Abstract: A printer includes a wireless communication controller, a memory configured to store first terminal information, in which the first information terminal wirelessly connected to the printer, a printing unit, and a controller configured to perform packet output processing of periodically outputting a first packet, packet acquisition processing of acquiring a second packet, the second packet including second terminal information of a second information terminal that receives the first packet, information determination processing of determining whether the second terminal information is the first terminal information stored in the memory, request processing of making a request for the print data from the second information terminal in a case where it is determined that the second terminal information is the first terminal information, and printing processing of causing the printing unit to print the print data obtained from the second information terminal in response to the request.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that includes a sheet feeding unit and forms an image on a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit. Electronic data item is acquired from a cloud service that manages a plurality of electronic data items. A sheet size is extracted from the electronic data item. An image of the electronic data item is formed on a sheet having the extracted sheet size. In a case where predetermined attribute information indicating a job using the cloud service is included in the electronic data item, the image of the electronic data item, appropriate to a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit, is formed on the fed sheet.

Abstract: The first server issues, in response to an issuance request, identification information that corresponds to a printing apparatus and is used for registration processing to use the printing apparatus from a messaging application, and manages first information of the printing apparatus and the identification information, and the second server manages the first information of the printing apparatus and second information of the messaging application and registers the second information of the messaging application so that the printing apparatus corresponding to the identification information from the messaging application can be used if the identification information is determined to be valid by referring to information managed by the first server when the identification information is input via the messaging application, wherein the first server issues, for one printing apparatus, a different piece of identification information for each issuance request.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores a plurality of setting values prepared for making a setting of the information processing apparatus, receives selection of one item from a user from among a plurality of items associated with a plurality of use environments, as a use environment corresponding to a first communication interface, receives selection of one item from a user from among a plurality of items associated with the plurality of use environments, as a use environment corresponding to a second communication interface, and makes a setting based on a first setting value group that is included in the plurality of setting values and corresponds to an environment selected as a use environment corresponding to the first communication interface, and a second setting value group that is included in the plurality of setting values and corresponds to an environment selected as a use environment corresponding to the second communication interface.

Abstract: A system for remote authentication accesses a scanned copy of a first document, images, and signatures associated with a requesting user, converts the scanned copy to a digital document, determines a subject matter associated with the first document based on an analysis of the digital document by natural language processing and machine-learning models, selects a first authenticator from multiple authenticators based on the subject matter, a timestamp of the authentication session, and an authenticator profile of the first authenticator, establishes a video communication session between the first authenticator and the requesting user via a display screen via networks, and instructs a printer to generate a physical copy of an authenticated first document including a first authentication certificate of the first authenticator upon determining the first document is authenticated by the first authenticator.

Abstract: A multi-function peripheral (MFP) manages data corresponding to a print job received from an outside, and has a plurality of output management functions including at least a first output management function and a second output management function different from the first output management function as output management functions of outputting the managed data in accordance with an operation performed by a user. The MFP sets which output management function of the plurality of output management functions handles a print job that satisfies a predetermined condition based on a user operation and, in a case where a print job that satisfies the predetermined condition is received, performs control such that data corresponding to the received print job is managed in association with the set output management function.

Abstract: A method for correcting distortion in image printing, the method includes receiving a digital image (200, 306, 376, 500, 600, 700, 810) acquired from a printed image. Based on the digital image (200, 306, 376, 500, 600, 700, 810), a geometric distortion in the printed image is estimated. One or more pixel locations (228, 504, 506, 514, 610, 620, 630, 640, 712, 716, 722, 724) are calculated, such that, when one or more dummy pixels (232, 234) are implanted therein, compensate for the estimated geometric distortion. The geometric distortion is corrected in a subsequent digital image to be printed, by implanting the one or more dummy pixels (232, 234) at the one or more calculated pixel locations (228, 504, 506, 514, 610, 620, 630, 640, 712, 716, 722, 724) in the subsequent digital image. The subsequent digital image having the corrected geometric distortion is printed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a non-transitory storage medium, a computer program is recorded so that a computer of an image forming apparatus executes a code acquisition step, a transmission step, an authority setting acquisition step, and a reflection step. The code acquisition step is to acquire a code for acquiring authority setting information including execution authority indicating a function to be permitted to use among functions of the image forming apparatus. The transmission step is to transmit the acquired code to a server that issued the code. The authority setting acquisition step is to acquire the authority setting information from the server. The reflection step is to reflect the acquired authority setting information in the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that includes mechanisms for registering strings, extracting text information from received job data, determining a job availability of the received job data based on a comparison of the extracted text information with the registered strings, associating a result of the determination of job availability with the received job data and storing the result of the determination of job availability and the received job data; and controlling an execution of the received job data based on the result of the determination of job availability, in response to receiving an execution instruction of the received job data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a storage printing process that includes storing print data in a dedicated memory, which is a portable memory set as a storage destination to store the print data in the storage printing process when attached to a dedicated port among a plurality of ports, and causing a print engine to perform printing according to the print data stored in the dedicated memory in response to an operation received via a user interface, prior to the storage printing process, set one of the plurality of ports as the dedicated port, in response to a portable memory being attached to a port, determine whether the portable memory is the dedicated memory and the port is the dedicated port, and provide a notification when determining that the portable memory is the dedicated memory but the port is not the dedicated port.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a network connection configuration method and an apparatus thereof.

