Abstract: The respective jobs of copying, printing, scanning, and faxing processed by an integrated application are unitarily divided into four job steps. A package of function modules selectively used in the respective jobs is classified into four groups of input, create, edit, and output function modules according to the division. A data format is unified into bitmap by a create function module, and the bitmap data is processed by an edit function module for pagination or aggregation, etc. In response to receiving setting information and a job code, a job controlling module creates job step control blocks and writes the information therein to create a job. Each of job step controlling (JSC) modules to starts a function module for each page, and after the completion thereof, creates a thread control block for the next downstream side JSC module.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a printing unit configured to print images on a recording sheet, a page number acquiring unit configured to acquire a common page number which is common among a plurality of files subject to be printed, a page extracting unit configured to extract a page of image from page data contained in each of the plurality of files based on the common page number acquired by the page number acquiring unit, and a print control unit configured to control the printing unit to print a plurality of images respectively extracted from the plurality of files, which are extracted by the page extracting unit, on a page of a recording sheet.

Abstract: There is provided a device information management system, including a server, a client and a device in which the server and the client are configured to communicate with each other via a first communication channel while the client and the device are configured to communicate with each other via a second communication channel different from the first communication channel and device information is transmitted from the device to the client via the second communication channel and from the client to the server via the first communication channel and registered in a database of the server. The device includes a device-side information supplying unit configured to supply the device information to the client via the second communication channel.

Abstract: According to aspects illustrated herein, there is provided a user interface system for preparing an output document of a digital printing device having a user interface, a set of output options for the output document. The user interface enables selection of at least one output option from the set of output options. The system further provides a display device operatively connected to the user interface and configured to display at least one user interface mimic for the output document, with the at least one user interface mimic providing a graphical representation of the output document based on selection of the output options. After displaying the at least one user interface mimic, the user interface allows users to modify the output options prior to printing the output document. Then, the system updates the display of the at least one user interface mimic, based on modifications to the output options, prior to printing the output document.

Abstract: When an image forming apparatus executes printing based on a structured text including page entity information and a structure portion in which a link to the page entity information is set, the image forming apparatus corrects the structure portion of the structured text by deleting a link to a printed page entity if suspending the print of the structured text is instructed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus receives a job, analyzes the received job, generates a saved job that includes an image and output settings information and saves the generated saved job in a storage unit. The saved job that has been saved in the storage unit is output in response to a prescribed output operation. The image processing apparatus acquires a restriction on processing at the time of output and incorporates restriction information, which is indicative of the acquired restriction, in the output settings information. Processing for outputting such a saved job is restricted based upon the restriction information contained in the output settings information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image forming apparatus, including: a language analysis unit for analyzing print data and generating data having an intermediate format between the print data and bitmap data generated based on the print data; an image processing unit for rasterizing the generated data having the intermediate format for each band by using the predetermined number of lines and generating the bitmap data; a memory for holding the data for which rasterizing processing is being performed by the image processing unit; a printing unit for performing printing based on the generated bitmap data; and a number-of-line switching unit for switching the number of lines of the band in the rasterizing processing of the image processing unit according to whether the print data is data that can include transparency processing data or not.

Abstract: A document processing system comprises a document management apparatus, which executes processing tasks on a document according to a job flow that defines the sequence by which the tasks are to be executed, and a document property management apparatus, which manages properties of the document. The document management apparatus executes processes within the processing tasks on a document that is inputted into the document management apparatus, and performs output processing on the document, according to the job flow that the user has directed for execution. The document management apparatus obtains the properties of the document from the document property management apparatus when the document is inputted, and changes the content of either the process or the output according to the properties in question.

Abstract: A computer readable recording medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for a combination printing function for collectively printing out contents of plural pages into one page, the process which includes selecting a test printing target page from printing target data, generating image data in which at least two pages regarding the selected page are reduced to different scales and are collected into one page, and transmitting the generated image data to a printing device.

Abstract: A color image forming apparatus is provided that forms an image by correcting registration shifts during an image forming process by using image data and which prevents toner from being blown away and scattered during a fixing process by thinning pixels without making an erroneous decision. When multivalued color image is binarized, the threshold is corrected by using information on grayscale level correction. Further, when trailing phenomenon prevention operation is performed on the binarized image data, the patterns to be used for pattern matching are changed and selected according to whether the subscan direction line shifting point lies within the reference window.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device which is capable of avoiding disappearance of print data such as thin lines by increasing probability in which an original image is stored even after resolution conversion processing is executed to a binary image. In order to achieve this, the present invention may leave the pixels in any of the two lines halftone-processed with same threshold value row after the resolution conversion in a given ratio.

