A print output system, wherein an information processing apparatus is connected through a network to a print output apparatus that prints and outputs an image of an inputted print job on the sheet, and the print output apparatus includes: an offset processing section that performs offset processing for shifting the sheet to be outputted in a sheet width direction; a banner output section that prints a job attribute of a print job on the sheet; a job attribute determination section that determines the job attribute of the print job; and a control section that sets offset processing and banner output in the unit of a job attribute and in the unit of a job, wherein the control section performs a setting by input from the information processing apparatus, and, wherein the control section causes offset processing and banner output to be executed, when a job attribute of a preceding print job and a job attribute of a subsequent print job are different. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The print output system according to claim 13, wherein: the control section causes any one of offset processing and banner output to be executed, when the job attribute of the preceding print job and the job attribute of the subsequent print job are the same. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The print output system according to claim 13, wherein: the control section causes offset processing to be executed in the unit of a job as well as causes banner output to be executed in the unit of a job attribute. ### Claim 16 (depends on 13) The print output system according to claim 13, wherein: the control section causes banner output to be executed in the unit of a job as well as causes offset processing to be executed in the unit of a job attribute. ### Claim 17 (depends on 13) The print output system according to claim 13, wherein: the control section causes offset processing and banner output not to be executed, when the job attribute of the preceding print job and the job attribute of the subsequent print job are the same.