Abstract: An image forming apparatus that suppresses print position displacement. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet storage sections configured to store sheets. A sheet storage section to be used is selected out of the plurality of sheet storage sections. An image is formed on a sheet supplied from the selected sheet storage section and the image position is adjusted using adjustment values associated with the selected sheet storage section. When an update action performed by sheet replenishment or sheet replacement is detected for a sheet storage section, the sheet storage section for which the update action has been detected is controlled so as not to be selected by the selection unit until a predetermined time period elapses after detection of the update action.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is equipped with a plurality of sheet feeders. A change request for changing settings information of a designated one of the plurality of sheet feeders is received. There is stored change permission/inhibition information in which a condition for permitting a change of the settings information is set on an sheet feeder-by-sheet feeder basis. Settings information of a sheet feeder designated by the change request is changed based on the change permission/inhibition information. In a case where a request source of the change request satisfies the condition for permitting a change of settings information, settings information of the designated sheet feeder is changed, whereas in a case where a request source of the change request does not satisfy the condition for permitting a change of settings information, settings information of the designated sheet feeder is not changed.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing unit, an operation unit, and a control unit. The printing unit prints an image on a sheet, conveys the sheet to a reading unit, and performs adjustment for printing an image on the sheet based on an image read by the reading unit. The control unit performs an operation of controlling to execute a manual adjustment function for adjusting predetermined adjustment items based on adjustment values received via the operation unit after authentication of an operator. The control unit performs another operation of controlling to execute an automatic adjustment function for adjusting the predetermined adjustment items based on the image read by the reading unit without the authentication of the operator.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing unit, an operation unit, and a control unit. The printing unit prints an image on a sheet, conveys the sheet to a reading unit, and performs adjustment for printing an image on the sheet based on an image read by the reading unit. The control unit performs an operation of controlling to execute a manual adjustment function for adjusting predetermined adjustment items based on adjustment values received via the operation unit after authentication of an operator. The control unit performs another operation of controlling to execute an automatic adjustment function for adjusting the predetermined adjustment items based on the image read by the reading unit without the authentication of the operator.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to perform encryption communications using an encryption communication protocol set as a used protocol from among a plurality of encryption communication protocols The information processing apparatus sets a version of the encryption communication protocol to be used for the encryption communications in association with a specific communication destination, and executes, in a case that a communication partner is the specific communication destination and the set version of the encryption communication protocol includes a version of an encryption communication protocol set in the communication partner, the encryption communications with the communication partner using the version of the encryption communication protocol set in the communication partner.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that suppresses print position displacement. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet storage sections configured to store sheets. A sheet storage section to be used is selected out of the plurality of sheet storage sections. An image is formed on a sheet supplied from the selected sheet storage section and the image position is adjusted using adjustment values associated with the selected sheet storage section. When an update action performed by sheet replenishment or sheet replacement is detected for a sheet storage section, the sheet storage section for which the update action has been detected is controlled so as not to be selected by the selection unit until a predetermined time period elapses after detection of the update action.

Abstract: A control apparatus has a processor that executes instructions, stored in a memory, to receive a selection of a job from a job list indicating one or more jobs that are executed by one or more image forming apparatuses, to specify destination information corresponding to the selected job, and to transmit control information, based on the specified destination information, to an image forming apparatus, of the one or more image forming apparatuses, corresponding to the selected job, to control an indicating pattern of an indicator light connected to the image forming apparatus corresponding to the selected job. Each image forming apparatus has a processor that executes instructions, stored in a memory, to receive the control information transmitted from the control apparatus, and to control the indicating pattern of the indicator light connected to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A sheet management apparatus includes a storing unit, an obtaining unit, and a setting unit. The storing unit stores a combination of first attribute information and second attribute information of sheets. The obtaining unit obtains, from the storing unit, the second attribute information stored in combination with the first attribute information, based on the first attribute information of sheets used in a job. The setting unit sets the second attribute information obtained by the obtaining unit, as attribute information of sheets stored a sheet holding unit.

