Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit that charges the surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image to form a toner image, a transferring unit that transfers the toner image to a first side of a recording medium, a fixing unit that allows the recording medium having the transferred toner image to pass through a nipping region to fix the toner image, a first charging unit that faces the first side of the recording medium and that charges particles, and a second charging unit that charges a second side of the recording medium to the opposite polarity to the charged particles after the recording medium passes through the nipping region.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus including a generating unit that generates personal setting information that is used to set an operation screen on a per user basis, and a transmitting unit that transmits the personal setting information generated by the generating unit to an external apparatus, and a portable terminal apparatus including a memory that saves the personal setting information transmitted by the first information processing apparatus, and a transmitting unit that, when the portable terminal apparatus is linked to a second information processing apparatus different from the first information processing apparatus having generated the personal setting information, transmits the personal setting information saved on the memory to the second information processing apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information on multiple bulletins to be posted in posting locations that are different from each other, a determination unit that determines, based on the information, an order of visitation according to which a worker posting bulletins visits each of the posting locations, and an instruction unit that provides an instruction to output printed matter that accounts for the order of visitation determined.

Abstract: Many professionals use public transportation for site visits. If there is spare time between site visits, it is desirable for them to find a workspace that is more secure than a coffee shop. Work booths located at train stations meet that need. The system handles the reservation of those work booths based on the customer's schedule and destinations. In a dense public transportation network of a major metropolitan area, there are several routes one can take to travel between two points with only slight delays. Small additional detours may be acceptable if they pass by an available work booth. Unlike a traditional public transportation navigation system, one or more of the described embodiments can check all routes leading past work booths in parallel.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. If images related to devices that have been identified are superimposed on one another, the controller causes information about one or plural cooperative functions that use functions of the devices to be displayed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit that charges the surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic charge image forming unit that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit that includes a developer containing toner particles containing a release agent having a melting temperature ranging from 60° C. to 100° C.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a central processing unit that receives user operations for changing a portion of a document, and edits the document by a first user and a second user in parallel. The first user and the second user each have an editing right and, in response to the editing rights, an editing page is displayed differently depending on the user.

Abstract: An operation panel includes: a housing; a reading unit configured to read information from a medium allowed to approach a predetermined position of the housing; a first operation unit provided outside a predetermined range including the position in a front surface of the housing and configured to receive an operation; and a second operation unit provided within the range, configured to receive an operation, and configured to receive the operation less easily than the first operation unit.

Abstract: A product manufacturing method includes acquiring a random pattern in one region on a surface of a first member by capturing an image of the first member; acquiring identification information, based on which a second member is individually identifiable, from the second member, the second member being combined with the first member to constitute a product; storing the acquired random pattern and the acquired identification information in association with each other; and forming the product by combining the first member and the second member.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium and method for processing information are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a display device; and one or more processors configured to form a display area to be displayed on a screen of the display device; set a first display area and a second display area next to each other in the display area; assign a first and a second conversation screens to the first and second display areas respectively, each of the first and second conversation screens comprising a plurality of conversation messages; and move the display area along the screen in response to an operation on the screen, such that the screen sequentially displays all of the first display area, a portion of the first display area and a portion of the second display area, and then all of the second display area and none of the first display area.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate. The method includes: forming a crushing layer on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate before forming an element on an epitaxial layer formed on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate; and removing a part of the epitaxial layer. The semiconductor substrate is not exposed to a temperature of 200° C. or higher between the forming of the crushing layer and the removing.

Abstract: A print instructing device includes: a recording section that, in a case in which history information does not include size information indicating a size of a print medium designated by a print demand that demands an execution of printing, records paper quality information indicating a paper quality of the print medium designated by the print demand in association with the size information in the history information; and a display controlling section that, in a case in which the size information is included in the history information and the paper quality information does not match the history information corresponding to the size information, causes confirmation information confirming whether or not to change the designated paper quality to be displayed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that presents, upon selection of first information associated with a first element, second information associated with a second element defined as an element that executes a function in cooperation with the first element and second information associated with a second element that is not defined as an element that executes a function in cooperation with the first element in a distinguishable manner.

Abstract: A binding processing device includes a first pressing member including: a first convex portion; a first concave portion; and a first connection portion which is provided between the first convex portion and the first concave portion; and a second pressing member including: a second convex portion; a second concave portion; and a second connection portion which is provided between the second convex portion and the second concave portion. In a state in which the first convex portion of the first pressing member and the second concave portion of the second pressing member come in contact with each other at the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the first connection portion contacts with the second connection portion and a gap is formed between the first convex portion and the second concave portion along a pressing direction of the first and second pressing members.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus that use setting information. The first information processing apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits information including at least function identification information and user identification information to the second information processing apparatus, the function identification information identifying a function for which first setting information is used, and the user identification information identifying a user associated with the function identification information.

Abstract: A white toner for electrostatic latent image development includes toner particles containing a binder resin, a white pigment, and a release agent, the binder resin containing an amorphous resin. In viscosity measurement using a capillary viscometer, a temperature-viscosity curve has a minimum value within a temperature range of 70° C. or more and 95° C. or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member that transfers an image on the image carrier to a continuous medium, a fixing device that fixes the image transferred to the medium, and a transport member that is disposed downstream of the fixing device in a transport direction of the medium and that transports the medium. When the transport member transports the medium, the fixing device is passively rotated in accordance with movement of the medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including an image former that forms an image on a recording material; a covering part that is provided in the apparatus body and leaves an inside of the apparatus body open by being opened in an opening direction with respect to the apparatus body; a reversing unit that is housed by the apparatus body and discharges part of the recording material on which the image is formed by the image former externally of the apparatus body, and reverses a transport direction of the recording material; and a guiding unit that is provided adjacent to a downstream side of the covering part in the opening direction, guides the recording material discharged through the apparatus body by the reversing unit, and when the covering part is opened with respect to the apparatus body, the guiding unit moves relatively with respect to the covering part in an opposite direction of the opening direction.

Abstract: A silica particle has a compression and aggregation degree of from 60% to 95% and a particle compression ratio of from 0.20 to 0.40.

Abstract: A relay apparatus includes a storage, request data reception and transmission units, a mode data reception unit, a specified condition conversion unit, a content identifier reception unit, a generation unit, and a display data transmission unit. The storage stores a service identifier, access destination information, and a conversion routine for the format of a specified condition specifying content, for each of storage services. The request data reception unit receives a service identifier and a specified condition from a client apparatus. The mode data reception unit receives mode data specifying a client apparatus display format. The specified condition conversion unit converts the specified condition into a server format, which is transmitted by the request data transmission unit using access destination information. The content identifier reception unit receives content identifiers from the server, for which the generation unit generates display data.