BACKGROUND

Field of the Disclosure

The present disclosure relates to an image forming apparatus, a control method of an image forming apparatus, and a storage medium.

Description of the Related Art

In recent years, a plurality of operating systems (OSs) included in an information processing apparatus includes an internet printing protocol (IPP) as a standard print function included in an OS. In the IPP, the information processing apparatus can select various print settings suitable for capability information notified from an image forming apparatus, on a print screen of the information processing apparatus. The present disclosure relates to the capability notification and a selection method of print settings.

As one conceivable method, there is a method of registering setting values of a plurality of setting items into an image forming apparatus as a collective setting of one set, and performing a print setting in an information processing apparatus using the set of setting values registered in the image forming apparatus. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2019-006099 discusses that a user preliminarily registers a plurality of setting items into an image forming apparatus as a set. An information processing apparatus acquires information for identifying a set of setting values registered in the image forming apparatus, from the image forming apparatus, and displays the acquired information on a display unit of the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus displays the acquired identification information, and receives the selection of identification information to be used for printing, from the user. Then, the information processing apparatus transmits the selected identification information to the image forming apparatus.

On a print setting screen provided by a print service supporting the IPP, user-settable setting items are restricted to setting items defined by the IPP, and setting items and setting values that are unique to a vendor of an image forming apparatus cannot be set. Examples of the vendor-unique setting items and setting values include setting items and setting values related to an “opening direction” and a “creep correction amount” that are to be set when bookbinding processing is performed.

Among vendor-unique setting items included in a set of a plurality of setting items registered in an image forming apparatus, some items are desired to be changed in setting before printing while the other items need not to be changed in setting before printing. For example, the above-described creep correction amount is sometimes changed appropriately before printing in accordance with the number of copies to be printed. On the other hand, a toner save setting for saving a toner amount to be used is always enabled for executing a job if the collective setting is used, and is an item unlikely to be changed in setting before printing. If a screen for changing setting items unlikely to be changed in setting is displayed, information highly likely to be unnecessary for the user is displayed.

SUMMARY

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store setting values of a plurality of setting items and identification information in association with each other, a receiving unit configured to receive an acquisition request for the identification information stored in the storage unit, from a predetermined print service, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, based on the received acquisition request, the stored identification information, and information for setting a first setting item unsettable in a predetermined print service associated with the identification information, in the predetermined print service, to the predetermined print service, and not to transmit information for setting a second setting item unsettable in the predetermined print service associated with the identification information, in the predetermined print service, to the predetermined print service.

Further features of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

