Abstract: To use resources effectively and run appropriate processes in a configuration having multiple communication interfaces, a print control processor 201 switches a target buffer for processing data between a first receive buffer 24 that stores data received from a POS terminal 10, and a second receive buffer 26 that stores data received from a tablet terminal 13. The print control processor 201 controls a print mechanism 21 based on data stored in the receive buffer that is currently selected as the target buffer, changes the target buffer selection from the first receive buffer 24 to the second receive buffer 26 when control of the print mechanism 21 based on receipt print data stored in the first receive buffer 24 goes to a specific control state, and resets the target buffer selection to the first receive buffer 24 when control of the print mechanism based on the data stored in the second receive buffer 26 ends.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs processing for registering information about a print controller communicably connected to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus performs control to display on an operation panel a display item related to a print controller about which information is registered by the registration processing and which is able to communicate with the image processing apparatus, and not to display on the operation panel a display item related to a print controller about which information is registered by the registration processing and which is not able to communicate with the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first device configured to manage a log, and a second device coupled to the first device. The information processing system includes a first determination unit configured to detect an error occurring in the first device or the second device, and determine whether the detected error is caused by the first device; a second determination unit configured to determine whether log information including a log of the error can be saved in the first device before restarting the first device, when the first determination unit determines that the error is caused by the first device; and a saving unit configured to save the log information in the first device after restarting the first device, when the second determination unit determines that the log information cannot be saved in the first device before restarting the first device.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a printing system. The printing system includes a geographic location server on a network that has access to a geographic location database. The printing system also includes a user profile server that has access to a user profile database. The printing system also includes a mobile client device that can communicate with the geographic location server and the user profile server and is associated with a user profile included in the user profile database. The geographic location server and the user profile server cooperatively provide print data when the mobile client device is within a threshold distance of a geographic position of one geographic location stored within the geographic location database. The print data is based on one location-based artifact of the geographic location and user profile data, and is printed by a printing device.

Abstract: An image processing system where an image processing apparatus that includes an image data transmitting function and a mobile terminal that includes an electronic mail transmitting function operate to link with each other, the image processing apparatus including: a startup instruction transmitting unit; an image data acquiring unit; a transmission destination designation information acquiring unit; and an image data transmitting unit, and the mobile terminal including: an electronic mail function starting unit that starts up the electronic mail transmitting function and causes a predetermined display unit to display address information; a transmission destination designation information transmitting unit that receives an operation of designating a transmission destination address among the address information and transmit the transmission destination designation information to the image processing apparatus; and an attached file output unit that outputs the image data as an attached file of an electronic mai

Abstract: A method of setting a printing option through a touch input includes displaying a preview, which includes a virtual sheet of paper and thumbnails corresponding to content to be printed, on a touch screen of a mobile device, determining a printing option by receiving and analyzing a touch input on the virtual sheet of paper and the thumbnails, and applying the determined printing option to the preview.

Abstract: In a multifunction peripheral (MFP) including an operation key for setting a folder of an authenticated user as an address of image data, setting received authentication information or setting pre-registered authentication information that has been associated with a user is selected, and when the operation key is operated, the authentication information is set according to the selected content. The image data is then processed using the set authentication information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with USB sockets on front and back sides, and includes a determining unit for determining whether or not a USB device inserted to a front side USB socket 184 is a function enhancement device, and a control unit making, when it is determined by the determining unit that a function enhancement device is inserted to the front side USB socket 184, the USB device unusable and making, when it is determined that a USB device other than the function enhancement device is inserted, the USB device usable. Thus, it is possible to prevent a USB wireless LAN adapter or the like from being used constantly connected to the front side USB socket and thereby to reduce possibility of USB wireless LAN adapter of being damaged or removed.

Abstract: A power control device receiving supply of power from a power source, the power control device including: a power accumulator accumulating a part of power from the power source; a first voltage converter receiving power from the power source and the power accumulator, performing voltage conversion to a first target voltage, and supplying power with the first target voltage to a first load; a second voltage converter receiving power from the first voltage converter, performing voltage conversion to a second target voltage, and supplying power with the second target voltage to a second load; a power source monitor monitoring power from the power source; and a power controller lowering the first target voltage to a level that the second voltage converter is capable of converting to the second target voltage when the power source monitor detects that the supply of power from the power source has stopped.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of adding and deleting applications, the apparatus comprising: a designating unit configured to designate an application and a file to be deleted; and a deleting unit configured to delete a designated file associated with the application designated by the designating unit.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus according to this invention, a plurality of pieces of batch setting information each configured by a plurality of pieces of print setting information are registered in advance. A setting of print setting information, use of which is inhibited, of the plurality of pieces of print setting information is accepted. Batch setting information including the print setting information, use of which is inhibited, is specified from the plurality of pieces of batch setting information. Then, a setting screen which allows the user to select pieces of non-specified batch setting information, and does not allow the user to select the specified batch setting information is displayed.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a printing device, a system, and a method. The printing device according to one embodiment includes a chassis substantially housing a sheet feeder, a sheet conveyor, and a print applicator; a microphone externally mounted to the chassis for converting audio signals sensed by the microphone external to the printing device to a raw analog electrical signal; an analog low-pass filter for filtering out high frequency harmonics from the raw analog electrical signal to result in a filtered electrical signal; a controller comprising an analog-to-digital port, a processor, and a memory. The controller receives the filtered electrical signal at the analog-to-digital port and samples the filtered electrical signal at a sample rate of at least twice a bandwidth of the filtered analog electrical signal to result in a sampled signal clip. The controller determines a time duration of a portion of the sampled signal clip associated with a print cycle event.

