Abstract: An apparatus includes a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores conflict information indicating that a setting for printing a predetermined number of pages on one surface of one sheet conflicts with a setting for punching a plurality of rows of holes in the one sheet. The control unit performs control to prohibit generation of a print command including the printing and punching settings based on the conflict information stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes specifying unit and a display. The specifying unit specifies whether or not a failure occurring in the information processing apparatus can be suppressed, based on predetermined information. The display that displays information for enabling suppression of the failure in a case where it is determined by the specifying unit that the failure can be suppressed.

Abstract: A communication device may receive a specific signal from a first external device; after the specific signal has been received from the first external device, cause an output unit of the communication device to output specific information obtained by using a public key; after the specific information has been outputted, receive an authentication request in which the public key is used from the first external device; in a case where the authentication request is received from the first external device, send an authentication response to the first external device; after the authentication response has been sent to the first external device, receive connection information from the first external device; and in a case where the connection information is received from the first external device, establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the communication device and a second external device.

Abstract: A controller for a fulfilment service operation is described in which the controller, before initiating fulfilment of the job, operates to determine if an authorised user is present at a fulfilment service device and to determine if the user intends to remain attendant at the fulfilment service device for the duration of fulfilment of the job. If the user moves away from the fulfilment service device, the controller operates to pause the job. If the user remains away from the fulfilment service device for a period of time, the controller operates to cancel the job.

Abstract: Calibration requests are received at a network service. The network service assigns a request identifier for the data of a request. The request identifier is encoded into a control strip on a test color sheet using color patches. A color encoding key encodes the request identifier using the color patches. After the test color sheet is printed, a color measurement tool is used to decode the information from the control strip, including the request identifier. The color measurement tool measures the test color strips on test color sheet. The request identifier corresponds to the measurement data. The measurement data along with the request identifier is sent to the network service. The measurement data is processed to generate calibration data, which is used to update the printing device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores control information to be utilized for displaying a setting screen on which entry of a setting value for an application added to the information processing apparatus is received; and circuitry to receive a user operation related to execution of the application on the setting screen and perform processing for installing the application.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions executable by a controller of an information processing apparatus. When executed by the controller, the instructions realize a support program corresponding to a printer connected to the information processing apparatus. When a print instruction is input through a printing program, the support program causes the information processing apparatus to obtain printer information stored in a memory, the printing program being implemented, in advance, in an operating system of the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus including a controller, a display, and an image former, and being capable of executing a processing function by a voice operation, the controller performs controls to display, on the display, a voice operation screen including a command in response to a command to start an operation through a voice operation of a user, and execute a job in the image former in response to a command to execute the job being input by voice through a voice operation.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus capable of communicating with a communication apparatus specifies a first distance between the terminal apparatus and a first unit in the communication apparatus and a second distance between the terminal apparatus and a second unit in the communication apparatus, and causes a display unit to display a first screen which relates to the first unit in preference to a second screen which relates to the second unit and display the second screen based on an operation of the first screen displayed in preference to the second screen in a case where the first distance is shorter than the second distance, and display the second screen in preference to the first screen and display the first screen based on an operation of the second screen displayed in preference to the first screen in a case where the second distance is shorter than the first distance.

Abstract: A printer is configured to communicate with a terminal and includes a printer memory configured to store items corresponding to the printer and item values corresponding to the items and a printer processor. The items include a change-allowed item whose corresponding item value is allowed to be changed and a change-prohibited item whose corresponding item value is prohibited to be changed. When the printer processor receives a transmission request command from the terminal, the printer processor selects the change-allowed item from the items stored in the printer memory, generates transmission information provided with the item value corresponding to the change-allowed item thus selected to transmit the transmission information thus generated to the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: Systems and methods relate generally to job handling by an information handling system. In an example method thereof, a timeout mode is provided for a job to be processed by the information processing system. A plurality of jobs including the job are queued in a buffer queue of the information processing system. The job is timed out. The job is moved down in the buffer queue in response to the timing out thereof. In an example of another method thereof, the job is canceled in response to the timing out thereof, rather than being moved down in the buffer queue.

