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Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides an image forming system having a host terminal and an image forming apparatus network-connected to the host terminal, the image forming apparatus having: a printing unit that performs image forming processing based on print data; and a first communication unit that receives print data transmitted from the host terminal via the network, wherein when the received print data matches print data subjected to image forming processing in the past, the first communication unit transmits first printer information corresponding to the print data subjected to image forming processing in the past to the host terminal, and the host terminal includes: a second communication unit that transmits print data to the image forming apparatus via the network and receives first printer information transmitted by the image forming apparatus; and a display unit that displays information based on the first printer information. According to the present application, unnecessary image forming processing can be prevented.
Description
Technical Field
The present invention relates to the field of image formation, and more particularly to an image forming system.
Background
In the related art, when a user forms an image using an image forming apparatus such as a printer, a print job is generally transmitted from a host terminal to the image forming apparatus, and the image forming apparatus performs an image forming process based on print data included in the print job.
Reference documents: japanese patent application laid-open No. 2010-277141.
It should be noted that the above background description is only for the sake of clarity and complete description of the technical solutions of the present invention and for the understanding of those skilled in the art. Such solutions are not considered to be known to the person skilled in the art merely because they have been set forth in the background section of the invention.
Disclosure of Invention
The inventors of the present application found that, in the prior art, if a user sends a print job to a printer, the printer directly performs printing, and the user does not get any prompt even if the same print data has been printed. However, the printed document can be used in common at all times, and it is sometimes not necessary to repeatedly print the same print data. Therefore, unnecessary repeated printing consumes printing consumables and paper, and contributes to environmental pollution and energy waste.
An object of an embodiment of the present application is to provide an image forming system in which, when print data transmitted from a user to an image forming apparatus via a host terminal matches print data that has been subjected to image forming processing, a presentation message is displayed on the host terminal, whereby the user can be notified that the print data has been subjected to image forming processing in the past, thereby preventing unnecessary image forming processing.
According to an embodiment of the present application, there is provided an image forming system having a host terminal and an image forming apparatus network-connected to the host terminal, the image forming apparatus having:
a printing unit that performs image forming processing based on print data; and a first communication unit that receives print data transmitted from the host terminal via a network, wherein when the received print data matches print data subjected to image forming processing in the past, the first communication unit transmits first printer information corresponding to the print data subjected to image forming processing in the past to the host terminal;
the host terminal has:
a second communication unit that transmits print data to the image forming apparatus via a network and receives the first printer information transmitted by the image forming apparatus; and a display unit that displays information based on the first printer information.
The beneficial effects of the embodiment of the application are that: unnecessary image forming processing can be prevented.
Specific embodiments of the present invention are disclosed in detail with reference to the following description and drawings, indicating the manner in which the principles of the invention may be employed. It should be understood that the embodiments of the invention are not so limited in scope. The embodiments of the invention include many variations, modifications and equivalents within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
Features that are described and/or illustrated with respect to one embodiment may be used in the same way or in a similar way in one or more other embodiments, in combination with or instead of the features of the other embodiments.
It should be emphasized that the term "comprises/comprising" when used herein, is taken to specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps or components but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps or components.
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Many aspects of the invention can be better understood with reference to the following drawings. The components in the figures are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention. For convenience in illustrating and describing some parts of the present invention, corresponding parts may be enlarged or reduced in the drawings. Elements and features depicted in one drawing or one embodiment of the invention may be combined with elements and features shown in one or more other drawings or embodiments. Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and may be used to designate corresponding parts for use in more than one embodiment. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a composition of an image forming system of the present embodiment 1;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a constitution of the image forming apparatus of the present embodiment 1;
fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of the host terminal of the present embodiment 1;
fig. 4 is a schematic view of a display screen of the display section of the present embodiment 1;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the image formation management apparatus of the present embodiment 1;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a data structure stored in the second storage unit of the present embodiment 1;
fig. 7 is another schematic view of the display screen of the display section of the present embodiment 1;
fig. 8 is another schematic view of the display screen of the display section of the present embodiment 1;
fig. 9 is a schematic view of the image forming method of the present embodiment 2.