Abstract: A cell counting device for counting the number of cells in a sample includes: an accommodation portion that accommodates, in a removable manner, at least a part of a holding member for holding the sample; and a display unit configured to display information including a result of counting of the number of cells. The display unit has a screen inclined with respect to a bottom of the cell counting device. The bottom is configured to be in contact with a placement surface on which the cell counting device is placed. The display unit is provided between the accommodation portion and the bottom.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, an image scanning device scans a document image of a document. An image type identifying unit identifies a type of the scanned document image. An operation detecting unit detects an image quality adjustment operation by a user. A preview processing unit selects one of whole preview displaying and partial preview displaying on the basis of the type of the document image and a type of the image quality adjustment operation, and performs the selected whole preview displaying or partial preview displaying. The whole preview displaying indicates a whole of the document image, and the partial preview displaying indicates a part of the document image at a higher resolution than a resolution of the whole preview displaying. An image processing unit performs image quality adjustment of the document image according to the detected image quality adjustment operation.

Abstract: An image processing system for sequentially executing processes includes a process execution control apparatus to control an execution of the processes, and an image generation-output control apparatus to control an execution of image generation-output operation. The process execution control apparatus includes a control-side drawing information generator to generate drawing information to be referred when an image forming apparatus performs the image generation-output operation. The image generation-output control apparatus includes an output-side drawing information generator corresponding to the control-side drawing information generator. The control-side drawing information generator excludes an execution result of a designated process item from execution results of a plurality of process items, to be executed for generating the drawing information, to generate designated-information-excluded image information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus 176 capable of easy log-in to a desired cloud service includes a print engine communicable with a cloud server 170 for printing a print job received from cloud server 170, a reader/writer 174 capable of proximity communication with a portable terminal 172, and a log-in executing device receiving log-in information to cloud server 170 from portable terminal 172 through reader/writer 174, for executing the log-in process to cloud server 170 using the log-in information.

Abstract: A method and related apparatus for processing print jobs, which automatically edits both the document to be printed and the job ticket based on a state or content of the document itself, without user intervention, to achieve certain printing effects such as inserting tab sheets of slip sheets, removing pages, inserting annotations, changing finishing settings, etc. In one specific example, by checking whether each page includes a specific key phrase or is associated with a specific bookmark, the document and the job ticket are automatically edited so that a tab sheet or slip sheet is inserted at a corresponding position. A program is also provided to emulate the result of the editing the print job and original document.

Abstract: Image plane registration errors are corrected for a multi-channel printing system that prints on a continuous web of media. Nominal in-track line spacing are defined for each image plane, and are used to print lines of image data for each image plane. An in-track registration error is measured for a misregistered image plane in the printed image, and is used to determine an adjusted in-track line spacing that will bring the misregistered image plane back into registration in the in-track direction over a predefined correction time interval. Additional image data is then printed using the adjusted in-track line spacing during the correction time interval, after which image data is printed using a new in-track line spacing that is different from the adjusted in-track line spacing.

Abstract: An embodiment is a method of presenting options for printing a document. A computing system receives data descriptive of a document to be printed. The computing system identifies one or more preview thumbnail profiles indicative of graphical parameters for rendering a portion of the document to be printed into preview thumbnail images. The computing system renders a portion of the document to be printed, based at least in part on the graphical parameters of the one or more preview thumbnail profiles, to generate one or more preview thumbnail images. The computing system displays the one or more preview thumbnail images on a printer driver user interface in conjunction with one or more printing options. The preview thumbnail images display predicted appearances of the portion of the document corresponding to the printing options.

Abstract: According to a print control apparatus and a method of controlling the same of the present invention, when the printing apparatus is in a power saving state, when an instruction for registering in the printing apparatus sheet information stored in a storage unit in association with a sheet feeder of the printing apparatus is received, the sheet information is registered in a list, and when the printing apparatus returns from the power saving state, control is performed so that sheet information registered in the list is transmitted to the printing apparatus.