Abstract: An initial setup method of an image forming apparatus using near field communication (NFC) according to an embodiment includes determining whether initial setup of the image forming apparatus is needed; displaying an initial setup menu on a display unit of the image forming apparatus when it is determined that the initial setup is needed; receiving initial setup data stored in the mobile terminal through NFC by the image forming apparatus when the mobile terminal is NFC tagged with the image forming apparatus; and performing initial setup of the image forming apparatus in accordance with the received initial setup data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second token request transmission units, first and second token reception units, a storage unit, and a device resource request transmission unit. The first token request transmission unit transmits a first token acquisition request containing device credential information. The first token reception unit receives a first token corresponding to the device credential information. The storage unit stores the received first token. The second token transmission unit acquires the stored first token and sends a second token acquisition request containing the acquired first token and identification information for identifying a management unit that manages a device resource. The second token reception unit receives a second token corresponding to the identification information. The device resource request transmission unit transmits a request for a process related to a device resource, the request containing the received second token.

Abstract: A PrintTicket does not necessarily exist in each page of an XPS document. Regarding a page where no PrintTicket exists, the page is printed by referring to a PrintTicket in a higher hierarchical level. Here, when a plurality of XPS documents are combined, a user's intended print result may not be obtained when the PrintTicket in the higher hierarchical level to which the page refers changes before and after combining. Before a combining process is executed, print setting information of a page element is generated based on print setting information of an element in a higher hierarchical level than the page hierarchical level. A combined document is generated by combining a structured document including a page element to which the generated print setting information is added and another structured document including a page element to which the generated print setting information is added.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus connected to another terminal apparatus and an output apparatus via a network includes a proxy output request receiver unit receiving a proxy output request for data specifying a proxy user, a connecting information acquisition unit acquiring information for connecting to the other terminal apparatus in association with the proxy user from a management apparatus managing the information for connecting to the other terminal apparatus in association with the proxy user, a storing unit storing the data for which the proxy output request is received, a document information registration request unit transmitting a registering request to register document information relating to the proxy output request for the data using the information, and a data provider unit receiving an acquisition request for the data for which the proxy output request is received, and provide the output apparatus with the data for which the proxy output request is received.

Abstract: A communication apparatus may perform: communicating a wireless setting value with a printer via a first wireless communication interface, establishing the wireless connection with the printer via a second wireless communication interface using the wireless setting value; sending first image data representing a first image of a print target to the printer via the second wireless communication interface using the wireless connection; determining, after the first image data is sent to the printer, whether an apparatus-side disconnection condition is satisfied; disconnecting the wireless connection when it is determined that the apparatus-side disconnection condition is satisfied; and sending, when it is determined that the apparatus-side disconnection condition is not satisfied, second image data representing a second image of a print target to the printer via the second wireless communication interface using the wireless connection.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: a controller configured to control apparatus operation; and an analyzer configured to analyze maintenance information depending on the apparatus when an event requiring maintenance occurs in the apparatus. The maintenance information includes solutions to the event requiring the maintenance. The analyzer determines the order of application of the solutions to the apparatus. The controller controls the apparatus operation based on the order of application of the solutions determined as a result of the analysis by the analyzer.

Abstract: To provide an operation apparatus and image forming apparatus which can adequately notify users of status information of other apparatuses connected to the operation apparatus. The operation apparatus has: status information acquiring means 503 for acquiring status information of a multi-functional printer 100 associated with a specific tab item from the multi-functional printer 100; status information converting means 508 for converting the acquired status information into tab-type status information; tab item displaying means 510 for displaying tab-type status information in a tab display area which displays the specific tab item and which displays the other associated tab items in a tab display area which displays other tab items other than the specific tab item; and condition screen displaying means 513 for displaying a setting condition screen associated with the specific tab item to be displayed in one screen together with the tab which displays the tab-type status information.

Abstract: A management system that can appropriately manage a list of functions that can be provided by an image forming apparatus configured to provide a function to a client apparatus by utilizing a function provided by a function provision apparatus.

Abstract: A printing system comprises: an obtaining unit which obtains information about a printer, a first user, and a print server; a storing unit which generates, based on the information, a printer object used when using the printer via the print service, and stores the generated printer object in association with the information of the print server which manages the printer; a providing unit which, if the first user selects the print server, provides a setting window for instructing to share, with a second user, a plurality of printers managed by the selected print server; and a changing unit which changes a state of printer objects of the respective printers to a shared state to allow the second user to use the printer objects of the respective printers managed by the selected print server if sharing is instructed.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus connectable to another electronic apparatus includes an information acquisition unit that acquires operation screen information to display a shared operation screen shared between the electronic apparatus and the other electronic apparatus from the other electronic apparatus, a shared screen display unit that displays the shared operation screen based on the operation screen information that the information acquisition unit acquired, a job execution unit that executes a job based on input to the shared operation screen, an event detector that detects a predetermined event that occurs during the job execution, a display determination unit that determines whether or not a specific screen including information specific to the electronic apparatus model is displayed in response to the detected predetermined event, and a specific screen display unit that changes the displayed shared operation screen into the specific screen if the display determination unit determines that the specific scre

Abstract: An information processing apparatus transmits a print job to a server and generates print status information including user identification information and a print condition included in the print job. Each of one or more image forming apparatuses transmits a transmission request, forms an image based on the print job, and generates device information including state information indicating its operating state. The server transmits a print job that includes the same user identification information as the user identification information included in the transmission request, to the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the transmission request. One of the server, the one or more image forming apparatuses, and the portable information device generates usability information indicating usability in a case where the print job is executed in each image forming apparatus, based on the device information and the print status information. The portable information device outputs the generated usability information.