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The foregoing and other features of embodiments of the present invention will become apparent from the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. These embodiments are merely exemplary and are not intended to limit the present invention.
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The embodiment of the application provides an image forming system. Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a composition of the image forming system, and as shown in fig. 1, the image forming system 1000 may include a host terminal 100 and an image forming apparatus 200.
As shown in fig. 1, in the present embodiment, the number of the host terminals 100 may be at least 1, and 2 host terminals 100A and 100B are shown in fig. 1; the number of the image forming apparatuses 200 may be at least 1, and 4 image forming apparatuses 200A, 200B, 200C, and 200D are illustrated in fig. 1; the host terminal 100 and the image forming apparatus 200 may be connected via a network N1, which may be a wired network or a wireless network.
In this embodiment, the host terminal 100 may be a personal computer, a tablet computer, an intelligent terminal, or the like, and the image forming apparatus 200 may be a printer, a copy-print all-in-one machine, a facsimile machine, or the like.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a composition of an image forming apparatus 200 of the present embodiment, and as shown in fig. 2, the image forming apparatus 200 may include a printing section 201 and a first communication section 202.
Wherein the printing section 201 performs image forming processing based on the print data; the first communication unit 202 communicates with the host terminal 100, and receives print data transmitted from the host terminal 100 via a network, and transmits the data and the like to the host terminal 100, for example.
Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a host terminal 100 according to the embodiment, and as shown in fig. 3, the host terminal 100 may include a second communication part 101 and a display part 102.
Among them, the second communication section 101 may communicate with the image forming apparatus 200, for example, the second communication section 101 may transmit print data to the image forming apparatus 200 via a network and receive data transmitted by the image forming apparatus 200; the display unit 102 can perform display.
In the image forming system of the present embodiment, when the print data received by the first communication part 202 of the image forming apparatus 200 matches the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past, the first communication part 202 transmits the first printer information corresponding to the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past to the host terminal 100, the second communication part 101 of the host terminal 100 receives the first printer information transmitted by the image forming apparatus 200, and the display part 102 displays information based on the first printer information.
The user can determine whether or not it is necessary to continue the image forming process on the print data while viewing the information displayed on the display unit 102.
According to the present embodiment, in the case where the print data received by the image forming apparatus coincides with the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past, the corresponding information is displayed on the display section, and therefore, the user can be informed of the fact that the print data has been subjected to the image forming process in the past, thereby preventing unnecessary image forming process.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a display screen of the display unit 102. As shown in fig. 4, when the print data received by the image forming apparatus 200 matches the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past, information 401 based on the first printer information, for example, the character "this print job has been printed by the user a in the past" may be displayed on the display screen M of the display unit 102. Of course, the embodiment is not limited thereto, and the information 401 may also have other contents.
In fig. 4, the display screen M may display, along with the information 401, a content 402 for selecting whether to perform image forming processing on the received print data, where the content 402 may be, for example, an icon prompting the user to print or cancel a print job, and the user selects to print or cancel the print job by clicking the corresponding icon.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the host terminal 100 may further have a printer driver 103, and the printer driver 103 may generate print job data including print data and printer information according to an operation by a user, the print job data being transmitted to the image forming apparatus 200 via the second communication part 101. In this embodiment, the printer driver 103 may be implemented by a printer driver or may be implemented by hardware, which is not limited in this embodiment.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the image forming apparatus 200 may further include a first storage section 203 capable of temporarily storing the print data received by the first communication section 202, and the printing section 201 performs the image forming process based on the print data stored in the first storage section 203 in a case where the print job is selected to be printed, and deletes the print data stored in the first storage section 203 in a case where the print job is selected to be cancelled. Further, in the case where the received print data does not match the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past, the printing section 201 performs the image forming process based on the print data stored in the first storage section 203.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the image forming apparatus 200 may further include a first control section 204. The first control portion 204 can generate the first authentication information from the print data received by the first communication portion 202, for example, the first control portion 204 may hash and encode the print data by using a Message Digest Algorithm 5(Message Digest Algorithm MD5) to form a check code, and use the check code as the first authentication information. In this embodiment, the first control unit 204 may generate the first authentication information by another process, for example, the first control unit 204 may directly extract the file name of the print data as the first authentication information.
