Abstract: An image forming apparatus, provided with an image forming part that performs an image formation on each of individual medium pieces that are attached to a long base sheet with specified gaps wherein a long medium is configured with the long base sheet and the medium pieces, a length of the gaps being defined as a gap length, a carrying part that carries the long medium to the image forming part in a medium carrying direction, a cutting part that cuts the long medium that is being carried by the carrying part, and a cut position determining part that determines a cut position where the long medium is cut by the cutting part, the cut position being located at one of the gaps, wherein the cut position determining part changes the cut position according to the gap length.

Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus executes the steps of: generating a display image based on a page from a server; displaying the display image; generating print data for printing the display image; identifying whether a first display image is of the first kind; and determining whether an operation for enlarging or reducing the first display image is accepted. The print data generating step includes the steps of: generating print data for printing a second display image of the second kind corresponding to the first display image, if the first display image is of the first kind, or if the first display image is not of the first kind and an operation for enlarging or reducing is not accepted; and generating print data for printing the first display image if the first display image is not of the first kind and an operation for enlarging or reducing is accepted.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first unit, which has a support surface and a first reading unit, and a second unit mounted to the first unit. The second unit includes a conveyor for conveying a sheet along a predetermined conveyance path, a feeder unit and a discharge unit. The conveyor includes a first conveyance roller and a separation piece. The first conveyance roller and the separation piece and the first reading unit stopped at a stop position are arranged at positions at which arrangement ranges thereof overlap with each other with respect to a direction parallel with the support surface and orthogonal to an axis line becoming a rotation center of the first conveyance roller, as seen from a direction parallel with the axis line of the first conveyance roller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display and a touch panel, and is provided with a normal mode in which processing is performed every time operation is performed with the touch panel and a play back mode in which processing is performed on the basis of recording of the operation, and the image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a gesture represented by a series of touch events, store gesture log data and touch event log data to a storage unit, and determine display control processing. In the normal mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture or an object. In the play back mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture log data or the touch event log data. The determined display control processing is executed.

Abstract: An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.

Abstract: When it is judged that a predetermined operation for eliminating a cause for stopping a job is being executed, a following job is restricted from being executed prior to a stopped job.

Abstract: A facsimile apparatus is configured execute, as a reception method, a direct-print reception or a memory reception; switch the reception method from the direct-print reception to the memory reception when an instruction to execute a print job is received when the direct-print reception being executed; execute interruption printing by causing the printing device to print images in accordance with the print job after the reception method is switched to the memory reception; determine whether available capacity of the storage device used in the memory reception is less than a threshold value when the memory reception is being executed; stop the interruption printing when the available capacity of the storage device is less than the threshold value; and execute a particular printing process to print the facsimile data in the storage device and release the storage area corresponding to the facsimile data representing the printed image after the interruption printing is stopped.

Abstract: An application in an image processing apparatus presents information about ink installed in a peripheral device, such as the shape, color, size, arrangement direction, and a remaining ink level of an ink tank, in a visually realistic manner using accurate graphics. The image processing apparatus acquires ink information about, in particular, a remaining ink level, arrangement direction, and the order of the arrangement of the ink tank, and displays the information about the peripheral device in a user interface of the application using the acquired ink information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an obtainment unit that obtains an application-related job from a management apparatus; a control unit that controls an application for the information processing apparatus in accordance with the obtained job; and a setting unit that changes, along with the control by the control unit, at least one of settings of the information processing apparatus and settings of the application in accordance with setting information included in the obtained job, wherein in a case where the obtained job represents an instruction to install the application, the control unit obtains, from the distribution apparatus, an application file and a license file that correspond to the application designated by the job, and installs the application using the application file and the license file.

Abstract: An augmented reality operation system includes: an image-taking device, a display device, an MFP, an augmented reality processing section displaying, on the display device, a synthetic image obtained by synthesizing an operation image illustrating an operation section for operating the MFP with a taken image taken by the image-taking device, and an operation reception section receiving operation on the operation section in the operation image. The operation reception section, based on a position (on the synthetic image) of a hand taken by the image-taking device and a position of the operation section on the synthetic image, receives the operation on the operation section.

Abstract: A network printing system includes user devices, printing devices, a print server, and a logon server. The print server includes a print queue arranged to store print jobs received from the user devices and to send stored print jobs to the printing devices. The logon server is arranged to store logon details for users of the user devices and to store printer information for the users. The print server is arranged to select a printing device to which to send a print job stored in the queue based on the printer information stored in the logon server for the user of the user device from which the print job originated.

