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.

Abstract: An image forming device and an operating method of an image forming device are provided. The operating method includes receiving first authentication information of a first user with respect to the image forming device, authenticating the first authentication information of the first user, based on reference account information of a plurality of users, the reference account information being stored in a storage based on a blockchain that distributes and manages a ledger in which user account information including authentication information and authority information of a user with respect to a certain image forming device has been recorded, when the authentication of the first user is completed, receiving a request to perform a first image forming job, and evaluating first authority information indicating an authority range of the first user, based on the reference account information of the plurality of users, and performing the first image forming job within the authority range of the first user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the processing circuitry to transmit an image acquisition request to an image display apparatus upon detecting that a predetermined condition is satisfied; receive image data of an image displayed on the image display apparatus, transmitted from the image display apparatus in response to the image acquisition request; and store the received image data in a shared storage destination.

Abstract: A delivery system including an information processing apparatus operated by a user, a printing apparatus and a server that instructs delivery of a consumable of the printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus requests screen information for making a contract related to the delivery of the consumable to the server, displays a screen based on the screen information received from the server, and transmit registration information input on the screen to the server. The server creates the screen information and transmits the screen information to the information processing apparatus, makes a contract of the delivery of the consumable to be used in the printing apparatus with the user, based on the registration information, and delivers the consumable to the user when a remaining amount of the consumable is less than a predetermined amount in the printing apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory in which information on output devices corresponding to plural users participating in a group chat is stored; and a controller that, in a case where any one of the plural users gives a post indicative of an output command to output data on the group chat, performs control for outputting the data from output devices corresponding to one or more output destination users including a user who has not given the post indicative of the output command among the plural users in accordance with the information stored in the memory.

Abstract: An example replaceable printer component includes a communication engine. The communication engine indicates to a host an operation to be performed by the host. The replaceable printer component also includes a sensor engine to measure a property affected by the operation. The replaceable printer component includes a verification engine to determine whether the host performed the operation based on the measurement of the property.

Abstract: A service providing system includes a device; and an information processing system. The information processing system stores each user of the information processing system and each user of an external service system in association with each other. The device accepts a specification of a first application and a user of the information processing system; acquires data for which a user of the external service system, associated with the user of the information processing system, has an authority, among data relating to the first application included in the external service system; displays a screen to accept a selection of one piece of data from the acquired data; accepts the one piece of data for which the selection is accepted via the screen; and requests the external service system to store information acquired by the device in association with the accepted one piece of data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus communicates with a server via a network, the server configured to manage a plurality of job logs on which encryption processing is executed by an image processing apparatus using a first key. The information processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor executing the instructions causing the information processing apparatus to encrypt a value used for searching for a job log using another first key being a duplicate of the first key, transmit a search request including the encrypted value to the server via the network, acquire an encrypted job log based on a response from the server, and execute decryption processing for decrypting the encrypted job log. The server executes search processing using the encrypted value included in the search request without decrypting the plurality of job logs managed.

Abstract: In one example, an inkjet web printer includes a print engine and a controller programmed to determine that a second print job following a first print job may be printed without stopping the web and, without stopping the web, cause the print engine to print the second print job.

Abstract: An example electronic device includes a sensor to detect a first code and initiate a first digital scan of a print medium; a scanner to perform the first digital scan of the print medium upon detection of the first code by the sensor; and a processor to correlate the first code with a first digital scan of the print medium; identify a second code detected by the sensor; detect a second digital scan of the print medium by the scanner; and compare the first code with the second code.

Abstract: A printing apparatus transmits user information and print data to a server system. The printing apparatus includes a reception unit and a control unit. The reception unit receives print data from an information processing apparatus. The control unit returns a response indicating authentication failure to the information processing apparatus when user information is not attached to the print data received, and transmits the print data to the server system when user information is attached to the print data.

Abstract: To provide a technique in which an image forming process is not restricted even when consumption information cannot be transmitted to the outside such as a server in an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes an operation control portion for executing a plurality of functions for forming an image; a memory that stores availability information of the plurality of functions according to a specified contract that defines usage conditions of the image forming apparatus; and a determination portion that determines, when a usage request for at least one of the plurality of functions is received, with reference to the availability information, whether or not the at least one of the plurality of functions corresponding to the usage request received is configured to be used, in which the operation control portion controls operation of the image forming apparatus in accordance with a determination result of the determination portion.

Abstract: In response to receiving an e-mail of a print job from a client terminal, a print server generates a job code and a print setting URL for the print job and returns the generated job code and print setting URL to the client terminal. Further, when the print setting URL is accessed, a print setting screen is provided to the client terminal. Accordingly, it is possible to easily perform print setting on the print job transmitted via an e-mail and then perform printing.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method of controlling transmission of an image, each of which: displays, on a display, an image to a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a use of the shared terminal; obtains, from a first privately-owned terminal owned by a first user of the plurality of users, first terminal identification information for identifying the first privately-owned terminal; transmits an authentication request for authenticating the first privately-owned terminal to a terminal management server, the authentication request including the first terminal identification information of the first privately-owned terminal; receives an authentication result of authenticating the first privately-owned terminal from the terminal management server; and when the authentication result indicates that the first privately-owned terminal is a legitimate terminal, and transmits a print request for printing data relating to the image being displayed to a printer through a network.

Abstract: A print control apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to transmit generation condition data to a printer. The generation condition data includes a generation condition for a checksum value. The generation condition is based on identification information of the printer. The processor is also configured to check a first checksum value against a second checksum value to confirm the authenticity of the printer. The first checksum value is generated by the printer according to the generation condition. The second checksum value is generated according to the generation condition on the basis of the identification information of the printer.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an apparatus main body; and a display mechanism that is provided to be displaceable with respect to the apparatus main body, is provided with an antenna used to perform communication with a mobile terminal, and is configured to display information. The apparatus main body is not located in a place where the display mechanism extends upwards and downwards the display mechanism in a state in which the display mechanism is displaced with respect to the apparatus main body.

Abstract: A server and a method for managing apps based on app usage patterns are provided. The server may include a communication device, a storage, a processor, and a memory storing instructions. The processor executes the instructions to receive, from an image forming device through the communication device, usage data including usage information of apps executed in the image forming device, analyze usage patterns of the apps based on the usage data and store usage pattern data corresponding to the usage patterns in the storage, receive first data corresponding to a first event from the image forming device through the communication device, generate recommendation information related to an app performing an image forming operation corresponding to the first event based on the usage pattern data and the first data, and transmit the recommendation information to the image forming device through the communication device.

Abstract: A method is disclosed. For example, the method executed by a processor of a multi-function device (MFD) includes receiving a grammar-based voice search for a workflow, processing the grammar-based voice search into normalized terms associated with the MFD, searching for workflows that match the normalized terms from the grammar-based voice search, and displaying matching workflows in a sorted order on a user interface of the MFD.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of forming an image on a recording material includes a display portion capable of displaying a software key permitting input by a user's line of sight; an image pickup portion configured to pick up an image of a user's face; and a controller capable of executing a setting mode in which setting such that the user's line of sight is in a detectable state is made on the basis of output of the image pickup portion and an input mode in which input corresponding to the software key is received in accordance with a line-of-sight input operation to the software key by the user's line of sight detected on the basis of the setting of the setting mode. The controller notifies a user of an event that an operation mode is changed from the setting mode to the input mode.