Preview display for multiple-sided printing

• US 7,359,084 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2003
• Issued: 04/15/2008
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon; King Y.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhu; Richard Z
• Application Number:
  US10/359,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20030184806A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,895 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.18, 358/451, 358/1.13, 358/537, 399/391, 399/364, 715/517, 715/522, 715/525, 715/526, 715/527
• 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, comprising:

a first setting step of setting insert sheet information related to an insert sheet to be inserted in the print sheets on which the document information was printed;

a determining step of determining whether each face of the insert sheet is a printable face on which the document information can be printed or an unprintable face on which the document information cannot be printed on the basis of a type of insert sheet specified by the insert sheet information; and

a controlling step of controlling to display, for each face of the insert sheet, an image of the printable face if the face of the insert sheet is determined in said determining step to be a printable face or an image of the unprintable face if the face of the insert sheet is determined in said determining step to be an unprintable face so that the images of the printable face and the unprintable face are distinguishable from each other before print data based on the document information is transmitted to the printing apparatus

wherein the sheet feed unit includes a first sheet feed tray which feeds a sheet to a printing mechanism and a second sheet tray which feeds a sheet to a path bypassing the printing mechanism, and

wherein, when the insert sheet is fed from the second sheet feed tray, both faces of the insert sheet are determined in the determination step to be unprintable, and when a double-sided printing is designated and the insert sheet is an index sheet, the back face of the insert sheet is determined in the determination step to be unprintable.

2. An information processing apparatus for controlling a display of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus, comprising:

a setting unit adapted to set insert sheet information related to an insert sheet to be inserted in the print sheets on which the document information was printed;

a determination unit adapted to determine whether each face of the insert sheet is a printable face on which the document information can be printed or an unprintable face on which the document information cannot be printed on the basis of a type of insert sheet specified by the insert sheet information; and

a display controller adapted to display, for each face of the insert sheet, an image of the printable face if the face of the insert sheet is determined by said determination unit to be a printable face or an image of the unprintable face if the face of the insert sheet is determined by said determination unit to be an unprintable face so that the images of the printable face and the unprintable face are distinguishable from each other before print data based on the document information is transmitted to the printing apparatus wherein the sheet feed unit includes a first sheet feed tray which feeds a sheet to a printing mechanism and a second sheet tray which feeds a sheet to a path bypassing the printing mechanism, and

wherein, when the insert sheet is fed from the second sheet feed tray, both faces of the insert sheet are determined by the determination unit to be unprintable, and when a double-sided printing is designated and the insert sheet is an index sheet, said determination unit determines that the back face of the insert sheet is unprintable.