Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism by which an image forming apparatus notifies an apparatus that inputs an image forming job to the image forming apparatus that the image forming apparatus is during remote support service, and suitably restricts acceptance of image forming jobs.

Abstract: A print control apparatus capable of enabling a user to easily set settings of adjustment items. The print control apparatus controls printing by a print engine. The print control apparatus controls the display of a plurality of adjustment items of the print engine. Out of the plurality of adjustment items, the adjustment items of a specific display group registered by a user are displayed.

Abstract: A sheet management system, in which a print control apparatus and an image forming apparatus are configured to communicate with each other, includes a selection unit, an adjustment unit, a confirmation unit, and a setting unit. The selection unit selects a sheet feeding deck. The adjustment unit adjusts sheet information including setting values for performing print processing on a sheet to be used for printing. The confirmation unit confirms. In a case where there is not a match between selected sheet information set for the sheet feeding deck and the sheet information to be adjusted, the confirmation unit confirms whether the sheet information to be adjusted by the adjustment unit is to be set for the selected sheet feeding deck. The setting unit sets the sheet information adjusted by the adjustment unit for the image forming apparatus in accordance with a result of confirmation by the confirmation unit.

Abstract: A system displays a plurality of display objects respectively corresponding to a plurality of symptoms of an image forming apparatus, receives a selection of one display object from among the plurality of display objects, and displays a screen for receiving, from a user, a value related to a predetermined item to be adjusted to improve a symptom corresponding to the selected display object.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus to control an image forming system includes a reception unit and a control unit. The image forming system includes a first conveyance unit configured to convey a recording medium and a second conveyance unit located downstream of the first conveyance unit in a conveyance route of the recording medium. The reception unit receives an instruction to set a conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit. The control unit sets the conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit to the image forming system based on the setting instruction, and sets a conveyance speed of the second conveyance unit to the image forming system based on the instruction to set the conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing apparatus provided with sheet containers and capable of registering sheet information in correspondence with the sheet containers. The printing apparatus can update print adjustment information linked with the sheet information in accordance with a request from a sheet management application executed by an external apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a unit configured to retain information about the external apparatus executing the sheet management application. The unit is configured to simultaneously retain information about multiple external apparatuses. The external apparatus includes a display configured to display information and a unit configured to cause the display to display an execution screen of the sheet management application.

Abstract: A sheet management system, in which a print control apparatus and an image forming apparatus are configured to communicate with each other, includes a selection unit, an adjustment unit, a confirmation unit, and a setting unit. The selection unit selects a sheet feeding deck. The adjustment unit adjusts sheet information including setting values for performing print processing on a sheet to be used for printing. The confirmation unit confirms. In a case where there is not a match between selected sheet information set for the sheet feeding deck and the sheet information to be adjusted, the confirmation unit confirms whether the sheet information to be adjusted by the adjustment unit is to be set for the selected sheet feeding deck. The setting unit sets the sheet information adjusted by the adjustment unit for the image forming apparatus in accordance with a result of confirmation by the confirmation unit.

Abstract: A print control apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, including a sheet holding unit in which a sheet to be used for printing is held, for printing an image on the sheet held in the sheet holding unit includes storage configured to store a type of a sheet, an image, and a setting value of the printing apparatus in association with each other, selects a type of a sheet to be used for printing by the printing apparatus, selects an image to be printed by the printing apparatus, and sets the setting value stored in the storage in association with the selected type of the sheet and the selected image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, to communicate with an image forming apparatus having a predetermined sheet feeding unit, includes a selection unit and a setting unit. The selection unit selects one storage method at least from among a first and second sheet information storage method. The setting unit executes a setting, based on the selected one storage method, for the predetermined sheet feeding unit. In the first sheet information storage method and after the sheet information is set for the predetermined sheet feeding unit, the setting of the sheet information is not cancelled when an absence of a sheet on the predetermined sheet feeding unit is detected. In the second sheet information storage method and after the sheet information is set for the predetermined sheet feeding unit, the setting of the sheet information is cancelled when an absence of a sheet on the predetermined sheet feeding unit is detected.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus includes a display control unit configured to perform control for displaying at least a predetermined image in a predetermined display region and shifting a display position of the predetermined image displayed in the display region in accordance with a command from a user, a setting unit configured to set a value used for adjusting a position where the image forming apparatus prints an image onto a recording medium based on the display position of the predetermined image in the display region, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the value set by the setting unit to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An image position setting apparatus which enables a user to easily grasp whether or not image position adjustment values can be adjusted to desired values. The image position setting apparatus sets the image position adjustment values for adjusting image forming positions on a sheet. At least one memory stores a set of instructions. At least one processor executes the instructions. When the instructions are executed, the image position adjustment values are set, and display of an input screen for inputting the image position adjustment values is controlled. In the display control, allowable adjustment ranges of the image position adjustment values are displayed on the input screen with increase/decrease amounts relative to currently set image position adjustment values.

