Abstract: An image forming apparatus, in a case a user is authenticated, allocates a sub address provided under the network address of the image forming apparatus to the user, outputs destination information including the network address and the sub address along with a job file for setting to the outside, in a case the job file for setting is received, associates the sub address and identification information of the user with one another, in a case the sub address and the identification information of the user are associated with one another, associates the printing data with the identification information of the user, and stores the printing data on a storage.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and method that prevents an image based on a file attached to an electronic mail from being repeatedly printed includes receiving an electronic mail from a mail server, printing an image based on the file attached to the received electronic mail, and deleting the electronic mail from the mail server after the image is printed. If the electronic mail cannot be deleted from the mail server, identification information corresponding to the undeleted electronic mail is stored, and the image based on the file attached to the electronic mail corresponding to identification information coinciding with the stored identification information is not printed.

Abstract: An image forming system in which distributed processing of a job is performed by a plurality of image forming apparatuses and each of the image forming apparatuses inspects an output image formed on paper by distributed processing. Among the image forming apparatuses which perform distributed processing, one or more image forming apparatuses generate data for abnormal image detection which is required to inspect the output image in the image forming apparatuses to perform the distributed processing.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs control of accepting an instruction to cancel execution of a job on condition that authentication using authority information input to the image processing apparatus has succeeded, in a case where a predetermined error has not occurred. The image processing apparatus performs control of accepting the instruction to cancel the execution without the authority information input with respect to only a specific job among jobs generated by the image processing apparatus, in a case where the predetermined error has occurred.

Abstract: An image forming system, image forming apparatus and tray for the same are provided. The tray supports sheets and may include a coupling including first and second connectable members, a cam and clutch. The coupling allows the driving force to be transmitted when the second connectable member is in a connected position and block the driving force to be transmitted when the second connectable member is in a disconnected position. The cam is rotatable by the driving force to be in a transmitting or a blocking state. The clutch allows the cam to rotate when activated and prevents the cam from rotating when deactivated. A controller can activate the clutch to transmit or block the driving force to the load and deactivate the clutch when the cam is placed in the transmitting or blocking states.

Abstract: A display device includes an image selection unit that selects an image to be processed, a storage unit that stores a plurality of templates including an arrangement area on which the image is arranged, a template selection unit that selects a first template and a second template from the plurality of templates based on the selected image, an arrangement unit that arranges the selected image on the arrangement area of the first template and arranges the selected image on the arrangement area of the second template, and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the first template after the arrangement of the image and the second template after the arrangement of the image.

Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The apparatus sets a naming rule for an image file and determines whether or not the set naming rule satisfies a predetermined condition. If it is determined that the naming rule does not satisfy the predetermined condition, the information processing apparatus warns a user. On the other hand, if it is determined that the naming rule satisfies the predetermined condition, the information processing apparatus generates a file name of the image file in accordance with the set naming rule, and stores the image file with the file name.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a detection unit configured to detect a movement of the information processing device, and a display unit configured to display a print image in which a layout has been changed in accordance with a detected movement of the information processing device.

Abstract: The server of the present invention includes one or more processors operating to: acquire first identification information to identify an image processing apparatus and second identification information to identify a source of purchase of a consumable item used by the image processing apparatus, which are transmitted from an external device; store the acquired second identification information transmitted from the external device in a storage medium in association with the first identification information; acquire the first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus; determine whether the acquired first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus is stored in the storage medium; and start a predetermined service to make an order for the consumable item with the source of purchase in a case where the first identification information transmitted from the image processing apparatus is stored in the storage medium.

Abstract: A copying apparatus capable of calibrating a copy position comprises a scanning module scanning an original to obtain an original image; and a processing module being electrically connected to the scanning module and recognizing whether the original image contains an original mark corresponding to a template mark. If the original image contains the original mark, then the processing module generates print data for being printed out according to the original image and a position parameter of the template mark. A copying method capable of calibrating the copy position is also provided. Thus, the copy position can be calibrated according to the mark of the original to prevent the copy result from having a positional offset. Consequently, no positional offset occurs even if the original is copied multiple times based on the previous generation of original.

