Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor, and the processor is configured to: acquire three-dimensional image data for printing processing for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object by forming respective images on recording media and stacking the recording media, and other image data for other printing processing, determine an arrangement to form at least one of the respective images and at least a part of the other image data on same one of the recording media so as to reduce a difference between a height corresponding to the number of recording media to which the other image data is to be recorded and a height of the three-dimensional modeled object, and output image forming information for forming the three-dimensional image data and the other image data on the recording media to an image forming apparatus based on the determined arrangement.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including processor configured to cause a user participates in a first chat room, wherein an image forming apparatus performs a process with a post written by user and opens for a specific site, an image forming apparatus associated with the first chat room or with an existing user who has participated in first chat room to perform a process according to a post written by user who has participated in first chat room and cause, if user participates in second chat room, in which an image forming apparatus performs a process in accordance with a post written by user and has not been opened for a specific site, an image forming apparatus associated with second chat room or an image forming apparatus associated with existing user who has participated in second chat room not to perform a process according to a post written by user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor, and the processor is configured to acquire, in printing processing for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object by forming respective images on recording media and stacking the recording media, a print job including at least one of two-dimensional image data for forming a two-dimensional image and three-dimensional image data for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object, an instruction of a user for the print job, and attribute information of a plurality of printing apparatuses that are candidates to perform the print job, and select a printing apparatus to perform the acquired print job from the plurality of printing apparatuses based on whether the image data contained in the print job is two-dimensional image data or three-dimensional image data, the attribute information, and the instruction of the user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects an operation by an instruction unit on a display screen; and a control unit that controls whether to perform processing by a specific operation, which is one of a drag start operation or a drag end operation by the instruction unit, according to a movement state of the instruction unit in a case where the specific operation is detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A recording material transport device including a transport section that transports a recording material and a support member disposed to extend in a direction intersecting with a vertical direction, and supporting the recording material from below with the transport stopped, in which the support member is provided to be capable of descending, and, as the support member descends, both of one end portion and the other end portion in the direction intersecting with the vertical direction descend and are inclined such that the one end portion is positioned below the other end portion.

Abstract: A locking structure for an opening and closing body includes an opening and closing body that is supported to be movable between an open position where an opening formed in a device main body is opened and a closed position where the opening is closed and a push latch device that is disposed in the device main body, locks the opening and closing body at the closed position as an engaging body, which is provided on the opening and closing body to protrude in a pushing direction, pushes in a latch body, and releases locking of the opening and closing body to push out the opening and closing body in an opposite direction to the pushing direction in a case where the engaging body is further pushed in at the closed position. Even in a case where the opening and closing body is pushed at the closed position in the pushing direction, the opening and closing body does not move, and the push latch device is held in a locked state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first and second processor. The first processor controls a transport device that transports a sheet and a first image forming section that forms an image on the sheet. The second processor controls a second image forming section that forms an image on the sheet. If an image is to be formed at the second section, the first processor causes the first section to perform image formation preparation and causes the device to transport the sheet upon receiving a notification from the second processor in response to a preparation command transmitted to the second processor for performing image formation preparation in the second section. If an image is not to be formed at the second section, the first processor causes the first section to perform the image formation preparation and the transport device to transport the sheet, without receiving the notification from the second processor.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second processors. The first processor controls a transport device transporting a sheet and a first image forming section forming an image on the sheet. The second processor controls a second image forming section forming an image on the sheet. If an image is to be formed at the second section, the first processor transmits, to the second processor, a preparation command. Then upon receipt and completed preparation in the second section, the second processor transmits a completion notification to the first processor. Then, the first processor causes the first section to perform image formation preparation and causes the transport device to transport the sheet if an image is to be formed at the first section, or causes the transport device to transport the sheet without causing the first section to perform the preparation if an image is not to be formed there.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain user's surroundings at a usage location where the user uses a service accompanied by communication with another location, determine, based on the obtained surroundings, a security level at the usage location for transmission of a video from the other location to the usage location or a security level at the usage location for transmission of an audio from the other location to the usage location, and determine, based on a determined level, whether to perform video or audio transmission between the usage location and the other location.

