Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding unit that holds an image that is formed of a developer, the image being intended to be transferred onto a medium, and an image that is not intended to be transferred onto a medium, a transfer unit that transfers the image that is intended to be transferred onto a medium onto a medium, and a forming unit that forms, upon receiving a print instruction to form the image that is intended to be transferred onto a medium onto the image holding unit, the image that is not intended to be transferred onto a medium at a position on the image holding unit where the image that is intended to be transferred onto a medium is to be formed.

Abstract: A document management system includes one or more processing apparatuses and a management apparatus. Each processing apparatus is located on one of local networks, and executes a protection process to generate a protected document from a document. The management apparatus is located on an external network connected to the local networks, and manages the processing apparatus(es). Each processing apparatus includes a transmitter and a generator. The transmitter transmits a status of the processing apparatus to the management apparatus. The generator executes the protection process on an input document and generates a protected document upon being permitted by the management apparatus to execute the protection process. The management apparatus includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver receives, from the processing apparatus(es), statuses of the processing apparatus(es).

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for providing documents in the chat of a chat application. Example implementations can involve detecting, in a chat of a chat application, an indication to edit a document; inserting a fragment of the document into the chat of the chat application, the fragment configured to be editable within the chat of the chat application; and modifying the document based on input provided to the fragment of the document in the chat of the chat application.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor is provided. The processor is configured to output a warning to a user upon detection of a possibility of occurrence of harm on the user in a case where a device that covers user's vision is used in a closed space that accommodates at least one user.

Abstract: Disclosed is a media transport system utilizing a honeycomb core platen for transporting and maintaining the flatness of a sheet of media in an associated printing system. According to one exemplary embodiment, the honeycomb platen includes a plurality of laminated layers that include features configured to communicate vacuum throughout the entire thickness of the platen.

Abstract: A relay system includes a first relay device, a second relay device, a controller, and a route advertisement unit. The second relay device receives route advertisement from the first relay device. If an excess of a number of pieces of routing information registered in a routing table of the second relay device over a maximum number of pieces of routing information registrable in the routing table is predicted, the controller controls a number of pieces of routing information that are to undergo the route advertisement from the first relay device to the second relay device. The route advertisement unit performs the route advertisement to the second relay device after excluding, from pieces of routing information registered in a routing table of the first relay device, a piece of routing information set not to undergo the route advertisement as a result of the control of the number of pieces of routing information by the controller.

Abstract: A sheet-member guide structure includes a first guide member that guides a sheet member from a fixing unit to a transport roller unit, the fixing unit fixing an image formed on the sheet member to the sheet member by heating the sheet member that is transported, the transport roller unit transporting the sheet member; and a second guide member that comes into contact with the sheet member to which the image has been fixed by the fixing unit and guides the sheet member to the transport roller unit, the second guide member being disposed downstream of the first guide member in a transporting direction in which the sheet member is transported and being made of a material having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of a material of the first guide member.

Abstract: A bookmaking system includes sets of redundant cover printers and book block printers and a binder (or set of binders) for binding a printed cover page, printed by an assigned one of the set of redundant cover printers, and a corresponding set of printed pages for a book block, printed by an assigned one of the set of redundant book block printers, together to form a book. A transport mechanism connects the redundant printers and redundant cover printers with the binder. An assigned one of a plurality of book block buffers, intermediate the book block printers and the binders, stores the set of printed pages until the corresponding printed cover page is ready for binding; and/or an assigned one of a plurality of cover buffers, intermediate the cover printers and the binders, stores the printed cover page until binding can be performed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains environment information concerning a user terminal when a service request is received from the user terminal. Providing of a service to the user terminal has previously failed. The controller performs control to store the environment information obtained by the obtaining unit in a storage device. Data is read from and written into the storage device without operating the user terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit that performs first wireless communication, which is long-distance wireless communication with a terminal, a second communication unit that performs second wireless communication, which is short-distance wireless communication with the terminal, and a control unit that, if notified from the terminal that an amount of information accumulated in the terminal is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, switches from the first communication unit to the second communication unit.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are configured to manage the printing of an electronic document having different page sizes. They include receiving a request from a user to print an electronic document, the electronic document arranged as a set of pages. They also include determining if a page size for a page of the set of pages in the electronic document matches at least one print media size available for printing. They further include providing a message for display to the user, the message including an indication that the page size for the page is not available for printing when it is determined that the page size of the page does not match the at least one print media size. The message also including a menu with a set of user selectable options for completing the print request on the printing device.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display section that displays an image provided on an apparatus main body, a detection section that detects a location of a user with respect to the apparatus main body, and a change section that changes an image to be displayed on the display section from an image for a first location to an image for a second location, the image for the first location and the image for the second location being images having an identical attribute, in a case where the location of the user, which is detected by the detection section, is changed from the first location to the second location.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control section that in a case where a user who uses a specific place is a user who has reserved the specific place, changes communication contract information of a terminal apparatus used by the user, and causes the terminal apparatus to perform communication using the changed communication contract information, during a period of the reservation.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor is provided. The processor is configured to perform control so that a device that covers user's vision becomes available in a closed space that accommodates at least one user, in a condition that a door of the closed space is closed or locked.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device and a controller. The fixing device includes a heating unit and a pressurizing unit. The heating unit is configured to come into contact with a recording medium, onto which an image is transferred and which is transported, so as to heat the recording medium while rotating. The pressurizing unit is configured to press the recording medium against the heating unit. The fixing device is configured to fix the image to the recording medium. The controller is configured to control switching between a first mode for fixing the image to the recording medium and a second mode for making a transport speed of a sheet member that passes through the fixing device slower than a peripheral speed of the heating unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first controller that controls an overall operation of the apparatus, and a second controller that outputs an image stored in a specific area of a storage medium to a display device if a predetermined time has elapsed from activation. The second controller generates a second image and writes the second image in the specific area. If a first image is received from the first controller after the second controller writes the second image, the second controller overwrites the second image in the specific area with the first image.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an application program causes a computer to execute a function of generating a file including both or one of information related to an individual function of the application program and information dynamically changing in accordance with an execution of the application program or the individual function, and a function of notifying a software agent residing on the computer of a place where the file is stored.

Abstract: A powder storage height detection device includes: a main body that has a transport path along which powder is transported; a powder transport unit that is disposed to rotate in the transport path and includes a transporter provided spirally around a rotational shaft; a swinging unit that comes into contact with a surface of the powder transported in the transport path, and swings by following at least a storage height of the surface; and a detection unit that detects a state of swinging of the swinging unit. The transport unit includes a non-transport portion in which the transporter is not present, and the swinging unit is located and disposed to swing in the non-transport portion, and an upper portion located above a contact portion to be in contact with the powder is configurated by an upward convex curved surface.

Abstract: A capping station is configured for storing printheads during printer inactivity to preserve the viscosity of the ink in the nozzles of the printheads. Each capping station has a receptacle, a vacuum source, a transducer, and a valve in an opening in a floor of the receptacle. A controller is operatively connected to actuators to move the receptacle so a seal on an upper wall of the receptacle engages a printhead housing. The controller also operates the valve to close the opening in the receptacle floor and then operates the vacuum source to establish a negative pressure in the volume within the receptacle. The transducer is then operated by the controller to fluctuate ink menisci in the nozzles of the printheads to prevent the ink from drying in the nozzles.

Abstract: A method for limiting wireless connectivity roaming of a multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the method is executed by a processor and includes failing to re-authenticate on a current access point of a wireless network, accessing a list of access points within a user defined boundary, selecting an access point in the list of access points based on a parameter of the access point, and establishing a wireless communication path with the access point.