Post process control apparatus, method of controlling the same, sheet processing system, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10414191-B2
Application number	US-201815893988-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2018
Priority date	Feb 19, 2015
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

The present invention provides a post process control apparatus including a post processing unit configured to perform post processing on a printed sheet printed in accordance with a job, and a method for controlling the same, where the post process control apparatus and the method of controlling the same obtain a number of sheets in one copy of printed sheets instructed by the job, control the post processing unit to, if the obtained number of sheets in one copy is singular, execute the post processing in one batch on printed sheets corresponding to a plurality of copies, and to control the post processing unit to, if the obtained number of sheets in one copy is plural, execute the post processing individually by printed sheets corresponding to one copy.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
a first receiving unit that receives an instruction for instructing to start an image forming job that designates plural copies;
a second receiving unit configured to receive image data of a plurality of pages;
an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet based on the image forming job;
a folding processor that performs a folding processing on sheets conveyed from the image forming unit; and
a controller that obtains a number of sheets per one copy to be formed by the image forming unit based on a number of the plurality of pages of the image data,
wherein, in a case that the number of sheets per one copy is equal to or more than two, the controller controls the folding processor to fold separately each copy of sheets of the sheets formed by the image forming job, and
in a case that the number of sheets per one copy is one, the controller controls the folding processor to collectively fold the plural copies of sheets of the sheets formed by the image forming job.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the folding processing is a center-folding processing.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image forming job includes a setting of a single-sided printing or a double-sided printing.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image forming job includes a setting of a print layout.

5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller obtains the number of sheets per one copy based on a number of originals.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller controls the folding processor to perform plural folding processing for a copy of sheets in a case that the number of sheets per one copy is greater than a maximum number of sheets for a folding capability of the folding processor.

7. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image forming job includes a setting for performing non-bookbinding center-folding processing.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Kanematsu Shinichi

Classifications

• B65H2301/1321

  Printed material · CPC title

• B65H2801/27

  Devices located downstream of office-type machines · CPC title

• B41F33/0009

  Central control units · CPC title

• B65H45/18

  Oscillating or reciprocating blade folders (carried on rotary members B65H45/16) · CPC title

• B65H2301/163

  Bound or non bound, e.g. stapled or non stapled stacking mode · CPC title