Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a job executor; a storage that stores therein history information related to execution of jobs; and a controller that sets a display priority of the history information based on an operation mode of the job executor when calling up the history information.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer, which reproduces a color tone of a printed matter and displays the color tone on a screen before printing, to realize a function of acquiring a density value of a color material that develops a color by absorption of a specific wavelength component and a property of paper related to the absorption of the specific wavelength component, and a function of displaying an image that reproduces the color tone of the printed matter based on the density value and the property of the paper.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a communication interface communicable with a server; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: a communication status monitoring process to monitor a communication state with the server; a consumable determination process; and a transition process. The consumable determination process is to determine whether a particular consumable is included in one or more of consumables attached to the printing device, the particular consumable being a consumable that meets a prescribed condition required for transition to a specific printing state where specific printing under a contract with the server is allowed. The transition process is to execute the transition to the specific printing state in a case where: the communication state is determined to be communicable with the server in the communication status monitoring process; and the particular consumable is determined to be included in the one or more of consumables in the consumable determination process.

Abstract: Provided is a production method including a reception step of receiving a plurality of matters as a group, a display step of displaying a list in which the received matters are grouped in a unit of the group and the group is configured to be distinguished from other groups, and a production step of producing a finished product by executing processing that includes a plurality of processes corresponding to the received matters, in which the display step displays a progress for each process together with the list.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that allows unique setting of an image processing apparatus even when print is instructed from a cooperation application. The information processing apparatus is connected to the image processing apparatus, a tenant server that holds machine information including first setting information about the image processing apparatus, and a user terminal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for monitoring print jobs. The method includes configuring a monitoring program, where the monitoring program monitors queued jobs in a print spooler; and monitoring, by the monitoring program, submission time of all queued jobs; and if queue time of a queued job is determined to be greater than a first preset time, cancelling the queued job according to a preset configuration.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to cause an image reading device to execute reading processing of a first color chart printed by a particular image forming apparatus of a plurality of image forming apparatuses and display, for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, a progress status of each stage of processing from the reading processing of the first color chart to registration processing of a profile generated based on color information data obtained by the reading processing of the first color chart.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a setting history storage that stores a setting history being a history of a setting value when a job is executed; a list displayer that displays a list of the setting history; a setting screen displayer that displays, in a case where the setting history is selected, a setting screen on which the setting value included in the selected setting history is input; and a job executer that executes a job, based on the setting value input on the setting screen. The list displayer displays a list including the setting history for which authentication information is required, in a case where a job based on the setting value is executed.

Abstract: After the end of initial processing, such as a setting of a priority mode, a print schedule (a job execution schedule and a roll paper loading schedule) is created in consideration of the type, the remaining amount, and the like of roll paper loaded in each of a plurality of slots constituting an autochanger. Then, a possible loading time is obtained, which is a time at which roll paper can be loaded into a loading target slot that is a slot in which the roll paper is to be loaded during execution of continuous printing.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an input device, an image processing device, an image forming device, a delivery device, and a controller. The controller causes the image processing device to execute RIP operation in forward order with respect to print data, upon receipt, through the input device, of a first instruction indicating one of a combination of reverse order and face-up, and a combination of forward order and face-down, as combination of sorting order and face orientation at delivery of a recording medium having an image formed thereon, and causes the image processing device to execute RIP operation in reverse order with respect to the print data, upon receipt, through the input device, of a second instruction indicating one of a combination of forward order and face-up, and a combination of reverse order and face-down, as the combination of the sorting order and the face orientation at delivery.

Abstract: In an in-hand apparatus being operated by a user, a display device of the in-hand apparatus displays a list of image forming apparatuses that can access a cloud server, an input device of the in-hand apparatus designates an image forming apparatus selected out of the list according to a selection input, as remote apparatus. When the display device of the in-hand apparatus displays a user box stored in a storage device of the remote apparatus, and the input device of the in-hand apparatus receives an input for selecting a file out of the user box, the remote apparatus transmits the selected file to the cloud server, and the cloud server stores the file and a file name to which information proper to the remote apparatus is added, and the in-hand apparatus receives the file and the file name from the cloud server.

