Abstract: An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses and an information terminal that communicates with the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The information terminal includes a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit communicates with the image forming apparatus. The controller transmits first information relating to a job to the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The controller outputs certification information corresponding to the first information. When transmission start information of the job is received from the image forming apparatus, the controller instructs the image forming apparatus to execute the job. The image forming apparatus includes an input device, a communication unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The input device receives an input. The communication unit communicates with the information terminal. The storage unit stores data.

Abstract: A computer system stores interpretation factor conversion information for managing an interpretation factor interpreting a basis of a prediction result for input data, the interpretation factor is determined by a value of each of a plurality of feature quantities contained in the input data including values of the plurality of feature quantities, and a first evaluation value of each of the plurality of feature quantities contained in the input data. When evaluation target data is input, the computer system calculates a prediction result, calculates a contribution value of each of the plurality feature quantities contained in the evaluation target data, specifies a corresponding interpretation factor, based on a value and a contribution value of each of the plurality of feature quantities contained in the evaluation target data, by referring to the interpretation factor conversion information, and generates and outputs display information for presenting the specified interpretation factor.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus including an operation unit that includes a touch panel. The image forming apparatus further includes a display control unit configured to cause the touch panel to display an image and a detection unit configured to detect a touch operation performed by a user on the touch panel. In response to the detection unit detecting the touch operation on the touch panel that is displaying an object on the image, the display control unit performs control to hide the object from display.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, a plurality of accessory apparatuses arranged side by side along a conveyance direction of the sheet, and a base station configured to wirelessly communicate with the image forming apparatus and the plurality of accessory apparatuses. The image forming apparatus includes one or more controllers configured to function as (i) a unit configured to acquire, from the base station, information that the base station acquires by wirelessly communicating with the plurality of accessory apparatuses, and (ii) a unit configured to output screen information for registering information about an arrangement order of the plurality of accessory apparatuses, based on the information acquired from the base station.

Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of operating in at least one of a plurality of modes including a first communication mode in which wireless communication is performed with another apparatus via an external access point and a second communication mode in which wireless communication is performed with another apparatus bypassing the external access point, the communication apparatus comprising: a controlling unit configured to control a communication mode of the communication apparatus by enabling or disabling at least one of the plurality of communication modes; and an executing unit configured to execute search processing to search for an external access point near the communication apparatus, wherein in a case where both the first communication mode and the second communication mode are disabled, the second communication mode is enabled and the search processing is executed in the second communication mode.

Abstract: The present invention offers a system including a transmission unit configured to transmit, based on a reception of predetermined information, first notification information for causing an audio control device to audibly notify a user of a first message related to a printing apparatus, and second notification information for causing a terminal device outside the audio control device and outside the printing apparatus to notify, through a notification screen, the user of a second message related to the printing apparatus and including a message not included in the first message.

Abstract: A printing system uses an IoT technology to control and monitor a multiple printing devices. Each of the multiple printing devices is equipped with an IoT-controlled power supply. A monitoring device is disclosed that couples with the server and can be part of the server or a separate device from the server. The monitoring device monitors the statuses of the sever, the multiple printing devices, and the multiple IoT-controlled power supplies and send an alert signal to the server when detecting an offline situation. In response, the server diagnoses and determines which printing devices are offline and triggers a recovering device to recover a connection between the offline printing devices and the server. The recovering device may use a controller firmware of the offline printing device to perform the connection.

Abstract: A first cloud print service has a storage unit that stores a print job received from a client terminal to a first storage region and a first transmission unit that transmits information on the print job to a second cloud print service, which includes a second transmission unit that transmits, to an image forming apparatus, the information on the print job transmitted by the first transmission unit. The image forming apparatus has an input unit that inputs an instruction of performing printing of the print job based on the information on print job transmitted by the second transmission unit and a first printing process unit that receives the print job from the first cloud print service and performs a printing process of the print job when the image forming apparatus is registered in the first cloud print service.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: a first storage that stores paper ejected after image formation processing; a second storage that stores the paper transferred from the first storage; a hardware processor that controls an operation of the image forming system; and a notifier that notifies of a state of the image forming system, wherein the hardware processor determines whether the paper remains in the first storage, and allows the notifier to notify that the paper is left untaken based on determination that the paper remains in the first storage.

Abstract: A communication apparatus performs communication processing in the first communication mode and the second communication mode to set a communication period of the first communication mode per unit time to be longer than that of the second communication mode in a case where both the first communication mode and the second communication mode are enabled, a communication partner apparatus in the first communication mode is determined, and a communication partner apparatus in the second communication mode is not determined.

