Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a temporary stacker on which a plurality of sheets are stacked on a temporary basis, a sheet processing device to perform given processing on a sheet bundle including the plurality of sheets stacked on the temporary stacker, an ejection device including a pair of rotors to eject the sheet bundle, and a guide to move between a first position above a top face of lower one of the pair of rotors and a second position below the top face of the lower one of the pair of rotors.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a liquid applier, a liquid detector, circuitry, and a crimp binder. The liquid applier applies liquid to a media bundle including a medium. The liquid detector detects a liquid application amount of the liquid applied to the medium by the liquid applier. The circuitry is to specify the liquid application amount to be applied to the medium by the liquid applier based on amount information including the liquid application amount detected by the liquid detector, environmental information of an operating environment of the liquid detector, and past information of the liquid application amount, and cause the liquid applier to apply the liquid to the media bundle based on the liquid application amount specified. The crimp binder crimps and binds the media bundle applied with the liquid to perform a crimp binding operation.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a stacker; a conveyor; a feeder; an operation interface to receive a switching operation to move the stacker; an actuator; and circuitry. The actuator moves, in response to a receipt of the switching operation by the operation interface, the stacker between a first position where the object on the stacker is at a feedable position by the feeder; and a second position where the object on the stacker is at a non-feedable position by the feeder, the non-feedable position below the first position. The circuitry is configured to switch a mode of the actuator between a first mode to move the stacker from the second position to the first position when the object is stacked on the stacker; and a second mode to move the stacker from the second position to the first position when the operation interface receives starting of conveying the object.

Abstract: A printer includes a conveying unit, a printing unit, a pressing unit, a supporting unit and a setting unit. The conveying unit includes a platen roller extending in a first direction to convey the medium in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction through a conveying path. The printing unit is located opposite to the platen roller with the conveying path interposed therebetween to print an image on the medium. The pressing unit presses the printing unit in a third direction toward the platen roller. The supporting unit supports the pressing unit movably in the first direction. The setting unit sets a pressing force applied by the pressing unit in accordance with a position of the pressing unit such that a pressing force applied to the medium is uniformed along the first direction and a pressing force per unit length along the first direction is made constant.

Abstract: A sealer includes a sealing portion and a fixing portion. The sealing portion seals a supply port of a removable unit detachable from an apparatus in a pull-out direction. The fixing portion is on the removal unit to fix the sealer to the removable unit. The fixing portion is disposed upstream from the sealing portion in the pull-out direction.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor that conveys a sheet in a conveyance path in a conveyance direction, and a guide that guides the sheet in the conveyance direction, and has a reference guide face that extends along the conveyance direction, and a concave that is recessed away from the conveyance path to the reference guide face in a retraction direction, and has a vertex, an inner corner, and an incline face pair. The vertex is a most recessed portion in the concave in the retraction direction. The inner corner extends from the vertex to the reference guide face in the conveyance direction. The inclined face pair includes faces sandwiching the inner corner, and is inclined from the inner corner in the conveyance direction toward the reference guide face and outward in a width direction to a plane of the reference guide face, to the reference guide face.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a read requester, a detector, a generator, and an adjustor. The read requester is configured to cause a sensor to read a paper on which one or more marks are drawn. The detector is configured to detect each of the marks from a scan image read by the sensor. The generator is configured to generate a print image in which an object image corresponding to each of the marks, which are detected by the detector, is placed at a position of the respective mark. The adjustor is configured to adjust placement of the object images included in the print image. The print requester is configured to cause a printer to print the print image.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a collection unit, a full level detector, a display unit, and a processor. The image forming unit forms an image using toner. The collection unit collects, in a storage unit, waste toner generated in image forming processing by the image forming unit. The full level detector detects that the storage unit is full. The display unit displays information indicating that the storage unit is nearly full. The processor adjusts a display timing at which the display unit displays the information indicating that the storage unit is nearly full so that the storage unit becomes full after a predetermined period.

