Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding body, a transfer member, and a controller. The image holding body holds an image formed of toner. The transfer member is brought into contact with a continuous medium so as to transfer the image held by the image holding body to the continuous medium, and the transfer member is able to be brought into contact with and separated from the image holding body. The controller causes the transfer member to be separated from the image holding body, and after that, causes the image holding body to move so as to detect an inspection image formed on the image holding body, thereby adjusting, as image quality adjustment, a deviation of a position of the image or a deviation of density of the image to be formed.

Abstract: A developer container includes a container body, a transport unit, a support unit, and a protrusion. The container body includes a cylindrical accommodating space that accommodates a developer, and a discharge port. The transport unit transports the accommodated developer toward the discharge port by a transport blade. The transport blade moves so as to pass closely to an inner wall of the accommodating space. The support unit rotatably supports a rotating shaft of the transport unit. The support unit includes a connecting component that connects to an external element to receive external rotational power. The protrusion protrudes inward from the inner wall. When the transport unit reversely rotates in an opposite direction to a rotational direction in transporting the developer, the transport blade passes in contact with the protrusion and vibrates so as to touch the inner wall of the accommodating space.

Abstract: An image processing device executes image processing by each object of an object group in which plural objects are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form. A processing unit performs updating processing and imparting processing, the updating processing for updating image processing which is executed by each object of the object group to partial processing which performs image processing on division image data representing a division image obtained by dividing an input image represented by input image data into plural partial regions, and the imparting processing for imparting a dependency relationship between pieces of the partial processing of the objects connected to each other. A controller performs control for causing plural computation devices to execute, in parallel, the updating processing and the imparting processing by the processing unit and the partial processing which becomes executable based on the dependency relationship.

Abstract: An image reading device includes an image reading unit that reads an image while moving in a sub-scanning direction, a casing that houses the image reading unit, a guiding member that is movable relative to the casing in the sub-scanning direction and guides the casing in the sub-scanning direction, and an endless member to which the casing is fixed and that endlessly travels between a starting position and a terminal position in the sub-scanning direction.

Abstract: An optical device includes: a lens member including a plurality of lenses arranged such that optical axes of the lenses are substantially parallel to one another; and a plurality of column parts that are each provided along the optical axis of each lens among the plurality of lenses and each allow light to pass through inside, each column part having an outer periphery through which light is less likely to pass from inside to outside the column part than through an end portion of the column part in a direction along the optical axis, the plurality of column parts being integrally formed and disposed to face the lens member.

Abstract: A sheet transportation device includes a sheet loading table, a feeding unit that feeds a sheet placed on the sheet loading table, a first detection unit that is provided downstream of the feeding unit in a sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of the sheet, a second detection unit that is provided upstream of the feeding unit in the sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of a small-size sheet which is smaller than the sheet detected by the first detection unit, and a control unit that starts feeding the sheet based on a result of detection performed by any of the first detection unit or the second detection unit in accordance with a size of the sheet.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller configured to perform a control to display an image area extracted from an undefined area other than a defined area that is defined in advance as a recognition target, on a confirmation screen for displaying a recognition result of characters entered in a document.

Abstract: A transfer unit includes: a transfer body that forms a transfer nip together with an image holding member provided to hold a developer image and allows a recording medium to be nipped in and transported through the transfer nip so that a developer image is transferred to the recording medium; and a guide member that intersects a tangent to the transfer nip and has a tip end portion located closer to the image holding member across the tangent when viewed in an axial direction, and guides the recording medium transported from an upstream side to the transfer nip, wherein the tip end portion has plural regions having different distances from the image holding member.

Abstract: A tubular metal body includes a tubular part having an opening at one end in an axis direction; and a bottom part disposed at another end of the tubular part in the axis direction. The ratio (Rz1/Rz2) of a surface roughness Rz1 of an outer peripheral surface of the bottom part to a surface roughness Rz2 of an outer peripheral surface of a center portion of the tubular part in the axis direction is in a range of 2 or more and 4000 or less. A Vickers hardness HV1 of the outer peripheral surface of the bottom part is 5 HV or more and 27 HV or less smaller than a Vickers hardness HV2 of the outer peripheral surface of the center portion of the tubular part in the axis direction.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage unit, a controller, a storage processor, and a transmitter. When communication with a log management server is unavailable, the controller causes a log of an operation of storing or retrieving data with respect to a storage area on a network to be stored in the storage unit in association with the data. In a case in which the data stored in the storage unit is stored in the storage area and the log associated with the data exists, the storage processor performs a process of storing the log in the storage area in association with the data. In a case in which communication with the log management server is available and a log is stored in association with data in the storage unit, the transmitter transmits the log to the log management server.

