Abstract: An embodiment of this invention solves memory shortage that occurs in enlargement processing of an image because a web application holds data of an image or the like not as binary data but as character string data. In the embodiment, a processor in an information processing apparatus executes a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor in the following way. That is, the first program layer draws an image, and divides and enlarges the drawn image using a memory. Image data of each of a plurality of images obtained by the division and enlargement is output from the second program layer to an external device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for printing a scheduled print job by a printing device connected to a client device over a network. The method includes transmitting, by the client device, a request to print the scheduled print job to the printing device. The scheduled print job include print data and schedule data corresponding to a scheduled time the print data is to be printed. The printing device obtains the print job from cloud storage or from local storage depending on a storage selection indicator, and executes the scheduled print job at the scheduled time. A determination is made as to whether the scheduled print job was printed successfully at the scheduled time. Further, a message indicating whether the scheduled print job was printed successfully, based on the determination, is sent to a predetermined device.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reader, a transmitter, an opposing part that is placed opposite to the transmitter, and a hardware processor that controls a position of the opposing part such that a gap between the transmitter and the opposing part becomes a first gap when images are read by the reader, and a gap between the transmitter and the opposing part becomes a second gap, which is wider than the first gap, when no image is read by the reader.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image former forming a toner image on a long sheet; a main conveyance path conveying the long sheet to the image former; and a double-side conveyance path which branches off from a first side, in the main conveyance path, downstream of the image former in a conveyance direction of the long sheet, and which conveys the long sheet to a second side upstream of the image former by reversing the conveyance direction at a point of switching back to invert the long sheet. The double-side conveyance path includes, in a downstream side in the conveyance direction before the switching back, a merging pathway connected to the second side upstream of the image former in the main conveyance path, and a first introducer introducing into the merging pathway a head of the long sheet in the conveyance direction before the switching back.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a circuit board on which an electronic part and a connector are mounted; a housing to which the circuit board is attached; a flexible flat cable, having a connecting portion connected to the connector, configured to electrically connect the circuit board and another circuit board different from the circuit board provided in the image forming apparatus; and a holding member holding the flexible flat cable and rotatable integrally with the flexible flat cable with respect to the housing, wherein the holding member is rotatable with respect to the housing between a first position in which the connecting portion is connected to the connector and a second position in which the connecting portion is retracted from a fitting position of the circuit board in the housing in a state in which the connecting portion is removed from the connector.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading section and an image forming section. The reading section reads a plurality of images formed on a document. The image forming section forms the images on a plurality of sheets. The images include a first image having a first color, and one or more second images having a second color differing from the first color. The sheets include a first sheet and a second sheet differing from the first sheet. The image forming section forms the first image on the first sheet and the second images on the second sheet.

Abstract: An extension computing device connects to a multi-function printing (MFP) device to enable additional functionality and capabilities to support the MFP device. Print jobs and other tasks may be performed in the extension computing device so that the MFP device addresses more important tasks in real time. The extension computing device receives and processes a print job without the need to engage the MFP device or its engine. The print job then may be stored in the extension computing device until it is printed on demand by the MFP device. Other applications also may be located in the extension computing device. An extension engine performs tasks to determine when to process the print job in the extension computing device. The extension computing device includes a processor, a print job manager, a storage, an operating system, and input/output capabilities.

Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes generating a set of test case tags that describe attributes included in a test case and store the set of test case tags and the test case, receiving input information, and dynamically generating a test suite of one or more test cases based on input attributes data included in the input information, wherein the input information comprises code change information.

Abstract: Registration in an address book from a transmission history which may lead to erroneous transmission is prohibited, and other address book registration and the like are enabled, so that erroneous transmission can be prevented without impairing convenience.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer section that transfers an image onto a sheet, a sheet conveying member that is provided upstream of the transfer section in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet, and a hardware processor that controls displacement of the sheet conveying member in such a way that the sheet is displaced along the width direction of the sheet. The hardware processor performs first displacement control in which the sheet conveying member is displaced in a direction which is specified in advance with respect to the sheet and in which an edge of the sheet in the width direction is directed toward a target position and second displacement control in which the sheet conveying member is displaced in the direction opposite the direction of the first displacement.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that performs control to display, on a touch display, a first graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to a task and to display a second GUI different from the first GUI in a case where a touch-down operation on the first GUI has been performed, and to perform control, in a case where a continuing operation has started following the touch-down operation, to sequentially display a plurality of setting values different in type with respect to the task based on an amount of continuation of the continuing operation before the continuing operation is completed, and a task control unit that performs control to execute the task in a case where the continuing operation has completed and not to execute the task in a case where a touch-up operation has been performed before the continuing operation is completed.

