Abstract: A printing apparatus that is configured to, in order to efficiently execute printing by suitably skipping a page that is not to be printed, receive information about an attribute of paper to be skipped without printing, and based on information about the received attribute, print a page that does not use paper having the attribute and skip printing of a page that uses paper having the attribute.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a touch panel, a broadcast direction receiving part, a broadcast job executing part, a broadcast job display controlling part, a gesture detecting part and a broadcast job execution controlling part. The broadcast job display controlling part controls, when the broadcast direction receiving part receives an operation input directing execution of a broadcast, the touch panel to display identifying information of a transmission job and a job identifier indicating a communication state of the transmission job for every transmission jobs. The broadcast job execution controlling part controls, when a gesture area detected by the gesture detecting part is corresponding to a display area of a given job identifier among the job identifiers, the broadcast job executing part to not execute the transmission job not yet transmitted among the transmission jobs corresponding to the job identifiers.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an operation receiving unit for receiving an operation; a setting receiving unit for displaying a setting condition for printing or transmission and receiving a change to the setting condition, after the operation receiving unit receives an instruction to start printing or transmitting; and a storage unit in which the setting condition is stored by the setting receiving unit via an operating system by using, as a key, identification information acquired by the setting receiving unit, the identification information identifying a printing or transmission process and being generated by the operating system according to the instruction to start printing or transmitting. An image processing unit acquires the identification information from the operating system, and reads, from the storage unit, the setting condition using the identification information as a key, and converts document data into print data of a printing device based on the setting condition.

Abstract: A preview image of image data to be output is generated, in response to a request from an operation device, and can be displayed via the operation device. A first preview image of the image data is generated based on an output setting for outputting the image data. The first preview image is stored in a storage device. The output setting can be changed based on a changing request from the operation device. It is determined, in response to a second preview request from the operation device, after sending the first preview image, whether the first preview image is to be regenerated, based on the changed output setting. The first preview image stored in the storage device can be sent when the first preview image is not to be regenerated, for example, when a second preview image is not to be generated.

Abstract: A printing device includes a storage unit configured to store image data transferred from a high level device; a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of a printing medium and output a notification of a printable state when the printing medium is conveyed to reach a predetermined printable state; a printing unit configured to print the image data stored in the storage unit on the printing medium in response to the notification of the printable state output from the conveyance control unit; and a printing control unit configured to create print setting information including conveyance control information to control conveyance of the printing medium from printing information specified from the high level device and transmit the print setting information at least to the conveyance control unit. The conveyance control unit controls conveyance of the printing medium in accordance with the conveyance control information included in the print setting information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for outputting a plurality of sets of output units, the output unit composed of a plurality of pages with a determined order being one set, includes an image forming unit for successively forming images corresponding to the respective pages on sheets, a control unit for performing an arithmetic processing of an image eigenvalue for each output unit, a first storage storing the result of the arithmetic processing performed for one specific set of output unit, and a second storage storing the result of the arithmetic processing performed for the nth set of output unit, wherein the control unit determines whether or not the images are normally formed on the sheets for the nth set of output unit based on a comparison result between the result of the arithmetic processing stored in the first storage and that of the arithmetic processing stored in the second storage.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read a document to generate a document image, a determination unit configured to determine whether rotation processing for rotating the document image is to be performed when printing is performed based on the document image, and a display unit configured to display a print preview representing a printed result, wherein the display unit displays the print preview if the determination unit determines that the rotation processing is to be performed.

Abstract: An image processing device comprises an image data input means 2, an image data storage means 12 for storing the image data being input, an image data processing means 6 having multiple processing modes for outputting the stored image data, and a image data erasing means for erasing the image data stored in the storage means 12. The device further comprises erase count control means 8, 14 for controlling the number of times for erasing image data capable of having the number of times of erase set arbitrarily according to the security level required for each mode, and capable of having the set number of times of erase changed in mid-flow. Confidentiality is protected by performing erase operations repeatedly to the region storing the unnecessary image data according to the security level.

Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a storage section for storing function information on a function provided in a printing device, and a creating section for creating, based on the function information, a data structure having a data section for storing actual data of a setting value for the function and an index section for storing information for accessing the actual data of the setting value. In addition to the setting value for a printer driver which gives a printing instruction to the printing device, the creating section allows the data section to store a setting value which can be used by a printer driver which gives the printing instruction to a printing device of a different model and/or the printer driver of a different version.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus receives raster image data transferred from an external device and forms an image on the basis of the received raster image data. The apparatus includes a processor that controls a transfer of the raster image data from the external device, a first memory connected to the processor through a first bus is used as a working area of the processor, a second memory that stores the raster image data, a memory control unit connected to the second memory through a second bus controls an operation of writing and reading the raster image data in and from the second memory, a printer engine that forms an image on the basis of the raster image data, and an engine control unit that reads the raster image data from the second memory through the memory control unit and supplies the printer engine with the read raster image data.

