Patent ID: 7839514
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a controller that controls a printing processor to execute a printing process when a user authenticator provided in the printing apparatus succeeds in user authentication upon receiving a print request from a user terminal, wherein when receiving the print request from the user terminal, the controller determines whether or not to perform a delay process for delaying a warm-up start time of the printing processor, based on past usage data and a current operation status of the printing apparatus; and when performing the delay process, the controller, controls the printing processor to start warm-up at a time when a predetermined time elapses; and wherein the controller calculates an expected print start time, which is from when the print request is received from the user terminal to when the printing processor is expected to start a printing process, based on the past usage data of the printing apparatus; and the controller calculates an expected operation time required for preparations for the printing processor to perform the printing process, based on the current operation status of the printing apparatus; and sets, as the delay time, a time being derived from subtracting the expected operation time from the expected print start time.