JP2007144674A - Image processing apparatus, output controlling method, storing medium and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize setting for printing to an image processing apparatus, changing and correcting its setting for a user and to efficiently print data of an electronic paper when the data of the electronic paper is printed. <P>SOLUTION: The electronic paper displaying the data inputted by a set displaying style is connected to the image processing apparatus. Then, the data and the displaying style are obtained from the electronic paper connected. A constitution is characterized in that a controlling means reflects the displaying style obtained to an initial setting of a printing part for printing the data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to output control of an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format.

  With the development of the information society, the performance of display media such as CRTs and liquid crystals is also improving rapidly. However, these display media are not superior to paper that has been used as an information medium for a long time in terms of readability and ease of handling.

  Therefore, a new display medium called electronic paper has recently been proposed as a flexible display medium that can be handled like paper.

  A volatile or non-volatile liquid crystal is used as a display medium specified for the electronic paper, and display data disappears when the electronic paper is turned off.

  On the other hand, the non-volatile display medium has an advantage that the displayed image is maintained as it is even when the power of the electronic paper is turned off. By using this non-volatile electronic paper, it can be handled like a sheet of paper.

A technology is disclosed that accepts information indicating print settings and print instructions from a user, stores a plurality of setting values of various parameters when printing one copy, and displays an image according to the plurality of print settings on a preview screen. It is described in Document 1.
JP 2004-70661 A

  However, when an image displayed on electronic paper is printed by an image processing apparatus such as a digital multi-function peripheral, it may be desired to print the screen image of the display image as it is. Even in such a case, it is inconvenient because it is necessary to input various print settings such as the number of copies, output paper size, Nin1, and double-sided settings as set by a conventional printer driver.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. An object of the present invention is to print the electronic paper data, so that the user can set the print settings for the image processing apparatus and the burden of changing or correcting the settings. It is to provide a mechanism that can be mitigated.

  The image processing apparatus of the present invention that achieves the above object has the following configuration.

An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
Obtaining means for obtaining data and display format from the electronic paper;
Control means for reflecting the display format acquired by the acquisition means to an initial setting of a printing unit for printing the data;
It is characterized by having.

An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
Obtaining means for obtaining data and display format from the electronic paper;
Setting means for setting priorities of a plurality of setting attributes that can be reflected in the setting in the printing unit;
And control means for reflecting the data acquired by the acquisition means to the initial setting of the printing unit for printing based on the priority set by the setting means.

  The output control method of the present invention that achieves the above object has the following configuration.

An output control method in an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
An acquisition step of acquiring data and a display format from the electronic paper;
A control step of reflecting the display format acquired in the acquisition step on an initial setting of a printing unit that prints the data.

An output control method in an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
An acquisition step of acquiring data and a display format from the electronic paper;
A setting step for setting priorities of a plurality of setting attributes that can be reflected in the setting in the printing unit;
And a control step of reflecting the data acquired in the acquisition step in an initial setting of a printing unit for printing based on the priority set in the setting step.

  According to the present invention, when printing electronic paper data, the user can minimize the print settings for the image processing apparatus and change or modify the settings, and can efficiently print the electronic paper data.

  Next, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<Description of system configuration>
[First Embodiment]
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a configuration of a digital multi-function peripheral and electronic paper that can be applied to the image processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Note that the electronic paper 101 and the digital multifunction peripheral 102 are connected by a predetermined interface.

  The predetermined interface can use various communication I / Fs such as wired and wireless.

  In FIG. 1, an electronic paper 101 is an electronic paper that can be displayed in various display formats such as a double-sided display function, a 2-in-1 display function, and a display density setting.

  Next, the digital multifunction peripheral 102 is a multifunction peripheral that can be connected to the electronic paper 101, and can be connected to the electronic paper 101 and can be printed in the display format of the image displayed on the electronic paper 101.

  The electronic paper 101 can communicate with a data processing device (not shown), a portable terminal device, etc. via a communication I / F with an external device (not shown), and stores data to be displayed, display conditions for the data, and the like. Has internal memory.

  Note that the printing conditions may be designated directly from the electronic paper 101 by displaying a UI screen (not shown), designated from the communicable host side, or selected by the user from those registered in advance. .

