Abstract: An intelligent seal with cloud computing-based anti-forgery capability and a method for using the same. In various embodiments, the seal is provided with a special-shaped anti-forgery mark. All data files and log files are stored collectively at a seal management cloud platform, thereby achieving anti-forgery through cloud computing at the cloud platform, preventing theft and tampering of user data and seal data, allowing real-time query of seal usage information, and enabling third-party verification and anti-forgery of the seal information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire setting information corresponding to first identification information input from a user from among plural pieces of setting information for controlling an operation of a device, the plural pieces of setting information being stored in an external server device; add the first identification information to the acquired setting information to generate editing data; and if (i) second identification information input from the user when receiving an instruction to update content of the setting information using the editing data and (ii) the first identification information added to the editing data based on which the content of the setting information is to be updated match, update the content of the setting information based on the editing data.

Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to present on a home screen or an application screen such a display that an appropriate favorite setting for each of the home screen and the application screen is applied to the respective home screen or the respective application screen according to read card information.

Abstract: In some examples, a non-transitory machine readable medium can include instructions executable by a processing resource to assert a low print media level notification responsive to determination that a first amount of print media in a media receptacle of an imaging device is less than a set value, detect a second amount of print media in the media receptacle of the imaging device, compare the detected second amount of print media to a print media threshold that is based on the set value and a selectable print media value, and maintain the low print media level notification responsive to a determination that the detected second amount of print media is less than the print media threshold.

Abstract: A printing device may include: a printing unit configured to print an image, a communication interface; an input unit to which user information is inputted; a memory; and a controller configured to access a table in which user information and an e-mail address are registered in association with each other. The controller may be configured to: receive an e-mail to which attached data is attached; in a case where the e-mail is received, determine whether a sender e-mail address of the e-mail is in the table; in a case where it is determined that the sender e-mail address is in the table, obtain user information associated with the sender e-mail address from the table and store the attached data in the memory; authenticate the user information; and cause the printing unit to print the attached data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to perform image formation and circuitry. The circuitry acquires, from a memory, a template image defining a user information area in which user information is input, acquires the user information based on a user input operation, processes the user information in accordance with a position and a size of the user information area, generates a combined image in which the user information is combined with the template image acquired from the memory, and instructs the image forming device to form the combined image on a sheet.

Abstract: A method is disclosed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus executes at least one of a plurality of applications for which use permission is granted in units of package, and in response to an invalidation of the use permission, display on a display, a notification indicating the invalidation of the use permission.

Abstract: A mobile terminal capable of setting a cover sheet and a header of a fax document and causing an image forming apparatus to transmit the fax document. Cover data representative of a cover sheet is created according to the settings of a cover sheet of a fax document, and header data representative of a header is created according to the settings of a header of the fax document. Upon receipt of an instruction for transmitting a fax document from the user, the mobile terminal transmits an instruction to the image forming apparatus for reading an original and transmitting the fax document, together with transmission destination information indicative of a transmission destination to which the fax document is to be transmitted and at least one of the cover data and the header data.

Abstract: In an editing device, a controller edits first print data based on first information. The first print data represents a first image in a printing area. The first image is to be printed on a first tape. The controller executes edits second print data based on second information. The second print data represents a second image in the printing area. The second image is to be printed on a second tape to be bonded to the first tape. The controller sets a prohibited area in the printing area in a case that a specific object is added to the first image. The prohibited area is for prohibiting an object different from the specific object from being arranged therein. The controller nullifies editing based on the second information in a case that that an object different from the specific object is arranged in the prohibiting area.

Abstract: A physical unclonable function (“PUF”) object can be used to encode the geography or region in which device to which the PUF is attached may operate. Disclosed are two potential ways to regionalize a device using a PUF disk: placing the magnetic sensor at a different radius depending on the region or geography intended for sale; and altering the magnetic structure of the disk to magnetically encode the region into the sensor data.