In the present embodiment, the first control section 204 may control each component of the image forming apparatus 200, such as the printing section 201, the first communication section 202, the first storage section 203, and the like, so that each component performs a corresponding function.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the image forming system 1000 may further include an image formation management apparatus 300, and the image formation management apparatus 300 is capable of receiving and transmitting information with the image forming apparatus 200.
In the present embodiment, the image formation management apparatus 300 may be an independent server that can be connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses 200 through the network N2, but the present embodiment is not limited thereto, and the image formation management apparatus 300 may be provided in one image forming apparatus 200.
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an image formation management apparatus 300, and as shown in fig. 5, the image formation management apparatus 300 includes a second storage section 301 and a third communication section 302.
Wherein the second storage section 301 stores second authentication information corresponding to print data subjected to image forming processing in the past in association with the first printer information; when the first authentication information matches the second authentication information, the third communication unit 302 transmits the first printer information corresponding to the second authentication information to the image forming apparatus.
In the present embodiment, the second authentication information stored in the second storage portion 301 may be generated by the first control portion 204 based on the print data received by the first communication portion 202 when the image forming process was performed in the past, and the second authentication information may be the same kind of information as the first authentication information, for example, the second authentication information may be information such as a check code or a file name of the print data.
Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a data structure stored in the second storage unit 301, and as shown in fig. 6, 600 indicates one print record, 601 indicates second verification information corresponding to print data subjected to image forming processing in the past, the second verification information 601 may be a check code formed by hash-coding with MD5, and in the second verification information, 6011 indicates the number of blocks (total block numbers) into which the verification information is divided, and 6012 indicates the check code of each block of verification information.
As shown in fig. 6, 602, 603, and 604 indicate first printer information corresponding to the print data, and the first printer information may be, for example, information such as a user name of the first printer, and the first printer information may be derived from print job data corresponding to the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past. As shown in fig. 6, in one print record 600, the same second authentication information 601 may correspond to a plurality of first printer information 602, 603, 604 indicating that the print data has been subjected to the image forming process a plurality of times in the past, and the plurality of first printer information 602, 603, 604 may be the same or different.
Of course, the print record 600 of the present embodiment may have other data structures, for example, only one second authentication information 601 may be stored in correspondence with one first printer information 602, 603, or 604 in one print record 600, and thus, the print record 600 of fig. 6 may be represented as three print records.
As shown in fig. 6, the second storage unit 301 may store time information 602a, 603a, 604a for performing image forming processing, file names 602b, 603b, 604b of print data, file sizes 602c, 603c, 604c of print data, information 602d, 603d, 604d of image forming apparatuses for performing image forming processing, and the like, corresponding to the first printer information 602, 603, 604.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 6, the second storage section 301 may also store the number-of-times information 605 of the image forming process performed on the print data in the past. Further, the present embodiment is not limited to this, and the second storage portion 301 may store other information corresponding to the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past.
