	US 7,570,387 B2
	E-mail printing apparatus and method and E-mail printing program
Kotaro Yamaguchi, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/92,640.
Application 11/092640 is a division of application No. 09/922645, filed on Aug. 07, 2001, granted, now 7,057,757.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-239754 (JP), filed on Aug. 08, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2005/0168776 A1, Aug. 04, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 358—1.2 [358/1.1; 358/1.9; 358/462; 358/2.1]

9 Claims

4. A print method carried out in an image forming apparatus including a reception unit that receives E-mail, said method comprising the steps of:

prior to reception by the reception unit, setting a print limit applied to printing of E-mail; and

printing, wherein said printing step comprises (a) analyzing a MIME header of the E-mail to discriminate whether data following the MIME header in the E-mail is text data, and if it is discriminated that the following data is text data, counting the text data, and printing the E-mail up to the set print limit, even if the counted text data exceeds the set print limit, and wherein, if it is discriminated that the following data is image data, decoding the image data and printing the decoded image data.