Abstract: In a case where an image forming apparatus operates as a master station that determines a communication channel to be used in wireless communication, the image forming apparatus transmits a second trigger frame, which is compliant with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard and includes information indicating that carrier sense is to be executed, to a slave station apparatus connected to the master station.

Abstract: An information processing method to be performed by an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment may include: causing an authentication processor to perform a login authentication based on an operation performed on an operation section; and causing an exclusive control executor that gives a usage right to use a function to the operation section after the operation section is authenticated by the login authentication and releases the usage right given to the operation section in a case where no response is received from the operation section for a predetermined time after the usage right is given to determine, based on a detection result by a status detector that detects a status of the information processing apparatus, whether or not to release the usage right given to the operation section after the predetermined time passes.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a storage printing process that includes receiving a print job containing a first user name via the communication interface, storing the print job in the memory, and performing printing based on the stored print job when the first user name matches a second user name after accepting the second user name input via the user interface. When a cancel instruction has been input via the user interface while the printing based on the stored print job is being performed in the storage printing process, the controller cancels the printing based on the stored print job. When the cancel instruction has been input via the user interface while the print job containing the first user name is being received in the storage printing process, the controller continues the storage printing process without canceling the receipt of the print job.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation portion disposed at a front side with respect to an image reading apparatus main body in a front-rear direction of the image forming apparatus, with the operation portion being positioned above the discharge tray in the vertical direction, and with the operation portion being capable of tilting. The operation portion includes a near field communication portion configured to communicate with a telecommunication device by near field communication, a touch panel configured to receive an instruction from a user via a touch operation, and a cover portion configured to cover the near field communication portion, the cover portion being provided with a mark as a target over which the telecommunication device is to be held to communicate by the near field communication.

Abstract: A schedule adjustment apparatus includes a storage portion, an acquisition portion, and an adjustment portion. The storage portion stores a schedule for giving an instruction to perform maintenance of the image forming apparatus. The acquisition portion acquires, from the image forming apparatus, state information indicating a state of an image formed on a sheet by the image forming apparatus. The adjustment portion adjusts the schedule based on the state information.

Abstract: The present information processing apparatus transmits content HTML format to an external apparatus to cause print data to be generated in the external apparatus. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus determines whether or not an element that cannot be converted into print data by the external apparatus is included in the elements included in the content and, as a result of the determination, converts the element that cannot be converted into print data by the external apparatus into a format that can be converted into print data. Moreover, the information processing apparatus transmits the converted element to the external apparatus to cause the external apparatus to generate print data of the content.

Abstract: A schedule coordination system includes a multifunction peripheral and an information processing apparatus. The multifunction peripheral includes a first communication I/F, a storage device in which schedule information indicating a task and a date and time of execution is stored, and a first control device that acts as a task scheduler that decides whether a current date and time has reached a predetermined date and time of startup, on a basis of the schedule information, and performs, upon deciding that the current date and time has reached the date and time of startup, a predetermined process necessary for executing the task indicated by the schedule information, and a controller that executes the task. The information processing apparatus includes a second communication I/F and a second control device that acts as an executor that executes an operation according to a command transmitted from the task scheduler.

Abstract: To enable a user to more easily set a rule relating to folder allocation and file naming at the time of filing data, such as a document scanned image and a received facsimile, and storing the file. On a user interface screen for setting a rule relating to property information that is used at the time of allocating a file to a folder for storage, at least a first area for editing the rule and a second area displaying an item a user can select are provided. The item is a unit element for a user to set a character string configuring the property information and corresponds to a character string of an arbitrary attribute a user can set. Then, the rule is created by the item selected by a user from the second area being arranged at a position designated by the user in the first area.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing method executed by an information processing system cooperatively operating with a message application. The method comprises: registering by associating a group in the message application a predetermined image recording device in response to an instruction by a first account in the group; and outputting print target data transmitted from the message application to the predetermined image recording device in response to a message transmitted by a second account in the group.