Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an original document platform, a reflection carriage, a wire, a pulley, a slide member, a projecting section and a guide section. The reflection carriage includes a mirror for reflecting light, and is moved in a first direction along a sub-scanning direction with respect to the original document. The wire is wound around a pulley. The slide member is installed on the reflection carriage, rotatably supports the pulley, and slidably moves in the first direction with respect to the reflection carriage. The projecting section is provided to project in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, on one of the reflection carriage and the slide member. The guide section is provided to extend in the first direction on the other of the reflection carriage and the slide member. The projecting section abuts against the guide section.

Abstract: According to one example of the present invention there is provided apparatus for generating control data to control an ink jet printer to print a double-sided image on a single side of a substantially transparent substrate. The apparatus comprises a processor for receiving image data of a first and a second image, a printhead control data generator to generate, from the first image, first image printhead control data, and to generate, from the second image, second image printhead control data, and a covering layer printhead control data generator to generate covering layer printhead control data.

Abstract: To store image data scanned by an image scanning unit in a way that corresponds to each page group, an image processing system scans an original and generates image data, and stores the image data in a storage unit separately from image data previously stored in the storage unit if a scan command is given via a first command input unit, and stores the image data in the storage unit by associating the image data with image data previously stored in the storage unit if a scan command is given via a second command input unit.

Abstract: A printing system includes the following elements. An image forming unit forms an image. An image reader reads an image. A first color converter creates second image data. A second color converter creates fourth image data. A determining unit determines whether a pixel value of each of pixels in the first image data or the second image data is located inside or outside an input color gamut that is readable by the image reader. A correction unit corrects pixels located at the same position as a pixel having a pixel value located outside the input color gamut. An inspection unit performs inspection to find a defect of an image. The correction unit performs correction on the pixels located at the same position as a pixel having a pixel value located outside the input color gamut so that the inspection unit does not detect a difference between the corrected pixels.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes an obtaining section, a data generating section, and an output section. The obtaining section is configured to obtain customer code of a customer who purchased an item. The data generating section configured to generate receipt data including information about the purchased item, and include the customer code in the receipt data when the customer code is obtained. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to a certain destination based on whether or not the receipt data includes the customer code.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes a data generating section, an output section, and a converting section. The data generating section is configured to generate receipt data of a first data format including information about an item purchased by a customer. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to at least one of a printing device and an external device that is different from the printing device. The converting section is configured to convert a data format of the receipt data from the first data format to a second data format that is different from the first data format when the receipt data is output to the external device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes a data generating section, a command issuing section, and an output section. The data generating section is configured to generate receipt data including information about an item purchased by a customer. The command issuing section is configured to issue a cut command that causes a sheet on which a receipt image corresponding to the receipt data is printed by a printing device to be cut off. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to an external device that is different from the printing device, in response to the issuance of the cut command by the cut command issuing section.

Abstract: Provided is a label data generating method of generating label data to create a label by printing a printing image on a tape-shaped member, the method comprising: setting sequential printing for creating the labels by printing a plurality of types of printing images based on each item of individual information which is sequentially read from an information list including the plurality of items of individual information; setting the number of printed copies; and generating the label data so that a plurality of copies of the labels are created, wherein in the generating of the label data, the label data is generated so that the label data creating apparatus performs non-sequential printing that prints the plurality of types of printing images respectively printed for a plurality of copies by the sequential printing in a sequence in which the same printing images are collected for a plurality of copies.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a label production processing program for executing steps on an arithmetic device of an operation terminal, to operate a label producing apparatus configured to print on a print-receiving medium and to produce a label, the steps comprising, an identification information acquiring that acquires identification information of the label producing apparatus configured to be information-transmittably and information-receivably, a medium information acquiring that acquires medium information on the attached print-receiving medium from the label producing apparatus from which the identification information has been acquired, and a displaying that displays on the display device menu screens in which the identification information and the medium information corresponding to the identification information are displayed as a list, to set alternatively the label producing apparatus which is a print output destination from among the at le

Abstract: Provided is a display control method including: obtaining an attachment position image which is an image of an attachment position to which a label having a printing image printed on a printing medium is attached; generating a preview image of the label on which the printing image is printed; generating a synthesized image obtained by overlapping the attachment position image and the preview image; displaying the synthesized image on a display portion; receiving an operation from a user to change the synthesized image in a state where the synthesized image is displayed on the display portion; and displaying the changed synthesized image on the display portion, based on the operation in the receiving of the operation.