  The electronic paper 101 uses a charged bead, a blue liquid and white charged particles (for example, titanium oxide particles) are placed in a microcapsule, and the electronic paper 101 performs display by controlling the polarity applied to the electrode. Some are due to electrophoresis. In the application of the present invention, the difference in display method does not disturb the application.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the image processing apparatus illustrated in FIG. This example is a configuration example of the digital multi-function peripheral 102 shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 2, a scanner device 201 reads a document in a mode (for example, paper size, resolution, density, etc.) designated by the operation unit display device 203 or the like, and a printer device 202 discharges a document to be printed, such as a finisher. Output to the output tray via the device.

  The operation unit display device 203 is used by the user to perform various setting operations, and the device displays an operation state and the like.

  The encoding / combining device 204 encodes the image information to be transmitted into data and compresses the data, while compositing the received compressed data to restore the original image information.

  The system memory 205 includes a RAM unit and a ROM unit, and stores information registered in advance in the apparatus.

  The page memory 206 expands image information for one page when encoding / combining.

  The system control unit 207 is a microcomputer that monitors and controls each control unit, device, HD (hard disk), and the like in this block diagram. The external connection terminal 208 is a terminal to which electronic paper can be connected, and connects the electronic paper to the external connection terminal when printing an image displayed on the electronic paper. A network I / F 209 is connected to a NETWORK network such as a LAN and communicates with other NETWORK devices. An HD (hard disk) 210 is composed of a non-volatile memory, and stores received documents, scanned documents, and the like.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of print initial value priority order setting information stored in the image processing apparatus shown in FIG. This print initial value priority order setting information is stored in the hard disk 210 or a non-volatile memory (NVRAM) not shown, and the print initial value priority order setting information is referred to at the time of initialization processing at power-on. The The print initial value priority order setting information is information that can be set by the user.

  In FIG. 3, the initial value priority order indicates what information is given priority over the initial values of various print settings during printing. That is, when the user selects the document print setting priority 301, it means that the print setting of the document itself displayed on the electronic paper 101 is reflected as the initial value of the print setting when the digital MFP 102 prints. ing.

  Further, when the user selects the electronic paper display setting priority 302, it means that it is reflected as an initial value of the print setting when the digital multifunction peripheral 102 prints according to the display setting displayed on the electronic paper. These pieces of information can store a flag for determining whether or not the setting is valid.

  By reflecting this display setting on the initial value of the print setting of the digital multifunction peripheral 102, the user can print the image as it is displayed on the electronic paper without changing the print setting of the digital multifunction peripheral. It becomes.

  For example, when 2in1 is displayed on both sides of the electronic paper, when printing is performed by the digital multi-function peripheral 102, 2in1 and duplex are printed without changing or resetting the print settings.

  Lastly, it means that when the user selects the actual printer setting priority 303, the print setting on the digital multifunction peripheral 102 side is reflected as the initial value of the print setting, not the print setting on the electronic paper side.

  The image processing apparatus configured as described above includes the following characteristic configuration in the present embodiment.

  The digital multi-function peripheral 102 is configured to be able to communicate with the electronic paper 101 that displays input data in a set display format. And it has the acquisition function which acquires data and a display format from the electronic paper 101. FIG. Specifically, data and a display format are acquired from the electronic paper 101 at a timing when the electronic paper 101 is connected to the external connection terminal 208 via a predetermined communication interface.

  Then, the system control unit 207 performs control based on the control procedure shown in FIG. 5 to reflect the acquired display format on the initial setting of the printing unit that prints the data.

  Note that the system control unit 207 includes a setting function for setting the priority order of a plurality of setting attributes that can be reflected in the setting to the printer device 202 via a UI screen (not shown) displayed on the operation unit display device 203. The set priorities are stored in the data format shown in FIG. 3 in the HD 210 shown in FIG.

  Further, based on the priority set by the setting function, the system control unit 207 performs control for reflecting the acquired display format on the initial setting of the printing unit that prints the data in the control procedure shown in FIG. Based on.

  The plurality of setting attributes are any of the settings according to the acquired display format (electronic paper display settings shown in FIG. 3, document print settings based on the acquired data, and print settings based on the operation unit display device 203.

