Abstract: A method of managing a personalized data storage on a multi-function device (MFD), the method including receiving a request for a new personalized data entry, determining if available storage space exists on the personalized data storage, if available storage space does not exist on the personalized data storage, identifying an existing personalized data entry unused for a first predetermined period of time, determining a user associated with the existing personalized data entry, and sending a query to the user. In some embodiments, the personalized data entry is associated with a consolidated work-flow.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a computer, equipment parameters associated with printing equipment of a printing system. The computer determines that the equipment parameters are different from previous equipment parameters used by the printing equipment. When the equipment parameters are different, the computer configures estimation logic to generate an estimated amount of printer consumables required for printing pages of a print job request based on the equipment parameters; and communicates the estimated amount of printer consumables required for printing the pages of the print job request to a client terminal.

Abstract: A system includes a spool directory accessible by a mobile computing device and an imaging device. A user selects for imaging on the imaging device a file accessible by the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device saves the file on the spool directory with a unique name. Upon the user accessing the imaging device for imaging, the imaging device generates a unique quick response code. The user captures the code with a camera of the mobile computing device and the code is used by the mobile computing device to rename the file on the spool directory. That the imaging device knows the quick response code, the imaging device accesses and prints the file on media for the user.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a setup unit, a language identification unit, and a controller. The setup unit establishes a condition that enables group chat to be performed, among the image forming apparatus and a plurality of information processing apparatuses, by activating a group chat tool. The language identification unit identifies, when a communication device receives a message inputted to the group chat from the information processing apparatus, a language of the message. When the language identified by the language identification unit is not installed, the controller retrieves language data indicating the identified language from a storage device, and installs the identified language as a language usable with the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is used in contact with a user, and includes a screen, a communication interface, an image sensor, and a processing circuit. The communication interface receives an object image of an object as an operation object that is present in a real space. The image sensor captures and detects motion of the user, the motion being performed to operate the object and the motion being performed in the real space without contacting the object. The processing circuit displays the object image on the screen, determines an operation of the object corresponding to the detected motion of the user according to the object image and the captured image, and instructs the object to execute the operation.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a memory stores a plurality of sets of setting data for printing. Each setting data is in association with one of setting modes for a setting process. The setting process sets a set of setting data for printing. The setting process in a first setting mode sets setting data for a specific print whereas the setting process in a second setting mode sets setting data used generally for printing. The control device executes the setting process in a current setting mode, and acquires from the printer a sheet size. The control device extracts setting data having sheet size data indicating a sheet size matching the acquired sheet size. When the current setting mode is different from a setting mode in association with the extracted setting data, the control device switches the current setting mode to the setting mode in association with the extracted setting data.

Abstract: User equipment, the user equipment to receive data representing identity information broadcast by a rendering apparatus over a passive non-contact short proximity data transport mechanism when the user equipment is proximate the rendering apparatus, and push the gathered identity information to a workstation, to enable the workstation to connect with the rendering apparatus.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for comparing usage of plural printers. The method includes collecting print information on each of a plurality of printers, the print information including print volume, printer run time, printer print time, printer stop time, and raster image processing time; and displaying, on a graphical user interface, a printer usage dashboard, the printer usage dashboard including a line chart of print volume for the plurality of printers, a bar chart of printer stop time for each of the plurality of printers, and a scatter chart of printer usage for the plurality of printers.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a consumable cartridge and a main body. The consumable cartridge includes a cartridge memory storing usage information and identifying information. The main body includes a main memory and a controller. The controller stores the identifying information stored in the cartridge memory in the main memory and rewrites the usage information stored in the cartridge memory into information indicating that the consumable cartridge is used in a case where the usage information indicates that the consumable cartridge is unused.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism by which an image forming apparatus notifies an apparatus that inputs an image forming job to the image forming apparatus that the image forming apparatus is during remote support service, and suitably restricts acceptance of image forming jobs.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for managing one or more multi-function devices during an emergency in an organization. The method includes receiving one or more emergency signals from one or more sensors installed within the organization. Based on the one or more emergency signals, status of access to an organization gateway is checked to ascertain the occurrence of emergency. Based on the ascertainment, the one or more multi-function devices are automatically disabled.

