US 7,538,897 B2
Print control device having print cancel function, data processing method, computer program, and computer readable storage medium
Nobuo Onuma, Ohta-ku (Japan); and Tomoyuki Watanabe, Ohta-ku (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 25, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/723,741.
Claims priority of application No. 2002/354706 (JP), filed on Dec. 06, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0120000 A1, Jun. 24, 2004
Int. Cl. G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.14  [358/1.15] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A print control device comprising:
data processing means for generating and transferring print data in response to a print request;
acquisition means for acquiring print conditions in the print request;
determining means for variably determining a frequency of checking whether a print cancel command is issued, based on the print conditions acquired by the acquisition means, the frequency being defined by an amount of the print data; and
checking means for periodically checking whether a print cancel command is issued, the checking performed every time said data processing means generates or transfers the amount of print data corresponding to the frequency determined by the determining means while said data processing means generates or transfers the print data.