US 12,265,743 B2
Print job processing apparatus, print job processing method, image forming apparatus, and computer readable storage medium
Yutaka Saotome, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/328,604.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-093161 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0401017 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1219 (2013.01) [G06F 3/125 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
15. A print job processing method of processing print jobs for nesting printing, the print job processing method comprising:
arranging images of the received print jobs side by side in a width direction of a sheet;
calculating a margin width of the sheet for already-arranged images; and
replacing a replaceable image with an image of a newly-received print job in a case where the image of the newly-received print job is not arrangeable in a margin with the margin width calculated for the already-arranged images, the replaceable image being an image included in the already-arranged images, and the replaceable image being such an image that the margin width after replacement of the replaceable image with the image of the newly-received print job is equal to or longer than zero and is shorter than the margin width before the replacement,
wherein when a total width obtained by adding a width of the image of the newly-received print job to a length obtained by adding up widths of the already-arranged images is longer than a width of a printable region in the sheet, determine that the image of the newly-received print job is not arrangeable in the margin with the margin width calculated for the already-arranged images.