US Patent Application 18306373. INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM simplified abstract

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INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM

Organization Name

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA


Inventor(s)

KIWAMU Hasegawa of Kanagawa (JP)

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18306373 titled 'INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM

Simplified Explanation

- The patent application describes an information processing system that supports trust printing by registering documents in a document assurance system to ensure their authenticity. - The system obtains information about available image formation apparatuses (printers) and presents a setting screen for a selected printer based on this information. - The selected printer is then used to print the registered document according to the settings on the screen. - The information about the printers includes whether they are capable of trust printing. - If a selected printer is not capable of trust printing, the setting screen is displayed without the option to select trust printing.


Original Abstract Submitted

An information processing system is provided for supporting trust printing that prints a document to be printed by registering the document in a document assurance system that assures authenticity of the document. The system obtains information of usable image formation apparatuses, and provides a setting screen of an image formation apparatus selected from the usable image formation apparatuses based on the information, and causes the selected image formation apparatus to print the document to be printed in accordance with setting on the setting screen. The information contains information indicating whether the selected image formation apparatus is capable of the trust printing, and, in the providing, if the selected image formation apparatus is incapable of the trust printing, the setting screen is displayed such that a setting item for the trust printing cannot be selected.