Digital reproduction control method and apparatus having autonom

Details Digital reproduction control method and apparatus having autonom Digital reproduction control method and apparatus having autonom

1997-06-17

2000-10-24

Coles, Edward L.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

Communication

358 113, 358 114, 358401, 399 81, 399 85, 347 3, G06F 1500, G06K 100

Patent

active

061375888

ABSTRACT:
A combined digital reproduction apparatus suitable for making prints in response to actuation of keys on an operating panel (e.g. copies of documents scanned with a scanner) and making prints on its own initiative (prints in accordance with a digital print file received from a network). In this apparatus, a user present at the apparatus for a print order is given priority. The control process of the apparatus for this purpose executes any print orders arriving via the network only if it does not detect any signs indicative of the fact that a user is preparing or executing a reproduction process at the apparatus. Such signs may, for example, be in the form of actuation of a key on the operating panel or the actual execution of a copying order. If the control process detects such signs, it does not start the print orders received via the network. If the control process does not detect such signs, it announces the print order first for a predetermined time period, e.g. by a message on the operating panel display screen, before starting the actual printing process. On detecting activity by an operator at the apparatus, the printing process is canceled and the control process is again exclusively responsive to orders from the operating panel.

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