  The display format includes Nin1 in which a plurality of pages are arranged and displayed within one page, the original size of the paper to be displayed, the orientation of the paper to be displayed, the magnification of the data to be displayed, the density of the data to be displayed, the resolution of the data to be displayed, It includes the display color mode of the data to be displayed and the surface of the paper to be displayed.

  The system control unit 207 has a determination function for determining whether or not the print setting initialized in the display format acquired from the electronic paper 101 is acceptable.

  Thereby, the data acquired from the electronic paper 101 can be printed by a method preferred by a user other than the display type.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of a data processing procedure in the electronic paper according to the present invention. This processing corresponds to the control procedure on the electronic paper 101 side until the image displayed on the electronic paper 101 is connected to the digital multifunction peripheral and a print start instruction is transmitted. S401 to S407 indicate each step. Each step is realized by executing a control program loaded from the internal memory by the controller in the electronic paper 101.

  In step S401, it is determined whether or not the controller of the electronic paper 101 that can be changed to various display settings changes the display settings. If the user determines to change the display setting, the process proceeds to step S402. If the user determines not to change the display setting, the process proceeds to step S404.

  In step S402, the same display size as that of the recording paper such as A3, B4, A4, B5 is set as the display original size. Also, Nin1 (layout) such as 4in1 and 2in1 is set.

  Also, the vertical and horizontal lengths of displayed images such as A4-R and A4-H are set. Further, a change in display magnification such as 80% or 120% is set. Further, display color mode settings such as double-sided display setting, display density setting, display resolution setting, full color, monochrome, and two-color designation are performed. It is assumed that data to be displayed is received via an interface (not shown).

  In step S403, the image data is displayed on the electronic paper 101 in accordance with the display setting changed in step S402.

  Next, in step S404, the controller determines whether a request for printing an image displayed on the electronic paper 101 that can be displayed with various display settings is instructed. If it is determined that a print request instruction has been issued, the process proceeds to step S405. If it is determined that a print request instruction has not been issued, the process returns to step S401 to continue the operation on the electronic paper 101. .

  In step S405, the user connects to the digital multifunction peripheral 102 via a predetermined communication interface in order to print the image displayed on the electronic paper 101.

  Next, in step S406, the electronic paper 101 monitors the connection with the digital multi-function peripheral 102. If the controller recognizes that the connection with the digital multi-function peripheral 102 has been performed, the process proceeds to step S407.

  In step S407, the electronic paper 101 transmits the display setting data set in step S402 together with the image data displayed on the electronic paper 101 to the digital multi-function peripheral 102, and the process ends.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of a data processing procedure in the image processing apparatus according to the present invention. This processing corresponds to a control procedure on the digital multi-function peripheral 102 side from reception of a print instruction from the electronic paper 101 by the system control unit 207 to printing of an electronic paper display image. S501 to S509 indicate each step. Each step is realized by executing a control program loaded from the internal memory by the controller in the electronic paper 101.

  In step S <b> 501, the system control unit 207 of the digital multifunction peripheral 102 waits for a connection instruction with the electronic paper 101 that can be connected to the external connection terminal 208 and a print instruction from the electronic paper 101 after connection. If there is a print instruction, the process proceeds to step S502.

  Next, in step S502, the system control unit 207 receives image data and display setting data (information set in step S402 shown in FIG. 4) sent from the electronic paper 101 in the RAM and HD 210 in the system memory 205. Save to.

  Next, in step S503, the system control unit 207 refers to the print initial value priority order setting (print initial value wired order setting information shown in FIG. 3) of the user data part in the system memory 205 in the digital multifunction peripheral 102. . Then, the system control unit 207 acquires setting information of any one of the document print setting priority 301, the electronic paper display setting priority 302, and the actual printer setting priority 303.

  When it is determined that the print initial value priority order setting shown in FIG. 3 is the document print setting priority 301, the process proceeds to step S504.

  On the other hand, if it is determined that the electronic paper display setting priority 302 is set, the process proceeds to step S505.

  If it is determined that the actual printer setting priority 303 is set, the process proceeds to step S506.

  Note that flag information (not shown) is set in the print initial value wired rank setting information 300 shown in FIG. 3 and is stored in the system memory 205 in a state indicating which one of 301 to 303 is valid. ing. Further, the flag state can be freely changed by an instruction from the operation unit display device 203.

