| US 7,532,352 B2 | ||
| Image forming apparatus, information processing method, and network system | ||
| Hidehiko Yokoyama, Machida (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 27, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/553,504. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-326591 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0103721 A1, May 10, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 358—1.16 [358/1.15] | 15 Claims |
| 1. A network system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses capable of performing an image forming process for received
data and outputting the data connect to each other communicably, each image forming apparatus comprising:
a storage unit configured to store data having undergone an image forming process by the image forming apparatus in correspondence
with property information on the data so as to allow another image forming apparatus to access the data;
a holding unit configured to hold profile information of the image forming apparatus;
a comparison unit configured to compare the profile information of the image forming apparatus with property information corresponding
to data which has undergone the image forming process and is stored in a storage unit of another image forming apparatus;
and
a display unit configured to display, before printing a data which have undergone the image forming process by the other image
forming apparatus, whether the data can be printed in a first image quality or a second image quality which is lower than
the first image quality, wherein the image quality of the data is determined in accordance with a comparison result of said
comparison unit.
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