Abstract: A duplex printing method includes, determining an amount of shrinkage of a media sheet onto which a front side image has been printed; scaling an image to be printed on a back side of the sheet with a scaling function that depends upon the determined shrinkage; and printing the scaled image on the back side of the sheet. The step of determining includes predicting a shrinkage of a media sheet on the basis of process parameters, and on the basis of a model that is defined by a set of model parameters and that describes a dependence of the shrinkage on the process parameters, the process parameters including at least an amount of marking material to be applied to the front side of the sheet; measuring an actual shrinkage of the sheet; and adjusting the model parameters based on a comparison between the predicted shrinkage and the measured shrinkage to improve a prediction of a shrinkage for a subsequent sheet.

Abstract: A power supply control device includes a switch to output a switch depression signal, which is in a first logic level during a period in which the switch is not depressed, and is in a second logic level during a period in which the switch is depressed, a first power supply to generate a first DC voltage based on AC power, which is supplied from an outside, and to apply the first DC voltage to a predetermined load, and a second power supply configured to generate a second DC voltage based on the AC power irrespective of a state of the switch, and a controller to operate on the second DC voltage, to switch an operation state of the first power supply when the switch depression signal has switched from a first logic level to a second logic level and remains at the second logic level.

Abstract: A present image forming apparatus includes a first control unit that controls a native program, a second control unit that controls an extension application different from the native program, a first memory area in which an operation screen of the native program controlled by the first control unit is rendered, and a second memory area in which an operation screen of the extension application controlled by the second control unit is rendered. At least a part of the operation screen of the native program is output to a display when an event related to outputting of the operation screen of the native program has occurred while the display is displaying a screen rendered in the first memory area.

Abstract: A printing control method is performed by an information processing apparatus including a predetermined application capable of requesting first software to output a print file and includes an input step of inputting an output size specified by a user, a determination step of determining a file name of the print file, based on the inputted output size, and an instruction step of instructing the predetermined application to request the first software to output the print file which includes data created by the predetermined application and has the determined file name. In addition, printing target data corresponding to the data created by the predetermined application is generated, with a size corresponding to the output size, based on the file name.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a server system receives usage history information and identification information of an image forming apparatus, stores, in a memory, the identification information and user information in association with each other, with the user information including destination information of a notification, and obtains the user information from the memory, based on the received identification information. In addition, from the received usage history information, a value related to image forming based on an instruction from a predetermined application included in an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the image forming apparatus is obtained, and a notification including predetermined information, based on the obtained destination information can be output. The notification is output in a case where the value does not satisfy a predetermined condition, and the notification is not output in a case where the value satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to issue an instruction to an image forming device. The processor is configured to: in a case where an interruption instruction is received, issue an instruction for a processing mode of the image forming device to be transitioned from a normal mode in which jobs are executed in an order in which the jobs are received, to an interruption mode in which a job that is being executed is suspended and an interruption job is executed first; and, after completion of the interruption job, issue an instruction for the processing mode to be transitioned from the interruption mode to the normal mode, in accordance with a cancellation method in which the interruption mode is canceled, predicted from information representing a state of the image forming device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts two job log entries on the basis of a relationship between a first area of a common portion and a second area of a different portion. The job log entries are associated with a single job flow, and are constituted by a certain job log entry and at least one different job log entry. The common portion and the different portion are specified between an image related to the certain job log entry and an image related to the at least one different job log entry.

Abstract: There is provided a control method for a data processing system, the control method including: registering connection destination information for accessing a cloud service; storing in a storage unit, for each user, information indicating whether or not to allow use of the cloud service; authenticating a user; determining, on the basis of the information stored in the storage unit, whether or not the user authenticated in the authenticating is allowed to use the cloud service; and displaying no object for transmitting data to the cloud service by using the connection destination information when the user is determined in the determining to not be allowed to use the cloud service, and displaying an object for transmitting data to the cloud service by using the connection destination information when the user is determined in the determining to be allowed to use the cloud service.

Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP), which successively conveys a plurality of documents stacked on a document tray and reads the document, determines whether there is a difference among sizes of the plurality of documents in response to at least one of the documents being read by a scanner, in a case where a preview operation of a read image is performed, notifies a user of a possibility that documents having different sizes are mixed and read based on a result of the determination, enables a function of performing reading corresponding to respective document size of mixed size documents in which documents having different sizes are mixed, and provides navigation for prompting re-reading of the document.