Abstract: An example imaging device includes a communication engine to transmit a broadcast message including a broadcast ID corresponding to the imaging device. The communication engine further is to receive a session token from a central server in response to a request for accessing the imaging device received from a user device in receipt of the broadcast ID. The session token is to connect the imaging device to a user session corresponding to a user of the user device. The imaging device further comprises a user authorization engine to obtain preliminary user details from the central server using the session token. The preliminary user details include a login ID and a user-selected authentication mode. The user authorization engine is to set-up a user login session using the preliminary user details for receiving user authentication approval from the central server to allow the user to access the imaging device.

Abstract: A touchless motion activated printer including a housing for receiving a stock of labels supported within the housing; a controller having a computer readable medium and in communications with a display, touchless input assembly, and a printer; and, a set of computer readable instructions stored on the computer readable medium adapted for receiving input from a user, printing a label, storing the label information and ejecting the label. The printer can include an input area. The printer can be in communications with one or more of IoT device, portable computer device, local area network, wide area network, local computer server, home automation system or any combination.

Abstract: A first server system includes a registration unit configured to, in a case where a request output from a management server system based on an instruction from a first user having a first authority is received, register first printer information in the first server system, and the management server system includes a control unit configured to, based on an instruction from a second user having a second authority that is a more limited authority than the first authority, execute a saving process for saving the first printer information registered in the first server system and second printer information regarding a printing apparatus registered in a second server system different from the first server system and the management server system in association with each other in a saving unit of the management server system.

Abstract: In a reading device, a controller performs: detecting occurrence of a double-feed; executing a double-feed process; detecting a state of double-fed sheets; executing a first process when a command is inputted; and executing a second process when the command is not inputted. The double feed process includes: halting conveyance of an original document; and making notification of the occurrence of the double-feed. The first process performs, in accordance with the command, one of: resuming the conveyance of the original document; and quitting the conveyance of the original document. The second process performs, in accordance with a determination result, one of: resuming the conveyance of the original document; and continuing the halting and the making. The resuming is performed when the determination result indicates that the conveyance of the original document is possible. The continuing is performed when the determination result indicates that the conveyance of the original document is impossible.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a volatile memory that stores data, a controller that controls an operation of a device, an interface that temporarily stores data input from the device, a writing unit that controls writing of the data on the volatile memory, a first communication pathway that connects the interface to the writing unit and is used to transmit the data acquired by the interface to the volatile memory and to transfer the data written on the volatile memory, a second communication pathway that connects the interface to the writing unit and does not share a route with the first communication pathway, and a switching unit that switches a communication path used to transmit data from the interface to the volatile memory from the first communication pathway to the second communication pathway if the interface has received image data from the device.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport roller applying a transport force to a label sheet having a backing sheet to which a label is attached, a printing head performing printing on the label sheet, a detaching roller configured to apply to the backing sheet a tension for detaching the label from the backing sheet at a detaching unit that detaches the label from the backing sheet and apply a transport force to the backing sheet from which the label was detached, and a control unit controlling the transport roller and the detaching roller, wherein the control unit controls driving of the transport roller and the detaching roller such that a front tension, which is a tension applied to the label sheet at the position of the transport roller, when the label sheet is back-fed to upstream in the transport path, is smaller than a front tension when the label sheet is front-fed to downstream.

Abstract: Disclosed are a printing method using websocket communication and a management method for a websocket communication channel. The printing method includes establishing, by a printing apparatus, a websocket channel for communicating with an external apparatus, requesting, by the printing apparatus, print data from the external apparatus through the websocket channel, determining, by the printing apparatus, whether a predetermined condition associated with an acquisition of the print data is satisfied in response to the request for the print data, and controlling, by the printing apparatus, a channel duration time of the websocket channel when the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A function of a device is displayed as a first display on a client device, and local user authentication information is displayed as a second display according to the function of the device selected on the first display on the client device.

Abstract: A printing apparatus has a sheet holding unit having a detection unit for detecting a size of a sheet which is held and a storage unit configured to store sheet information including at least a size of a sheet as information representing a sheet. The apparatus sets first sheet information selected by a user in association with the sheet holding unit from a plurality of items of sheet information stored in the storage unit and notifies the user of a mismatch in a case where a size of a sheet that the first sheet information set in the setting indicates, and a size of a sheet detected by the detection unit are mismatched.