Printing system, printing apparatus, and dolly designation method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHidenori Sunada, Mitsuhiko Sato, Naoto Watanabe, Takashi Yokoya
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Abstract
A printing system includes, for example, a printing apparatus which forms an image on a sheet, and a plurality of dollies which are assigned different dolly identification information and used to stack the sheet discharged from the discharging port of the printing apparatus. The printing system also includes a designation unit which designates a dolly to be used for a print job, and an output unit which outputs alert information when the dolly designated by the designation unit is not allocated at the discharging port.
Claims17
A printing apparatus which forms an image on a sheet in accordance with an input print job, comprising:
- a designation unit configured to designate a dolly to be used for the print job from among a plurality of dollies which are assigned different dolly identification information and used to stack a sheet discharged from a discharging port of the printing apparatus;
- a dolly detection unit configured to detect dolly identification information of a dolly allocated at the discharging port;
- a notification device configured to notify a user of information;
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- a control unit configured to cause said notification device to notify the user that the dolly designated by said designation unit is not allocated at the discharging port when said dolly detection unit does not detect the dolly identification information of the dolly designated by said designation unit.
A printing system comprising:
- a printing apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet in accordance with an input print job;
- a plurality of dollies configured to be assigned different dolly identification information and used to stack the sheet discharged from a discharging port of said printing apparatus;
- a designation unit configured to designate one dolly to be used for the print job;
- a dolly detection unit configured to detect dolly identification information of the dolly allocated at the discharging port;
- a notification device configured to notify a user of information;
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- a control unit configured to cause said notification device to notify the user that the dolly designated by said designation unit is not allocated at the discharging port when said dolly detection unit does not detect the dolly identification information of the dolly designated by said designation unit.
A dolly designation method in a printing system including a printing apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet in accordance with an input print job, and a plurality of dollies configured to be assigned different dolly identification information and used to stack a sheet discharged from a discharging port of the printing apparatus, the method comprising:
- a designation step of designating a dolly to be used for the print job;
- a dolly detection step of detecting dolly identification information of a dolly allocated at the discharging port;
- a notification step of notifying a user of alert information when the dolly identification information of the dolly designated in the designation step is not detected in the dolly detection step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.