PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS

• US 20150029549A1
• Filed: 07/23/2014
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: MURATA, Mareyuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,406,007 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• 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 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1258 by updating job settings at the printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1809 relating to the printing process
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1823 for evaluating the resources needed, e.g. rasterizing time, ink, paper stock
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/4065 Managing print media, e.g. determining available sheet sizes feeding means G06K15/16

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a printing apparatus, and a first controller configured to generate a first print job designating one of a plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus, and a second print job not designating any one of the plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus. A printing apparatus includes an image forming unit, an operation unit, and a second controller configured to determine whether a print job received from the image processing apparatus is the first print job or the second print job. When the first print job is received, the second controller controls the image forming unit to execute the first print job using the sheet tray designated by the first print job, while when the second print job is received, it is executed using a sheet tray designated through the operation unit.

Claims

1. A printing system having an image processing apparatus and a printing apparatus which are communicatably connected with each other, the printing apparatus having a plurality of sheet trays respectively accommodating sheets on which images to be formed, the image processing apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with the printing apparatus; and

a first controller configured to;

generate a first print job and a second print job, the first print job designating one of the plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus, the second print job not designating any one of the plurality of sheet tray of the printing apparatus; and

transmit a generated one of the first print job and the second print job to the printing apparatus,

the printing apparatus comprising;

a communication unit configured to communicate with the image processing apparatus;

a image forming unit;

an operation unit; and

a second controller,

wherein the controller determines whether a received print job which is received from the image processing apparatus is the first print job or the second print job,

wherein, when the receive print job is the first print job, the controller controls the image forming unit to form an image, based on the first print job, on a sheet accommodated in the sheet tray designated by the first print job, and

wherein when the received print job is the second print job, the controller controls the image forming unit to form an image, based on the second print job, on a sheet accommodated in a sheet tray which is designated through the operation unit.

2. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the first controller is configured to:

determine whether a first condition is satisfied;

determine whether a second condition which is different from the first condition is satisfied;

generate the first print job when the first condition is satisfied; and

generate the second print job when the second condition is satisfied.

3. The printing system according to claim 2, wherein:

the first controller is configured to acquire user designation of one of the plurality of sheet trays of the printing apparatus;

the first condition includes the user designation of the sheet tray of the printing apparatus; and

the first print job designating the sheet tray according to the user designation.

4. The printing system according to claim 3, wherein:

the first controller is configured to further acquire user selection of the second print job; and

the second condition includes the user selection of the second print job.

5. The printing system according to claim 2, wherein:

the first controller is configured to acquire a user instruction to execute a secure printing; and

the second condition includes the user instruction to execute a secure printing.

6. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first print job includes a tray-designating command; and

the second print job does not include the tray-designating command.

7. The printing system according to claim 6, wherein:

the second controller determines that the received print job is the first print job when the tray-designating command is included in the received print job; and

the second controller determines that the received print job is the second print job when the tray-designating command is not included in the received print job.

8. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the first controller is configured to:

acquire user selection of the first print job designating the sheet tray and the second print job;

acquire user designation of a sheet type;

obtain information of the plurality of trays from the printing apparatus;

determine whether the sheet type designated by the user matches the obtained information; and

enable selection of the second print job when the sheet type designated by the user does not match the obtained information.

9. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the first controller is configured to:

acquire user designation of a sheet type;

obtain information of the plurality of trays from the printing apparatus;

determine whether the sheet type designated by the user matches the obtained information; and

disable selection of the second print job when the sheet type designated by the user matches the obtained information.

10. The printing system according to claim 9, wherein:

the image processing apparatus has a display;

the first controller is configured to display selectable items including the plurality of trays and the second print job, the second print job being displayed but not selectable when the sheet type designated by the user matches the obtained information.

11. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a printing apparatus; and

a controller,

wherein the controller is configured to generate a first print job and a second print job to be transmitted to the printing apparatus through the communication unit, the first print job designating one of a plurality of sheet trays of the printing apparatus to be used when the first print job is executed, the second print job not designating any one of the plurality of sheet trays of the printing apparatus and requiring designation of one of the plurality of sheet trays through the printing apparatus when the first print job is executed.

12. A printing apparatus having a plurality of sheet trays configured to respectively accommodate sheets on which images to be formed,

the printing apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an image processing apparatus;

a image forming unit;

an operation unit; and

a controller,

wherein the controller determines whether a print job which is received from the image processing apparatus through the communication unit is a first print job or a second print job, the first print job including a command designating a sheet tray to be used for printing, the second print job not including the command designating any sheet tray,

wherein, when the receive print job is the first print job, the controller controls the image forming unit to form an image, based on the first print job, on a sheet accommodated in the sheet tray designated by the first print job, and

wherein when the received print job is the second print job, the controller controls the image forming unit to form an image, based on the second print job, on a sheet accommodated in a sheet tray which is designated through the operation unit.