Abstract: A terminal device may send a registration request, which requests the server to register virtual printer relation information related to a virtual printer, to a server, and communicate a wireless profile with an existent printer using a first terminal interface. The wireless profile may be used in a wireless network, which is established by using a second terminal interface, and is a wireless network to which both the terminal device and the existent printer are to belong. The terminal device may establish a belonging state, which is a state in which both the terminal device and the existent printer belong to the wireless network, using the second terminal interface, and send authentication information to the existent printer via the established wireless network. The authentication information may be associated with the virtual printer relation information in the server.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an internal receiving device, a communication unit, an image processing unit, and a controller. The internal receiving device may receive authentication information. The communication unit may communicate with an external receiving device to receive the authentication information. The image processing unit may perform at least one of image reading and image formation. The controller may determine one of the internal receiving device and the external receiving device is a first receiving device of the authentication information. The controller may also perform an authentication process based on the authentication information received from the first receiving device without performing the authentication process based on a second receiving device. The second receiving device is an other of the internal receiving device and the external receiving device.

Abstract: A system and method of connecting a computer to a printer which reduces the number of hardware printing devices. An example method includes determining that a virtual printer is available for use, broadcasting over a network that the peripheral is available for use, receiving a request from the first computer through a web service to connect to the virtual printer, mapping the virtual printer to the first computer, and sending information to the first computer through the web service to facilitate connection by the first computer to the virtual printer through the second computer.

Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium has a program recorded therein that is executable by a computer. The program causes the computer to implement functions of a preview image generation condition creation unit configured to create a condition for generating a preview image, a determination unit configured to determine whether a preview image of output data should be generated based on the condition for generating the preview image and attribution information of the output data, the output data being stored in an output data storage unit, and a preview image generation unit configured to generate the preview image of the output data which is determined that the preview image of the output data should be generated.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes rendering units that refer to rendering data composing partial regions within a page as input data, generates image data by merging the rendered results, and uses the image data as output data. Each rendering unit holds a rendering position of processing that is currently executed by itself, and detects a rendering position of processing that is currently executed by another rendering unit. When rendering for a partial region that is currently processed is completed, a control unit detects a rendering position held in another rendering unit, and changes allotment of a partial region serving as the next rendering target of its rendering unit so as to reduce the difference between time periods until its rendering unit and another rendering unit complete rendering for the next partial region.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a unit that acquires information specifying prices of pages of a to-be-printed document, a unit that receives, from a user, an input of information identifying a not-to-be-printed page of the to-be-printed document, a replacement-document-acquiring unit that acquires at least one replacement document whose total price corresponds to a total price of the not-to-be-printed page identified based on the information, a printing controller that controls to cause a printing mechanism to print a document obtained by replacing the not-to-be-printed page with the acquired replacement document, and a billing unit that charges the user a total price of the printed pages of the to-be-printed document and charges a provider of the replacement document a price of the replacement document printed as a replacement for the not-to-be-printed page.

Abstract: Disclosed is a print solution that provides efficient managing, routing and processing of print jobs in a print shop. Particularly, the print solution applies a customized algorithm that analyzes the job complexity of all print jobs and based on the job complexity analysis, routes print jobs to the correct printers for printing.

Abstract: A network device communicates with a management server that manages a general-use setting an individual setting as a master data. The network device includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a first instruction associated with an input from a user for the general-use setting; a second receiving unit configured to receive a second instruction indicating an initialization processing; a first requesting unit configured to request for the management server in accordance with the first instruction; a second requesting unit configured to request for the management server in accordance with the second instruction; an executing unit configured to execute the initialization processing in accordance with the second instruction; a query unit configured to perform a query for the management server; and a reflecting unit configured to reflect the general-use setting, which is acquired from the management server in accordance with the query, for the database.

Abstract: The controlling apparatus may search for one or more access points so as to obtain N items of wireless identifiers, in a case where a first wireless network to which a set device belongs is a first type of wireless network in which a carrier wave having a first frequency is used. A first wireless identifier has been set in the set device and an unset device is a first type of device which is not capable of using the carrier wave having the first frequency. The controlling apparatus may obtain, from a memory of the set device, the first wireless identifier for identifying the first wireless network, select, based on the first wireless identifier, a second wireless identifier from among one or more wireless identifiers included in the N items of wireless identifiers, and execute a first setting process for setting the second wireless identifier in the unset device.