Abstract: A control device includes a storage and a controller and controls a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image onto a sheet based on an image forming job, and a sheet stacking apparatus having a stacking tray. The storage stores stacking state information indicating a state of sheets stacked and/or to be stacked on the stacking tray. The controller controls to generate a system configuration image that visualizes a configuration of the system, to generate a sheet bundle image that visualizes a sheet bundle stacked on the tray, and to display a screen in which the sheet bundle image is combined at a position of the stacking tray in the system configuration image. The controller controls to display the sheet bundle image such that sheets of a processed job, sheets of a job being processed, and sheets of a processing waiting job are distinguished from each other.

Abstract: An image reading device that reads an image including a fluorescent color, including: a first light source having a maximum light emission intensity at a first wavelength; a second light source having a maximum light emission intensity at a second wavelength that is longer than the first wavelength; and an image reading chip configured to read the image. The image reading chip includes a pixel including a photodetector that performs photoelectric conversion on light received from the image, and the spectral sensitivity of the photodetector when photoelectric conversion is performed takes a maximum value at light having a wavelength in a region from 400 nm to 500 nm inclusive.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an input unit and a control unit. The input unit accepts a reference point of scaling for enlarging or reducing image data. The control unit performs inversion for inverting the image data according to the reference point in either or both of a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction. The control unit performs scaling on the inverted image data generated by performing the inversion to generate scaled image data. The control unit performs inversion on the scaled image data again to generate non-inverted scaled image data.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for binding user account to imaging device by mobile terminal. The method comprises: scanning a two-dimensional code, by a mobile terminal; decoding the two-dimensional code, by the mobile terminal, to acquire decoded information comprising imaging device information; sending a user account to a server, by the mobile terminal; binding, by the server, an imaging device corresponding to the imaging device information to the user account, according to the user account received from the mobile terminal and the imaging device information acquired by the mobile terminal using the two-dimensional code; and executing, by the mobile terminal, a printing task using the imaging device bound to the user account.

Abstract: In a case where both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address are available in a printing apparatus, a Bluetooth low energy advertising packet including the available IPv4 address but not the available IPv6 address is generated and periodically transmitted.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor; an image former that outputs a printed sheet obtained by forming a plurality of imposed images on a sheet in response to a command from the hardware processor; and an image reader that reads the printed sheet and outputs read images according to a command from the hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor performs, according to a command from the hardware processor, an inspection process of comparing a reference image included in a predetermined inspection unit with an image selected from the read image on the basis of the unit inspection, and obtains an inspection result in which the image selected from the read images which is matched with the reference image is determined to be a normal image and the image selected from the read images which is not matched with the reference image is determined to be an abnormal image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a function to communicate with a terminal is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the terminal, a print command to print a rasterized image having been stored; a user interface configured to receive, from a user, an execution command to print the rasterized image after the receiver receives the print command; and a printer configured to print the rasterized image after the user interface receives the execution command.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines whether each of pixels in a scanned image is a color pixel or a monochrome pixel, determines whether each of blocks including the multiple pixels in the scanned image is a color block or a monochrome block, based on determination results of the respective pixels, and determines that the scanned image is a color image in a case where an arrangement pattern of blocks determined to be color blocks matches a predetermined pattern.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus temporarily stores, in an image memory, image data generated by a front surface reading unit and a back surface reading unit for reading images of a front surface and a back surface of an original respectively. A CPU of an image forming apparatus, at a time of starting a copy job, sets an output frequency of the image memory (transfer rate of image data) to a first frequency F1 that is lower than a second frequency F2. The CPU sets the output frequency of the image memory to the second frequency F2 when transfer of the image data of the first page which corresponds to the front surface of a first original completes.

Abstract: A printing mediation server includes a controller configured to perform transmitting first print data representing images of plural pages to a first printer, controlling the first printer to perform printing based on the first print data, receiving, after the first print data is transmitted to the first printer, a stop notification transmitted from the first printer, when a stop instruction is transmitted from a terminal device to the first printer, receiving, after the stop notification is received from the first printer, a print data request transmitted from the second printer, when a restart instruction is transmitted from the terminal device to a second printer, transmitting, to the second printer, second print data including at least partial print data representing images of pages not printed, when the print data request is received from the second printer, and controlling the second printer to perform printing based on the second print data.