US 12,248,720 B2
Image output apparatus using a measured temperature, image output method, and storage medium
Nobukazu Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); and Atsushi Nakamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/101,209.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-013188 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2022; and application No. 2022-166771 (JP), filed on Oct. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0244429 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1263 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1211 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system that includes an image output apparatus, the system comprising:
at least one memory and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit which function as:
a sorting unit configured to sort a plurality of print jobs that are saved in a first saving unit in order based on a temperature to be set associated with a type of print medium to be used in each job, wherein the temperature to be set is a temperature associated with each type of print medium as the temperature to be set in a fixing unit when fixing;
a measured temperature obtaining unit configured to obtain a measured temperature of the fixing unit that fixes an agent applied to the print medium by heat;
a print job identification unit configured to identify, based on the measured temperature obtained by the measured temperature obtaining unit, a print job whose temperature to be set associated with a type of print medium to be used is closest to the measured temperature among the plurality of print jobs sorted by the sorting unit;
a spooling unit configured to spool a plurality of the print jobs identified by the print job identification unit in an order in which the print jobs were identified;
a printing control unit configured to perform control to execute printing the plurality of print jobs by sequentially processing print jobs spooled by the spooling unit so that among the plurality of print jobs, a first print job identified first by the print job identification unit or a print job for which a same type of print medium as the first print job is to be used is processed first;
a determination unit configured to determine whether a next print job is a print job using an other medium type that has not been loaded into the image output apparatus among the plurality of print jobs spooled by the spooling unit; and
a display control unit configured to perform control to display, in a case where the determination unit determines there is a print job using the other medium type, first information representing the other medium type, second information representing a remaining print time for one or more print jobs with a first type of print medium currently loaded in the image output apparatus, and third information representing an approximate time for loading the other medium type image into the image output apparatus.