In fig. 6, only the data structure of one print record 600 is shown, but the present embodiment is not limited thereto, and the second storage section 301 may store a plurality of print records 600, and each print record 600 may have the data structure shown in fig. 6 or a data structure different from that shown in fig. 6.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the image formation management apparatus 300 may further have a comparison section 303 that compares whether the first authentication information and the second authentication information coincide. For example, when the first authentication information and the second authentication information are both file names, the comparing section 303 may compare whether the two file names coincide; when the first authentication information and the second authentication information are both check codes formed by hash encoding through MD5, the comparison unit 303 may compare whether the numbers of blocks into which the two pieces of authentication information are divided are identical, and respectively compare whether the check codes of each piece of authentication information are identical, and in the case where the numbers of blocks are identical and the check codes of each piece of authentication information are identical, determine that the first authentication information and the second authentication information are identical.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the image formation management apparatus 300 may further have a second control section 304. The second control portion 304 may perform control such that, when the comparison portion 303 compares that the first authentication information and the second authentication information match, the first printer information corresponding to the second authentication information stored in the second storage portion 301 is transmitted to the image forming apparatus 200 via the third communication portion 302, whereby the image forming apparatus 200 can transmit the first printer information to the host terminal 100, and the display portion 102 of the host terminal 100 can display information based on the first printer information, for example, the display portion 102 may display a display screen as shown in fig. 4.
In the present embodiment, the second control portion 304 may also control such that, when the second authentication information that matches the first authentication information corresponds to at least 2 pieces of first printer information, the at least 2 pieces of first printer information are transmitted to the image forming apparatus 200, whereby the image forming apparatus 200 can transmit the at least 2 pieces of first printer information to the host terminal 100, and the display portion 102 of the host terminal 100 can display information based on the at least 2 pieces of first printer information. The second control unit 304 may control the display unit 102 to display the time for performing the image forming process for each first printer by transmitting information such as the past time for performing the image forming process corresponding to the at least 2 pieces of first printer information to the image forming apparatus 200.
Fig. 7 is another schematic view of the display screen of the display unit 102. As shown in fig. 7, in the case where 2 pieces of first printer information correspond to the second authentication information that coincides with the first authentication information, in the display screen M of the display portion 102, information 701 based on the 2 pieces of first printer information may be displayed, and a time 702 at which the image forming process is performed may be displayed for each piece of first printer information.
In this embodiment, the second control unit 304 may control the display unit 102 to display information based on the first printer information by transmitting the first printer information to the image forming apparatus 200 when the first authentication information matches the second authentication information and the second printer information corresponding to the first authentication information matches the first printer information corresponding to the second authentication information.
In the present embodiment, in the case where the first authentication information coincides with the second authentication information corresponding to the coincidence of a predetermined number or more of the first and second printer information, the second control portion 304 may generate alarm information and cause the alarm information and the first printer information to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus 200, whereby the display portion 102 displays information based on the first printer information and information based on the alarm information. According to the present embodiment, when the number of times of image forming processes performed on the same print data by the same printer is a predetermined number or more, alarm information is displayed on the display to alarm the printer. Further, in the present embodiment, the predetermined number may be stored in the second storage section 301 in advance.
Fig. 8 is another schematic view of the display screen of the display unit 102. As shown in fig. 8, when the image formation management apparatus 300 transmits alarm information and first printer information, information 801 based on the first printer information may be displayed and information 802 based on the alarm information may be displayed on the display screen M of the display portion 102.
In the present embodiment, in the case where the image forming apparatus 200 receives the alarm information, the first control portion 204 may control to delete the print data stored in the first storage portion 203 according to the alarm information, thereby prohibiting the same printer from performing the image forming process again for the print data when the number of times of the image forming process performed for the same print data by the same printer is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, for the purpose of saving paper and printing supplies.
According to the present embodiment, in the case where the print data received by the image forming apparatus coincides with the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past, the corresponding information is displayed on the display section, and therefore, the user can be informed of the fact that the print data has been subjected to the image forming process in the past, thereby preventing unnecessary image forming process.
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In embodiment 2, an image forming method corresponding to the image forming system of embodiment 1 is described as an example.
In the present embodiment, the host terminal 100 is a personal computer, the image forming apparatus 200 is a printer, the image forming process control apparatus 300 is a server, and the host terminal 100 is connected to the image forming apparatus 200 via a network, and the image forming process control apparatus 300 is connected to the image forming apparatus 200 via a network. In the present embodiment, the image forming process refers to performing a printing process on print data.
Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the image forming method of the present embodiment 2. As shown in fig. 9, the method includes the steps of:
and S01, sending the print job data. In step S01, the user can operate on the host terminal 100 to select a file desired to be printed and the image processing apparatus 200 to be printed. The printer driver 103 of the host terminal 100 can generate print data corresponding to the file in accordance with the user operation, and can generate print job data corresponding to the present print job by adding second printer information corresponding to the user to the header of the print data, and the print job data is transmitted to the image processing apparatus 200 by the second communication unit 101.
S02, first authentication information is generated, and the print job data is stored in the first storage unit. In step S02, the first control section 204 of the image forming apparatus 200 performs MD5 hash encoding on the print data in the print job data received by the first communication section 202 to generate first authentication information; then, the print job data is stored in the first storage section 203 of the image forming apparatus 200.
And S03, sending the first authentication information and the second printer information. In step S03, the first communication part 202 of the image forming apparatus 200 transmits the first authentication information generated by the first control part 204 and the second printer information in the received print job data to the image formation management apparatus 300.
And S04, storing the first authentication information and the second printer information. In step S04, the second storage unit 301 of the image formation management apparatus 300 may store the first authentication information corresponding to the received present print job in association with the second printer information, the second authentication information and the first printer information corresponding to the print data having been subjected to the print processing in the past being already stored in the second storage unit 301.
S05, it is determined whether or not there is second authentication information that matches the first authentication information. In step S05, the comparing unit 303 of the image formation management apparatus 300 may compare the second verification information stored in the second storage unit 301 with the first verification information one by one to determine whether there is second verification information that matches the first verification information, where the first verification information matches the second verification information as a result of the comparison when the number of blocks of the second verification information is the same as that of the first verification information and the check code of each block is also the same. In the case where the determination result of step S05 is yes, the flow proceeds to S06, and in the case where the determination result of step S05 is no, the flow proceeds to S07.
And S06, sending the first printer information corresponding to the second verification information. In step S06, the second control unit 304 of the image formation management apparatus 300 extracts the first printer information corresponding to the second authentication information that matches the first authentication information, and the first printer information may be, for example, the information indicated by 602 in fig. 6. The first printer information may be transmitted to the image forming apparatus 200 via the third communication part 302 of the image formation management apparatus 300.
S07, in the case where the first authentication information does not match any of the second authentication information stored in the second storage portion 301, the second control portion 304 of the image formation management apparatus 300 may control to transmit instruction information indicating that there is no print history to the image formation apparatus 200 via the third communication portion 302.
S08, the image forming apparatus analyzes the data from the image formation management apparatus. In step S08, the first control section 204 of the image forming apparatus 200 analyzes the data from the image formation management apparatus 300 to identify whether the data is the first printer information or the instruction information without the print history.
S09, it is determined whether or not the print data corresponding to the present print job has been printed. In step S09, the first control section 204 of the image forming apparatus 200 determines whether the print data has been printed or not based on the analysis result of step S08, for example, if the analysis result of step S08 is that the first printer information is received, step S09 determines yes, and if the analysis result of step S08 is that the instruction information that there is no print history is received, step S09 determines no.
And S10, sending the first printer information. If it is determined in step S09 that "yes", the first communication unit 202 of the image forming apparatus 200 transmits the first printer information to the host terminal 100, and the display unit 102 of the host terminal 100 may display information based on the first printer information, and the display unit 102 may display a screen prompting selection of whether to perform printing or cancel printing, for example, the display unit 102 may display a screen M shown in fig. 4.
S11, whether printing is cancelled is judged. In step S11, the user can perform an operation to select to cancel the print job or to continue the print job.