Abstract: A system previously generates a plurality of neural networks by performing learning based on an image data pair generated based on identical original data and differing in resolution. Then, the system determines one neural network out of the plurality of neural networks based on a resolution of input image data and a resolution of an image to be output, acquires post-conversion image data based on the determined neural network and the input image data, and performs outputting that is based on the post-conversion image data.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a document reader, a display section of a screen, an operation reception section configured to receive operation on the screen, and a controller configured to output processing of image data in accordance with output settings. The operation includes simple operation for selecting an output destination to receive output of the image data. When the operation reception section receives the simple operation, the controller starts reading the document by the reader, displays a screen indicating reading in a display period including a read period until reading of the document is completed, and displays another screen after the display period. The operation reception section is configured to receive change operation of the output settings in a reception period included in the display period, and when the change operation is received, the controller outputs processing of the image data in accordance with the changed output settings.

Abstract: A management system includes an information processing apparatus that stores management information about cartridges that store consumables and is configured to update the stored management information, and an image forming apparatus configured to print an image on a sheet using the consumables stored in an attached cartridge, storing cartridge information about a cartridge that has been previously attached to the image forming apparatus, and configured to, when a cartridge is attached, retrieve cartridge information from the attached cartridge as first cartridge information and the stored cartridge information as second cartridge information, and transmit the first and second cartridge information to the processing apparatus. Upon receipt of the cartridge information, the processing apparatus determines whether the attached cartridge is a refilled cartridge, and if so, updates the management information so that the cartridge is identified as a refilled cartridge.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions executable by a processor of a communication apparatus configured to communicate with a function executing device. The communication apparatus includes a communication device and a database. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the communication apparatus to execute: a determination processing in which the communication apparatus determines whether there is a device list in the database at an initial start of the communication apparatus, the device list being a list of at least one function executing device; a search processing in which the communication apparatus searches for the function executing device communicable with the communication apparatus when the communication apparatus determines in the determination processing that there is not the device list in the database; and a creation processing in which the communication apparatus creates the device list based on a result of the search processing.

Abstract: In a case where a print job that is not performed according to designation of an object is included in print jobs stored in association with identification information of an authenticated user, an image processing apparatus gives notification that the print job that is not performed according to the designation of the object is included, to the authenticated user.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus and a malfunction diagnosis method of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus stores a diagnosis target of a malfunction in association with a diagnostic item corresponding to the diagnosis target, and in a case where an abnormality is detected, the apparatus specifies the diagnosis target corresponding to the abnormality, executes a malfunction diagnosis process in accordance with the stored diagnostic item in association with the specified diagnosis target, and displays information regarding a malfunction parts determined to be a malfunction by the malfunction diagnosis process. The apparatus executes a malfunction diagnosis processes of a different type depending on whether or not a sheet remaining in the image forming apparatus is detected.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs: acquiring target image data representing a target image including a plurality of pixels, the target image data including a plurality of sets of component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of component images; smoothing the plurality of component images to generate respective sets of a plurality of sets of smoothed component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of smoothed component images; enhancing an edge in each of the plurality of smoothed component images to generate corresponding one set of a plurality of sets of enhanced component image data; generating single-component image data including one type of component value corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels by using the plurality of sets of enhanced component image data; and specifying a plurality of edge pixels using the single-component image data, the plurality of edge pixels constituting an edge in the target image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a CPU, and receives print information transmitted from an information processing device via a network. The image forming apparatus generates an output image according to the print information, and if a non-matching character which a user recognizes with difficulty is included in the output image, generates a corrected image in which all or a part of the non-matching character is corrected.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a transmission request for image data from an image processing apparatus to which a user provides an instruction to execute image processing, an acquisition unit that acquires a security policy corresponding to attribute information related to an attribute of the image processing apparatus in a case where the reception unit receives the transmission request, and a control unit that performs control for transmitting the image data to the image processing apparatus and executing the image processing in the image processing apparatus in accordance with the security policy acquired by the acquisition unit.