Abstract: A print setting extension application is provided to a client terminal as an application used for extending a function of a printer driver that issues a print job used for performing printing at a printer registered in a cloud print server via the cloud print server that registers a printer in accordance with an instruction transmitted when a user performs an operation on the printer side. The print setting extension application issues, as a print job for a cloud print, a print job that requires entry of a password on the printer side when printing is performed.

Abstract: A printing system comprises a printing apparatus, a printing service, and an information processing apparatus. The printing service registers the printing apparatus and stores a print job received from the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits, to the printing service, a print job of a logged-in user in which a printing apparatus is designated. The printing apparatus stores a user of the printing service in association with a user of the printing apparatus, fetches a print job of a user associated with a logged-in user stored in the printing service, and executes printing. A guest user of the printing service is associated with a guest user of the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus does not execute printing for a print job of the guest user for which a password has not been set.

Abstract: To control an image forming apparatus using a service on a network, an information terminal performs two-factor authentication and acquires authentication information through the two-factor authentication so that the image forming apparatus accesses the service.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses and an information terminal that communicates with the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The information terminal comprises a processor configured to: communicate with the image forming apparatus, and transmit first information relating to a job to the image forming apparatus, receive certification information corresponding to the first information from the image forming apparatus, output the received certification information, and instruct the image forming apparatus to execute the job in response to receiving, from the image forming apparatus, transmission start information associated with the job.

Abstract: A processing method and system of cloud broadcasting and printing data, relating to the field of information security. When receiving a service obtaining request, a server processes first data in the service obtaining request into printing and broadcasting data, processes the printing and broadcasting data into first verifying data and then sends the first verifying data to a cloud broadcasting and printing service platform. The cloud broadcasting and printing service platform processes the first verifying data into second verifying data and then sends the second verifying data to a cloud broadcasting and printing all-in-one machine. The cloud broadcasting and printing all-in-one machine processes the second verifying data into printing and broadcasting data, and extracts printing information and broadcasting information from the printing and broadcasting data at a time and performs broadcasting and printing respectively.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image reading device having a highly-accurate structure that enables an easy increase in depth of field, that is, improvement in the depth of the field, without need for a change in basic characteristics of lenses. An overlap preventer (5) disposed between a lens array (1) and a sensor element array (3) to prevent overlap of images formed by lenses (2) is included. A slit section (5) that is the overlap preventer (5) includes multiple slit plates (7) arranged in a main scanning direction and extending in a sub-scanning direction to partition off a space, and the slit plates (7) are fixed to fixing plates (13).

Abstract: A system includes an external apparatus, a server having an authentication function, and an image processing apparatus that communicate with each other via a network. The system performs user authentication in the server, for a user using the system, acquires apparatus information of the external apparatus from a printing request received from the external apparatus, verifies the apparatus information in the server, and executes printing in the image processing apparatus, based on the printing request from an external apparatus corresponding to the successfully verified apparatus information, in a case where the user authentication and the verification for the external apparatus are successful.

Abstract: A server with which a first printing apparatus and a second printing apparatus communicate via a network, includes a reception unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives first information from the first printing apparatus and receives second information different from the first information from the second printing apparatus. The transmission unit transmits, to the first printing apparatus, one or a plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the first information for logging in the first printing apparatus, and transmits, to the second printing apparatus, one or a plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the second information for logging in the second printing apparatus that includes at least one type different from the one or plurality of types of user authentication methods corresponding to the first information.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a print process on print media of plural pages, based on print data for the plural pages, acquire reprinted pages by performing a reprint process on separate print media for defective pages for which a result of the print process is defective, with print settings determined according to an arrangement posture of excellent pages, for which a result of the print process is excellent, on a reuse tray, and output the excellent pages transported from the reuse tray and the reprinted pages together.