Abstract: There is provided a method for properly placing a document on a reference position of a document positioning plate. The method for controlling an image reading apparatus for reading a document placed on a document positioning plate includes acquiring an image of an image-readable region including the document positioning plate; detecting a document to be read in a vicinity of a reference position for reading the document which is placed on the document positioning plate, and controlling a display unit to display an image of a first region of the document positioning plate in a case where the document is not detected, and controlling the display unit to display an image of a second region in the vicinity of the reference position in a magnification that is greater than a magnification for displaying the image of the first region in a case where the document is detected.

Abstract: A system and method for generating automated autographs on a computer with a memory and a processor, including a scanner for inputting handwritten writing samples and a content management system stored on a computer readable medium adapted to perform the steps of reading the handwritten samples, converting each into a type font, wherein each fonts identically resembles the corresponding handwritten sample, inputting an autograph including a message created in a font, and creating an electronic file corresponding to a photograph with an autograph, wherein the autograph appears to have been written by the person who submitted the handwritten sample. The content management system is customized by one or more coding language databases, and is adapted to read and process multiple different writing samples simultaneously, whether sent synchronously or asynchronously, to allow a user to select from a plurality of fonts to include in an autograph.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming system including an image forming apparatus which includes an image forming section receiving an instruction to perform an image forming job on a recording sheet and a billing apparatus forming an image of billing information on a specific recording sheet depending on the job. The image forming system determines whether the image of the billing information from the billing apparatus may be formed, when an instruction relating to the image forming job is received, and if it is determined that the image of the billing information may not be formed, allows the image forming section to form the image of the billing information on the recording sheet depending on a job relating to the received instruction.

Abstract: A banknote and voucher handling apparatus (10) comprises an acceptor/dispenser unit (11) including a transport path (12) connected to an acceptor/dispenser unit first aperture (14), a banknote and voucher validator device (18), a printer (20), and a storage container (22). The printer is housed within a printer module (30) that is detachably connected to the acceptor/dispenser, and the acceptor/dispenser unit includes a second aperture (16) disposed at an opposite end of the transport path to the acceptor/dispenser first aperture (14), and the printer module includes printable media holding and storage means (32).

Abstract: A method of creating a lenticular imaging article. The method comprises printing an interlaced composite image according to a reference grid of a printer, providing a lenticular lens sheet having a plurality of parallel lenticular lines between a plurality of lenslets, selecting an acute angle for an intersection between the first and second axes according to a function of a resolution of the interlaced composite image and a pitch of the lenticular lens sheet, and positioning the lenticular lens sheet so that the intersection forms the acute angle.

Abstract: Provided is an image determination device including a sheet detecting unit that detects a sheet on which a code image is printed, a first acquiring unit that acquires information on the code image and an absorption wavelength of the code image, a second acquiring unit that acquires a reading unit necessary for decoding a code portion of the code image, a third acquiring unit that acquires a document image of an electronic document, a dividing unit that divides the document image into plural blocks corresponding to the reading unit, a detecting unit that detects a block in which an image portion of the document image that uses a color having an absorption band at the absorption wavelength of the code image overlaps with the code portion of the code image as an undecodable block, and an output unit that outputs a warning indicating the generation of an undecodable area.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium, a communication interface configured to connect with a network and a control unit configured to stop sending an advertising packet indicating the existence thereof if an aggregate server for storing documents is detected based on the advertising packet received via the communication interface.

Abstract: A label production apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to print, using image data for generation of a label image, a plurality of label images on a print target medium; a test unit configured to test each of the label images printed on the print target medium; and a controller for controlling the printing unit and the test unit. In the stated label production apparatus, the controller adds a mark including identification information of each label image to the image data so as to make the printing unit print the label image as well as the mark corresponding to the label image, and generates linkage data in which related are a test result of the label image by the test unit and the identification information of the label image to each other.

Abstract: Systems and methods for printing a document over a network are described. In one implementation, print information is received from a user device, where the print information includes a frame time corresponding to the frame to be printed. The method further includes selecting the frame from the video based on the print information and printing the frame from a printer.

Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a communication program. The communication program is configured to cause a communication device to perform: judging a type of the external device based on information received from the external device by the near field communication protocol; generating the printing data, in a case that it is judged that the type of the external device is a first external device configured to execute printing; transmitting the generated printing data to the first external device by a communication protocol; and transmitting, in a case that it is judged that the type of the external device is a second external device to which the to-be processed data or an image data corresponding to the to-be processed data is transmitted, the to-be processed data or the image data corresponding to the to-be processed data to the second external device by the communication protocol.

