Displaying of print layout

• US 20030184806A1
• Filed: 02/06/2003
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nara, Shigeo, Miyazato, Takuya
• Granted Patent: US 7,359,084 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00567 Handling of original or reproduction media, e.g. cutting, separating, stacking

Abstract

Displaying of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed unit, is controlled by setting information on an insert sheet to be inserted in document information, determining for each page of the document information and of the set insert sheet whether or not the page is printable or unprintable, and controlling to differently display a printable page and an unprintable page in accordance with the determination result.

Claims

1. An information processing method of controlling a display of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed unit, comprising:

setting information on an insert sheet to be inserted in document information;

determining for each page of the document information and of the set insert sheet whether or not the page is printable or unprintable; and

controlling to differently display a printable page and an unprintable page in accordance with the determination result.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

setting a sheet discharge method in printing; and

changing a sheet size of an unprintable page on the basis of contents of the set sheet discharge method,

wherein, in controlling to display, the changed sheet size is displayed so as to be recognizable.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determination of whether a page is printable or unprintable is performed based on a printing method.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the printing method includes at least one of single-sided printing, double-sided printing, and bookbinding printing.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of types of sheets include at least one of a front cover, a back cover, slip sheet/sheets, and index sheet/sheets, and the determination of whether a page is printable or unprintable is based on the type of a sheet.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determination of whether a page is printable or unprintable is based on the type of a sheet and the sheet feed unit which feeds the sheet.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sheet feed units include a first sheet feed unit which feeds a sheet to a printing mechanism and a second sheet unit which feeds a sheet to a path bypassing the printing mechanism.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein when a sheet is fed from the second sheet feed unit and when a double-sided printing is designated and a page is a back side of an index sheet, the page is determined to be unprintable in the determination.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein in controlling to display, print contents are displayed on a printable page.

10. The method according to claim 2, wherein when Z-fold is set in the set sheet discharge method, a size of the insert sheet is changed to a half size of the print sheets.

11. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

managing information on the set insert sheet by putting the information into a document file of the document information; and

reading the information on the insert sheet from the document file and outputting the read information to a printer driver when printing the document information of the document file being managed.

23. A storage medium which is readable by an information processing apparatus and stores a program which is executable by the information processing apparatus and has a program code for realizing the information processing method defined in claim 1.

12. An information processing apparatus for controlling a display of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed unit, comprising:

a setting unit adapted to set information on an insert sheet to be inserted in document information;

a determination unit adapted to determine for each page of the document information and of the insert sheet set by said setting unit whether or not the page is printable or unprintable; and

a display controller adapted to control to differently display a printable page and an unprintable page in accordance with a determination result by said determination unit.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12 further comprising:

a discharge method setting unit adapted to set a sheet discharge method in printing; and

a sheet size changing unit adapted to change a sheet size of an unprintable page on the basis of contents set by said discharge method setting unit,

wherein said display controller controls to display the sheet size changed by said sheet size changing unit so as to be recognizable.

14. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said determination unit performs the determination on the basis of a printing method.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the printing method includes at least one of single-sided printing, double-sided printing, and bookbinding printing.

16. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the plurality of types of sheets include at least one of a front cover, a back cover, slip sheet/sheets, and index sheet/sheets, and said determination unit performs determination on the basis of the type of a sheet.

17. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said determination unit performs determination on the basis of the type of a sheet and the sheet feed unit which feeds the sheet.

18. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the sheet feed units include a first sheet feed unit which feeds a sheet to a printing mechanism and a second sheet unit which feeds a sheet to a path bypassing the printing mechanism.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein when a sheet is fed from the second sheet feed unit and when a double-sided printing is designated and the next page is a back side of an index sheet, said determination unit determines that the page is unprintable.

20. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said display controller controls to display print contents on a printable page.

21. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said discharge method setting unit includes a unit adapted to set whether or not to perform Z-fold in discharging a printed sheet, and when Z-fold is set by said discharge method setting unit, said sheet size changing unit changes a size of the insert sheet to a half size of the print sheets.

22. The apparatus according to claim 12 further comprising:

a document manager adapted to manage information on the insert sheet set by said setting means by putting the information into a document file of the document information; and

an output unit adapted to read the information on the insert sheet from the document file and output the read information to a printer driver when printing the document information of the document file managed by said document manager.