  When the process proceeds to step S504, the print setting of the document originally possessed by the document data is set as the initial print setting value in the system memory 205, and the process proceeds to step S507. That is, since the user mode setting prioritizes the print setting of the document itself, the print setting of the document originally stored in the document data stored in the HD 210 is set as the initial value of the print setting in the system memory 205. Set as.

  When the process proceeds to step S505, the user mode setting is a setting that prioritizes the print setting of the digital multi-function peripheral 102, which is a printing machine. Therefore, the print setting set in the system memory 205 is used as an initial value. Then, the process proceeds to step S507.

  If the process proceeds to step S506, the display setting data stored in the RAM unit in the system memory 205 is set as the initial value of the print setting, and the process proceeds to step S507. That is, since the user mode setting prioritizes the display setting displayed on the electronic paper 101, the display setting data stored in the RAM section in the system memory 205 is set as the initial value of the print setting. .

  As data stored in the RAM section in the system memory 205, display document sizes such as A3, B4, A4, and B5, Nin1 print settings such as 4in1, 2in1, and A4-R and A4-H are displayed. Includes portrait / landscape settings. In addition, as data stored in the RAM section in the system memory 205, display magnification change settings such as 80% and 120%, double-sided display settings, display density settings, display resolution settings, display colors such as full color, monochrome, and two-color designation For example, mode setting. The data is reflected in the initial values of the print settings of the print document size, Nin1 print settings, portrait / landscape settings, print magnification settings, duplex settings, print density settings, print resolution settings, and print color mode settings. In the present embodiment, “double-sided setting” in electronic paper refers to print setting when printing information displayed on both sides of electronic paper when electronic paper is configured to be capable of double-sided display. This is information set with the duplex setting ON as the initial value.

  In step S507, a print confirmation screen reflecting the initial print setting value is displayed on the operation unit screen controlled by the operation unit display device 203 under the control of the system control unit 207.

  In this embodiment, although displayed on the operation unit screen, it may be displayed on the electronic paper 101 connected to the digital multifunction peripheral 102. Further, it may be displayed both on the operation unit screen and on the electronic paper 101 connected to the digital multifunction peripheral 102. The displayed print conditions can be changed by a change operation from the conventional print print setting.

  Next, in step S508, after confirming the print settings on the print confirmation screen, the user determines whether a request for printing is instructed.

  If it is determined that a print request has not been instructed, this process ends.

  If it is determined in step S508 that a print request is instructed, the process advances to step S509. Then, the system control unit 207 starts printing the image data stored in the HD 210 with the print settings currently displayed on the operation unit display device 203 from the printer device, and ends this processing.

  Note that the image data stored in the HD 210 is image data received from the electronic paper 101.

  According to the above-described embodiment, when printing the data of the electronic paper 101, the user can minimize the print setting for the digital multifunction peripheral 102 and the change or correction of the setting. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the operation burden from the print setting to the change of the image data displayed on the electronic paper 101, and to efficiently display the display data.

  In other words, by setting the display displayed on the electronic paper 101 as the default (initial value) of the print settings for the digital multifunction peripheral 102, the user need only change the settings other than the display settings when printing. . As an example other than the display setting, the setting item is unique to the digital multifunction peripheral 102. For example, output paper size, finisher setting such as stapling, stamp function addition setting, etc. are good examples.

[Second Embodiment]
In the above-described embodiment, the image data stored in the HD 210 has been described as printing image data received from the electronic paper 101.

  However, it may be controlled to print a logo, other user data, or data that has been combined with form data registered in the hard disk 210.

  Further, the image data stored in the HD 210 may be controlled to be printed by performing predetermined image processing on the image data received from the electronic paper 101.

[Third Embodiment]
In the embodiment described above, the image data stored in the HD 210 has been described as printing image data received from the electronic paper 101.

  However, after printing the image data, the operation unit display device 203 is inquired to the user as to whether or not to delete the image data displayed on the electronic paper 101. If the user instruction is an erasure instruction, an instruction to erase the image data displayed on the electronic paper 101 is issued.

  Thereby, the erasing process of the printed image data by the user with the electronic paper 101 alone can be reduced.