Abstract: A data processing device includes an input unit including an input detection region, a detection unit, a partition region setting unit, a valid region setting unit, a longitudinal direction determination unit and a magnification determination unit. The detection unit detects input to the input detection region. The partition region setting unit partitions the input detection region into partition regions. The valid region setting unit sets, among said partitioned partition regions, a partition region in which input is detected as a valid region. The longitudinal direction determination unit determines a longitudinal direction of the valid region. The magnification determination unit determines a magnification for enlarging or reducing a size of a drawing corresponding to the input in the valid region, so that a width along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the valid region conforms to a width along a transverse direction of a printing medium.

Abstract: A method including selecting a type of label to be printed, inputting information for the label to be printed, wherein the information includes label data defining content of an image to be printed, and parameter data defining at least one parameter of the label to be printed, saving the information for the label to be printed as a file in a memory, and providing the file with a file extension name indicative of the type of label.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording unit, a conveyance unit, a protection member, and at least one rotor pair. The recording unit forms an image on a print medium having an adhesive face. The conveyance unit conveys the print medium. The protection member presses against the adhesive face of the print medium to protect the adhesive face. Each of the at least one rotor pair includes rotors to sandwich and press the print medium and the protection member therebetween. The conveyance unit is configured to rotate the at least one rotor pair to convey the print medium and the protection member together to an image forming position at which the recording unit is configured to form the image on the print medium. The protection member is configured to separate from the adhesive face before discharge of the print medium to an outside of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An output distribution system extracts user-specific information from job data that is generated in response to an output request, obtains terminal-specific information that identifies a terminal that is associated with a user specified by user-specific information, and transmits drawing data of the job data to an output destination determined based on the identified terminal.

Abstract: A process and system for printing sequences of alpha-numeric characters on segments of wire or cable during production. In one embodiment, the process and system comprises printing a sequence of alpha-numeric values onto a first segment of wire up to an input target value. The process and system further comprises printing a sequence of alpha-numeric values onto a second segment of wire up to a second input target value. In one embodiment, the process and system is capable of printing sequences on segments of wire or cable up to variable target values without requiring a shutdown of the production process, and without requiring lag time between printing on subsequent wire or cable segments.

Abstract: The invention provides a network computer system and novel pharmacy printers and their methods of use wherein the local CS includes a pharmacy printer for printing pharmacy orders including prescriptions, and the pharmacy printer includes a pharmacy printer database storing drug information and association of a drug identifier with information about a corresponding drug, and additional information, and obtains and uses instructions for printing the additional information in association with printing of a prescription label from characters contained in a prescription label print file for the prescription label.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for aggregating print jobs of different lengths and/or customers to decrease the need for rewinding and splicing operations. An exemplary embodiment provides a method that comprises identifying individual label-printing jobs (1-8) that can be aggregated onto a roll of substrate (302), and forming an aggregated label-printing job (300). In the aggregated label-printing job (300) a longest print job (8) is imposed adjacent to a first end of the roll of substrate (302), and one or more shorter print jobs (2, 5, 7) are imposed adjacent to the longest print job (8) in the direction of a second end of the roll of substrate (302).

Abstract: An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: In an image inspection apparatus, a first accumulation part acquires a reference accumulated value distribution by accumulating values of pixels in a reference image arranged in an image recording direction. A second accumulation part acquires an inspection accumulated value distribution by accumulating values of pixels in the inspection image arranged in the image recording direction. A sensitivity correction part performs sensitivity correction wherein a plurality of accumulated values other than a local peak in the inspection accumulated value distribution are corrected so as to relatively approach a plurality of corresponding accumulated values in the reference accumulated value distribution, based on a ratio between the inspection accumulated value distribution from which the local peak has been removed and the reference accumulated value distribution.

Abstract: An image processing device is provided, which includes a first processor, a second processor configured to perform communication with the first processor, and a memory connector that is connected with the second processor, configured such that an external memory is detachably attached thereto, and provided with a terminal that is connected with the first processor and connectable with a memory area of the external memory which area stores specification information of the external memory. The first processor is configured to, prior to the second processor being booted, determine whether an error relating to the external memory is caused, via the terminal.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus configured to form an image according to first setting information that is set to a first user; a second image forming apparatus configured to form an image according to second setting information that is set to a second user; and an administration apparatus that holds the first setting information and the second setting information and administers the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus according to the first setting information and the second setting information thus held. The administration apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether a substitute apparatus for the first image forming apparatus is necessary; and an information setting unit configured to obtain the first setting information according to a determination result of the determining unit, and add the first setting information to the second setting information.

