Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate an image corresponding to at least part of a plurality of pages included in the print data according to acquisition of the print data, a holding unit configured to hold the image generated by the generating unit into a storage, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain images of all pages to be printed among the pages included in the print data according to the print instruction from the user, wherein the obtaining unit obtains the image of the page of which the image is already generated by the generating unit among the pages to be printed from the storage, and generates, after acceptance of the print instruction, an image of the page of which an image is not generated by the generating unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a display, a reading unit configured to read a reference image formed on a test sheet by the image forming unit, wherein the reference image includes a mark corresponding to a reading order, a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form the reference image, cause the reading unit to execute a first reading operation, determine whether first read data is obtained, inform of a reading error if the first read data is not obtained in the first reading operation, cause the reading unit to execute a second reading operation, determine whether second read data is obtained, and inform of a reading error if the second read data is not obtained in the second reading operation, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust image forming positions based on the first read data and the second read data.

Abstract: An image processing chip and an image processing system are provided. The image processing chip includes a first image end, a second image end, an image processing block and a multiplexer. The first image end receives at least one first image data packet. The image processing block is used to convert the at least one first image data packet into at least one second image data packet. The multiplexer has a first input end coupled to the first image end, a second input end coupled to the image processing block, and an output end coupled to the second image end. When the image processing chip operates in a first mode, the multiplexer is coupled to the first input end and the output end to transmit the at least one first image data packet from the first image end to the second image through the multiplexer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display device that displays an input screen image and a touch-panel arranged on the display device, and has a trial copy function of producing, when instructed to produce multiple copies of a document, a copy or a copies to allow the user to confirm that the copy or copies are well. When the trial copy function is designated and a copy start key displayed on the input screen image is pressed, the image forming apparatus produces one copy or copies of the document, erases the copy start key from the input screen image, and displays a trial copy key, a trial end key and a balloon including help information. Since keys related to the trial copy are displayed in place of normally displayed keys, operation errors can be reduced and the user can easily execute the trial copy function.

Abstract: Regarding a Pull Scan function, a printing apparatus allows a user to select either employing a method for displaying a specific screen in using the Pull Scan function, or employing a method for permitting the use of the Pull Scan function even without displaying the specific screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a correction unit configured to execute first correction processing to be executed to bring reproduction characteristics of an image formed by an image forming unit close to a target value and second correction processing different from the first correction processing, and an adjustment unit configured to execute a plurality of adjustment processing including the second correction processing, wherein correction processing by the correction unit is set to be executed at a predetermined timing, and wherein in a case that correction processing by the correction unit is executed at the set timing after adjustment processing is executed by the adjustment unit, the image forming apparatus performs control not to execute the second correction processing included in the adjustment processing and to execute the second correction processing after executing the first correction processing by the correction unit.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first supporting portion, a sheet conveyance portion, an image reading portion, a second supporting portion, and an illumination portion. The image reading portion is configured to read an image of the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance portion. The second supporting portion is disposed below the first supporting portion and configured to support the sheet whose image has been read. The illumination portion is disposed further on an outside than a sheet supporting region of the second supporting portion in a width direction perpendicular to a sheet discharge direction, configured to illuminate the second supporting portion, and provided such that a light emission direction of the illumination portion is directed to the sheet supporting region.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling a roll-fed printing apparatus for printing images on at least one recording medium are disclosed. The roll-fed apparatus includes a print engine, a controller including a roll managing system for managing the printing of ripped images on the at least one recording medium.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a light applying unit that applies light from a light source to a recording medium, a detecting unit that detects the light reflected by the recording medium, a holding member that is movable in a first scanning direction of the light applying unit and holds a calibration member to which the light from the light applying unit is applied, a shaft member that extends in the first scanning direction through the holding member and guides the movement of the holding member in the first scanning direction, and a restricting member that extends in the first scanning direction and restricts rotation of the holding member about the shaft member.

Abstract: Image processing apparatuses, methods and storage mediums for use with same are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, an image processing apparatus makes a setting to use a storing unit as a decompression buffer and a compression buffer based on drawing data including compressed image data, and makes a setting not to use the storing unit as a decompression buffer but to use the storing unit as a compression buffer based on drawing data not including compressed image data.

Abstract: An information management control apparatus includes a storage unit, a transmission unit, and a permission unit. The storage unit stores a job including one of a pair of keys, with which both encryption and decryption are possible, and address information. The transmission unit encrypts a user ID of a login user by using the one of the keys and transmits the encrypted user ID through a communication unit in accordance with the address information, the user having been logged in in order to issue an instruction for executing the job. The permission unit permits execution of the job, in a case in which a user ID that has been encrypted by using the other of the keys and transmitted in response to the transmission is decrypted by using the one of the keys, if the user ID is the same as the user ID of the login user.