Abstract: A multi-function peripheral and an information processing apparatus are capable of communicating with each other. In one authentication setting of the information processing apparatus, functions restricted in use are disabled from being set. In another authentication setting of the information processing apparatus, when an operation on a function restricted in use is performed on a screen associated with functions of the multi-function peripheral, the information processing apparatus displays an authentication screen to cause the multi-function peripheral to execute an authentication process based on information input via the authentication screen, and if a result of the authentication process transmitted from the multi-function peripheral indicates that the authentication is successful, the screen is controlled to receive the operation on the function from the user.

Abstract: Provided are a printing control apparatus, a method of controlling a printing control apparatus, and a storage medium capable of simplifying a process of updating information on a paper sheet for a tray for which update of the information is restricted. In a case where update of information on a print medium stored in association with a tray that is provided in an image forming apparatus and holds a print medium is restricted, a user interface is presented which requests to select whether to update the information stored in association with the tray to received update information. Then, the information stored in association with the tray is updated depending on the selection made via the user interface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a print control apparatus that controls a print apparatus. The print control apparatus displays pieces of identification information of a plurality of sheet feeders available in the print apparatus, and designates inhibition of sheet feed from sheet feeders other than a sheet feeder selected by a user among the displayed pieces of identification information of the plurality of sheet feeders.

Abstract: A print control apparatus capable of enabling a user to easily set settings of adjustment items. The print control apparatus controls printing by a print engine. The print control apparatus controls the display of a plurality of adjustment items of the print engine. Out of the plurality of adjustment items, the adjustment items of a specific display group registered by a user are displayed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus connected to a sheet hole punching apparatus that applies a punch process to a sheet, and a method for controlling the same, in which from a die-set mounted to the sheet hole punching apparatus, die-set information including at least identification information for identifying the die-set is obtained, and in association with the die-set information, a number of times that the punch process has been executed using the die-set is counted. Control is performed to prompt a user to lubricate the die-set when the number of times counted by the counter unit exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: An image forming system having a printing apparatus including a feeder to be pulled out and an image forming unit. The printing apparatus further includes a reception unit to receive a user instruction for setting sheet information on a sheet in association with the feeder. Based on set sheet information, the image forming unit forms an image on a sheet fed from the feeder. The image forming system further includes a display unit to display feeder information and a detection unit to detect that the feeder in a pulled-out state is closed. The display unit displays the feeder information subjected to the user instruction in a first display form and, based on a detection by the detection unit, changes the display by the display unit including the first display form having the feeder information to a display including a second display form different from the first display form.

Abstract: A print apparatus includes a measurement unit that measures an image printed on a sheet, and one or more processors that execute instructions to cause the print apparatus to function as a first determination unit that determines whether or not a print job received from an image processing apparatus is a print job serving as a measurement target to be measured by the measurement unit, a control unit that causes the measurement unit to measure the image on the sheet that has been printed according to the print job determined to be the measurement target, and that controls the sheet on which the image has been measured to discharge via the paper discharge outlet, and a first transmission unit that transmits a result of measurement performed under control of the control unit to the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A print management system includes an image forming apparatus and a control apparatus, and includes a detection unit, a display unit, and a setting unit. The detection unit detects paper information which is set with respect to a print job. The display unit displays the paper information detected by the detection unit on a display device. The setting unit controls processing for displaying a setting screen used to allocate the paper information displayed on the display device to a paper feed stage of the image forming apparatus on a screen of the display device.

Abstract: A sheet management system includes an image forming apparatus and first and second information processing apparatuses to communicate with the image forming apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes a first LAN interface connected to the image forming apparatus, a second LAN interface connected to a network, and a first display to display information. To display a screen for performing sheet management on the first display, the first information processing apparatus obtains device information of the image forming apparatus based on information on an apparatus connected via the first LAN interface. The second information processing apparatus includes a third. LAN interface connected to the network and a second display to display information. To display a screen for performing sheet management on the second display, the second information processing apparatus obtains device information of the image forming apparatus via the third LAN interface using address information entered by a user.