Patent ID: 8368940
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: B41J,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital-image printing system comprising: an external device configured to store digital image data; and a printing apparatus configured to print the digital image data received from the external device on paper, wherein the external device is configured to transmit information on a paper size, an index print command, and at least one piece of digital image data to the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus includes: the printing apparatus is configured to output, when the receiving unit receives the index print command, an index image that arranges an image in the received digital image data on the paper from the selected tray, based on the acquired layout mode, wherein the selecting unit is configured to select, when the paper feeding unit has no tray storing paper of the paper size in the received information, a tray in which paper of a predetermined size is stored, the determining unit is configured to determine whether an orientation of the paper having the predetermined size and being stored in the selected tray is horizontal or vertical and to set a page layout to the determined orientation when the paper feeding unit has no tray storing paper of a size designated in the received information, and the acquiring unit is configured to acquire an image layout mode corresponding to a combination of the predetermined size and the orientation of the paper having the predetermined size and being stored in the selected tray.