Abstract: A method and system for automating print system setup and distribution comprises at least one print system and a computer system comprising a processor, a data bus coupled to the processor, and a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer-usable medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for: collecting at least one incoming print job, analyzing the at least one incoming print job to determine at least one job characteristic, determining an optimal print engine solution according to a configuration of the at least one print system and the determined at least one job characteristic, notifying a user of the optimal print engine solution, and rendering the jobs.

Abstract: The first processing device includes a first communication unit for performing cryptographic communication and plaintext communication, a determination portion for determining whether to set the cryptographic communication, and a communication unit controller. The second processing device includes a second communication unit for performing the cryptographic communication and the plaintext communication with the first communication unit. The second communication unit includes a storage for storing, for each of other ends of communication, encryption key information necessary for encryption up to a predetermined upper limit. When performing the cryptographic communication, the second communication unit performs at least one of encryption and decryption based on an encryption key included in the encryption key information corresponding to the first processing device stored in the storage.

Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion device including: a photoelectric conversion element row including photoelectric conversion elements arranged in one direction which faces from one end to the other end; a substrate to which the photoelectric conversion element row is attached; a processing circuit attached to the substrate on an outer side than the one end of the photoelectric conversion element row in the one direction and configured to perform a process on output signals output from photoelectric conversion elements disposed on the one end side in the photoelectric conversion element row; and another processing circuit attached to the substrate on an outer side than the other end of the photoelectric conversion element row in the one direction and configured to perform a process on another output signals output from photoelectric conversion elements disposed on the other end side in the photoelectric conversion element row.

Abstract: Examples to facilitate facsimile communication are described herein. In an example, on receiving a communication error for a call session, values of communication parameters to be used for another call session, which is subsequent to the call session for which the communication error is received, may be determined. The communication parameter may be, for instance, a transmission rate and an error correction mode (ECM). The values of the communication parameters in the subsequent call session may be determined, based on values of these parameters in a previous call session(s), i.e., the call session for which the communication error is received. Further, a communication channel may be established using the determined values of the communication parameters.

Abstract: Provided is an image reading apparatus configured to recognize edge portions of an image of an original precisely without being influenced by the varying state of the four sides of the original. The image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit configured to read the original image by scanning the original, an edge determining unit configured to determine first edge locations at the left end and right end of the original image in a main scanning direction, an edge detector configured to detect a second edge location of the original image in a sub-scanning direction, a tilt expression calculator configured to calculate a linear expression that represents the amount of inclination of the original image with respect to the main scanning direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a member for use in forming an image, an acquiring unit, a scanning unit, and a control unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire first image information on the image formed on a recording material. The scanning unit is configured to scan the image formed on the recording material to acquire second image information. The control unit is configured to compare the first image information acquired by the acquiring unit with the second image information acquired by the scanning unit to determine a state of the member based on a comparison result.

Abstract: A target file includes: object data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a first color space; and an input-side profile including data for converting coordinate values from the first color space into a specific color space. A color conversion is executed onto object data to generate post-conversion data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a second color space. The executing color conversion includes executing judgment to judge, based on the input-side profile, which of first type post-conversion data generated through first type conversion using the input-side profile and an output-side profile, and second type post-conversion data generated through second-type conversion using prescribed data, should be used to output an image of the target file. The prescribed data is for conversion from the first color space into the second color space. The output-side profile contains data for conversion from the specific color space into the second color space.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first memory for temporarily storing therein image data output to an image forming unit; a data processing processor for reading the image data; a second memory for temporarily storing therein the image data; and a main processor for causing the data processing processor to sequentially read the image data, wherein the data processing processor includes: data transfer units; a transfer control unit; and a table, the main processor sets a start address and a size and instructs the transfer control unit to activate the data transfer units, the transfer control unit divides a size of image data and sets a start address and a size of divided image data, the data transfer units read corresponding image data and output it to the second memory, and the transfer control unit subsequently controls the data transfer units and notifies the transfer completion to the main processor.

Abstract: A method, and document scanner system, for correcting image values recorded by an optical document scanner with multiple color cameras arranged in a staggered configuration with overlap scan areas includes storing color correction values mapped to respective color index values, where a color correction value is computed from a color difference between a first color value and a second color value of the respective overlap sets, and correcting a third color value which is a color value from the second set of color image values by a color correction value which is looked up via a color index value determined from the third color value. Thereby color variations among staggered cameras are corrected.