Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and control method therefor

• US 7,660,555 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2005
• Issued: 02/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Morita, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Anthony H.
• Application Number:
  US11/148,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20050276641A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,706 Days
• Field of Search: 399/382, 399/381, 399/397
• US Class Current: 399/382
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5087 for receiving image data
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/655 Placing job divider sheet between set of sheets
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00109 Remote control of apparatus, e.g. by a host

Abstract

When no blank page is to be printed (S407) and an interleave page is to be output before or after a page to be printed (S405), if both a page to be printed and an interleave page to be output following the page to be output are blank pages (S406, S408), the page to be output and the interleave page are not printed out (S409).

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of outputting pages to be printed to a print device, comprising:

an interleave page determination unit which determines whether or not to output an interleave page before or after a print target page;

a determination unit which, when said interleave page determination unit determines to output the interleave page before or after the print target page, determines whether or not identical contents are printed on all the interleave pages;

a blank page output determination unit which determines whether or not to permit outputting a blank page;

an output unit which outputs the print target page and the interleave page to the print device, without executing determination by said blank page output determination unit, when said determination unit determines that identical contents are not printed on all the interleave pages to be outputted; and

a control unit which controls said output unit to prevent outputting both the print target page and the interleave page if the print target page is the blank page even if the interleave page is not the blank page, when said determination unit determines that identical contents are printed on all the interleave pages to be outputted and said blank page output determination unit determines that the blank page is not permitted outputting.

2. A method for an information processing apparatus capable of outputting pages to be printed to a print device, comprising:

an interleave page determining step which determines whether or not to output an interleave page before or after a print target page;

a determining step which, when said interleave page determining step determines to output the interleave page before or after the print target page, determines whether or not identical contents are to be printed on all the interleave pages;

a blank page output determining step which determines whether or not to permit outputting a blank page;

an output step which outputs the print target page and the interleave page to the print device, without executing determination by said blank page output determining step, when said determining step determines that the identical contents are not printed on all the interleave pages to be outputted; and

a control step which controls said output step to prevent outputting both the print target page and the interleave page if the print target page is the blank page even if the interleave page is not the blank page, when said determining step determines that identical contents are printed on all the interleave pages to be outputted and said blank page output determining step determines that the blank page is not permitted outputting.