Abstract: A device control system has a terminal 3 with a web browser 31, and a printer 5 that controls a connected device. The terminal 3 calls an object that controls a device and is instantiated by the device API 33 to support the device, and sends a request to the printer 5, by the web application 32; and the printer 5 executes a device control script 502 that controls the device, receives requests sent through the device API 33, and controls the device.

Abstract: The wireless communication device may determine in which of a parent state and a child state the wireless communication device is to operate in a case where the wireless communication device receives a first type of signal, and determine the wireless communication device is to operate in the parent state in a case where the wireless communication device receives a second type of signal. The wireless communication device may send a first wireless profile to a first external device so as to establish a wireless connection with the first external device in a case where the wireless communication device is to operate in the parent state, and receive a second wireless profile from a second external device so as to establish a wireless connection with the second external device in a case where the wireless communication device is to operate in the child state.

Abstract: Communication performance can be appropriately and easily improved without changing an application on the host side when controlling communication between electronic devices. A computer that operates according to an operating system on an OS kernel layer, has an application on an application layer that outputs a first unit of command data causing a connected electronic device to perform an operation, and has a communication port on a physical layer that sends data output from the application to the electronic device: receives data output from the application on the OS kernel layer before the data is received by the communication port; accumulates the received data and generates a second unit of data that is larger than the first unit; and outputs the generated second unit of data to the communication port.

Abstract: A system and method for providing one or more client systems for communicating with a host system over a network. The client systems use a scanner to convert a paper form of a check, coupon, or other paper document to a digital representation and then the client systems send the digital representation over a network to the host system for storage. The host system archives the digital representation and determines the appropriate processing stream for a transaction related to the paper document (e.g. coupon, check), via a decisioning engine, based on a set of predefined stream selection rules. The host system then communicates the transaction to a back end transaction destination, according to the selected processing stream. Examples of the transaction destination can include ACH, Reproduce Paper, and Remittance.

Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an image forming apparatus displays a remote operation screen that is a screen for operating the MFP on an operation terminal and accepts a print setting and a print execution instruction from the operation terminal through the remote operation screen. The MFP prints the acquired image with the print setting accepted through the remote operation screen if a print execution instruction is accepted through a screen of an application different from an application that accepts a request for display of the remote operation screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of coping with both a high power saving effect and a quick response. A reading unit reads an image of an original. A printing unit prints out image data. A control unit controls units including the reading unit and the printing unit. A detection unit detects an original placed in the reading unit. A power control unit restores the control unit and the reading unit from a sleep state when the detection unit detects an original, and further restores the printing unit from the sleep state before receiving a job when a sheet of the same size as the original concerned is stored.

Abstract: Various functions can be easily added using print data output from an existing application without modifying the existing application program. A function expansion method for executing a process that expands the functions of an application runs on a computer that operates according to an operating system on the operating system kernel layer, executes a specific process according to an application on an application layer, and has one or more communication ports, includes a step of acquiring print data output from the application on the operating system kernel layer, and a step of performing at the application layer a process expanding the function of the acquired print data, and outputs the print data after processing to a suitable communication port.

Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one information processing apparatus; a connecting unit configured to enable a connection with at least one device via a network; an acquiring unit configured to acquire attribute information on at least one distribution destination that is a destination of data to be distributed from the distribution destination, the distribution destination allowing a user to designate in the device; an output unit configured to output the acquired attribute information to the device via the network; and a distribution control unit configured to perform a process of distributing the data to the distribution destination designated by the user in the device after the attribute information is output to the device.

Abstract: A reading unit reads a first side of a printed material having first image data printed on the first side and second image data printed on a second side, the second side being a back side of the first side, in order to obtain image data. A density determination unit determines whether a density of the second image data exceeds a predetermined density. A comparison unit compares a density of the image data obtained by the reading unit and a density of the first image data, and produces a comparison result. A determination unit, in a case when a density difference between the density of the image data and the density of the first image data exceeds a threshold as the comparison result of the comparison unit, determines that the printed material includes a defect portion.

Abstract: In a printing apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and an information processing apparatus, a job for printing front cover image data, main body image data, and back cover image data is received. In the case where the received job is designated to bound printed sheets using rings, the image data is arranged into the printing order of main body image data, front cover image data, and back cover image data or the printing order of back cover image data, front cover image data, and main body image data, after which printing is executed based on the image data in the arranged printing order.

