Abstract: A security printing system includes an image forming apparatus and a mobile communication device. The image forming apparatus includes a biological information input circuit, a printed matter storing unit, at least one sheet discharge tray, an image forming circuit, and a control circuit. The biological information input circuit inputs biological information. The biological information is preliminary registered as registered biological information with the mobile communication device. The control circuit creates a printed matter in response to a match between the biological information and the registered biological information. The biological information is input by the biological information input circuit. The registered biological information is obtained by the short range wireless communications. The control circuit discharges the created printed matter to any of the at least one sheet discharge tray when the short range wireless communications are in a predetermined predefined state.

Abstract: An image forming system to control an image forming apparatus by using a messenger application, a mobile device, and a method are provided. The image forming system includes a mobile device to activate a chat user interface to interface with an account of the image forming apparatus on the messenger application, and sending user messages to control a printing function of the image forming apparatus, a cloud server to receive the user messages from a messenger server, providing response messages of the account of the image forming apparatus in response to the user messages, and communicating with the mobile device in a conversational manner, thus controlling the printing of the image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus whose printing is controlled by the cloud server based on the user messages or providing monitoring information of a current status.

Abstract: An incoming physical mail item addressed to a resident of a controlled-environment facility is converted to a digital format mail item, which is associated with the resident and archived in an electronic database. A determination may be made whether the resident is allowed to receive the physical mail item. If so, the digital format mail item may be delivered to the resident as an electronic message, if an electronic message service is available to the resident.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory that stores an information processing program and a processor that executes the information processing program. When the processor executes the information processing program, the processor acquires setting information generated by one or more terminal apparatuses with respect to the electronic apparatus, periodically acquires position information of the one or more terminal apparatuses with respect to the electronic apparatus, determines a terminal apparatus closest to the electronic apparatus out of the one or more terminal apparatuses, and sets, in the electronic apparatus, the setting information acquired from the terminal apparatus closest to the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: In response to receiving an instruction operation in a receiving process, a processor executes an apparatus-side preparing process including an issuance requesting process of transmitting issuance requesting information to a server through a communicator, the issuance requesting information being information for requesting issuance of authentication information indicative of authority to perform data communication with a service providing apparatus, the instruction operation being a user operation of instructing execution of a preparing process for connecting the image forming apparatus to the service providing apparatus, a storage-instruction receiving process of receiving storage instructing information from the server through the communicator, the storage instructing information being information including the authentication information issued by the service providing apparatus, and a first near-field transmitting process of, in response to approach of the card to the first near-field communicator, transmi

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control circuit configured to determine whether one of an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate of a path specified in each of successive drawing commands for vector objects is the same, wherein the successive drawing commands are received in incoming printable data. The control circuit is further configured to execute, when there is a new successive drawing command for a vector object in which one of an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate of the path specified by the new successive drawing command is different from the x-coordinate or y-coordinate that has been determined to be the same for previously received successive drawing commands, all of the previously received successive drawing commands having the same x-coordinate or y-coordinate.

Abstract: Embodiments may include a reception processor that receives image data corresponding to an image including a plurality of image objects. A controller may determine whether image objects are in contact with a boundary of a printing area of medium, and, based on a result of the determination, may perform expansion processing on one of the plurality of image objects that is in contact with the boundary of the printing area of the medium to expand image objects in contact with the boundary of the printing area and does not perform expansion processing on image objects not in contact with the boundary of the printing area of the medium such image objects not in contact with the boundary of the printing area are not expanded. Expansion image data including the expanded image objects and image objects on which expansion processing is not performed may be generated and output.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for controlling an output of an output data includes a selection receiving unit configured to receive an output instruction, in which the output data is selected, from a user; an acquisition unit configured to acquire calculation information, which associates a cost rate being a cost per an output unit of the output data with a currency unit used to display the cost calculated based on the cost rate, and which is associated with the user; a calculation unit configured to calculate the cost corresponding to an output of the output data, which corresponds to the output instruction received from the user, by using the cost rate included in the acquired calculation information; a cost display unit configured to display the calculated cost on a screen in the currency unit included in the acquired calculation information; and an output process unit configured to output the output data.

Abstract: A multi function peripheral (MFP) receives a setting of destination information from a user (FIG. 6). Each time the MFP reads a predetermined number of documents, the MFP repeats a series of steps of establishing a communication session with a destination (S1006), transmitting image data (S1007), and ending the communication session with the destination (S1008). Thereby, the MFP transmits image data to a plurality of destinations (S1001 to S1011).