[Fourth Embodiment]
In the above-described embodiment, the image data stored in the HD 210 has been described as printing image data received from the electronic paper 101.

  On the other hand, the attribute of the image data displayed on the electronic paper 101 is managed to determine whether the received image data has been requested to maintain confidentiality. If it is determined that a confidentiality request has been made, the image data displayed on the electronic paper 101 may be erased to be transmitted to the electronic paper 101 when it is confirmed that printing has been completed. Good.

  Thereby, the user's management burden for highly confidential image data can be reduced. In addition, with the retention characteristic for the display image data unique to the electronic paper 101, it is possible to quickly cancel the situation where confidential image data is retained as displayed.

[Fifth Embodiment]
In the above-described embodiment, the image data stored in the HD 210 has been described as being printed with the display conditions of the image data received from the electronic paper 101 reflected in the print settings.

  However, there are cases where the digital multi-function peripheral 102 cannot reflect all the items set in the display conditions in the print settings. For example, when the paper setting can select only the vertical feed paper, the display setting may occur in landscape orientation.

  Therefore, it is determined whether or not all display settings can be reflected in the print settings when they are reflected in the print settings. Then, the determination result is displayed on the operation unit display device 203 to notify the user whether or not the item that cannot be set is changed to the item that can be set. Then, when printing becomes possible due to a change in print settings from the user in response to the notification, printing is executed.

  On the other hand, when the display settings cannot be reflected in the print settings, the execution of printing itself may be canceled to control unnecessary printing.

  As a result, when the display settings intended by the user cannot be reflected, useless printing processing may be restricted to improve user convenience.

  According to the embodiment, by reflecting the display setting displayed on the electronic paper as the initial value of the print setting, the user can print the image displayed on the electronic paper, in other words, as it is viewed. Printing can be performed without change.

  In addition, a change operation from the print setting with the display setting as an initial value can be performed, and the user can change the setting from the image display format displayed on the electronic paper, and the operation procedure at the time of the change can be reduced.

  In addition, by giving priority settings for print settings in the user mode, it is possible to initialize the print settings that the document originally has, the print settings of the digital multifunction peripheral, and the electronic paper display settings according to user preferences. It becomes.

[Sixth Embodiment]
The configuration of a data processing program that can be read by an image processing system to which the electronic paper and the image processing apparatus according to the present invention are applied will be described below with reference to the memory maps shown in FIGS.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a memory map of a storage medium that stores various data processing programs readable by the electronic paper according to the present invention.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a memory map of a storage medium that stores various data processing programs readable by the image processing apparatus according to the present invention.

  Although not particularly illustrated, information for managing a program group stored in the storage medium, for example, version information, creator, etc. is also stored, and information depending on the OS on the program reading side, for example, a program is identified and displayed. Icons may also be stored.

  Further, data depending on various programs is also managed in the directory. In addition, a program for installing various programs in the computer, and a program for decompressing when the program to be installed is compressed may be stored.

  The functions shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 in the present embodiment may be performed by a host computer by a program installed from the outside. In this case, the present invention is applied even when an information group including a program is supplied to the output device from a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, a flash memory, or an FD, or from an external storage medium via a network. Is.

  As described above, the storage medium storing the software program code for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to the system or apparatus. It goes without saying that the object of the present invention can also be achieved by the computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus reading and executing the program code stored in the storage medium.

  In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

  Therefore, as long as it has the function of the program, the form of the program such as an object code, a program executed by an interpreter, or script data supplied to the OS is not limited.

  As a storage medium for supplying the program, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, MO, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, DVD, etc. Can be used.

  In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

  As another program supply method, a browser on a client computer is used to connect to an Internet home page. Then, the computer program itself of the present invention or a compressed file including an automatic installation function can be downloaded from the homepage by downloading it to a recording medium such as a hard disk. It can also be realized by dividing the program code constituting the program of the present invention into a plurality of files and downloading each file from a different homepage. That is, a WWW server, an ftp server, and the like that allow a plurality of users to download a program file for realizing the functional processing of the present invention on a computer are also included in the claims of the present invention.

