Print control with interfaces provided in correspondence with printing methods to show status of member printers
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigeki Kuroda, Hidekazu Morooka, Makoto Tomita
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Abstract
Display control is made so as to obtain an optimum setting picture plane in accordance with a change in designation of an outputting method of a distribution printing, a multiple-address printing, an automatic substitute printing, or the like without allowing the user to be conscious thereof.
Claims23
A print control apparatus for controlling a print process, the print control apparatus comprising:
- at least a processor and a memory, cooperating to function as:
- a registration unit configured to register member printers forming a printer group in response to a user instruction, wherein the member printers are selected from a plurality of printers on a network;
- a displaying unit configured to display via a user interface for the print process, after a print instruction is performed by an application program, a list of the member printers registered by the registration unit and to display name information and status information of each of the member printers on the list;
- and
- a designation unit configured to designate, as an output target printer to be used in a current print process for print data of the print instruction performed by the application program, one of the member printers on the list,
- wherein the displaying unit displays the list via the user interface such that the designated member printer and the member printer not designated by the designation unit are listed for a next print process without re-registration by the registration unit.
A print control method performed by a print control apparatus that includes a processor coupled to a memory, the method comprising steps of:
- registering member printers forming a printer group in response to a user instruction, wherein the member printers are selected from a plurality of printers on a network;
- displaying via a user interface for the print process, after a print instruction is performed by an application program, a list of the member printers registered in the registering step and name information and status information of each of the member printers on the list;
- and
- designating, as an output target printer to be used in a current print process for print data of the print instruction performed by the application program, one of the member printers on the list,
- wherein the displaying step includes displaying the list via the user interface such that the designated member printer and the member printer not designated in the designating step are listed for a next print process without re-registration in the registering step.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that when executed causes a computer to perform a method, the method comprising steps of:
- registering member printers forming a printer group in response to a user instruction, wherein the member printers are selected from a plurality of printers on a network;
- displaying via a user interface for the print process, after a print instruction is performed by an application program, a list of the member printers registered in the registering step and name information and status information of each of the member printers on the list;
- and
- designating, as an output target printer to be used in a current print process for print data of the print instruction performed by the application program, one of the member printers on the list,
- wherein the displaying step includes displaying the list via the user interface such that the designated member printer and the member printer not designated in the designating step are listed for a next print process without re-registration in the registering step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.