Abstract: Disclosed are an image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof. The image forming method includes: selecting at least one among plural scanning profiles needed for color management at a scanning operation of a document and plural printing profiles needed for the color management at a printing operation of the document according to a user's input; and generating a printing image based on the selected scanning and printing profiles and a preset scanning or printing profile.

Abstract: A system for utilizing tab attributes includes a communications component, a user interface component, a ticket generation component, and a job submissions component. The communications component operatively communicates at least one print document. The user interface component operatively communicates user data including tab data. The ticket generation component generates a ticket including at least one tab attribute. The ticket generation component communicates with the communications component and the user interface. The ticket generation component receives the user data from the user interface component and the ticket generation component receives the at least one print document from the communications component. The ticket is associated with the at least one print document. The ticket includes at least one tab attribute generated as a function of the received tab data. The job submission component submits a job to a printer and the job includes the ticket and the at least one print document.

Abstract: A printing device capable of laying out print image data according to layout definition data that defines print layout and print an image based on the print image data, is configured to include a layout acquisition unit which obtains second layout definition data if first layout definition data is included in a print job provided to the printing device, a layout replacement unit which replaces the first layout definition data included in the print job with the second layout definition data obtained by the layout acquisition unit, an image generation unit which lays out and generates print image data according to the second layout definition data replaced by the layout replacement unit, and a print execution unit which executes printing based on the print image data generated by the image generation unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a user set data storage portion for storing user set data indicating contents of processing that a user lets the image forming apparatus perform, the user using the image forming apparatus primarily, a new apparatus detection portion for detecting a new image forming apparatus that has newly joined an intranet, a new apparatus function data obtaining portion for obtaining function data indicating functions that the new image forming apparatus has, a suitable function extraction portion for determining, based on the user set data, a function that is more appropriate for the user than a current function from the functions indicated in the function data, and a change candidate notice processing portion for informing the user of the function determined to be more appropriate than the current function.

Abstract: There is provided a printing system including a reading unit that reads paper identification information of a paper sheet, a first controller that implements control for, when instructed to print document data, causing the reading unit to read the paper identification information of the paper sheet used for printing and transmitting a request for a document containing the read paper identification information, and a second controller that implements control for, when printing document data containing the paper identification information received in response to the request for the document on the paper sheet, causing the reading unit to read the paper identification information of the paper sheet used for printing and, if the read paper identification information and the received paper identification information contained in the document data do not match, inhibiting printing of the document data.

Abstract: In order to allow effective utilization of a printing device when operators are absent, such as nighttime and further effective utilization of the printing device in business hours that operators are present, when a received print order is determined to be processable outside predetermined hours, an attribute indicating processability outside the predetermined hours is set to the print order. Thus, the print order to which the attribute is set is allocated to the outside of the business hours when the print order cannot be scheduled to be processed inside the predetermined hours.

Abstract: A facsimile machine includes an image data generating unit that reads a original and generates image data, an information transmitting and receiving unit that transmits and receive the digital data, a first data generating unit that generates first digital data used for a real-time communication method without using analog data, and a second data generating unit that generates second digital data used for a deemed voice communication method without using analog data. when using the real-time communication method, the first data generating unit generates the first digital data and the information transmitting and receiving unit transmits the first digital data to the destination. When using the deemed voice communication method, the second data generating unit generates the second digital data and the information transmitting and receiving unit transmits the second digital data to the destination.

Abstract: A graphic-drawing processing unit performs a rendering process of print data with respect to a band memory or a page memory. When there is a rendering engine that performs a memory access using a memory word width as a minimum unit as a rendering environment, an arbitrary-word-width drawing unit is configured to access an arbitrary-word-width having an arbitrary height, and a one-word width-limited drawing unit is configured to access a limited one-word width having an arbitrary height. The graphic-drawing processing unit performs a drawing process by switching the arbitrary-word-width drawing unit and the one-word-width-limited drawing unit as appropriate.

Abstract: In the image forming system, there is provided an image processing section which determines a rotation standard for rotating image information so that an orientation of an image which is to be formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is not to be conducted agrees with an orientation of an image formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is to be conducted, if a booklet division mode is set by the setting section, and which conducts rotation processing on the image information based on the rotation standard.