Abstract: A control apparatus transmits, to an image forming apparatus corresponding to a job selected from job histories, a signal for making it possible to identify the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus controls turn-on of an indicator light based on the received signal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus with a detachable fixing device capable of managing a plurality of detachable fixing devices appropriately according to usages etc. A receiving unit receives a character string input through an operation screen. A storage unit stores the input character string in association with identification information about a fixing device. An obtaining unit obtains the identification information about the fixing device attached to the image forming apparatus. A display control unit displays the character string that is stored by the storage unit in association with the identification information obtained by the obtaining unit on a display unit.

Abstract: A system is provided for shifting, according to an amount of stacked sheets that has been stacked in a sheet stacking device, a state of a power to be supplied to the sheet stacking device from a first power state to a second power state where power consumption is less than that in the second power state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus with a detachable fixing device capable of managing a plurality of detachable fixing devices appropriately according to usages etc. A receiving unit receives a character string input through an operation screen. A storage unit stores the input character string in association with identification information about a fixing device. An obtaining unit obtains the identification information about the fixing device attached to the image forming apparatus. A display control unit displays the character string that is stored by the storage unit in association with the identification information obtained by the obtaining unit on a display unit.

Abstract: Maintenance of a plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to a network at low cost while suppressing the time and labor is realized. An image processing apparatus includes a unit which stores set information for operating the image processing apparatus, a unit which updates the set information by using set information which is received via a network from another image processing apparatus connected to the network and used to operate the image processing apparatus, a storage unit which stores the set information before update by the update unit, a return instruction acceptance unit which accepts from the user an instruction to return the updated set information to the set information before update, and a return unit which returns the set information to the set information before update when the return instruction acceptance unit accepts the instruction to return the set information to the set information before update.

Abstract: A system is provided for shifting, according to an amount of stacked sheets that has been stacked in a sheet stacking device, a state of a power to be supplied to the sheet stacking device from a first power state to a second power state where power consumption is less than that in the second power state.

Abstract: On detection of the occurrence of an error, an image forming apparatus compares a location of an operator that is indicated by a procedure for recovering from the error with a sensed location of the operator, and issues a warning in a case where the location of the operator that is indicated by the procedure and the sensed location of the operator do not match.

Abstract: A sheet management apparatus includes a storing unit, an obtaining unit, and a setting unit. The storing unit stores a combination of first attribute information and second attribute information of sheets. The obtaining unit obtains, from the storing unit, the second attribute information stored in combination with the first attribute information, based on the first attribute information of sheets used in a job. The setting unit sets the second attribute information obtained by the obtaining unit, as attribute information of sheets stored a sheet holding unit.

Abstract: In order to enable utilization of a personal address book by another person while maintaining security, in case display of information on an information destination registered in the address book is requested from an unauthenticated user, a display is executed in a state where address information (fax number, e-mail address etc.) is concealed (for example by a mosaic pattern), and information on the information destination, displayed with the address information in such concealed state, can be designated as the information designation.

Abstract: In a printing system which feeds a sheet from a plurality of sheet storage units and prints an image on the fed sheet, and a control method thereof, when a sheet storage unit selected as a paper feed source does not store sheets of a size designated by a print job, and a sheet storage unit which stores sheets of the size designated by the print job does not exist in a group to which the selected sheet storage unit belongs, the user is notified of a sheet storage unit in the group as a sheet storage unit which should store sheets.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a data transmission apparatus capable of transmitting data by using a plurality of transmission media, comprises an authority storage unit, adapted to store authority information representing use authority to use each transmission medium by each user; and a transmission control unit, adapted to, in transmitting data, restrict data transmission to a destination corresponding to a transmission medium for which a current user does not have the use authority.

Abstract: An image processing device, having plural functions and executing at least any one of the plural functions based on a request from an application program, includes: a storage to store, from among plural setting information selectable to one of the plural functions, simultaneous use possible/impossible information being information concerning a combination of settings usable simultaneously or a combination of settings non-usable simultaneously; a selector to select any one of the plural setting information to at least any one of the plural functions based on the request from the application program; a discriminator to discriminate, by referring to the simultaneous use possible/impossible information, whether or not competitive setting information being the setting information non-usable simultaneously with the setting information selected by the selector exists; and a notification unit to notify the application program of information concerning the competitive setting information, when the discriminator discri