US 11,886,757 B2
Image forming apparatus, method, and storage medium storing program
Michinori Shioda, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/873,440.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-132063 (JP), filed on Aug. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0051356 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1205 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1219 (2013.01); G06F 3/1258 (2013.01); G06F 3/1284 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A method executed in an image forming apparatus operable to execute a plurality of printing modes including a first printing mode and a second printing mode, the method comprising:
obtaining a first printable amount corresponding to an upper limit on printing according to the first printing mode and a second printable amount corresponding to an upper limit on printing according to the second printing mode;
in a case where an amount to be printed due to execution of a job designating printing according to the first printing mode exceeds the first printable amount, displaying a screen which is able to accept an instruction for changing printing according to the first printing mode designated by the job to printing according to the second printing mode;
displaying a print setting screen which is able to accept a change of print setting of the job based on the instruction being accepted on the screen,
in a case where an amount printed according to the second printing mode would not exceed the second printable amount if print setting of the job is changed to print setting accepted in the print setting screen, executing the job in which print setting of the job is changed to print setting accepted in the print setting screen, and
in a case where an amount printed on printing according to the second printing mode would exceed the second printable amount even if print setting of the job is changed to print setting accepted in the print setting screen, repeatably displaying the print setting screen until print setting of the job is set such that the amount to be printed on printing according to the second printing mode does not exceed the second printable amount.