Abstract: To provide a print control device, print control method, and storage medium with which, in a form where information related to the size of a sheet which is set in a printing apparatus is obtained and the size corresponding to the obtained information is displayed, the size corresponding to the obtained information is displayed more appropriately, in a case where the size corresponding to the information obtained by an obtaining unit matches any of multiple custom sizes corresponding to information stored by a storage unit before the information is obtained by the obtaining unit, all of the multiple custom sizes corresponding to the information stored by the storage unit before the information is obtained by the obtaining unit are displayed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit storing sheets each including a wireless tag, a printer, a communication device, and a controller for controlling the printer to convey a first sheet, acquiring first strengths of signals from a first tag on a first sheet during the conveyance of the first sheet and second strengths from tags not sheets being conveyed. Based on the acquired strengths, the controller determines a threshold value for distinguishing between sheets being conveyed and not being conveyed. The controller then controls the communication device to write information to a tag on a sheet being conveyed based on the threshold value.

Abstract: A substrate insertion system is configured for insertion of a substrate under a product being carried on a conveyor. A pre-perforated substrate and a method of inserting the pre-perforated substrates under products carried on a conveyor are also provided. Furthermore, a method is described including the construction and operation of a substrate insertion system.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an information obtaining unit that obtains storage destination information of print data managed by a mobile terminal device from the mobile terminal device, a data obtaining unit that obtains the print data from a storage destination of the print data by using the storage destination information, and a printing unit that prints the obtained print data.

Abstract: A wireless communication system including: a first processing device configured to function as a first access point; a terminal device configured to be wirelessly connected to the first access point; and a second processing device, wherein the first processing device transmits first connection information used for a connection to the first access point to the second processing device, and the second processing device starts a second access point using second connection information identical to the first connection information received from the first processing device and performs wireless communication with the terminal device using the second access point.

Abstract: A management server connected, to a plurality of image forming devices and an information processing device having a printer driver is provided. The server manages, for each location, network information and information of print performance of an image forming device belonging to the location; identifies a location to which the information processing device belongs, based on the network information, upon receiving from the information processing device a notification that network setting of the information processing device has been changed; and transmits, to the information processing device, a device setting of the printer driver based on information of print performance corresponding to an image forming device belonging to the location being identified.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a plurality of instructions readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The plurality of instructions cause the information processing apparatus to execute first setup processing of allowing a particular port of a plurality of communication ports to be used by software used for communicating with a particular device through a communication interface. Before the first setup processing is executed, the plurality of instructions cause the information processing apparatus to execute determination processing of determining whether the first setup processing is executable for the particular port or not. When it is determined that the first setup processing is not executable for the particular port, the plurality of instructions causes the information processing apparatus to execute second setup processing of setting up the particular port as the communication port for which the first setup processing is executable.

Abstract: A printing system includes an information processing apparatus, a mobile terminal, and a printer. The information processing apparatus is configured to transmit job identification information and address information to the mobile terminal, and transmit a printing job to the printer when receiving a transmission request for the printing job identified by the job identification information from the printer. The mobile terminal is configured to transmit the job identification information and the address information to a selected execution printer. The printer is configured to transmit a transmission request for transmitting the printing job to the information processing apparatus specified by the received address information when receiving the job identification information and the address information from the mobile terminal, and execute printing processing in response to receiving the transmission request.

Abstract: A printer for security paper, such as a multifunction printer, a printer, a facsimile machine or a copier, is configured to perform a printing operation by distinguishing between security paper and normal paper. The printer for security paper includes: security paper sensor disposed on a printing paper feeding path; and a control unit for comparing a first sensing value sensed by the security paper sensor when printing paper to be determined is not present near the security paper sensor with one or more second sensing values sensed by the security paper sensor for the corresponding printing paper on the feeding path, during the course of conveying the corresponding printing paper on the feeding path, determining printing paper as security paper when a comparison value is above a predefined reference value, and determining printing paper as normal paper when the comparison value is below the predefined reference value.

Abstract: A system of distributed printing for use with automated robotic sorting has at least one work cell including a robotic sorting station, and a plurality of locations that receive sorted items from the robotic sorting station, with each of the plurality of locations having a separate printer. Each printer is configured to print labels related to items received by the respective location, wherein the printers in the work cell are configured in a network that receives data relating to the labels to be printed in the respective locations. Also included is a method of using the system and operating the automated robotic sorting station to place items in the plurality of locations, and sending data to the work cell relating to the labels to be printed in the respective plurality of locations by the separate printers and in association with the items received by the respective plurality of locations.