Abstract: Provided are an image erasing apparatus which erases an image printed on a sheet and an image forming apparatus having an image erasing function. The image erasing apparatus and the image forming apparatus each include a readout unit, an erasing unit, and a control unit. The control unit acquires authentication information of a user who uses the apparatuses and allows the erasing unit to erase the image when determining that the acquired authentication information coincides with authentication information read out by the readout unit.

Abstract: Methods and devices receive a document comprising raster images, using an optical scanner. These methods and devices automatically identify topical items within the raster images based on raster content in the raster images, using a processor. Further, these methods and devices automatically associate the topical items with topics in the document based on previously established rules for identifying topical sections, and automatically crop the topical items from the raster images to produce cropped portions of the raster images, using the processor. These methods and devices then automatically create an index for the document by combining the cropped portions of the raster images organized by the topics, using the processor, and output the index from the processor.

Abstract: A print controller initiates printing of a print job by at least one print head array of a printing system. In response to determining that the at least one print head array should be serviced, the print controller determines whether the servicing of the at least one print head array will interrupt the print job. In response to determining that the servicing will not interrupt the print job, the print controller causes movement of the at least one print head array from a given position to a servicing station of the printing system. In response to determining that the servicing will interrupt the print job, the print controller performs other tasks.

Abstract: A control method for controlling a printing system that includes selectively executing an inline job and an offline job, where the inline job is for executing post-processing on a sheet printed by a printing apparatus by using a post-processing apparatus and the offline job is for executing post-processing on a sheet without executing printing by the printing apparatus by using the post-processing apparatus. The method includes detecting that a sheet has been set in a paper feed unit, setting whether to execute an offline job that uses the sheet if the sheet is detected as being set in the paper feed unit, and controlling the post-processing apparatus to automatically start post-processing corresponding to the offline job in a case where both the system is set to execute the offline job and the system detects that the sheet has been set in the paper feed unit.

Abstract: A terminal device, a server, a screen control method, a screen transition method, and a compute program are provided. The terminal device includes a display unit, plural operation units, a storage unit, and a control unit, and communicates with a server for making a transition of a screen on the display unit. The storage unit stores template information associating an operation unit with a transition instruction for instructing screen transition. The control unit receives instruction information representing any of transition instructions, from the server, and validates an operation unit associated with a transition instruction represented by the received instruction information and transmits operation information representing that the validated operation unit is operated, to the server. The control unit receives new instruction information transmitted from the server, and validates an operation unit associated with a transition instruction represented by the new instruction information.

Abstract: A method for generating custom postscript printer description files, the method including obtaining paper type information, obtaining an original postscript printer description file, converting the paper type information into a postscript printer description format, inserting the converted paper type information into the original postscript printer description file to create a custom postscript printer description file, and storing the custom postscript printer definition file.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions which, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the processor to: transmit, to an image processing apparatus, identification information for identifying a login requestor; acquire account information transmitted from the image processing apparatus when the identification information is registered in the image processing apparatus; cause the information processing device to log in to a server using the account information; and perform at least one of: acquiring image data from the server and transmitting the image data and the identification information to the image processing apparatus; and transmitting an image reading request and the identification information to the image processing apparatus, acquiring image data from the image processing apparatus, and transmitting the image data acquired from the image processing apparatus, to the server.

Abstract: A print execution unit may convey a sheet in a second direction intersecting with a first direction, in a state in which the sheet is deformed into a corrugated shape along the first direction. A print control apparatus may generate corrected image data from input image data by performing a correction process using correction data, and supply the corrected image data to the print execution unit. The correction process may be performed such that a density of first-type printed partial images printed in first-type areas on a sheet is different from a density of second-type printed partial images printed in second-type areas on an assumption that the input image data represents an image having constant tone values and the sheet is conveyed in a flat state without deformation. The first-type areas and the second-type areas extend along the second direction and are alternately arranged along the first direction.

Abstract: A custom color toner production system includes a toner delivery system, a cartridge sealing system, a mixing system, and a packaging system. The toner delivery system includes selectively engageable fluid delivery lines for delivering toner of particular color to a cartridge as need for producing a custom color toner in response to an electronically submitted user request. Cartridge containing the unmixed delivered toner may be sealed by a sealing system, and blended using a resonant mixer to produce a custom color toner. The cartridge containing the mixed custom color toner may be packaged using a packaging system.