Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a casing, a light emitting section, a substrate, a support member, and a light guide. The light emitting section includes plural point light sources disposed in a row. The light emitting section is installed to a first face of the substrate. The support member is installed to the casing and supports a second face of the substrate at a projection portion where a position of the light emitting section is projected at the second face of the substrate. The light guide is installed to the casing adjacent to the light emitting section, and guides light from the light emitting section to a read-face.

Abstract: A printer includes a printer memory that stores information, a printer communication device that performs communication with a terminal, a printing device that prints based on print data, a receiving device that receives operating state information, the operating state information indicating that an operating state of the printer is one of a storage device state and a printing device state, the storage device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of using the printer memory, and the printing device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of printing by using the printing device, and a switching device that switches the operating state of the printer to one of the storage device state and the printing device state, based on the operating state information received by the receiving device.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is configured to perform printing in accordance with a print job and in accordance with a schedule registered before the printing. The printing apparatus includes an authority setting unit configured to, if authority of a user for the print job is authorized, set the authority of the user for the print job; a determination unit configured to, if a command to handle the print job is issued by the user, determine whether the user has the authority to perform the handling based on the authority set by the authority setting unit; and an execution unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that the user has the authority, execute a process according to the handling on the print job.

Abstract: A printing system for printing health care data is provided. The printing system includes a processor operably connected to a user device and to a plurality of printers that is configured to associate a location with the user device, and to select at least one printer from among the plurality of printers to provide a print out requested from the user device based on the location associated with the user device.

Abstract: A dynamic imposition system provides for the printing of variable length documents onto a predefined number of pages. The more important pages in the document can be printed at their default size and resolution while less important pages can be automatically scaled down and printed at half size or less. The system automatically assigns ranks to the page descriptions in a print job based on each page's importance and then assigns one or more allowable impositions to each page description. The system then selects the imposition specifications that permit the imposition of the document onto a predetermined number of sheets. The document can then be imposed and printed in accordance with the selected imposition specifications.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms images on sheets by using input image data, the apparatus including: a detection unit that detects a blank area outside of an image forming area formed on a sheet; a setting unit that, when a sum of a length in a conveyance direction of a blank area on a trailing edge side in the conveyance direction of a sheet and a length in the conveyance direction of a blank area on a leading edge side in the conveyance direction of a sheet conveyed following the sheet is a reference value or less, sets a sheet conveyance interval to the reference value, and when the sum is greater than the reference value, sets the conveyance interval to be less than the reference value; and a conveying unit that conveys the sheets at the conveyance interval set by the setting unit.

Abstract: A document submission management system calculates predicted values of the amount of consumption of consumables used for printing processing according to an order from a user, estimates the cost of the printing processing based on the predicted values, and transmits the estimated cost to a client terminal of the user. A user interface allowing placement of an order briefly displays the cost for a print option. For the cost estimate, the cost of printing form data used in printing processing is registered in advance in a memory in the document submission management system, so that time required for the calculation of the estimate is reduced.

Abstract: A method of automatically placing N-up images for imposition on media sheet for printing in which, for a user selected value of N, the co-ordinates of the sheet cells are determined and stored; and, the co-ordinates of the media, trim and bleed boxes of each of the images is determined and stored. The user selects, from a menu, a desired set of alignment rules and the system then compares the location of the appropriate bleed, trim or media box with the sheet cell boundaries and shifts the images and automatically locates the selected box on the sheet cell for the desired placement. The method is particularly useful for eliminating the template making in large print jobs for roll fed presses.

Abstract: A communication system including a communication device and information display devices connected with the communication device. The communication device includes a status storage unit storing status information representing a status of the communication device, a status transmitter that in response to a status request from each information display device, transmits the stored status information to the information display devices, and an error settlement starting information receiver receiving, from one of the information display devices, error settlement stating information representing that error settlement is being started to fix an error of the communication device.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store electronic data including first data for identifying policy data that is information indicating an authority for handling the electronic data and is managed by a server apparatus. The data processing apparatus includes a print job data production unit configured to produce print job data based on electronic data to be printed, an acquisition unit configured to acquire the first data included in the electronic data, an adding unit configured to add the first data acquired by the acquisition unit to the print job data, and a sending unit configured to send the print job data having the first data added thereto to an image processing apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to printing from a restricted process. An embodiment includes receiving a request to print content at a restricted process, providing the request to print content to a privileged process, retrieving configuration information using the privileged process, processing the configuration information using the restricted process, generating one or more drawing commands using the restricted process and providing the drawing commands to the privileged process. Another embodiment includes, receiving a command to print content at a restricted process, providing at least the command to a privileged process, receiving configuration information from the privileged process and generating one or more drawing commands based on the configuration information using the restricted process, generating a serialized buffer of the content based on the configuration information and providing the serialized buffer and the drawing commands to the privileged process.