Abstract: A control device of a printer can delete unnecessary data left in the printer when processing is interrupted without relying on user intervention. A control device of a printer that prints according to print data has a transmission monitor unit that sends the print data to the printer. Based on the status of a storage unit of the printer, the transmission monitor unit sends a command to delete identical data from the storage unit to the printer before sending the print data to the printer.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that accurately measure a time period T0 required for line connection in IPFAX, and optimizes the timing with which a T.38 CNG command is sent out. An AT command that is a dial request is converted into a SIP command that is a session-establishment request, and the SIP command is sent. When there is a provisional response or a session-establishment response to the sent SIP command, a T0 timer which clocks the time period T0 is caused to start counting.

Abstract: A print instruction assistance device includes an acquisition unit, a recognition unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires usage record information concerning a usage record of multiple functions of each of multiple printers. The recognition unit recognizes a change of a printer to be used for printing among the multiple printers from a first printer to a second printer. The output unit outputs information indicating a function which is identified in accordance with the usage record information among multiple functions of the first printer and which is not included in the second printer.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs printing information containing image data and a conversion unit that, when the pixel value of the top pixel from among successive N pixels (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) of the image data is a specific value, sets a pixel having a pixel value that is not the specific value as a new top pixel from among pixels from a pixel adjacent to the to pixel to the N-th pixel, refers to data of the new top pixel to the N-th pixel, and performs a conversion into pixel values that are calculated with coefficient values according to the magnitude of the pixel values.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus including a controller for determining whether a recording operation is a first or a second recording operation and for determining whether an error that suspends the recording operation is occurring, wherein when the recording operation is the first recording operation and the error is occurring, the occurrence of the error is kept notified until the error is fixed, wherein when the recording operation is the second recording operation and the error is occurring, the occurrence of the error is kept notified for a predetermined time, wherein the recording operation, the performance of which was suspended by the occurrence of the error, is cancelled after the occurrence of the error has been kept notified for the predetermined time, and wherein the suspended recording operation is performed on condition that the error is fixed in a time period during which the occurrence of the error is kept notified.

Abstract: An object is to perform processing on an expedited basis by a plurality of printers while maintaining the total power consumption of the plurality of printers at a low level. A server for managing a plurality of jobs to be performed by a plurality of image forming devices having a print engine, the server comprising: a job division instruction unit configured to instruct the image forming devices to which the jobs are input to divide each of the plurality of jobs into preprocessing that does not involve driving of the print engine and postprocessing that involves driving of the print engine; and a job management unit configured to control timing of starting the postprocessing to prevent the postprocessing from being performed simultaneously by the plurality of image forming devices.

Abstract: An image processing system includes: a server apparatus connected to a first network; an image processing apparatus connected to a second network; and a gateway apparatus, wherein the server apparatus includes: a transmitting unit configured to transmit job data of a job by the first communication protocol, the image processing apparatus being made to execute the job; and an adding unit configured to add content information to the job data, the content information indicating contents of the job, and the gateway apparatus includes: an analyzing unit; a determining unit; and an executing unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a second storage device such as an HDD mounted thereon, when it receives an input of a job, determines a necessity of an input processing of image data into the second storage device, a necessity of an output processing of image data from the secondary storage device, and a timing of the input processing and the output processing in the job. Then, the image forming apparatus switches an output buffer, which is an area set in a primary storage of the image forming apparatus and is used for the output processing of image data from the secondary storage device, to a buffer for use in the input processing or to a buffer for use in the output processing in accordance with a result of the determination.

Abstract: When sequentially receiving pages one by one from the outside and printing them at the time of printing based on printing data including a plurality of pages, a page count per copy when printing a plurality of copies is acquired, and data of a predetermined portion of a printing area are extracted from respective pages by the page count. It is determined whether the data of the extracted predetermined portion is identical between the respective pages. When it is determined that the data is identical, it is determined that printing of the printing data is not collation printing. When it is determined that the data is different, it is determined that printing of the printing data is collation printing.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus which comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive a print job from an information processing apparatus; an obtaining unit configured to obtain at least owner information and domain information from a header of the print job; a generating unit configured to generate user identification information including the owner information and the domain information; a registering unit configured to register the user identification information; and a storage unit configured to store the print job in association with the user identification information. Thus, it is possible to register the appropriate user identification information according to environments of a network system.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus is configured to: receive a selection of one of a first function and a second function other than the first function; store, if one device is selected, the selected one device in correlation with the first and second functions; and control a device to execute one of the first and second functions when an instruction to execute one of the first and second functions is received. If no device is stored in correlation with the one of the first and second functions, the selected one device executes the one of the first function and the second function. If another device has been stored in correlation with the one of the first and second functions, one of candidate devices executes the one of the first and the second functions. The candidate devices include the selected one device.