  In addition, the program of the present invention is encrypted, stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, distributed to users, and key information for decryption is downloaded from a homepage via the Internet to users who have cleared predetermined conditions. Let It is also possible to execute the encrypted program by using the key information and install the program on a computer.

  In addition, the functions of the above-described embodiments are not only realized by executing the program code read by the computer. For example, based on an instruction of the program code, an OS (operating system) running on the computer performs part or all of the actual processing. Needless to say, the process includes the case where the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized.

  Further, the program code read from the storage medium is written in a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer. After that, based on the instruction of the program code, the CPU of the function expansion board or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the processing of the above-described embodiment is realized by the processing. Needless to say.

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications (including organic combinations of the embodiments) are possible based on the spirit of the present invention, and these are excluded from the scope of the present invention. is not.

  Although various examples and embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, those skilled in the art will not limit the spirit and scope of the present invention to the specific description in the present specification.

1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a digital multifunction peripheral and electronic paper that can be applied to an image processing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram explaining the structure of the image processing apparatus shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of print initial value priority order setting information stored in the image processing apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the data processing procedure in the electronic paper which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the data processing procedure in the image processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a figure explaining the memory map of the storage medium which stores the various data processing program which can be read with the electronic paper which concerns on this invention. It is a figure explaining the memory map of the storage medium which stores the various data processing program which can be read with the image processing apparatus which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Electronic paper 102 Digital compound machine 201 Scanner apparatus 202 Printer apparatus 203 Operation part display apparatus 204 Coding decoding apparatus 205 System memory 206 Page memory 207 System control part 208 External connection terminal 209 Network I / F
210 HD (hard disk)
211 Bus

Claims (14)

An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
Obtaining means for obtaining data and display format from the electronic paper;
Control means for reflecting the display format acquired by the acquisition means to an initial setting of a printing unit for printing the data;
An image processing apparatus comprising: An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
Obtaining means for obtaining data and display format from the electronic paper;
Setting means for setting priorities of a plurality of setting attributes that can be reflected in the setting in the printing unit;
Control means for reflecting the data acquired by the acquisition means on the initial setting of the printing unit for printing based on the priority set by the setting means;
An image processing apparatus comprising:   The plurality of setting attributes are any one of setting by the display format acquired by the acquiring unit, setting by the data acquired by the acquiring unit, and print setting by an operation unit. The image processing apparatus described.   The display format includes Nin1 in which a plurality of pages are arranged and displayed within one page, the original size of the paper to be displayed, the orientation of the paper to be displayed, the magnification of the data to be displayed, the density of the data to be displayed, the resolution of the data to be displayed, and the display 3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display color mode of data to be displayed and a sheet surface to be displayed.   The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the display format at a connection timing of the electronic paper.   6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a determination unit that determines whether or not the print setting that is initially set in the display format acquired by the control unit is acceptable. An output control method in an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
An acquisition step of acquiring data and a display format from the electronic paper;
A control step of reflecting the display format acquired by the acquisition step on an initial setting of a printing unit for printing the data;
An output control method characterized by comprising: An output control method in an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with electronic paper that displays input data in a set display format,
An acquisition step of acquiring data and a display format from the electronic paper;
A setting step for setting priorities of a plurality of setting attributes that can be reflected in the setting in the printing unit;
Based on the priority set in the setting step, a control step for reflecting the data acquired in the acquisition step in an initial setting of a printing unit for printing;
An output control method characterized by comprising:   9. The plurality of setting attributes are any one of setting by the display format acquired by the acquiring step, setting by the data acquired by the acquiring unit, and print setting by an operation unit. The output control method described.   The display format includes Nin1 in which a plurality of pages are arranged and displayed within one page, the original size of the paper to be displayed, the orientation of the paper to be displayed, the magnification of the data to be displayed, the density of the data to be displayed, the resolution of the data to be displayed, and the display 9. The output control method according to claim 7, further comprising a display color mode of data to be displayed and a sheet surface to be displayed.   The output control method according to claim 7, wherein the acquisition step acquires the display format at a connection timing of the electronic paper.   The output control method according to claim 6, further comprising a determination step of determining whether or not the print setting initialized in the display format acquired in the control step is possible.   A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the output control method according to claim 7.   A program for causing a computer to execute the output control method according to any one of claims 7 to 12.

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