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US 8,526,043 B2Granted
Printing system, printing method, and printing control apparatus for splitting document
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorTamotsu Sakuraba
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Abstract
The printing system according to the present invention has a number-of-pages accepting part for accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages; and a control part for controlling a printer output operation of the document in such a way that each of the split documents obtained by splitting the document from the first page sequentially in the splitting unit will undergo printer output process configured via a printing setting screen.
Claims8
A printing system, comprising:
- a number-of-pages accepting part for accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages;
- a control part for controlling a printer output operation of said document in such a way that each of split documents obtained by splitting said document from the first page sequentially in said splitting unit will undergo a printer output process configured via a printing setting screen;
- a page-number accepting part for accepting user-specified page number for said split documents among the page numbers starting with page 1 corresponding to the first page of each split document;
- and
- a process content accepting part for accepting user-specified content of per-page printer output process for the page corresponding to said page number, wherein
- said control part further controls said printer output operation in such a way that each of said split documents will undergo said per-page printer output process accepted by said process content accepting part, with respect to the page corresponding to said page number, and
- said page-number accepting part comprises:
- an input accepting part for accepting user input of a page number;
- a comparing part for comparing said page number accepted by said input accepting part with said splitting unit;
- and
- a nullifying part for nullifying said page number accepted by said input accepting part if said page number is greater than said splitting unit.
8 more elements
A printing method, comprising:
- (a) accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages;
- (b) controlling a printer output operation of said document in such a way that each of split documents obtained by splitting said document from the first page sequentially in said splitting unit will undergo a printer output process configured via a printing setting screen;
- (c) accepting user-specified page number for said split documents among the page numbers starting with page 1 corresponding to the first page of each split document;
- and
- (d) accepting user-specified content of per-page printer output process for the page corresponding to said page number, wherein
- in said step (b), said printer output operation is further controlled in such a way that each of said split documents will undergo said per-page printer output process accepted in said step (d), with respect to the page corresponding to said page number, and
- said step (c) comprises:
- (c1) accepting user input of a page number;
- (c2) comparing said page number accepted in said step (c1) with said splitting unit;
- and
- (c3) nullifying said page number accepted in said step (c1) if said page number is greater than said splitting unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.