Abstract: Upon completion of print data transmission, the host terminal sends to a network printer a finish command via a print port and further a forced disconnection request command via another communication port. If the finish command is lost due to a network failure, the network printer forcibly disconnects the host terminal from the print port of the network printer in response to the forced disconnection request command, thereby allowing the other host terminals to use the network printer without waiting the elapse of the time-out period.

Abstract: A mobile device includes an operation circuit, a display, an operation screen display, and a function execution circuit. The operation screen display displays an operation screen to operate the image forming apparatus on the display. The function execution circuit performs a function other than a function executable by the image forming apparatus alone and a specific function performed using the image forming apparatus. The function execution circuit performs the specific function according to an operation to an operation part in the operation screen displayed on the display via the operation circuit.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a portable terminal device and an image forming apparatus. The portable terminal device includes a job information acquisition circuit, an augmented reality circuit, and a job moving circuit. The job information acquisition circuit acquires job information indicative of the print job executed by the image forming apparatus. The augmented reality circuit causes a display device to display a composite image where a job information image based on the job information acquired by the job information acquisition circuit is combined on a location corresponding to the image forming apparatus on a captured image captured by an imaging device. The job moving circuit moves the print job between the plurality of image forming apparatuses corresponding to an operation input by an input device with respect to the job information image displayed on the display device by the augmented reality circuit.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a paper sheet cassette stores a bunch of paper sheets to be fed. A media sensor unit measures a thickness and a surface roughness of one paper sheet fed and transported from the paper sheet cassette. A residual sheet amount sensor detects a residual amount of the paper sheets in the paper sheet cassette. A residual sheet number estimating unit estimates the number of residual paper sheets in the paper sheet cassette on the basis of (a) a thickness of a bunch of the paper sheet in the paper sheet cassette, the thickness of the bunch corresponding to the residual amount detected by the residual sheet amount sensor and (b) the thickness of the one sheet and the surface roughness of the one sheet measured by the media sensor unit.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and a method for dispensing printed labels from a printer. The printed labels may be prepared on a need basis, such that each printed label is either held in the apparatus or ejected from the apparatus. Some advantages of the apparatus and method include prolonging a lifespan for a print head, and minimization of transition error on a media used for printing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a character distinguishing unit, a character string extraction unit, a character specifying unit, a determination unit, an overwrite image data generation unit, and a control unit. The overwrite image data generation unit generates, if it is determined by the determination unit that there is a plurality of matches, overwrite image data that has been overwritten such that a character specified by the character specifying unit is indistinguishable as a character. The control unit performs control using the overwrite image data generated by the overwrite image data generation unit so as to cause a printing unit to perform printing on a printed material set in a printed material setting unit.

Abstract: A printing device for implementing printing on a medium includes a detection unit and a control unit. The detection unit is configured to detect loading of the medium into the printing device and withdrawal of the medium from the printing device. The control unit is configured to indicate contents displayed on a display screen. The control unit is further configured to generate a first signal of displaying a first screen on the display screen when the detection unit detects that the medium has been withdrawn from the printing device, and generate a second signal of displaying a second screen different from the first screen on the display screen when the detection unit detects that the medium has been loaded into the printing device.

Abstract: The size of text printed based on font data can be adjusted. A printer has: a print unit that prints an image on a recording medium; a storage unit that stores a font table containing font data for characters, and stores adjustment ratio information specifying a ratio used to scale the size of the font data stored in the font table; a first communication unit that receives print instruction data including information specifying a character; a second communication unit that receives a change instruction instructing changing a ratio specified by the adjustment ratio information; and a control unit that scales the font data of the specified character at the ratio specified by the adjustment ratio information, and controls the print unit to print the character based on the scaled font data.

Abstract: A document printing system may include a print engine, a controller coupled to the print engine and a communication port in electrical communication with the controller. The communication port can read a portable memory device, which stores an electronic secure file for authorizing the print engine. The portable memory device may store data such as the device identification code, the vendor identification code, the creation date for the electronic secure file. The electronic secure file may also store the device identification code, the vendor identification code, the creation date for the file itself, as well as a balance amount. The system may authorize a print engine by comparing the data in the electronic secure file and data stored on the portable memory device. If the comparison of data finds a mismatch, the system may determine that the print engine is not authorized; or that the service is authorized if otherwise.