Abstract: An information processing apparatus, for use with an image forming apparatus including one or more mounting portions to which containers filled with color materials of different types respectively are mountable, includes a receiving unit that receives designation of pieces of color material information respectively indicating plural color materials selected by a user from the color materials with which the containers are to be filled respectively; an acquisition unit that acquires first image data indicating a first image; and a display unit that displays a second image using the color material information and the first image data.

Abstract: A flow generation device includes first and second reception units, an extraction unit, a control unit, and a generation unit. The first reception unit receives a selected service process selected from among multiple service processes for generating a sequential process flow. The control unit causes the selected service process received by the first reception unit and at least one of the upstream service processes and the downstream service processes extracted by the extraction unit to be displayed on a display. The generation unit generates a process flow in which the selected service process and at least one of the upstream service process and the downstream service process are defined.

Abstract: A data collection system includes one or more radio modules that are respectively detachably mounted on devices unconnected to a network and are enabled to transmit, via radio communication, raw data that is obtained by reading a signal from an input and output port of each of the devices, an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit that forms an image, a hub unit that collects the raw data from the one or more radio modules, and a transmitting unit that transmits the collected raw data, and a central server that collects information generated by the devices by performing a pre-process responsive to each of the devices on the raw data transmitted from the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A data collection system includes a first device that includes a generation unit configured to generate installation data including an edge-server function program for collecting data items generated by a device group including plural devices and a transmission unit configured to transmit the installation data generated by the generation unit to outside and a second device that includes an installation unit configured to install the edge-server function program by using the installation data transmitted from the first device. The second device selects one or more registration candidate devices by comparing first information that is further included in the installation data and second information that is acquirable separately from the installation data and attempts to register the one or more registration candidate devices as data collection targets when installation of the edge-server function program is completed by the installation unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a notification unit. The acquisition unit acquires working results including work start time and work end time in multiple companies for which a worker works, worker information identifying the worker, pieces of company information indicating the respective companies, and prescribed working hour periods in respective contracts concluded with the respective companies. The notification unit calculates working hour periods in the respective companies and makes a notification of each of the working hour periods. The notification unit calculates the working hour periods by using the respective working results, the worker information, the respective pieces of company information, and the respective prescribed working hour periods that are acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A toner for electrostatic image development contains: toner base particles containing at least a nonionic surfactant, a binder resin, and a release agent; and an external additive. The content of the nonionic surfactant is from 0.05% by mass to 1% by mass inclusive based on the total mass of the toner, and the external additive contains tin oxide particles.

Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive substrate, an elastic layer disposed on the conductive substrate, and a surface layer disposed on the elastic layer. Regarding the surface of the surface layer, in the axial direction, the ratio of the mean spacing of profile irregularities Sm to the ten-point mean roughness Rz and the reduced peak height Spk respectively satisfy 15?Sm/Rz?35 and Spk?5 ?m.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a reception unit, an acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The reception unit receives image data that is not associated with language information. The acquisition unit acquires language information from a result of analysis of the image data received by the reception unit. The setting unit sets a language displayed on a display, based on the language information acquired by the acquisition unit.

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: A printer includes a first printing unit responsible for one of preceding printing and subsequent printing that are to be performed on one sheet in overprinting, an other of the preceding printing and the subsequent printing being performed by a second printing unit; and a base-printing controller that causes the first printing unit to print a base for printing by the second printing unit in an operation of forming a test pattern for registration between the preceding printing and the subsequent printing on the sheet.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs display control for receiving edit of a display screen on which at least one image representing a function is displayed and causing a user display screen edited by an authorized user to be displayed on an operation display unit includes a first controller that, in a case where the user display screen is changed by an entity other than the user, performs display control for displaying a receiving screen that includes an image of a display screen after the change and a selection part for selecting whether to permit or prohibit shift to the display screen after the change and receives user's selection; and a second controller that, in a case where the user selects prohibition of shift to the display screen after the change, performs display control for shifting the receiving screen to an edit screen for editing the display screen after the change.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit, a generating unit, and a presenting unit. The reception unit acquires identification information used for identifying a user and receives a request for executing a job with respect to an apparatus to be used. The generating unit executes the job by using a function included in the apparatus and generates history information using the identification information and an execution result of the job. The presenting unit entirely or partially conceals the history information in accordance with authorization of a viewer and presents the concealed history information.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading unit that reads an image formed on a first surface of a medium; a support unit that supports the medium from a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a pressing unit that blows air from a first surface side so as to press a portion of the medium to be read by the reading unit against the support unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a distance measurement sensor that outputs a voltage according to a distance to a measurement object; and a control unit that supplies power to the distance measurement sensor at preset intervals and stops the power supply after a preset first period has elapsed. When performing control to determine that the measurement object has approached the apparatus in a state where an output voltage from the distance measurement sensor is equal to or higher than a preset threshold value, the control unit supplies power again and stops the power supply after a preset second period has elapsed, and then performs control to determine that the output voltage from the distance measurement sensor is a falsely detected output voltage when the output voltage during the power supply is equal to or higher than a preset voltage.

Abstract: A sliding member contains a resin and a fibrous filler. The dynamic friction coefficient of a surface of the sliding member in an in-plane direction A of the surface is 0.08 or more lower than the dynamic friction coefficient of the surface in an in-plane direction B angled at 90 degrees with respect to the in-plane direction A.

Abstract: A controller includes an extractor configurated such that, if plural talk rooms exist where information is portable and viewable by each of plural users and, when instruction information including a file and an instruction to execute processing for the file is posted, the processing associated with the posted instruction information is executable, and if a talk room where the instruction information is posted differs from a talk room where the processing associated with the instruction information is executed, a difference between the file before the processing and the file after the processing is extracted when the processing associated with the instruction information is executed.

Abstract: A control device includes a generation unit that in a case where a first user, belonging to a talk room where each of plural users posts and browses information, posts a file and instruction information including an instruction to execute processing on the file, for a second user different from the first user, to the talk room, generates an individual talk room to which the second user belongs and which receives the post related to the file, separately from the talk room to which the instruction information is posted.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet transport unit, a detector, and a releasing unit. The sheet transport unit transports a sheet by nipping the sheet in a nip between multiple pairs of transport rollers arranged in a sheet width direction intersecting a sheet transport direction. The detector detects a size of the transported sheet. The releasing unit releases the nip of one or more of the pairs of transport rollers outside a transport region of the sheet based on the size of the sheet detected by the detector.

Abstract: A communication device includes a transmission unit and a processing unit. The transmission unit transmits a packet group including multiple packets. In a case in which the communication device itself is not trusted by a destination communication device to which to transmit the packet group, the processing unit performs a process of instructing each of multiple nodes of a management unit that registers and manages management information distributed among the multiple nodes to register header information as the management information, the header information being partial information of a header included in each packet of the packet group transmitted by the transmission unit.

Abstract: A data management system includes plural of devices in a hierarchical structure, wherein a first device belonging to a hierarchy other than a lowest hierarchy of the hierarchical structure among the plural devices includes a storage unit that stores entity data of a storage target item of the first device among metadata including plural items, and an acquisition unit that acquires link information for specifying entity data of an item group other than the storage target item of the first device among the entity data of the metadata stored in a low-level device relative to the first device in the hierarchical structure.