US 12,391,036 B2
Output device, output system, and output method
Tadashi Kasai, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Tadashi Kasai, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Nov. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/518,767.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-189545 (JP), filed on Nov. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0173968 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B65H 37/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/04541 (2013.01) [B41J 2/04586 (2013.01); B65H 37/04 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1254 (2013.01); B65H 2301/1635 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
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1. An output device communicably connected with a post-processing apparatus for executing post-processing on an output product output from the output device, the output device comprising:
circuitry configured to:
receive a processing setting pattern that is determined in accordance with an output condition of the output product and corresponding to an operation to be performed by the post-processing apparatus, the output condition, and image data of an image to be formed on the output product; and
control output of the image data using the post-processing apparatus based on the processing setting pattern and the output condition, wherein
in a case in which the output condition indicates to reduce an amount of operation of the post-processing apparatus from a home position,
the processing setting pattern is determined to be a print setting pattern in which the amount of operation of the post-processing apparatus is reduced as compared with a case in which the output condition indicates not to reduce the amount of operation.