US 12,423,036 B2
Image forming apparatus and method with divider region for dividing roll-shaped printing medium into obtained number of rolls
Cho Ryo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/157,857.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-012025 (JP), filed on Jan. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242363 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1251 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1219 (2013.01); G06F 3/1256 (2013.01); G06K 15/024 (2013.01); G06K 15/1868 (2013.01); G06K 15/4065 (2013.01); G06F 3/1284 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
at least one memory and at least one processor which cause the image forming apparatus to:
(1) in a case where rolls are divided from a roll-shaped printing medium, obtain a number of rolls based on specification information of a roll which is able to be provided in a post-processing device;
(2) perform control so as to display a screen on which can be designated information of a group of images, among a group of images designated by a job, corresponding to each of rolls in the obtained number of rolls;
(3) set a divider region in the group of images designated by the job based on the information of the group of images designated on the screen, the divider region being for dividing the roll-shaped printing medium into of the rolls in the obtained number of rolls; and
(4) perform control so as to print, on the roll-shaped printing medium, the group of images designated by the job in which the divider region has been reflected,
wherein information of a print length, a print weight, or a diameter of a roll sheet is displayed together with the information of the group of images corresponding to each of the rolls in the obtained number of rolls.