And S12, canceling the printing task. If it is determined in step S11 that "yes", the host terminal 100 transmits a cancel print command to the image processing apparatus 200, and the first control unit 204 of the image processing apparatus 200 performs control to delete the print job data corresponding to the present print job stored in the first storage unit 203.
And S13, printing. When the determination in step S09 is no or the determination in step S11 is no, the first control unit 204 of the image processing apparatus 200 may control the printing unit 201 to perform the printing process based on the print data corresponding to the present print job stored in the first storage unit 203.
After the printing process of step S13, the image forming apparatus 200 may transmit the information of the completion of printing to the image formation management apparatus 300, and thereby the second storage section 301 of the image formation management apparatus 300 may correspondingly store the authentication information, the printer information, the printing time information, the file name of the print data, and/or the size of the print data, and the like, corresponding to the present print job to form one print record 600 as shown in fig. 6, for example.
According to the present embodiment, in the case where the print data received by the image forming apparatus coincides with the print data subjected to the image forming process in the past, the corresponding information is displayed on the display section, and therefore, the user can be informed of the fact that the print data has been subjected to the image forming process in the past, thereby preventing unnecessary image forming process.
While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that these descriptions are illustrative and not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Various modifications and alterations of this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art based upon the spirit and principles of this invention, and such modifications and alterations are also within the scope of this invention.
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1. An image forming system having a host terminal and an image forming apparatus connected to the host terminal via a network,
the image forming apparatus includes:
a printing unit that performs image forming processing based on print data; and
a first communication unit that receives print data transmitted from the host terminal via a network,
wherein the first communication unit transmits, to the host terminal, first printer information corresponding to print data subjected to image forming processing in the past when the received print data matches print data subjected to image forming processing in the past,
the host terminal has:
a second communication unit that transmits print data to the image forming apparatus via a network and receives the first printer information transmitted by the image forming apparatus; and
a display section that displays information based on the first printer information,
the image forming system further has an image formation management device,
the image forming apparatus further has a first control section that generates first authentication information based on the print data received by the first communication section,
the first communication section transmits the first authentication information to the image formation management apparatus,
the image formation management apparatus includes:
a second storage unit that stores second authentication information corresponding to print data on which image forming processing has been performed in the past, in association with the first printer information; and the number of the first and second groups,
and a third communication unit that transmits the first printer information corresponding to the second authentication information to the image forming apparatus when the first authentication information matches the second authentication information.
2. The image forming system according to claim 1,
the image forming apparatus further has a first storage section that stores the print data received by the first communication section,
when the received print data matches print data subjected to image forming processing in the past, the display unit displays information based on the first printer information and also displays a selection of whether or not to perform image forming processing on the received print data,
the printing section performs an image forming process based on the print data stored in the first storage section in a case where it is selected to perform the image forming process,
when the image forming process is selected not to be performed, the print data stored in the first storage unit is deleted.
3. The image forming system according to claim 2,
the printing section performs image forming processing based on the print data stored in the first storage section in a case where the received print data does not match print data subjected to image forming processing in the past.
4. The image forming system according to claim 1,
the image formation management apparatus further includes a comparison unit that compares whether the first authentication information and the second authentication information match.
5. The image forming system according to claim 1,
the display portion displays information based on at least 2 pieces of first printer information in a case where second authentication information that coincides with the first authentication information corresponds to the at least 2 pieces of first printer information.
6. The image forming system according to claim 5,
the display unit displays a past time of image forming processing corresponding to the second verification information that matches the first verification information.
7. The image forming system according to claim 1,
the display unit displays information based on the first printer information when the first authentication information matches the second authentication information and when second printer information corresponding to the first authentication information matches first printer information corresponding to the second authentication information.
8. The image forming system according to claim 7,
the display unit displays information based on the first printer information and information based on warning information together when second authentication information that matches the first authentication information corresponds to a predetermined number or more of the first printer information that is the same as the second printer information.
9. The image forming system according to claim 1,
the first authentication information and the second authentication information include check codes.
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