Abstract: A network controller includes a communication portion, a disconnection portion, a change portion, and a re-linking portion. The communication portion is capable of communicating with another network device via a network. The disconnection portion temporarily disconnects communication from the communication portion to the other network device when a sleep signal instructing a shift from a normal state to a sleep state is received. The change portion changes a speed of the disconnected communication from the communication portion to the other network device, to a communication speed lower than a communication speed in the normal state. The re-linking portion causes the communication portion to communicate with the other network device at the changed communication speed.

Abstract: A computer performs the following processing: calculating a probability that a machine fails in work applied to a printed matter; calculating, as a production environmental load value, a value including a printing environmental load value, a paper environmental load value, a product of the probability and a re-printing environmental load value, and a product of the probability and the paper environmental load value, the printing environmental load value representing a degree of load put on the environment resulting from printing onto paper used for the printed matter, the paper environment load value representing a degree of load put on an environment resulting from production of the paper, the re-printing environmental load value representing a degree of load put on the environment until the printing unit has conducted printing again since the machine failed in the work; and displaying the production environmental load value on the display.

Abstract: When it is detected that a file has been stored in a hot folder, an apparatus stands by for a predetermined period of time not to process the file based on settings associated with the hot folder. When the predetermined period of time elapses, the apparatus processes the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus, and a second information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus periodically acquires information from the first information processing apparatus, and stops periodically acquiring information if there is a factor for shifting a power state of the first information processing apparatus into a power saving state. The second information processing apparatus transmits information to the first information processing apparatus in a case where periodically acquiring information from the first information processing apparatus is stopped. The first information processing apparatus shifts into the second power state if the information is received.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire log data recording operation of the image forming apparatus, a first storage unit configured to store the acquired log data in a volatile memory, a calculation unit configured to calculate a total size of the log data stored in the volatile memory, a determination unit configured to determine whether the calculated total size of the log data has reached a threshold value, a second storage unit configured to store the log data from the first storage unit when the total size of the log data in the first storage unit has reached the threshold value, and a changing unit configured to change the threshold value according to an operation state of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: User-specified instructions for documents processed from a hot folder. A print server monitors hot folders for retrieval of files to be processed in a print system based on settings of the hot folders. The print server is detects a management file in a hot folder that indicates a number of documents to print over a period of time, retrieves documents from the hot folder for printing based on instructions in the management file, and initiates scheduling of the retrieved documents with a printer of the print system. The print server also determines a total of documents printed after expiration of the period of time, determines whether the total of documents printed corresponds with the number indicated in the management file, and sends a notification to a user of the hot folder when the total does not correspond with the number indicated in the management file.

Abstract: Wasteful consumption of recording media is minimized without making any changes to the control device. When a string is recorded based on a string recording command and the string is a repetitive string made by repeating characters related to font data having white space on either or both the end in the direction corresponding to the conveyance direction and the end in the direction corresponding to the opposite direction, the recording control unit of the printer converts the repetitive string to a repetitive pattern formed by compressing the part of each character in the repetitive string that contains white space, and records.

Abstract: A cooperative processing system includes an operation terminal and a cooperative processing device connected to each other, and is connectable to a plurality of electronic devices. The cooperative processing system causes one of electric devices to function as an input device to cause electronic data to be input therefrom and one of the electric devices to function as an output device to output the electronic data. The cooperative processing system includes an obtaining unit to obtain input device information to specify the input device and output device information to specify the output device, an input control unit to cause the input device to input electronic data through a first interface according to the input device information, and an output control unit to cause the output device to output the electronic data through a second interface according to the output device information in an format appropriate for the output device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a designation unit configured to designate number-of-copies information indicating a number of copies of print media to be stacked in a lump as a unit via a user interface of a printer driver, and a transmission unit configured to set an attribute of a print job based on the number-of-copies information designated by the designation unit and to transmit the set attribute to an image forming apparatus.

Abstract: Print data is always stored securely in printing to prevent printing of the print data by another person in reprinting without being aware by the user of whether to storage it securely. To accomplish this, print data received from a data processing apparatus is stored, and print processing is executed. When reprinting of the stored print data is instructed after printing, input of authentication information for reprinting is requested. When authentication information input in accordance with the request and authentication information of the stored print data coincide with each other, print processing based on the stored print data is executed.