Abstract: A printing apparatus prints on print media including a paper medium and a special print medium other than the paper medium. The printing apparatus includes an analysis unit that analyzes a print job, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the print job is a job to cause execution of printing on the special print medium, based on a result of analysis by the analysis unit. Based on the determination by the determination unit that the print job is the job to cause execution of printing on the special print medium, an operation manual in a case of printing on the special print medium is printed on the paper medium. After the operation manual is printed, the printing on the special print medium is executed based on a premise that a prescribed operation is carried out by a user.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus communicable with an information processing apparatus includes a display and one or multiple processors configured to transmit a request for information and arrangement of buttons to be displayed on the display to the information processing apparatus; to receive the information and the arrangement of the plurality of buttons, transmitted by the information processing apparatus in accordance with the transmitted request; to cause the display to display the buttons in accordance with the received information and the received arrangement of the buttons; to cause, when at least one of the information and the arrangement of the buttons is not received, the display to display a screen based on information and arrangement of buttons stored in the image processing apparatus before the acquisition request is transmitted.

Abstract: A label issuing system includes a label issuing apparatus and a label printer. The label issuing apparatus includes a printer interface and a processor. The processor is configured to generate print data for an image including a first region with first information and a second region with a first code symbol and a second code symbol each representing the first information but being of different sizes. The processor controls the printer interface to transmit the print data to the label printer. The label printer is connectable to the printer interface and configured to print the image on a label based on the print data received through the printer interface symbol.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus 1 (a) displays a visible code in which network identification information of the image forming apparatus 1 is encoded and a function code corresponding to a function of the image forming apparatus 1, (b) transmits function designation screen data to the portable terminal device 2 connected by using the network identification information, (c) receives a function code input to a function designation screen based on the function designation screen data from the portable terminal device 2 via a network, (d) determines whether the received function code matches the displayed function code or not, (e1) transmits operation screen data corresponding to the function code to the portable terminal device 2 via the network when both match, and (e2) does not transmit operation screen data to the portable terminal device 2 when both do not match.

Abstract: Provided are embodiments of a method for performing automatic analysis of cross-sections of micro-channels. Embodiments includes receiving tomography scan data, aligning the tomography scan data, and extracting channels from a slice of the tomography scan data to create an isolated slice of the extracted channel. Embodiments also include determining surface voxels for the extracted channels, and determining an area defined within the surface voxels for each of the extracted channels. Embodiments include determining a contribution of the surface voxels for each of the extracted channels to the cross-section of the extracted channels, and outputting cross-section information based on the contribution of the surface voxels. Also provided are embodiments of a system for performing automatic analysis of cross-sections of micro-channels.

Abstract: A management device is configured to perform collecting a plurality of print logs respectively generated by a plurality of printers. Each of the plurality of print logs contains print amount information and first category information indicating a category of the print amount information, The management device is further configured to identify a category represented by the first category information by referring to a first database, extracting the print amount information from the plurality of print logs collected in the collecting, and generate output data based on the print amount information to output the same.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one controller configured to store first log information in a first storage area and store second log information in a second storage area upon occurrence of an event. The first log information is deleted to store log information about occurrence of a new event in the first storage area. The second log information is not deleted to store log information about occurrence of a new event in the second storage area.

Abstract: A communication device may: comprise an output unit configured to output first information obtained by using a first public key in a memory in a case where a predetermined instruction is inputted to the communication device; after the first information has been outputted, receive an authentication request in which the first public key is used from a terminal device; send an authentication response to the terminal device; establish a wireless connection between the communication device and an external device; and in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied after the first information has been outputted, create a second public key different from the first public key and store the second public key in the memory. In a case where the predetermined instruction is inputted to the communication device again, the output unit may be configured to output second information obtained by using the second public key in the memory.

Abstract: A printer includes: a printing section; a transport belt that transports a print medium; a camera that detects both end portions in an intersecting direction that intersects a transport direction of the print medium among end portions of the print medium placed on the transport belt; and a control section that causes the printing section to execute printing based on print data while one end portion of the both end portions detected by the camera is set as a print start position and a distance from the one end portion to the other end portion is set as a width of the print medium.

Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosures, when receiving an enabling request of a cloud cooperation function, a controller of an MFP notifies a user using an LCD module and change its state to an approval waiting state. When an approval operation by a user is confirmed, the MFP shifts access permission state and notifies a mobile terminal of the fact. When a constant connection between the MFP and a server is established, the MFP transmits a creation request for creating a server access token to the server. Then, the MFP receives the server access toke and transmits the same to the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A control board configured to be mountable to a first image forming apparatus and to a second image forming apparatus of a type different from a type of the first image forming apparatus, the first image forming apparatus including a first load, the second image forming apparatus including a second load having a function different from a function of the first load. The control board comprising a connector to which the first load is to be connected in a case where the control board is mounted to the first image forming apparatus, and to which the second load is to be connected in a case where the control board is mounted to the second image forming apparatus, a common drive circuit configured to drive the first load and the second load via the connector, and one or more processors.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining an array of sorted identifiers to be stored in a designated portion of a memory of a given computing system, determining a segment size for splitting elements of the array into a plurality of segments, splitting the array into the plurality of segments based at least in part on the determined segment size, and compressing the plurality of segments to create a plurality of compressed segments. The method also includes generating a balanced binary search tree comprising a plurality of nodes each identifying a range of elements of the array corresponding to a given one of the segments and comprising a pointer to a given compressed segment corresponding to the given segment. The method further includes maintaining the balanced binary search tree and the compressed segments in the designated portion of the memory, and processing queries to the array utilizing the balanced binary search tree.

Abstract: In an environment that comprises a facsimile server and a plurality of document transport modules, implementing a document queue; placing documents received at the facsimile server in the document queue; allocating document flows based on a resource utilization of the facsimile server to create a set of allocated document flows, each document flow in set of allocated document flows associated with at least one document transport module from the plurality of document transport modules; retrieving a document from the document queue using a document and providing the document to a document transport module associated with the document flow; and signaling the document transport module to send the document. The document transport module is responsive to the signal to route the document to target selected from a plurality of targets, the plurality of targets including a plurality of transports.

Abstract: A color expression conversion apparatus includes a color expression conversion rule storage unit that stores a rule for converting a textual expression of a specific color into another textual expression, and a color expression conversion control unit that converts a textual expression of a color included in document data into another textual expression in accordance with the rule.

Abstract: A printing apparatus that prints an image on a sheet includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes instructions, of the set of instructions, to cause the printing apparatus to perform operations including receiving a print job for instructing printing of a plurality of pages, in which a plurality of copies, each including one or more pages, is included, determining a number of copies based on a number of pages in the plurality of pages and attribution information indicating a number of pages per a set of pages to be printed, and displaying a screen that includes information indicating the determined number of copies.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, to communicate with an image forming apparatus having a predetermined sheet feeding unit, includes a selection unit and a setting unit. The selection unit selects one storage method at least from among a first and second sheet information storage method. The setting unit executes a setting, based on the selected one storage method, for the predetermined sheet feeding unit. In the first sheet information storage method and after the sheet information is set for the predetermined sheet feeding unit, the setting of the sheet information is not cancelled when an absence of a sheet on the predetermined sheet feeding unit is detected. In the second sheet information storage method and after the sheet information is set for the predetermined sheet feeding unit, the setting of the sheet information is cancelled when an absence of a sheet on the predetermined sheet feeding unit is detected.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to perform an obtaining process, an analyzing process, and an extracting process. In the obtaining process, the computer obtains a radiographic moving image showing a motion of a specific part of an examinee. In the analyzing process, the computer analyzes the radiographic moving image obtained in the obtaining process. In the extracting process, the computer extracts, among frames constituting the radiographic moving image, a specific frame that visibly shows a detection target in the specific part, based on a result of analyzing a dynamic state of the specific part in the analyzing process.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a receiver and a switcher. The receiver receives data for executing a function of storing specific data in a preset private box. The switcher switches between first and second register modes when the function to be executed by using the data received by the receiver is copied into the image forming device. The first register mode is a mode in which a private box is manually registered in the image forming device. The second register mode is a mode in which a private box is automatically registered in the image forming device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which an external apparatus is connected includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, and a power supply device configured to supply power to the image forming apparatus and the external apparatus. In a case where a value of an alternating current voltage input to the power supply device is a first value, the power supply device supplies first power to the external apparatus. In a case where the value of the alternating current voltage is a second value smaller than the first value, the power supply device supplies second power smaller than the first power to the external apparatus.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a setting unit that makes authentication print settings such that when authentication information is inputted after image data is received, printing is executed based on the image data; and a transfer unit that, when the image data is received with the authentication print settings, in response to input of the authentication information, transfers the image data to a different apparatus, and when the image data is received without the authentication print settings, transfers the image data to the different apparatus regardless of input of the authentication information.