Abstract: An image forming device is configured to form an image on sheet-type medium including a rolled-type medium and a plurality of sheet-type media. The image forming device comprises a first medium container configured to accommodate the rolled-type medium by winding a long sheet-type medium in a roll, a second medium container configured to accommodate the plurality of sheet-type media in a stacked manner, a medium conveyer, an image forming device configured to form an image on the sheet-type medium, a cutting device configured to cut the rolled-type medium, and a controller. The medium conveyer conveys the plurality of sheet-type media accommodated in the second medium container even in a case where an error occurs in an operation related to printing on the rolled-type medium accommodated in the first medium container.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a medium accommodating part, an image forming engine, a discharge part, a medium conveyer configured to convey a medium from the medium accommodating part to the image forming engine and to the discharge part, a medium holder configured to hold the medium discharged to the discharge part, and a controller. The controller selects a first discharge mode for causing the medium holder to continue to hold the medium when a holding condition is satisfied or a second discharge mode for causing the medium holder not to hold the medium or to hold the medium for a prescribed period and then release the medium. The holding condition includes at least one of a first condition being that material of the medium does not correspond to specific materials and a second condition being that a medium length is less than a first threshold value.

Abstract: A management system includes: a consuming device and a server. At least one of the consuming device and the server is configured to perform: a delivery requesting process; an obtaining process; a determination process; and a notification process. The delivery requesting process includes issuing a delivery request for a new contract consumable. The obtaining process includes obtaining delivery information and provision information. The delivery information indicates a delivery status of the new contract consumable. The provision information indicates a provision status of the new contract consumable that has been delivered. The determination process includes determining whether an unused contract consumable that has been delivered exists based on the delivery information and the provision information.

Abstract: A controller of an image forming device receives user-identification information through a user interface or from an external device. The controller performs a parameter obtaining process including obtaining a plurality of setting parameters each of which has a corresponding value. Here, the controller obtains an externally configurable parameter from the external device. The externally configurable parameter is a parameter that is one of the plurality of setting parameters and is configurable by the external device to have a value. The controller obtains an internally controlled parameter from ta storage based on the user-identification information. The internally controlled parameter is a parameter that is one of the plurality of setting parameters, is associated with the user-identification information, and is configurable by the controller but not configurable by the external device.

Abstract: A consumable management system comprises a consuming device configured to consume a consumable and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a request to switch from a first contract for delivering the consumable to a second contract. The controller is further configured to transmit a notification to a user in response to particular information in first contract information on the first contract being different from particular information in second contract information on the second contract.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to control a conveyor and an image recording engine to perform borderless image recording. To perform the borderless image recording, the controller performs, when a medium length is equal to or less than a particular length, a first enlargement process to enlarge an image to a size with a first overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond an image recording target area, the first overhang area having an overhang width of a first value. The controller further performs, when the medium length is not equal to or less than the particular length, a second enlargement process to enlarge the image to a size with a second overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond the image recording target area, the second overhang area having an overhang width of a second value smaller than the first value.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a first container, a second container, an image forming device, a medium conveyer, a command acquiring device, and a controller, is provided. When a length of the medium to be conveyed is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined length, the controller controls the medium conveyer to convey the medium from the first container and the image forming device to perform an image forming operation on one of a first side and a second side of the medium, and, after the medium is accommodated in the second container in an orientation with the other of the first side and the second side to be used as the image-formable side, control the medium conveyer to convey the medium from the second container and control the image forming device to perform the image forming operation to the medium conveyed from the second container.

Abstract: A controller of an image forming device performs determining which to eject a small or large droplet. When a corresponding position is in a normal area: the controller performs the determining according to a normal criterion. When the corresponding position is in a suppression area: in response to determining that a prescribed condition is not met for both a used medium number and a usage period, the controller performs the determining according to a first suppression criterion; and in response to determining that the prescribed condition is met for at least one of the used medium number and the usage period, the controller performs the determining according to either a second suppression criterion or the normal criterion. The first and second suppression criteria suppressing use of the small droplet more than the normal criterion. The first suppression criterion suppressing use of the small droplet more than the second suppression criterion.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a controller. The memory is for storing therein provision state information. The provision state information indicates a provision state of a service. The provision state is one of at least two states including a first state and a second state. In the first state, a new consumable is delivered to a user when a residual quantity of a consumable has dropped below a predetermined residual quantity. In the second state, procurement request information is outputted to the user when the residual quantity of the consumable has dropped below the predetermined residual quantity. The procurement request information requests the user to obtain a new consumable in a manner not reliant on delivery. The controller is configured to determine whether a prescribed condition for changing the provision state is met, and to change the provision state when determining that the prescribed condition is met.

