Abstract: An operation terminal is held by and detachable from a holder on an MFP. The operation terminal includes a touch panel with a display region for an operation screen for the MFP. The touch panel senses an external object touching the display region. A vibrator unit applies vibration to the display region. In response to the touch panel sensing the object, a response controller unit instructs the vibrator unit to apply to the display region vibration responsive to the object. The response controller unit checks whether the operation terminal is held by or detached from the holder at the time the touch panel senses the object, and when the operation terminal is held by the holder, sets the responsive vibration to a level lower than when the operation terminal is detached from the holder.

Abstract: The management server acquires information including, at least, a medium price per unit area of one or more types of print media and a consumption amount of one or more types of inks, regarding a print job executed by the printer, calculates a cost of the print job based on the medium price and the consumption amount included in the acquired information, and calculates an index value of a profit obtained by executing a print job, of which a product is a predetermined print medium, based on the calculated cost by the printing apparatus for a predetermined time.

Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing apparatus; a portable terminal device; and a server, which are connectable to each other, the printing apparatus including a profile creation unit, and a transmission unit, the portable terminal device including a display unit, a transfer request unit, a transfer unit, and a print instruction unit, the server including a saving unit, a reception unit, and a transmission unit, the printing apparatus further including a reception unit, and a print performing unit.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for executing a program for printing. The information processing device includes a processor and a memory that stores print information used for printing and instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute the following steps: converting data to be printed into print data that is printable by an image forming apparatus; and upon detecting that the print information stored in the memory includes execution information of a predetermined process for the print data generated by the converting step, executing the predetermined process based on the execution information.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first interpretation unit configured to generate intermediate data of a page by interpreting print data, a second interpretation unit configured to generate intermediate data of another page by interpreting the print data, and a controller configured to perform, according to a specific print setting command indicating that a specific process is to be performed on all pages, control such that the specific process is performed on all the pages. The controller performs the control if the specific print setting command is included in a specific page.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a print manager to send a print job acquisition request that requests acquisition of print job data to a first information processing apparatus through a network, and receive first print job data sent from the first information processing apparatus as a response to the print job acquisition request through the network, a print job receiver to receive the first print job data sent from the print manager, and second print job data sent from a second information processing apparatus via the network, and an image forming device to execute a print job corresponding at least one of the first print job data and the second print job data, which are received from the print job receiver. The print manager obtains, from the print job receiver, information indicating whether the second print job data is being received from the second information processing apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image scanning device, which comprises: a document tray to load an original document to be scanned; a discharge tray to load the original document after being scanned; and a frame which the document tray and the discharge tray are mounted on. A conveyance path is formed inside the frame to connect the document tray and the discharge tray. The frame contains a conveying structure to convey the original document along the conveyance path; a transparent support member located below the conveyance path to support the original document; a scanning member located below the transparent support member, the scanning member having a scanning position in which the scanning member scans the original document when being located on the transparent support member; and a pressing member disposed above the transparent support member and facing the scanning member for pressing the original document onto the transparent support member.

Abstract: An operation unit is an operation console receiving a user operation, and it includes a display panel. The display panel displays a regular UI including a plurality of setting keys for setting functions, or a simplified UI including setting keys for setting some of the functions settable by the regular UI, under the control of a control unit. The control unit switches the UI screen displayed on the display panel from one to the other of the regular UI and the simplified UI, in response to a user operation. The control unit further determines whether or not a function has been set before the switching of UI screen, and depending on a result of determination, switches the UI screen while maintaining the setting of the function.

Abstract: An apparatus that executes a job, broadcasts a wireless signal prior to establishing a connection by wireless communication with an external apparatus. The wireless signal includes information relating to the apparatus, by which it can be identified whether execution of a job by the apparatus is possible, in a predetermined packet.

Abstract: A communication unit obtains, from a server apparatus, a screen to be displayed on an operation display unit and one or more scripts. A first obtaining unit obtains first setting information stored in a storage unit. A second obtaining unit obtains, from a Web application, second setting information prescribing therein setting conditions set on the Web application that transmits a processing request to an information processing apparatus. A third obtaining unit obtains conflict information stored in the storage unit. A detecting unit detects, based on the conflict information obtained by the third obtaining unit, any setting conditions in a conflicting relation, from the setting conditions prescribed in the second setting information. The first obtaining unit, the second obtaining unit, the third obtaining unit, and the detecting unit function when a processor executes the obtained one or more scripts on a browser.

