Abstract: A device for offsetting sheets as they are conveyed in a paper path toward a stacker includes a narrow channel mounted to a set of linked arms which when moved in a process direction (upstream-downstream) articulate in a cross process direction (inboard-outboard) to register the sheets at various locations for stacking or finish processing. The linked arms keep the channel parallel to the paper path at all times regardless of inboard-outboard offset.

Abstract: A status monitoring system includes multiple sensors that detect a status of a monitoring target, a transmission unit that transmits changed detection data when detection data detected by the multiple sensors changes, a storage unit that stores the detection data transmitted by the transmission unit, a prediction unit that predicts, from past detection data stored in the storage unit, a time at which the detection data detected by the multiple sensors is predicted to change, and an instruction unit that instructs a specific subset of the multiple sensors to transmit data for checking operation a preset amount of time before the time predicted by the prediction unit.

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: An aqueous ink printer includes two drying stages that enable coated substrates to be printed with aqueous ink images. The first drying stage dries substrates uniformly in the cross-process direction and the second drying stage dries substrates non-uniformly in the cross-process direction to enable only predetermined portions of the printed substrates to be dried. The predetermined portions of the printed substrates are aligned in a process direction with nip rollers or other printer components that engage the substrates after the substrates exit the second drying stage.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a reception section that receives print data including plural page images and receives data on what type the print data is for selecting attribute information with a degree of importance set for each attribute indicating a feature of the page image; an acquisition section that acquires the attribute information according to the type of the print data; a setting section that sets an evaluation value for each of the page images included in the print data by using the acquired attribute information; and a control section that performs a control to display previews of the page images according to the evaluation values.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a command unit. The acquiring unit acquires positional information of a container containing a contained object from an image acquired as a result of photographing the container by using a display device that displays a virtual-space image and a real space in an overlapping manner and that has a photographing function. The command unit commands the display device to display information related to the contained object stored in association with the positional information as the virtual-space image near the container.

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: 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: 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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: 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: According to aspects illustrated herein, a method of printing a document is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for printing a document and one or more print parameters, the one or more print parameters include at least a primary media size selected by a user for printing. While submitting the document for printing, an option is provided to the user to select an alternate media size to be used for printing the document. The document, the one or more print parameters along with the alternate media size as selected by the user are sent to a printer. Before printing the document, a count of the primary media size sheets available with the printer is estimated. Based on the estimated count, the document is printed with the alternate media size sheets.

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 extruder has a valve assembly configured to move pins to open and close the nozzles in a multi-nozzle extruder head independently. The pins of the valve assembly that are driven by actuators into and out of engagement with nozzles in the extruder head are positioned within sleeves that extend between the valve assembly and the extruder head. A gap is provided between the extruder head and the end of the sleeves proximate the extruder head to enable thermoplastic material leaking from the extruder that contacts the pins to remain in a melted or plastic state so the thermoplastic material does not interfere with the movement of the pins.