Abstract: An assembled blister package (1) has a blister sheet (11) formed with blisters (2) sealed by a foil backing sheet (4). The blister package (1) is sandwiched between opposite sides of a folded card (not shown) to stiffen it. Each of these sides has a rectilinear array of windows, the blisters protruding through one array of windows and the other array of windows defining discrete areas on which print describing the contents of the blisters beneath, is to be applied. A header sheet on which a bar-code is printed is attached to the backing sheet and a reader (23) is positioned to read the bar-code and extract from it information such as a description of the contents of each of the blisters and their respective positions in the package. Information relating to the identification of the contents of a particular blister and the identity of the patient is fed to an ink-jet printer (31) and two stepping motors (22 and 30) are used to control the position of the printer with respect to the backing sheet.

Abstract: A print control apparatus includes the following components. Drawing processing units each perform a drawing process. A sending unit sends the entire print instruction including multiple pages and written in a page description language, to the drawing processing units. The delivering unit delivers each processing request which specifies one of the multiple pages, to a corresponding one of the drawing processing units. When performing, to perform a drawing process in which a print instruction for a page specified by a processing request is converted into print data, an analysis process on the print instruction from the first page to the specified page, each drawing processing unit refers to an identifier in the page description language of the print instruction for pages other than the specified page, and does not perform the analysis process for a range not containing a command that influences a drawing process of other pages.

Abstract: A food product rotation label device for preparing food product labels includes a microcontroller circuit, a display and a thermal printer. The thermal printer prints food product labels for attachment to food products. The display displays a list of food product label information relating to food product labels printed by the thermal printer and food products on which the food product labels are used.

Abstract: An image capture unit and computer readable medium used in combination therewith is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the image capture unit includes an image capturing sensor, a visual display, an instance of the computer readable medium, and circuitry for integrating functionalities thereof. The computer readable medium causes sensor data received from the image capturing sensor to be processed. The sensor data includes a plurality of image tiles and position indicating data defining a respective relative position of each one of each image tiles. Each one of each image tiles includes data representing a discrete portion of visual content. The computer readable medium causes a feedback image be displayed on the visual display. Displaying the feedback image includes correlate the relative position of each one of each image tiles with at least one other image tile that has been previously generated and displayed.

Abstract: A method including providing a first image on a label printer user interface, wherein the first image is representative of a label to be printed or an object to which a label is to be applied; and providing a second image on the user interface associated with the first image, said second image representative of a dimension of the first image; enabling a user to modify a dimension of the second image; wherein as the dimension of said second image is modified, the dimension of the first image is correspondingly updated.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that enables to refer to transmission history information in response to settings of use proprieties for transmission methods. A recording unit records a history of a transmission job executed by the communication apparatus as transmission history information that includes a transmitting destination at least. A setting unit sets a use propriety of each of the transmission methods. A determination unit determines whether reference to the transmission history information is permitted in response to the use propriety of each of the transmission methods set by the setting unit and the transmitting destination included in the transmission history information, when a user instructs to refer to the transmission history information.

Abstract: A printer for processing a variable data printing (VDP) job includes a control unit. The control unit causes a printer unit to perform test printing of a part of a plurality of records included in a VDP job determined as a test print job. After the part of the record is printed, the control unit accepts a print instruction for records which are not printed. In response to the accepted print instruction, the control unit causes the printer unit to print the records that are not printed by the test printing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a script file storage unit and a script execution unit. The script file storage unit stores therein a first script to convert the data format of print setting information from a first format to a second format, and a second script for converting the data format of the print setting information from the second format to the first format. At least part of the print setting information in the first format cannot be changed through an application. The print setting information in the second format can be changed through the application. The script execution unit executes at least one of the first script and the second script in accordance with a request from the application.

Abstract: A method of calibrating a printing system for positioning at least one printed image, the printing system includes a first image bearing surface, the method includes: a) forming a background pattern and at least three fiducials on the first image bearing surface, wherein the background pattern is larger than a first printed image and the at least three fiducials are within an area formed by the first printed image; b) transferring a portion of the first printed image to a second image bearing surface; c) measuring a first residual image on the first image bearing surface, wherein the first residual image is a portion of the background pattern and the at least three fiducials remaining on the first image bearing surface after the step of transferring; and, d) calculating at least one calibration parameter for the printing system based on the measuring of the first residual image.