Abstract: A print manager of a printing device is configured to retrieve a plurality of print options and features to be used to process a particular print job on the printing device, and to determine whether a resource conservation mode is specified for the printing device. In response to determining that the resource conservation mode is specified for the printing device, the print manager identifies, from the plurality of print options, one or more particular print options that are associated with the resource conservation mode, and generates a modified plurality of print options and features by changing a feature for each of the one or more particular print options to implement the resource conservation mode. In the resource conservation mode, the modified plurality of print options and features is used to process the particular print job to reduce an amount of consumable resources used to process the particular print job.

Abstract: Document information that a user wishes to send by FAX is selected from a list of registered document information. If it is determined that a pre-set sending method flag for the selected document information is set to bundled transmission, drawing information generated by each application is converted into common document information. Further, after the converted common document information is merged into a single piece of information, drawing information to be converted via a FAX driver of the document information that the user wishes to send is sent to an image processing apparatus as a single job.

Abstract: An imaging cartridge chip with self-adaptive contacts includes a set of contacts. Each contact of the set of contacts has the function of a full series of contacts. The specific function of each contact in the set of contacts is determined by identifying a signal received by the contact from an external contact.

Abstract: A power supply control device includes a power conversion portion to convert AC power from a commercial power supply to DC, a control portion, a first communication portion connected to a network, a second communication portion connected to an image forming apparatus, and a device power supply switch arranged between the commercial power supply and the image forming apparatus. The control portion includes a mode decision portion to decide between a normal mode and a power-saving mode, a positional information acquisition portion to acquire positional information of the image forming apparatus, a sleep switch portion to open the device power supply switch, an activation portion to close the device power supply switch in response to a packet including the positional information of the image forming apparatus, a temporary storage control portion to temporarily store the packet, a packet transmission portion to transmit the packet, and a connection portion.

Abstract: A digital MFP includes a dual I/F storage unit including two different interfaces: an external interface (RFID) and an internal interface (bus). When the power of the digital MFP is turned ON, in steps S406 and S407, if a main controller of the digital MFP determines that license information has been written in the dual I/F storage unit from a portable terminal while the power of the digital MFP was OFF, then in step S408, the main controller validates a function of the digital MFP corresponding to the license information, by using the license information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a display device; a coordinate detecting portion which detects a directed coordinate in a display area including a first area in which is displayed a hierarchy image including uppermost-level images and lower-level images; a first display control section; a second display control section to display at least one first button image; and a third display control section, the uppermost-level images including: a first image in which is displayed at least one second button image; a second image in which is displayed at least one third button image; and a third image, wherein, where the directed coordinate is one of coordinates corresponding to the first through third button images, the third control section displays a lower-level image corresponding to a button image corresponding to the directed coordinate, and wherein the first control section executes processing to display the one uppermost-level image so as to be changed.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that can leave a transmission history including transmission destination information as well as transmission destination dial information at the time of PC-FAX transmission. A facsimile apparatus, which is a communication apparatus having a PC-FAX transmission function, acquires transmission destination dial information from a facsimile transmission request received from a client terminal, searches an address book database registered in the facsimile apparatus to find an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information, and performs facsimile transmission based on the acquired transmission destination dial information. If an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information is found by the search, a transmission history is stored that includes dial information and transmission destination information that are registered in the address book found by the search.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading portion and a communication portion. The reading portion reads an image. The communication portion performs communications with an external device by using a first class driver and a second class driver simultaneously. The communication portion includes a first transmission portion, a receiving portion, and a second transmission portion. The first transmission portion transmits to the external device, using the first class driver, data that are used for executing an application that enables the external device to issue a command to the image reading device. The receiving portion receives a command to read an image from the external device using the second class driver. The second transmission portion transmits to the external device, in a case where the receiving portion has received the command to read an image, using the second class driver, an image that has been read by the reading portion.

Abstract: A method for generating digital imaging data for an imaging unit, in which digital imaging data are defined from a signature of input image data, in that a section of the signature corresponding to the imaging format of the imaging unit is processed (24) into a raster image by a raster image processor, the section being defined on the basis of geometric parameters of an image area of the input image data. A raster image processor for implementing the method includes a raster-image-processor program having at least one section, in which geometric parameters for defining the section to be processed, are assigned (16) to input variables for the rasterization.

Abstract: A system and method for printing an image on a medium whose dimensions are determined based on the size of the image are disclosed herein. A system includes a processor and a printing software system including an—Active Printing System (“APS”) configured to execute on the processor. The APS receives from an application program invoking the APS a size of an image to be printed and returns to the application program a set of dimensions within which the image is to be printed on a selected print media. The set of dimensions is determined based, at least in part, on the size of the image.