INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH PRINT PREVIEW FUNCTION

• US 20070211276A1
• Filed: 03/07/2007
• Published: 09/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Toda, Masanari
• Application Number:
  US11/683,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20070211276A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.130
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1212 achieving reduced delay between job submission and print start
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1229 Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1267 Job repository, e.g. non-scheduled jobs, delay printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1275 Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1284 Local printer device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1286 via local network
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

A printer apparatus of this invention includes a reception unit which receives print job from a host apparatus, a preview information generation unit which generates preview information that indicates layouts of logical pages and finishing processing for respective physical pages to be printed in accordance with job control information and print data included in the print job, when a job type corresponding to the print job is preview, and a transmission unit which transmits the preview information to the host apparatus.

Claims

1. A printer apparatus comprising:

a reception unit adapted to receive a print job from a host apparatus;

a preview information generation unit adapted to generate, when a job type corresponding to the printer control commands is preview, preview information which indicates layouts of logical pages and finishing processing for respective physical pages to be printed in accordance with job setting information and print data included in the print job; and

a transmission unit adapted to transmit the preview information to the host apparatus.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage unit adapted to store, when the job type is preview, the job setting information and the print data included in the print job received by said reception unit;

a rendering unit adapted to generate image data for respective physical pages based on the print setting information and the print data;

an image storage unit adapted to store, when the job type is preview, the image data generated by said rendering unit; and

a merge unit adapted merge, when a job identifier corresponding to the print job received by said reception unit matches a job identifier of a job stored in said storage unit, the job setting information and the print data included in the received print job with already stored job setting information and print data.

3. A printer apparatus comprising:

a reception unit adapted to receive print job from a host apparatus;

a preview information generation unit adapted to generate, when a job type corresponding to the print job is preview, preview information which indicates sizes, orientations, and scaling information of configuring pages in accordance with job control information and print data included in the print job; and

a transmission unit adapted to transmit the preview information to the host apparatus.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a storage unit adapted to store images based on the print job received by said reception unit; and

a print unit adapted to print image data stored in said storage unit in response to a print designation from the host apparatus.

5. A printer apparatus comprising:

a reception unit adapted to receive print job from a host apparatus;

a generation unit adapted to generate, when a job type corresponding to the print job is preview, preview information and image data in accordance with the print job;

a transmission unit adapted to transmit the preview information generated by said generation unit to the host apparatus;

a storage unit adapted to store the image data generated by said generation unit; and

a print unit adapted to print the image data stored in said storage unit in response to a print designation from the host apparatus.