Abstract: A contact system includes an ID information management section that discloses and manages ID information for specifying a user to a third party; a contact information management section that gives priorities to respective pieces of contact information of the user of a plurality of contact tools, and manages the respective pieces of contact information in a private manner to the third party; a reception section that receives a contact request designating the ID information as a contact destination from the third party; a selection section that selects contact information to be used, from the respective pieces of contact information of the user according to the received ID information, based on the priorities; and a contact relay section that relays contact by the corresponding contact tool, by using the selected contact information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor photoreceptor having an outermost surface layer that contains polytetrafluoroethylene particles and a dispersant containing fluorine atoms and has a perfluorooctanoic acid content of 25 ppb or less relative to the polytetrafluoroethylene particles; and a transfer device that includes an intermediate transfer body having a surface onto which a toner image is transferred, a first transfer device that performs first transfer that involves transferring the toner image on the surface of the photoreceptor onto the surface of the intermediate transfer body, and a second transfer device that performs second transfer that involves transferring the toner image on the surface of the intermediate transfer body onto a surface of a recording medium, the second transfer device having a second transfer member having a surface with a hexadecane contact angle of 30 degrees or more.

Abstract: A developing device includes: a developer storage unit that stores a developer; a developer transporting unit that is connected to the developer storage unit through an opening portion; a closing member that openably closes the opening portion; and a loosening section that acts simultaneously with opening of the opening portion by the closing member to loosen the developer at an inner end portion of the developer storage unit, opposite to the opening portion.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving part that receives processing information based on voice; and a controller that performs control so that the processing information indicated by the voice received by the receiving part is displayed on a display. The receiving part further receives modification of the processing information displayed on the display, and the controller further performs control so that the modification received by the receiving part is reflected in processing received by the receiving part.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus managed by an administrator and used by plural users includes a reception unit and a request unit. The reception unit receives a disclosure request from the administrator related to secret information in a job processed by the information processing apparatus. The request unit requests a disclosure of the secret information with respect to a user of a target job that is a target of the disclosure request.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes image forming units, secondary transfer units, and first and second detection devices. Each image forming unit includes image forming devices, and a primary intermediate transfer body. Toner images formed by the image forming devices are primarily transferred to the primary intermediate transfer body. The secondary transfer units are provided for the image forming units, respectively. Each secondary transfer unit is configured to secondarily transfer the toner images on a corresponding one of the primary intermediate transfer bodies to a transfer body. The first detection device is configured to detect the toner images downstream of the most downstream secondary transfer position. The second detection device is provided in at least one of the image forming units. The second detection device is configured to detect the toner images between the most downstream primary transfer position in the primary intermediate transfer body and a secondary transfer position.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: one or more internal devices that are connected to an internal network, the internal network being connected to an external network through a firewall; and an intermediation device that can communicate with the internal network and the external network; each of the internal devices including: a storage unit that stores one or more documents and metadata of each of the documents; and a request acceptance unit that accepts, from a user, a request for processing by an external server on the external network as to one of the documents stored in the storage unit, and transmits the accepted request to the intermediation device; the intermediation device including: a request transmission unit as defined herein.

Abstract: A developer supply device includes a developer container, an adjustment mechanism, and a controller. The developer container is configured to supply developer by rotating. The adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust a rotation angle of the developer container. The controller is configured to control the rotation angle of the developer container by the adjustment mechanism according to a developer remaining amount in the developer container.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer carrier on which an attraction region is set, the attraction region being a region that attracts developer including toner and a carrier, and that carries, in the attraction region, the developer that is to be supplied to an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a regulation member that regulates the developer so that a predetermined amount of the developer is carried by the developer carrier; and a forming unit that is located upstream of the regulation member and that forms, in the attraction region, a first region that restricts a flow of developer supplied to the developer carrier and a second region that is located between the first region and the regulation member and that does not restrict a flow of the developer compared with the first region.

Abstract: A file management device includes a controller. The controller performs control to obtain a file requested by a first information processing device from a file storage and to send the requested file to the first information processing device. The controller also performs control to determine whether to delete the requested file from the file storage before an effective period of the requested file elapses. The first information processing device stores a received file in a storage and provides the file to a user.