Abstract: A printer apparatus is configured to perform printing on a sheet-shaped medium with a thermal head including a plurality of heating elements. The apparatus includes an adjuster configured to perform adjustment to bring an amount of heat generated by the plurality of heating elements closer to a defined value in response to a drop in a drive voltage of the thermal head.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a convey unit, a thermal head, a head driving unit, and a processor. The convey unit conveys a medium. The thermal head includes a plurality of heating elements arranged in a print line perpendicular to a convey direction of the medium by the convey unit. The head driving unit heats the heating elements corresponding to dots for one line in accordance with image data for each of the print lines. The processor sets a convey speed of the medium, and sets, in accordance with the convey speed, a number of times of application by which the head driving unit heats each of the heating elements of the thermal head.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units, an exposure unit, a transfer unit, and a processor. The plurality of image forming units forms an image obtained by developing the latent image formed on each of the photoreceptors with the developer supplied thereto. The exposure unit outputs light for forming a latent image on each of the photoreceptors in the plurality of image forming units. In a case where a difference between an environmental temperature and a temperature in the exposure unit from activation and a start of image formation satisfies a predetermined execution condition, the processor sets an alignment execution flag that instructs execution of the next position misalignment correction if a predetermined flag set time has elapsed from a first-cycle position misalignment correction after the activation.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a housing having an opening through which a medium bundle including media is inserted in an insertion direction, a crimp binding device to crimp the medium bundle inserted through the opening on one side in a main scanning direction orthogonal to the insertion direction, an input device to receive an input on a medium size of the media and a binding position of the medium bundle to be crimp-bound by the crimp binding device, processing circuitry to determine an insertion orientation of the medium bundle to be inserted into the opening, an image orientation of an image on at least one of the media, and a front-rear orientation of the medium bundle, based on the medium size and the binding position received by the input device, and a notifying device to provide notification of the insertion orientation, the image orientation, and the front-rear orientation.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a tray, a conveyor, a reader, and circuitry. The tray stacks a document. The conveyor conveys the document from the tray. The reader reads an image on the document conveyed by the conveyor. The circuitry is to acquire processing information including a conveyance setting to set a conveyance condition of the document by the conveyor or a reading setting to set a reading condition of the document by the reader, estimate, based on the processing information acquired, magnitude of a sound generated by a conveyance of the document by the conveyor or a reading of the document by the reader and a reading number of sheets of the document processable per a given period of time, and change the conveyance setting based on the magnitude of the sound and the reading number.

Abstract: A heating device includes a heater that is laminated and a heated member that is heated by the heater. The heater includes a base layer and a resistive heat generator mounted on the base layer. The resistive heat generator extends in a longitudinal direction of the heater. The resistive heat generator includes a first heat generating portion and a second heat generating portion. The first heat generating portion has a first thickness and generates heat in a first heat generation amount. The second heat generating portion is disposed in a lateral end span of the resistive heat generator in the longitudinal direction of the heater and has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness of the first heat generating portion. The second heat generating portion generates heat in a second heat generation amount smaller than the first heat generation amount of the first heat generating portion.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus including a liquid applier, a post-processing device, a first liquid storage, a second liquid storage, a liquid supplier, and circuitry. The liquid applier applies liquid to a medium. The post-processing device performs an operation on a medium bundle including the medium with the liquid applied by the liquid applier. The first liquid storage stores the liquid for applying the liquid by the liquid applier. The second liquid storage stores liquid to be supplied to the first liquid storage. The liquid supplier supplies the liquid from the second liquid storage to the first liquid storage. The circuitry is to cause the liquid supplier to perform a supply operation to supply the liquid from the second liquid storage to the first liquid storage when an elapsed time from a last supply operation to supply the liquid exceeds a setting time determined in advance.

Abstract: A lifetime prediction device includes circuitry that acquires operation information, initial information, and event information. The operation information indicates an operating status of a target object including an electronic device and a component of the electronic device. The operation information includes a characteristic value during operation of the target object and an environment value indicating an environment around the target object. The initial information includes an initial value of the characteristic value of the target object. The event information pertains to an event that has caused replacement of the target object. The circuitry predicts a remaining lifetime of the target object based on the characteristic value included in the operation information, the initial value of the characteristic value included in the initial information, and the characteristic value at the replacement of the target object.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an alarm, an external interface, and a processor. The image forming unit forms an image on a medium. The alarm notifies an error. The external interface connects to an external alert device. The processor transitions into a power saving mode in a case where an error occurs in the image forming unit, stops the alarm, and notifies the error by the external alert device connected to the external interface, and the processor stops the notification of the error by the external alert device in a case of returning from the power saving mode, and notifies the error by the alarm.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device including a conveyance path, a conveyor, a sound collector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a medium along the conveyance path. The sound collector is disposed in a vicinity of the conveyor to collect a sound occurred in conveyance of the medium along the conveyance path by the conveyor. The circuitry is to determine whether an abnormal condition has occurred during the conveyance of the medium based on the sound collected by the sound collector to perform an abnormality determination process, and skip the abnormality determination process when the sound collected during a given period satisfies a given condition.

Abstract: A label printer according to an embodiment includes: a transport unit that conveys a label sheet; a ribbon supply unit that supplies an ink ribbon along a transport path; a print head that prints by transferring ink from the ink ribbon onto the label sheet conveyed to a printing position; an acquisition unit that acquires a request signal requesting feeding of the label sheet to the printing position; a determination unit that detects an operating state of the ribbon supply unit driven in response to the request signal and determines whether the ink ribbon is present or absent, based on a detection result; and an output unit that, in a case where the determination unit determines that the ink ribbon is absent, outputs a stop signal to stop the ribbon supply unit and a drive signal to drive the transport unit to feed the label sheet to the printing position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a print controller configured to print an image based on a print job; a generator configured to generate history information related to the printing of the image and containing apparatus identification information; and a communication interface configured to transmit the history information to an image processing apparatus capable of output the history information.