Abstract: A printing device has a print unit for printing on roll paper; a wireless communication unit for communicating wirelessly with a paired control device; and a controller for receiving print data by wireless communication from the control device, and controlling the print unit based on the received print data. When changing from a pairing-disabled mode to a pairing-enabled mode, the controller controls the print unit to print pairing-related information on roll paper, does not process pairing in the pairing-disabled mode, and processes pairing when a pairing request is received in the pairing-enabled mode.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a controller sequentially selects a plurality color determination pixels within a determination area, determine whether the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is black, and determine whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel by one pixel. The controller determines that a first trapping process is to be executed when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color and the first pixel is black, and a second trapping process when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, the second pixel is black, and the intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the second pixel are black. Thereafter, the controller executes a first trapping process and a second trapping process, but restricts the second trapping process to the pixel on which the first trapping process is to be executed.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first feeding roller, a feeding motor configured to drive the first feeding roller, a second feeding roller, a conveyance roller, a conveyance motor configured to drive the conveyance roller, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet, a detection sensor configured to detect the leading edge of the printing sheet, and a control unit configured to, when the printing unit performs a printing operation on a preceding sheet, drive the feeding motor in synchronization with the conveyance motor before the detection sensor detects the leading edge of a succeeding sheet, and continuously drive the feeding motor so that the conveying speed of the succeeding sheet by the feeding motor becomes higher than that of the preceding sheet after the detection sensor detects the leading edge of the succeeding sheet.

Abstract: A mobile terminal can set a user credential used to log into an image processing apparatus and transmit print data to the image processing apparatus. The mobile terminal displays a screen that receives a print setting with respect to the print data to be transmitted. The mobile terminal also displays, in response to receipt of a user instruction to display a screen configured to receive a setting of authentication information, as a screen that receives the print setting, the screen configured to receive the setting of the authentication information to be added to the print data and on which the user credential used to log in is reflected.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with: an image forming unit having a photosensitive member, a charger, and a developer carrier, the image forming unit being configured to transfer the developer image to a recording sheet to form an image on the recording sheet; a motor configured to drive the photosensitive member and the developer carrier; a controller configured to control the motor and the charger, and a re-conveyance mechanism configured to reverse the recording sheet discharged from the image forming unit and to convey the recording sheet back towards the image forming unit. The controller is configured to turn off the charger after the motor is turned off, during a time period after the recording sheet is discharged from the image forming unit until the recording sheet is re-conveyed to the image forming unit by the re-conveyance mechanism.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a first matching circuit to determine whether an image matrix of image data of a first resolution matches a first pattern, and output a first determination result; a first converting circuit to, if the image matrix matches the first pattern, replace a target pixel of the image matrix with a first pixel pattern of a second resolution, and output first image data of the second resolution; a second converting circuit to convert the image data of the first resolution into image data of the second resolution, and output second image data of the second resolution; a detecting circuit to detect whether the target pixel is included in a fine line structure, and output a detection result; and a selecting circuit to output one of the first image data and the second image data based on the first determination result and the detection result.

Abstract: A hardware processor of an image forming apparatus is able to obtain saving target information from a time of a power-off operation to a time of power supply interruption and to save the saving target information, in a nonvolatile storage of the image forming apparatus, as first snapshot data (for restoring a state at a predetermined time after firmware is activated). When a power-on operation is performed after the time of the power-off operation, the hardware processor determines whether to perform a first high-speed startup process using the first snapshot data as an apparatus startup process with respect to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: Print shop operations may be visualized graphically to show relationships between a stream of incoming print jobs and a group of available print production devices, such as printing and finishing machines. A visualization process is performed with microservices to generate UI device panes, which form elements of a graphic user interface from which print shop operation can be monitored or controlled. Each microservice corresponds a different one of the print production devices. This can allow for rapid adjustments and customization of the UI, as may be needed due to user feedback, change in user requirements, and introduction of new print production devices to the print shop. Information may be added to the graphic user interface in combination with the UI device panes to facilitate assignment of print jobs to particular print production devices and/or to show which devices can be used sequentially or in parallel to complete the print jobs.

Abstract: A processor causes a transmission circuit to output a carrier signal intermittently. Each time the carrier signal is output, the processor determines whether or not a level of a detection signal is in a satisfactory state. In a first case where the level of the detection signal is determined to be in the satisfactory state, the processor performs a read control to cause the transmission circuit to perform a precharge process and a transmission process. In a second case where the level of the detection signal is not determined to be in the satisfactory state, the processor determines that the unit attachment portion is in a unit non-attachment state. In the first case, when the processor succeeds in identifying the developer information, the processor determines that the unit attachment portion is in a unit attachment state, and otherwise, determines that the unit attachment portion is in an exceptional state.

Abstract: A printing apparatus has a sheet holding unit having a detection unit for detecting a size of a sheet which is held and a storage unit configured to store sheet information including at least a size of a sheet as information representing a sheet. The apparatus sets first sheet information selected by a user in association with the sheet holding unit from a plurality of items of sheet information stored in the storage unit and notifies the user of a mismatch in a case where a size of a sheet that the first sheet information set in the setting indicates, and a size of a sheet detected by the detection unit are mismatched.