Abstract: A system includes a storage unit that stores history information associating a device executed processing and processed data with each other, a screen display unit that displays a screen in which at least one piece of history information is displayed and that is used for causing the device to execute processing based on the history information selected from the displayed at least one piece of history information, a generating unit that generates instruction information for instructing the device to execute the processing of data corresponding to the history information, a processing executing unit that executes the processing of the data based on the instruction information, and a recording unit that records the device that executed the processing and the processed data in the storage unit as the history information based on the instruction information for instructing the processing of the data executed by the processing executing unit.

Abstract: A selectable drive printing device includes a drive selector system to select between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system based at least partially on a position of a selector swing arm of the drive selector system. The selectable drive printing device includes a shifter to selectively shift the drive selector system between a scanning system drive position of the selector swing arm and a printing system drive position of the selector swing arm.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a print controller that outputs image data to a printing apparatus to print an image representing the image data, and an image processor that executes, with respect to the image data that requires two or more printing pages because the printed image protrudes from a first of the printing pages, a processing including separating a part of the image protruding from the first of the printing pages, from a fitted part of the image that can be fitted in the first of the printing pages, dividing the separated image into image segments according to a length of the fitted part of the image, and sequentially aligning the divided image segments parallel to the fitted part of the image. The print controller outputs the image data processed by the image processor to the printing apparatus, to print the image representing the image data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance controller and a processor. The conveyance controller controls a conveyance operation for conveying an image forming medium. The processor executes an image quality maintenance operation for maintaining quality in an image forming processing. The processor executes at least a part of the conveyance operation and a part of the image quality maintenance operation in parallel.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for validating paper forms are provided. A node can receive paper-form data from a paper form that has first and second data items (DIs). The node can: determine first and second metadata for the first and second DIs respectively, determine respective first and second validation entities (VEs) to validate respective values of the first and second DIs based on the respective first and second metadata, where the first and second VEs can differ, provide a user interface (UI) including a display of the first DI, receive a validation status for the first DI via the first UI from the first VE, select a first distributed storage system (DSS) associated with the first DI, and record the value of the first DI and the validation status in the first DSS. The node can generate an output related to the paper-form data based on the first DSS.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a setting unit configured to set setting information of an operation of the electronic device according to common setting information; a designation information acquisition unit configured to acquire designation information, which designates an acquisition origin of the common setting information, via a network; and a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire the common setting information from the acquisition origin of the common setting information designated by the designation information acquired by the designation information acquisition unit.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that can establish secure wireless direct connection with a terminal. A connection information transmitting part transmits connection information of wireless direct connection to a terminal by short-range wireless connection. A connection changing information generating part generates different connection changing information from connection information and transmits to the terminal in which the wireless direct connection has been established by the connection information transmitted by the connection information transmitting part. A connection changing part changes into the connection changing information transmitted by the connection changing information generating part and performs wireless direct connection with the terminal. In the result, secure wireless direct connection is enabled.

Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for preventing reproduction of secure data on a multi-function device are disclosed. The method may be performed by a processor of a multi-function device. For example, the method receives a request to reproduce a document, calculates a perceptual hash of the document, transmits the perceptual hash of the document to a server, receives a control signal to halt reproduction of the document on the printing device in response to a perceptual hash of the secure data stored on the server matching at least a portion of the perceptual hash of the document, and halts the reproduction of the document on the printing device in response to the control signal.

Abstract: A display control apparatus which enables a user to easily determine positions of boundary lines in a preview image. A first image is generated based on an initial image or a processing result of first image processing performed on the initial image, and a second image is generated based on a processing result of second image processing performed on the initial image. Display of the preview image is controlled based on the first image and the second image. An operation performed by a user on a control point for determining a position of at least one boundary line in the preview image is received. In a display process for the preview image, at least a part of the first image and at least a part of the second image are displayed based on the boundary line the position of which is determined by the control point.