Abstract: A count destination management apparatus includes a processor configured to receive image information entered by a user having plural count destinations and specify a count destination corresponding to the image information among the plural count destinations on a basis of identification information included in the image information, the identification information being registered in advance for each of the plural count destinations.

Abstract: An information management apparatus includes a processor configured to associate components including questions and answers to the questions using parent-child relationships and control a display of the components as a tree structure, receive a selection of a subset of components in the tree structure according to a user operation and also connect the selected subset of components to the tree structure, and change the parent-child relationships of the components according to the connection of the components.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that controls display of a list of linkage functions executable by combining devices permitted to be used on a terminal device used by at least one user and display of candidates for a use request target device extracted from the devices on the terminal device. In response to candidates for the devices being selected and permitted to be used, the controller controls display of information of a linkage function executable by using the candidates selected and permitted to be used on the terminal device. In response to an authentication to a second device being successful within a predetermined time from a time point at which an authentication to a first device being successful, the controller controls display of information of a linkage function which are executable by using the first device and the second device on the terminal device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that, in a case where plural keyword candidates representing information on an acquisition target are included in a document, sets a target keyword from the keyword candidates in accordance with priority information of defining a keyword to be preferentially used as the target keyword representing an item of the information on the acquisition target among the keyword candidates, an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to the target keyword set by the setting unit, from the document, and an output unit that outputs the character string corresponding to the target keyword, which is extracted by the extraction unit.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a heating element, a power supply circuit, and a processor. The fixing member is used in fixing on recording material. The heating element is used to heat the fixing member. The power supply circuit causes current in phase control to flow to the heating element. The processor is configured to set the phase of the current by using a combination of multiple phase control periods having different numbers of cycles supplied from an alternating-current power supply. The current flows to the heating element.

Abstract: A waste powder recovery device includes: a recovery container that houses waste powder and has an inlet through which the waste powder is received; and a conveying component that is cantilever-supported in such a way as to swing freely inside the recovery container, the conveying component having a first conveying section with which the waste powder brought in through the inlet is conveyed with a first conveying force within the recovery container, and a second conveying section with which the waste powder is conveyed with a second conveying force that is larger than the first conveying force.

Abstract: A medium supply apparatus includes a box member and a lid. A medium is stored inside the box member. The box member is inserted into and extracted from a body of an image forming apparatus, and has a length in an extraction/insertion direction that is longer than a length of the body in the extraction/insertion direction. The lid is provided on a back side of the body in the extraction/insertion direction of the box member to cover at least an upper part of a portion of the box member that projects from the body. The lid includes a first member, a second member, and a first lug. The first member is movable in the extraction/insertion direction with respect to the body. The second member is connected to the first member so as to be relatively movable in the extraction/insertion direction with respect to the first member. The second member is moved by being pushed by the box member which is inserted into the body. The first lug is provided on the second member.

Abstract: A recording-medium container includes a press portion and an urging member. The press portion is disposed to be movable toward and away from a side of a recording medium stack loaded in the recording-medium container, and pressed against the side. The urging member urges the press portion toward the recording medium stack when a quantity of the recording medium stack exceeds a predetermined load.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that controls a notification of a linkage function corresponding to plural selected files. In a further modification of the invention, the controller may control the notification of the linkage function corresponding to formats of the selected files. When the plural files having different formats are selected, the controller may control the notification of the linkage function corresponding to the formats of the selected files.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives printing data and a switching unit that performs switching between a second rotation mode and a first rotation mode. The first rotation mode is a mode in which an orientation in the printing data undergoes rotation through an angle decided in accordance with an analysis of content of the printing data. The second rotation mode is a mode in which if an angle for an output size in the printing data is stored in a memory, the angle is read out from the memory, and the orientation in the printing data undergoes the rotation.

Abstract: An image identification apparatus includes an extraction unit, an excluding unit, and an identification unit. The extraction unit extracts lines from an image. The exclusion unit excludes from objects to be identified a boundary delimiting an entire area of the image among the extracted lines. The identification unit identifies as an object multiple lines that are among the extracted lines and that are not excluded by the exclusion unit if the multiple lines are connected to each other.