PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20160044194A1
• Filed: 07/24/2015
• Published: 02/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Wakana, Toru
• Application Number:
  US14/809,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20160044194A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0032 with a medium handling apparatus, e.g. a sheet sorter handling thin or filamentary material, e.g. sheets B65H
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00466 displaying finishing information, e.g. position of punch holes or staple or orientation references
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00631 Ejecting or stacking H04N1/00641 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00663 Indicating relating to handling of media
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A printing apparatus according to the present invention prints onto sheets in accordance with a print job, and includes a stacking unit that receives the printed sheets and stacks the sheets, and that is able to eject the stacked sheets so that an operator can remove the sheets. It is then determined whether or not sheets are stacked on the stacking unit. Control is carried out so that the stacked sheets are ejected when execution of a print job, if a setting for ejecting the stacked sheets each time a number of sheets corresponding to a designated number of copies have been stacked on the stacking unit is made for the print job and it has been determined that sheets are stacked in the stacking unit.

Claims

1. A printing apparatus comprising:

a printing unit that prints onto sheets in accordance with a print job;

a stacking unit that receives the sheets printed by the printing unit and stacks the sheets, and that is able to eject the stacked sheets so that an operator can remove the sheets;

a determination unit that determines whether or not sheets are stacked on the stacking unit; and

a control unit that, when a setting for ejecting the stacked sheets each time a number of sheets corresponding to a designated number of copies have been stacked on the stacking unit is made for a print job and it is determined by the determination unit that sheets are stacked on the stacking unit, carries out control so that the sheets stacked on the stacking unit are ejected when execution of the print job starts.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the stacking unit includes:

a lift table that receives and stacks the sheets printed by the printing unit; and

an eject table that receives the sheets stacked on the lift table and ejects the sheets out of the printing apparatus.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein after the sheets stacked on the lift table have been moved to the eject table, the lift table is in a state in which the lift table is able to receive and stack sheets printed by the printing unit.

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein when the eject table is ejected out of the printing apparatus and the sheets stacked on the eject table have been removed, the eject table returns to a state in which the eject table is able to receive sheets stacked on the lift table.

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a notification unit that performs a predetermined notification, in the case where the setting is performed for the print job and it has been determined by the determination unit that sheets are stacked on the stacking unit and the sheets stacked on the stacking unit are in a state in which the stacked sheets cannot be ejected.

6. The printing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the state in which the stacked sheets cannot be ejected is a state in which sheets remain stacked on the eject table that has been ejected out of the printing apparatus.

7. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit configured to make the setting.

8. A method for controlling a printing apparatus, the method comprising:

printing onto sheets in accordance with a print job;

receiving and stacking the sheets printed in the printing, and discharging and stacking the sheets printed in the printing on a stacker capable of ejecting the stacked sheets so that an operator can remove the sheets;

determining whether or not sheets are stacked in the stacker; and

carrying out control so that, when a setting for ejecting the stacked sheets each time a number of sheets corresponding to a designated number of copies have been stacked on the stacking unit is made for a print job and it is determined in the determining that sheets are stacked in the stacker, the sheets stacked in the stacker are ejected when execution of the print job starts.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which is stored a program for causing a computer to function as respective units of a printing apparatus comprising:

a printing unit that prints onto sheets in accordance with a print job;

a stacking unit that receives the sheets printed by the printing unit and stacks the sheets, and that is able to eject the stacked sheets so that an operator can remove the sheets;

a determination unit that determines whether or not sheets are stacked on the stacking unit; and

a control unit that, when a setting for ejecting the stacked sheets each time a number of sheets corresponding to a designated number of copies have been stacked on the stacking unit is made for a print job and it is determined by the determination unit that sheets are stacked on the stacking unit, carries out control so that the sheets stacked on the stacking unit are ejected when execution of the print job starts.