Abstract: An image forming apparatus 10 includes a control unit 20 that, when images are successively formed on a plurality of recording media by an image forming unit 22, obtains waste-sheet information indicating whether each of the plurality of recording media is a waste sheet and, for a waste sheet, indicating a cause of the waste sheet; identifies whether each of the recording media is a waste sheet in accordance with the obtained waste-sheet information; and, in a case of a waste sheet, performs control to arrange and display, on a touch panel display 35, a waste-sheet state display image 54 that makes a cause of the waste sheet distinguishable in chronological order of formation of the images.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus 10 includes a control unit 20 that, when images are successively formed on a plurality of recording media by an image forming unit 22, obtains waste-sheet information indicating whether each of the plurality of recording media is a waste sheet and, for a waste sheet, indicating a cause of the waste sheet; identifies whether each of the recording media is a waste sheet in accordance with the obtained waste-sheet information; and, in a case of a waste sheet, performs control to arrange and display, on a touch panel display 35, a waste-sheet state display image 54 that makes a cause of the waste sheet distinguishable in chronological order of formation of the images.

Abstract: Any defect of a board fabricated via a drawing process executed by a drawing device attributed to Gerber data is prevented. Gerber data of vector form representing a wiring pattern drawn directly on a board is loaded before it is expanded into drawing raster data by a RIP processing (100). Thresholds for check are set corresponding to the resolution of the drawing and the type of the photosensitive material on the board (102, 104). Check for presence/absence of any arc portion the circumference length of which is below a threshold th1, presence/absence of any arc portion the radius difference of which is equal to or greater than a threshold th2, presence/absence of any pin-hole region the area of which is equal to or greater than a threshold th5, presence/absence of any pattern the width of the portion overlapping with an adjacent pattern of which is below a threshold th6, and presence/absence of any pattern the gap with adjacent patterns of which is below a threshold th7 is performed (106 to 176).

Abstract: The extraction method and apparatus acquire design data that has a hierarchical structure and is converted into raster data corresponding to drawing onto a substrate and extract from the design data a structural element that composes the design data, is repeatedly described in one hierarchical layer, and satisfies at least one of four extraction conditions concerning a size of the structural element, a number of times of repetition of the structural element in a structural element upper than the structural element, a number of lower structural elements composing the structural element, and a depth of the one hierarchical layer in which the structural element exists.

Abstract: There is disclosed an image processing condition setting apparatus for determining an image processing condition defining contents of an image processing to set up the image processing condition to an image processing apparatus for executing the image processing in accordance with the determined image processing condition.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus for performing “renewal designation” for designating a parameter group in accordance with a parameter group already designated, as well as usual “designation” in which an operator designates a desired parameter group, the parameter group, which is subjected to the renewal designation, is associated with the parameter group that is an original parameter group for the renewal designation. In the event a plural number of times of renewal designation is made in accordance with the same parameter group, a plurality of parameter groups is associated with one another on a parallel basis and is saved. Thus, the parameter groups, which are subjected to designation and renewal designation, are not erased and saved on a hierarchical basis. Accordingly, it is possible to restore trial all parameters.

Abstract: There is disclosed an image processing condition setting apparatus for determining an image processing condition defining contents of an image processing to set up the image processing condition to an image processing apparatus for executing the image processing in accordance with the determined image processing condition.

Abstract: First image information recorded on a first subject copy is read for establishing processing conditions, and processing conditions are established based on the first image information which has been read. At the same time that the processing conditions are established based on the first image information, second image information recorded on a second subject copy is read for establishing processing conditions. The first image information recorded on the first subject copy is read again according to the established processing conditions to obtain output image information to be reproduced. Alternatively, processing conditions are established based on the second image information that has been read, at the same time that the first image information recorded on the first subject copy is read according to the established processing conditions.

Abstract: An image information reading system comprising a plurality of preset apparatuses each having a first scan mechanism for reading image information carried by an original while scanning the same, and a processing condition setting-up device for setting up scanning conditions of the read image information and image processing conditions used to process the read image information, and at least one main scan apparatus having a second scan mechanism for reading image information recorded on an original while scanning the same, and an image information processing device for processing the image information read by the second scan mechanism on the basis of the scanning conditions and the image processing conditions determined by any one of the preset apparatuses.