Sheet processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, storing medium, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi Nonaka
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Abstract
A control includes causing a processing unit to perform a saddle-stitching binding process in which a plurality of sheets are subjected to a binding process and a folding process or a center-folding binding process in which a plurality of sheets are subjected to the folding process, permitting the processing unit to perform the saddle-stitching binding process or the center-folding binding process on a predetermined number of sheets, and controlling such that the number of sheets which are permitted to be subjected to the center-folding binding process is smaller than the number of sheets which are permitted to be subjected to the saddle-stitching binding process.
Claims21
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to execute printing on a first number of sheets based on a job for executing printing on the first number of sheets;
- a sheet processing unit configured to perform a binding process and a folding process for a sheet;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, both the binding process and the folding process in a unit of a second number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets, and to control the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, the folding process in a unit of a third number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets without performing the binding process,
- wherein a maximum value of the second number of sheets is more than a maximum value of the third number of sheets.
A method for controlling a sheet processing apparatus which comprises a printing unit for executing printing on a first number of sheets based on a job for executing printing on the first number of sheets, and a sheet processing unit for performing a binding process and a folding process for a sheet, comprising:
- controlling the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, both the binding process and the folding process in a unit of a second number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets;
- and
- controlling the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing units, the folding process in a unit of a third number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets without performing the binding process,
- wherein a maximum value of the second number of sheets is more than a maximum value of the third number of sheets.
A computer-readable storage medium for storing a computer program for controlling a sheet processing apparatus which comprises a printing unit for executing printing on a first number of sheets based on a job for executing printing on the first number of sheets, and a sheet processing unit for performing a binding process and a folding process for a sheet, comprising:
- a code to control the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, both the binding process and the folding process in a unit of a second number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets;
- and
- a code to control the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, the folding process in a unit of a third number of sheets without performing the binding process,
- wherein a maximum value of the second number of sheets is more than a maximum value of the third number of sheets.
A computer readable computer program for controlling an apparatus which comprises a printing unit for executing printing on a first number of sheets based on a job for executing printing on the first number of sheets, and a sheet processing unit for performing a binding process and a folding process, comprising:
- a code to control the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, both the binding process and the folding process in a unit of a second number of sheets which is less than the number of sheets,
- a code to control the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, the folding process in a unit of a third number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets without performing the binding process,
- wherein a maximum value of the second number of sheets more than a maximum value of the third number of sheets.
An apparatus comprising:
- a printing control unit configured to control a printing unit to execute printing on a first number of sheets based on a job for executing printing on the first number of sheets;
- a sheet processing control unit configured to control a sheet processing unit to perform a binding process and a folding process for a sheet;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, both the binding process and the folding process in a unit of a second number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets, and to control
- the sheet processing unit to perform, for the first number of sheets on which the printing unit executes printing, the folding process in a unit of a third number of sheets which is less than the first number of sheets without performing the binding process,
- wherein a maximum value of the second number of sheets is more than a maximum value of the third number of sheets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.