Patent ID: 9208419
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A controlling apparatus for controlling a first printing apparatus that prints an image on a continuous sheet in a printing system including the first printing apparatus and a second printing apparatus that prints on the continuous sheet that is printed by the first printing apparatus on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the continuous sheet, the controlling apparatus comprising: an updating unit configured to update, while printing on the continuous sheet, printing information containing execution information with which a printing state on the continuous sheet in the first printing apparatus can be specified; a determination unit configured to determine whether an error has occurred in the printing system; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, in a case where the first printing apparatus conveys the continuous sheet toward an upstream side in the conveyance direction of the continuous sheet from a cut-out portion after the determination unit determines that the error has occurred and the continuous sheet is cut out between the first printing apparatus and the second printing apparatus, a first conveyance amount of the first printing apparatus after the continuous sheet is cut out; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, in a case where the second printing apparatus conveys the continuous sheet toward the downstream side in the conveyance direction of the continuous sheet from the cut-out portion after the determination unit determines that the error has occurred and the continuous sheet is cut out between the first printing apparatus and the second printing apparatus, a second conveyance amount of the second printing apparatus after the continuous sheet is cut out; a first specification unit configured to specify, in a case where it is determined by the determination unit that the error has occurred in the printing system, an error occurrence position on the continuous sheet that has been printed by the first printing apparatus, based on a feeding amount of the continuous sheet from the first printing apparatus, the first conveyance amount acquired by the first acquisition unit and the second conveyance amount acquired by the second acquisition unit; and a second specification unit configured to specify an image printed on the error occurrence position, based on the error occurrence position specified by the first specification unit and the execution information updated by the updating unit.