Print control system, print control apparatus, print control method, and storage medium that determine whether printing can be performed based on paper information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10062018-B2
Application number	US-201514747957-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 23, 2015
Priority date	Jul 3, 2014
Publication date	Aug 28, 2018
Grant date	Aug 28, 2018

Abstract

A print control system that controls a printing apparatus having a paper feed unit, the system includes one or more processors operating, to determine whether printing using print data can be performed, based on first paper information included in a print setting in the print data, second paper information that is set in the printing apparatus, and printability information indicating a printable combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus. The first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus each includes both of (i) information regarding a type of paper and (ii) information regarding a size of paper. The printing is controlled using the print data, based on a result of the determination.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A print control system that controls a printing apparatus having a paper feed unit, the system comprising:
one or more processors operating:
to determine whether printing using print data can be performed, based on first paper information included in a print setting in the print data, second paper information that is set in the printing apparatus, and printability information indicating a printable combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus, wherein the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus each includes both of (i) information regarding a type of paper and (ii) information regarding a size of paper; and
to control the printing using the print data, based on a result of the determination,
wherein (i) it is determined that the printing using the print data can be performed in a case in which the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus are matched, (ii) it is determined that the printing using the print data can be performed in a case in which a combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus is the printable combination indicated by the printability information, even if the first paper information included in the printing setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus are not matched, and (iii) it is determined that the printing using the print data cannot be performed in a case in which the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus are not matched and a combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus is not the printable combination indicated by the printability information,
wherein the printability information indicates that the combination of the first paper information and the second paper information is the printable combination, in a case in which the information regarding a type of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a type of paper included in the second paper information satisfy a specific condition, even if the information regarding a size of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a size of paper included in the second paper information are not matched, and
wherein the printability information indicates that the combination of the first paper information and the second paper information is the printable combination, in a case in which the information regarding a size of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a size of paper included in the second paper information satisfy a specific condition, even if the information regarding a type of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a type of paper included in the second paper information are not matched.

2. The print control system according to claim 1 , wherein the first paper information included in the print setting is at least one of first print setting information that is set using a setting screen of a printer driver, and second print setting information that has been changed from the first print setting information based on a predetermined condition.

3. The print control system according to claim 1 , further comprising a display portion configured to display, if it is determined that the printing using the print data cannot be performed, information indicating that the printing using the print data cannot be performed, and the first paper information included in the print setting.

4. The print control system according to claim 1 , wherein the determination is made in one of (i) an information processing apparatus that generates the print data, and (ii) in the printing apparatus.

5. A print control apparatus that outputs print data to a printing apparatus having a paper feed unit, the print control apparatus comprising:
one or more processors operating:
to set first print setting information with respect to the print data that is output to the printing apparatus;
to change the first print setting information into second print setting information based on a predetermined condition;
to transmit the print data to the printing apparatus; and
to control printing using the print data, based on (a) first paper information included in a print setting for print data to be transmitted to the printing apparatus, second paper information that is set in the printing apparatus, and printability information indicating a printable combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus, wherein the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus each includes both of (i) information regarding a type of paper and (ii) information regarding a size of paper, and (b) a result of a determination of whether the print data is printable,
wherein (i) the print data is printable in a case in which the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus are matched, (ii) the print data is printable in a case in which a combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus is the printable combination indicated by the printability information, even if the first paper information included in the printing setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus are not matched, and (iii) the print data is not printable in a case in which the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus are not matched and a combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus is not the printable combination indicated by the printability information,
wherein the printability information indicates that the combination of the first paper information and the second paper information is the printable combination, in a case in which the information regarding a type of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a type of paper included in the second paper information satisfy a specific condition, even if the information regarding a size of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a size of paper included in the second paper information are not matched, and
wherein the printability information indicates that the combination of the first paper information and the second paper information is the printable combination, in a case in which the information regarding a size of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a size of paper included in the second paper information satisfy a specific condition, even if the information regarding a type of paper included in the first paper information and the information regarding a type of paper included in the second paper information are not matched.

6. The print control apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the one or more processors further operate to determine whether the print data is printable, based on the first paper information included in the print setting for the print data, the second paper information that is set in the printing apparatus, and the printability information indicating the printable combinatio

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Inoue Yuki
• Ebuchi Kazuhisa

Classifications

• G06K15/1809 Primary

  relating to the printing process · CPC title

• G06K15/4065

  Managing print media, e.g. determining available sheet sizes (feeding means G06K15/16) · CPC title

• G06K15/1823

  for evaluating the resources needed, e.g. rasterizing time, ink, paper stock · CPC title