Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a printing apparatus comprises a data acquisition section configured to acquire printing data; an image determination section configured to determine a character part or a picture part of an image indicated by the printing data; an image process section configured to erase the picture part or the part other than the character part from the image indicated by the printing data; and a printing control section configured to execute a printing of an image processed by the image process section.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a printing apparatus comprises a data acquisition section configured to acquire printing data; an image determination section configured to determine a character part or a picture part of an image indicated by the printing data; an image process section configured to erase the picture part or the part other than the character part from the image indicated by the printing data; and a printing control section configured to execute a printing of an image processed by the image process section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer, an image reader configured to scan and generate image data of a first page and a second page of an opened book, and a processor. The processor is configure to set a magnification so that an image size of the image data generated by the image reader becomes a size of a sheet among a plurality of sheets to be printed, correlate the image data of each page with portions of the plurality of sheets to be printed, respectively, and control the printer to print images corresponding to the image data on the respective correlated portions of the plurality of sheets so that the images corresponding to the image data are arranged on the portions of the plurality of sheets in a scanned order when the plurality of sheets are bound in a bookbinding state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image an a sheet, an interface by which location information for target image data is communicated from a requesting device outside the image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to request the target image data from a location, specified in the location information, and control the printing unit to print an image corresponding to the target image data received from the location.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a print unit that prints an image on a recording medium based on scan print data generated by reading an image from a document or remote print data received from an information terminal connected to a network. A control panel with a display unit receives input from a user. The display unit includes a backlight. A control unit controls the backlight to be on when the control panel is accepting input from the user indicating a start of scanning to generate the scan print data, and controls the backlight to be off when performing printing of the remote print data.