Abstract: When provision of a movement instruction for moving a file stored in a first folder to a second folder is detected, whether exclusion processing is already performed for the file is determined. In a case where it is determined that the exclusion processing is not performed for the file, the exclusion processing is performed so that the file to be operated by another user is not allowed and information indicating that the file is being moved is stored. After the file is moved to the second folder, the exclusion processing for the file is canceled. In a case where it is determined that the exclusion processing has already been performed for the file and when the information indicating that the file is being moved is stored for the file for which the exclusion processing has been performed, a notification indicating that the file is being moved is provided.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a position detecting section detecting a position of contact with a display screen of a display section and forms an image on a recording medium based on a display image displayed on the display section. The display image includes an object image indicative of an object for an image formation and a medium image indicative of the recording medium, and the image forming apparatus selectively edits the object image or the medium image based on positions of two points detected by the position detecting section.

Abstract: A handheld field maintenance tool with improved functionality is provided. The handheld field maintenance tool includes a keypad, a display, a short-range wireless transceiver and a processor. The processor is coupled to the keypad, the display and the short-range wireless transceiver. The processor is also coupled to memory having a plurality of instructions stored therein, which instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform at least one of remote wireless display; remote wireless keypress injection; and wireless printing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit that accepts a configuration of a cooperative operation to be performed by multiple apparatuses cooperating with each other, an execution order determination unit that determines an executing order of processes included in the cooperative operation, an apparatus determination unit that identifies, for each of the processes included in the cooperative operation, an apparatus that performs the process, and a controller that instructs the identified apparatus to execute the processes included in the cooperative operation in the determined executing order.

Abstract: If it is determined that a sheet on which image data of the front cover is to be printed is the particular sheet, a printing apparatus prints on sheets the image data of the body in an order from an end of the body toward a head of the body, discharges the printed sheets without reversing, finally prints image data of the front cover on the particular sheet, and discharges the particular sheet without reversing by the reversing unit, or firstly prints a mirror image of the image data of the front cover on the particular sheet, discharges the particular sheet without reversing, next prints on sheets the image data of the body in an order from the head of the body toward the end of the body, reverses these printed sheets and discharges these printed sheet.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and processor-readable media for remotely providing a device status alert. In an example embodiment, data indicative of the status of one or more devices can be subject to an HMM (Hidden Markov Model) and a dynamic programming algorithm to determine the latent state of the device (or devices). A status alert model can be trained based on such data and can be expanded with respect to a wide range of devices including utilizing semi-supervised learning. The alert status model can then be integrated into a device management application that provides a status alert regarding one or more of such devices based on the status alert model.

Abstract: A guidance apparatus comprises: an operation section configured to receive an operation from a user; a first detection section configured to detect a user in front of the operation section; a confirmation processing section configured to confirm the existence of a user operating the operation section according to the detection result of the first detection section; a determination processing section configured to determine whether or not the operation section receives an operation from the user within a certain period of time after the confirmation processing section confirms the existence of the user; and a guidance information output section configured to output guidance information for guiding the user in operating the operation section if the determination processing section determines that the operation section receives no operation from the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method and user interface for redirecting print jobs. The method involves receiving a notification indicating that execution of a print job at a first printing device failed. The method also involves displaying a network printing device map on a display unit in response to receiving the notification. The network printing device map is a graphical representation of a network topology of a plurality of printing devices within a local network. The method further involves receiving an input gesture indicative of a selection of a second printing device of the plurality of printing devices with which to execute the print job. Additionally, the method involves causing the first printing device to transmit the print job to the second printing device upon receiving the input gesture.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing print jobs associated with multiple customers. Customer-editable design templates for printed products and design software tools enabling creation by customers of custom print product designs are provided, via a network, to multiple customers operating corresponding electronic devices. Individual print jobs corresponding to custom print product designs created by multiple different customers via the electronic devices are received and automatically aggregated into an aggregate print job comprising individual print jobs from different customers. The aggregated individual print jobs in the aggregate print job are printed simultaneously on one or more units of a shared substrate when the aggregate print job is printed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a communication unit that receives a print job from an execution request source computer, a printing unit that executes the print job, a controller, and a storage. The storage stores route information. The controller identifies the execution request source computer, determines a movement route along which a user moves from the execution request source computer to the image forming apparatus, and sets printing speed of the printing unit lower the longer the determined movement route.

Abstract: In an image reading device, a reading unit reads information at a reading position. The reading position is selected from lines arranged in a prescribed range in a sub-scanning direction. A processor detects whether there is a defective pixel in one line worth of pixels and stores a position of the detected defective pixel as a defective position in a storing unit. The processor calculates defective factors for normal positions. Each of the normal positions indicates one of the plurality of lines having no defective pixel. The closer a distance between the normal position and a defective position positioned within a specific range from the normal position is, the larger a defective factor of the normal position is set. The processor sets a position having a smallest defective factor from among the normal positions. The reading unit reads the original conveyed by the sheet conveying unit at the set position.