Preview display for multiple-sided printing

• US 8,724,158 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2008
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• 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): Backer, Firmin
• Assistant Examiner(s): PACHOL, NICHOLAS C
• Application Number:
  US12/036,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20080151305A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,272 Days
• Field of Search: 715200-204, 715243-277
• 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 image processing method executed in an information processing apparatus which can communicate with a printing apparatus having an inserter to feed a sheet, comprising:

selecting the inserter for feeding an insert sheet to be inserted in print sheets on which document information is to be printed; and

displaying a preview screen including a preview image of the print sheets based on the document information and an image for the insert sheet, wherein the preview screen indicates a position in which the insert sheet is inserted in the print sheets and displays a number of output sheets, obtained from a number of the print sheets and a number of the insert sheets, and the number of the insert sheets that are fed from the inserter out of the output sheets.

2. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein the image for the insert sheet has a grey background.

3. The information processing method according to claim 1, further comprising setting fold processing on print sheets on which the document information is to be printed,

wherein when the fold processing is set, a preview image indicating that the print sheets are to be folded and an image of the insert sheet indicating that a size of the insert sheets is a half of the print sheets are displayed.

4. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein if a double-sided printing is set, images of a front side and a back side of the insert sheet are displayed.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer-executable program executable by an information processing apparatus, the computer-executable program realizing the information processing method defined in claim 1.

5. An image processing apparatus which can communicate with a printing apparatus, comprising:

a setting unit constructed to select an inserter to feed a sheet for feeding an insert sheet to be inserted in print sheets on which document information is to be printed; and

a display controlling unit constructed to control to display a preview screen including a preview image of the print sheets based on the document information and an image for the insert sheet, wherein the preview screen indicates a position in which the insert sheet is inserted in the print sheets and displays a number of output sheets, obtained from a number of the print sheets and a number of the insert sheets, and the number of the insert sheets that are fed from the inserter out of the output sheets.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the image for the insert sheet has a grey background.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the setting unit further sets fold processing on print sheets on which the document information is to be printed, and

wherein when the fold processing is set, the display control unit displays a preview image indicating that the print sheets are to be folded and an image of the insert sheet indicating that a size of the insert sheets is a half of the print sheets.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein if a double-sided printing is set, images of a front side and a back side of the insert sheet are displayed.