Abstract: A print job management system according to an embodiment has a transmission unit, a time calculation unit, and a list display unit. The transmission unit transmits a print job. The time calculation unit acquires the print job transmitted from the transmission unit and calculates a processing completion time taken for each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses to complete a process for the print job for each of the image forming apparatuses. The list display unit acquires the process completion time for each of the image forming apparatuses calculated by the time calculation unit and displays information regarding the processing completion time for each of the image forming apparatuses as a list.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a document management method thereof. A document management method of an image forming apparatus which includes an image scanner to scan a document and generate a scanned image, the method includes generating the scanned image by scanning a document including a bar code, determining whether to perform an optical character recognition (OCR) on the scanned image by using bar code information of the generated scanned image, extracting character information of the document by performing the OCR with respect to the scanned image according to the determination result, and setting a file name by using at least one of the bar code information and the extracted character information and storing the scanned image. The apparatus and method set a file name of a scanned document to identify the document without an additional input.

Abstract: A method for printing on transparent medium using an ink-jet printer. The method includes providing a grayscale image having a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a pixel value corresponding to a brightness of the pixel; converting each pixel value to an ink output value for the ink-jet printer using a conversion function, wherein the conversion function maps the darkest pixel value to an optical density of greater than 2.5 and maps all other pixel values to an appropriate output pixel value such that a resulting printed image is perceived to be linearly bright across the image.

Abstract: A nail print apparatus, including: a printing unit which has a print head that performs printing on a nail of a finger or toe; and a control unit which controls the printing unit on a basis of image data including position information that shows a position to attach at least one decorative part to the nail so as to print placement information including the position information on the nail.

Abstract: A print image forming apparatus includes: an obtaining unit that obtains a document having at least one page; a color information generating unit that generates color information from an identifier allocated to and associated with the obtained document according to a predetermined rule; and a forming unit that forms an image to be output, in which the identifier represented by a color which is in accordance with the generated color information is added to the document.

Abstract: A client terminal transmits a request to a printing apparatus for a registration web page for registering, in a print server, a printing apparatus used in a print service provided by the print server. The printing apparatus collects configuration information of the printing apparatus in response to reception of the request, and creates link information which contains the collected configuration information and is used to access the print server. The printing apparatus then generates a registration web page containing the created link information, and transmits it to the client terminal. The print server receives the configuration information of the printing apparatus transmitted from the client terminal via the registration web page transmitted to the client terminal. The print server creates printing apparatus information which associates the configuration information with user information of the user of the client terminal, and manages it in a storage medium.

Abstract: Plural recording devices that are compatible with different commands are controlled. The host computer 11 has a compatible command acquisition unit 30 that gets compatible command information identifying the commands with which the printer P is compatible, and a printer driver execution unit 21. Based on compatible command information acquired by the compatible command acquisition unit 30, the printer driver execution unit 21 manages what commands are compatible with the printer P, and outputs compatible commands to control the printer P.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a color chart condition setter for setting colorimetric values of a designated color as a reference color, and an image data generator for generating image data of pixel values calculated such that a plurality of color patches are arranged in a two-dimensional pattern on a print medium around the reference color set by the color chart condition setter, and color differences in an equal color space between adjacent ones of the color patches are represented by a substantially equal interval along a row or column of color patches.

Abstract: A variable data printing (VDP) method is disclosed in which different types of contents on each piece of the VDP production, such as color form contents and black and white contents, are printed using different types of printers, such as color printers and black and white printers, respectively. The color form content is printed first to form partially printed sheets. Partially printed sheet carrying different color contents are loaded into different input trays of the black and white printers. The black and white content is printed on the partially printed sheets using the black and white printers. When printing the black and white content, the color data in the input VDP data is excluded. The job tickets for the black and white print jobs specify the input trays to be used so that the appropriate partially printed sheet is selected for each black and white print job.

Abstract: An approach is provided for managing printer driver settings. According to the approach, printer driver settings specified by a user for electronic data are maintained as a “print tag”. Print tags may be stored, either local to a client device or remotely to a client device, and later retrieved when electronic data is to be printed again. This allows printer driver settings to be maintained on a per electronic data, e.g., electronic document, basis and re-used any number of times. It also allows printer driver settings to be persistently maintained when the execution of application programs and print drivers is terminated or in the event of failures. Print tags may be shared among different users to allow multiple users to easily and conveniently use the same printer driver settings to print the same electronic data, without each user having to manually enter the printer driver settings.