Abstract: In a printer network system including a client device and a server device connected to the client device via a network, the server device includes a virtual print processor unit which receives a request of a print job from an application unit of the client device and generates image data as intermediate data and job definition data that define print settings of the print job, and an exclusive access control unit which controls exclusively writing and reading of the image data and the job definition data. The client device includes an output condition control unit which determines one of output destinations meeting conditional information in accordance with predetermined rules. A delivering unit acquires the job definition data and the image data by communicating with the exclusive access control unit, selects a printer driver corresponding to the output destination, and transmits a print command to the printer driver.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image-processing apparatus, including: a corrected value calculating unit configured to calculate corrected values by adding error values diffused from a pixel neighboring a pixel currently being processed respectively to a plurality of input values corresponding to the pixel currently being processed; a total value calculating unit configured to calculate a total value of all corrected values; a quantizing unit configured to quantize the total value; a distributing unit configured to calculate a plurality of output values corresponding to the plurality of input values by distributing the quantized value according to a ratio between each of the corrected values and the total value; and an adding unit configured to calculate respective difference values between the plurality of output values and the plurality of corrected values, and to add the calculated difference values to corrected values.

Abstract: A printing apparatus has a filter ID, the number of deleted print jobs, and a print job deletion filter including at least one filtering condition registered therein. The filtering condition includes a job attribute, a keyword, and a search method. Upon receiving a print job including print data and job information from a print server system, the printing apparatus determines whether the job information contained in the print job satisfies the filtering condition. If the job information contained in the print job satisfies the filtering condition, the printing apparatus deletes the print job identified by the job information.

Abstract: A PDF document is repurposed to save paper and ink. Preprocessing is performed on the PDF document. The PDF document has a first quantity of pages of content and a first quantity of ink. Further, complexity analysis is performed on the PDF document. In addition, a document object model based on the PDF document is created. In addition, content re-layout is performed on the PDF document based on the content repurposing such that a printer prints the PDF document with the content in a transformed format that results in a second quantity of pages being printed without falling below a predetermined readability threshold and a second quantity of ink being utilized. The second quantity of pages is less than the first quantity of pages. The second quantity of ink is less than the first quantity of ink.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming device that includes a conveyor section, an image forming section, an accessing section and a control unit. The conveyor section conveys recording media in a conveying path, the recording media including a recording medium having a data storage unit attached thereto and a recording medium with no data storage unit attached thereto, the data storage unit storing data or being capable of storing data. The image forming section forms an image on the recording medium. The accessing section is disposed at an access position along the conveying path and accesses the data storage unit to execute an access operation to write data into or read data from the data storage unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, which prints a composite image formed of an enlargement portion and a non-enlargement portion of an original image on a printing medium, includes: an enlargement portion determining section which determines the enlargement portion, of the original image, which is to be enlarged in the composite image; an enlargement rate determining section which determines an enlargement rate of the enlargement portion with respect to the original image; a print data generating section which generates print data for printing the composite image based on image data of the original image, the enlargement portion determined by the enlargement portion determining section, and the enlargement rate determined by the enlargement rate determining section; and a printing mechanism which prints the composite image on the printing medium based on the print data generated by the print data generating section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface unit to receives an XML paper specification (XPS) file, an XPS file processing unit which converts the XPS file into an output data corresponding to printing paper to print the XPS file using information regarding the height and width of a FixedPage in the XPS file, and a control unit which controls the image forming apparatus to print the output data. Accordingly, even when an XPS file does not include information regarding printing paper, a user can select and print printing paper suitable for the user's demand.

Abstract: In a case where both a first group and a second group obtainable by dividing a head rendering object of a second page can be disposed on a same surface of a same paper, the head rendering object of the second page is divided into the first group and the second group and the first group is located on the first page.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for font reproduction in electronic documents are provided. The method includes: receiving an image of a printed document; extracting pairs of consecutive characters from the image of the printed document; storing the extracted pairs as images of the characters; and reproducing the printed document as an electronic document with text of overlapping extracted character pair images. Extracting pairs of consecutive characters includes extracting adjacent horizontal characters, extracting spaced horizontal characters, and extracting spaced vertical characters. Reproducing the printed document as an electronic document includes reproducing the spacing between words and between lines using the spaced horizontal characters and the spaced vertical characters as anchors in the reproduced document.