Abstract: An image forming device is configured to form an image on sheet-type medium including a rolled-type medium and a plurality of sheet-type media. The image forming device comprises a first medium container configured to accommodate the rolled-type medium by winding a long sheet-type medium in a roll, a second medium container configured to accommodate the plurality of sheet-type media in a stacked manner, a medium conveyer, an image forming device configured to form an image on the sheet-type medium, a cutting device configured to cut the rolled-type medium, and a controller. The medium conveyer conveys the plurality of sheet-type media accommodated in the second medium container even in a case where an error occurs in an operation related to printing on the rolled-type medium accommodated in the first medium container.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a consumer receptacle and a controller to determine whether the processing apparatus is in a contracted status where a delivery contract for consumables is concluded or in an uncontracted status before the delivery contract is concluded. The consumable receptacle is configured to hold any of an exclusive consumable that is unusable when the processing apparatus is in the uncontracted status and a non-exclusive consumable different from the exclusive consumable. When the processing apparatus is in the contracted status, and the non-exclusive consumable is held in the consumable receptacle, the controller determines whether a specific condition for execution of a first particular process in which the non-exclusive consumable is consumed is satisfied. The controller allows the execution of the first particular process when the specific condition is satisfied, whereas restricting the execution of the first particular process when the specific condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: There is provided a recording system including: a memory configured to store recording instructions, and medium size information. Each of the recording instructions includes image data, and image size information. The controller is configured to execute a data generating process of generating recording data, and is configured to generate, as the recording data, combined recording data in which images of first and second recording instructions are combined, the first recording instruction instructing recording of an image for one page or odd number pages. The combined recording data is configured to cause a recorder to record, on one recording medium, a first image of a final page among the image for the one page or the odd number pages of the first recording instruction, and a second image of an initial page among an image for one page or a plurality of pages specified by the second recording instruction.

Abstract: A liquid ejection system includes a head and a controller system. The head has nozzles including a first nozzle and a second nozzle. The nozzles are aligned in a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row that extend in a first direction and are arranged along a second direction intersecting the first direction. The controller system determines a first individual amount of liquid to be ejected from the first nozzle, and a second individual amount of liquid to be ejected from the second nozzle, based on a pixel value of a particular pixel in image data. The controller system controls the head to eject liquid from at least one of the first and second nozzles into a particular area on a recording medium according to the first and second individual amounts while moving one of the head and a recording medium relative to the other along the second direction.

Abstract: In a consuming device, a controller is configured to perform, when an operating mode is set to a non-billing mode: executing. The executing executes, in response to receiving an execution instruction, a prescribed operation consuming a consumable. The prescribed operation is executed while consuming the consumable irrespective of a permitted consumption quantity without decreasing the permitted consumption quantity. The controller is configured to perform: when the operating mode is set to a billing mode: acquiring; and executing. The acquiring acquires the permitted consumption quantity including a newly purchased consumption quantity paid for by a user. The executing executes, in response to receiving the execution instruction, the prescribed operation. The prescribed operation is executed while consuming the consumable and decreasing the permitted consumption quantity acquired in the acquiring until the decreased permitted consumption quantity reaches a predetermined quantity.

Abstract: An image forming device performs image formation on a medium selected by a computer. When a cutting device is unusable, a long sheet-type medium accommodated in a first medium container is unusable. However, a conveyance passage used for conveying a short sheet-type medium is usable in at least one of a first state where the cutting device is unusable or a second state where the sheet-type medium is unable to pass through the cutting device. A necessary condition to make both the long sheet-type medium and the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting neither the first status nor the second status. A necessary condition to make the long sheet-type medium unselectable and make the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting one of the first status and the second status.

Abstract: A server communicates with a target device that consumes a consumable. A controller of the server receives a request to modify a target service for the target device to a first service from a second service. Each of the first and second services is a service in which a new consumable is to be ordered for the target device on the basis of a residual quantity of a currently-used consumable. The controller acquires specific information in response to the request. The specific information is related to an order placed for a new consumable while the target service has been set to the second service. The controller sets a first threshold value on the basis of the specific information, and orders, as a part of the first service, a new consumable for the target device when the residual quantity is lower than or equal to the first threshold value.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a container to store a printing medium therein, an acquisition device to acquire image data, a printing device to print an image on the printing medium, a cutter assembly to cut the printing medium, and a controller, is provided. In a case where a size of the image contained in the image data acquired by the acquisition device is smaller than a size of the printing medium stored in the container, the controller generates rotated image data containing a rotated image, which is an image rotated from an original posture of the image in the image data acquired by the acquisition device, controls the printing device based on the generated rotated image data to print the rotated image on the printing medium, and controls the cutter assembly to cut the printing medium having the rotated image printed by the printing device thereon.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a conveyer, a first conveyer path, a printer, a cutter assembly, and a controller, is provided. The controller controls the printer to print images for at least two pages on a first side of a printing medium; after printing the images on the first side of the printing medium, controls the conveyer to move the printing medium to a second conveyer path being a different path from the first conveyer path through a switchback action and invert the printing medium by conveying in a second conveying direction; after inverting the printing medium, controls the printer to print an image in a predetermined part on a second side opposite to the first side of the printing medium; and after printing the image in the predetermined part on the second side of the printing medium, control the cutter assembly to cut the printing medium.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to control a conveyor and an image recording engine to perform borderless image recording. To perform the borderless image recording, the controller performs, when a medium length is equal to or less than a particular length, a first enlargement process to enlarge an image to a size with a first overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond an image recording target area, the first overhang area having an overhang width of a first value. The controller further performs, when the medium length is not equal to or less than the particular length, a second enlargement process to enlarge the image to a size with a second overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond the image recording target area, the second overhang area having an overhang width of a second value smaller than the first value.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming engine configured to form on an image formation medium an image represented by image data, by a borderless image forming operation or a bordered image forming operation. The image forming apparatus further includes a controller configured to, when the image data does not contain data explicitly indicating which of the borderless image forming operation and the bordered image forming operation is to be performed, select one of the borderless image forming operation and the bordered image forming operation, based on a status of the image forming apparatus or a content of the image data, or based on the status of the image forming apparatus and the content of the image data, and cause the image forming engine to perform the selected one of the borderless image forming operation and the bordered image forming operation.